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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tun Kai Poh" data-source="post: 8453511" data-attributes="member: 6761960">Metafold, Part 2The stars...are not where they should be.Aegis stutters as a hundred thousand kilometers of light-lag throw her Omninet-to-realspace connections into confusion. The fleet legion is briefly silent. It takes a full three seconds for her to realise what is happening.On the bridge of the Nikolai Bukharin, the human crew are starting to realise what their impossible sensor readings are telling them.Aegis speaks at last. "Captain St. Germaine, we have been...moved."On the bridge of the We Demand Hazard Pay, Colonel Milch growls. "What?!" He stares disbelievingly at the battleship in formation next to his vessel.It's the Richard Wagner. And alongside it, the Björn Járnsiđa."This is bad," says Major Mahayhay. "They're going to get jumped.""Where are the destroyers?" asks Zoltan Pesh. "The fighters, the carrier?"Colonel Milch looks at his readout, still shaking his head. "Mother of Pearl. They're all back out there, the entire Battlegroup Eland, a hundred thousand klicks behind us, where the Wagner should be!"The Hannibal remains unable to maneuver. A handful of defiant mercenary marines have taken key positions near the drives and are keeping this ship locked in place. But the Titania surges forward, beginning its charge towards the Wagner."Aegis!" shouts Colonel Milch, "Tell Captain Var we can run interference! We'll get in the way of that thing and scramble its nav control, buy some time!"Next: The Wagner Herself</blockquote>

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