[h1][center]The Forge[/center][/h1]
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"The battleship's shields are down! The Rattlesnake wont be able to protect us for long!" shouted the sensors officer "We.. we are being targeted by their Dreadnought."

"Understood" said the Captain Adam sternly "Navigation, where is that Cyno beacon!"

"nothing yet sir"

The Rorqual rocked as 4 Mega neutron blaster bolts slammed into her shredding through the last of her active shield and scorching swathes of armor, there was nothing the crew could do as The Forge was loaded down with thousands of tonnes of ore and supplies making evasive maneuvers impossible. 

"Shields are down, part of that shot hit the armor, wait, that hit overloaded the shield core its ab-" shouted engineering from their console.

"Eject the shield reactor! activate the armor repair nanite pumps.. Navigation! where is my jump beacon!" 

"I don- wait, im getting something.. ah, weak jump point" replied navigation as the ship shook violently, just as the flaming shield reactor was launched from the ship before detonating in spectacular fashion. 

"lock and fire jump drive as soon as you have it." replied the captain calmly, hoping that their defensive fleet could hold the pirates off long enough for them to get away. 

"Jump in 3... 2... 1.. " counted out the navigation officer "Cyno lock lost" announced the computer just as the jump engines fired 

For a brief moment the captain panicked, his heart raced and he was about to shout frantic orders of desperation when he realized the ship was alone in deep empty space or was alone within the couple light seconds range his sensors had to work with so far. he couldnt work out what was happening if he went to a jump cyno beacon he should have a fleet of powerful ships around him now but there was nothing in his range of detection. Though admittedly the sensors of his ship where designed to pick up the mineral composition of asteroids more than fleet activities throughout a wide distance.

"Engineering... get me a damage report while we have a moment to breathe, Desai see if one of our pilot's clones have awoken and if possible get a scout out there and get me some eyes about a light hour coverage would be great... oh and navigation. what the hell happened, and where are we?"

The XO left the room after a curt nod while navigation typed away at his console trying to get an answer. "uhm, sir.. i have no idea. as far as i can tell we... we are not even in the same galaxy. distant stars are all wrong and there are no system beacons that i can detect at all. empire, pirate, or even private corporations.

The captain and bridge crew discussed the situation for several minutes while Lieutenant Zan launched the little Covert ops frigate, in mere moments from then it had warped 2AU from the Forge under cloak and launched scanner probes set to a wide dispersal pattern giving her a moderate coverage of the area a full light hour from the ship.

"oh my god, Captain! there are almost a dozen ships in our area, most of them i cannot identify.. their signatures do not align with anything in our database there are several capital ships and A Caldari navy carrier? Sir what is going on?" sent Zan through a tight beam transmission that had functionally no chance of interception.