Communications Blackout
By Judgement Act on January 19, 2020 12:16 pm
Following scheduled jump 601-C of their three year mission into the unknown regions, the UTR Exploratory Corps ship Damara L'Estrange patches back into the Q-Net, Ensign Navarro breathing a sigh of relief as communications began to flow immediately into the ships overglorified mailbox. Pretty much every shipmate off-duty would have been waiting for the jump to complete so they could talk to their loved ones; this jump brought them close to a spatial anomaly that gave them realtime communications back to the colonies, something they hadn't had for over six months!
But, something wasn't right. After some brief seconds of clean comms, the Q-Net waveband began to oscillate well outside of parameters. Navarro hit a key and began the diagnostic, leaning forward in her chair with a frown. She'd never seen anything like it, and the oscillation was strangely artificial in nature. Just as she reached over to the intercom to inform Ops, everything stopped.
It wasn't just comms. Scanners were out. Sonar. Navigation.
Everything the L'Estrange needed to see.
As Navarro got up to report to damage control and the ship descended into chaos, nobody quite seemed to feel the unnatural rhythmic vibrations in the hull...
And now, for something completely different.
Tough week musically, started this one on Saturday with the intent to make a full track, but never really got anything that felt right. Late Sunday night as I write this, decided just to put out a sound design-y thing by itself!
Long time 'beaters will know I like to mix it up between EDM and spacey goodness, so here's the first taste of the year for the latter... Definitely more to come!
Audio works licensed by author under:
CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)
