Swirling Consequences: Conclusion

[voidtreckermods]

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SWIRLING CONSEQUENCES: CONCLUSION

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A week is a long time to be trudging across a world, helping dralites and people, closing voidtears and fighting chinchillas. But a week it has been. Most of the farmers have gotten used to having the voidtreckers around, and a friendly rapport flows between those helping out gathering and looking after the animals.

Most of the farm animals have been relocated and returned to their farms. Parts of the enclosures are still in need of repair, but there have also been efforts to improve farm perimeters with electric fencing. The farmers are still getting to grips with that, and many are busy rebuilding small outhouses or pens that were damaged in all the chaos.

Aid has trickled through to the further away communities, and the communities have rallied to support the displaced people who didn't manage to be returned home. They are a welcoming bunch, many of the farmers come from families brought from other worlds after all.

Around the mountain of Ciyesia, things are calming. The dralite have finally relocated their young, and though there are repairs needed here too to the nesting grounds, the screeching has finally quietened, and the forests are still.

Towards the afternoon of the thirteenth day of the month of Quicksand, the voidtrecker's SCAs glow with the colours of the void. The same purple and blue skinned woman as before sits behind the same wooden desk. She looks a little less stern this time.

"Thank you Voidtreckers, your efforts have been noteworthy. Things are stabilising, and from all monitoring reports, you have successfully dealt with the void twisted creatures that managed to slip through into system #5739. It looks like the tears in the void have also been patched; we will send some experts in to finish off, but they will hold until we get a team there.

The wider mission has also been a success. The ripples have been neutralised for now. We thank you for your efforts. If you could please fill in the report form sent to your SCA's and submit them for our mission audit team, that would be very helpful for us.

We would like to remind you that risky experimentation such as your untethering attempts are best done by trained professionals. We understand you were not fully in control of the situation, and so no action is being taken by the Inspection arm at this time. However, in more positive news, we have managed to gather data from the scene of that incident and our void scientists are currently working on a further understanding of your tethers.

We will be in touch."

After the video ends, there are a few hours for everyone to finish up their tasks, to say goodbye to any new friends- people or animals -before boarding the train once more. The train meets them at the platform in the woods it deposited them at, the doors opening so the weary voidtreckers can board once more.

The train leads them through the woods, further along the hillside before it rises into the air, flying up into a sky streaked with faint lines of colour. And then there's a shudder, and the world outside the windows is replaced with the kaleidoscope imagery of the void once more.

Comments

Ministry Report That I Totally Didn't Forget To Post c.c

[wewillwewill]

Designation: Elidibus
Voidcraft: Voidtrecker Express

Mission Report
Void date: 771.291.090901128.100021563.36
System No.: #5739
Summary of Events: Strong voidstorms seemingly connected to the attempt of the Voidtrecker Express to send many of its crew home were taking place on #5739. Wild beasts were driven to unusal aggression and the native population of the star were struggling against the catastrophe. The crew was sent to aid in recovery, rescue and support.
Reception from locals: The natives welcomed us and were willing to accept our aid. I had little trouble finding manpower to aid with building defenses or organizing supply runs to outlying towns.
Threats encountered:
Amalgamations commonly called 'voidblobs'. An aberration of fused creatures both sentient and not that came through the void tears. Their only goal seemed to be that of slaughter and they would fixate on their target until they were killed. The natives of #5739 claimed they had never seen their like before, though void storms were not uncommon.

Dralites, a birdlike creature with large wings. Native or long established to this world but normally a low threat. The storm and the aggressive creatures scattered their young. As they are highly protective of their offspring, they were encroaching on the local population in the search. Fortunately, returning their offspring dead or alive was sufficient to quell this threat.

Horn-Crowned Goats, a grazing animal with a crown of spiked, bone-like antlers. They are highly aggressive and were made moreso by the storms. Fortunately a relatively easy creature to deter for many of our combatants.

A 'giant chinchilla'. Carnivorous and often feeds on the young of the livestock herds. They appear to have some manifestation of shadow substance attached to their bodies. I wasn't able to take the time to study this in detail and learn if it was connected to their nature or that their anscestors were brought through a voidstorm long ago.

Anomalies and Interference:
Voidtears were particularly troublesome but didn't appear to be unusual for the events taking place. However I have no way to reference the relative severity of voidstorms and their side effects.

Any other comments or queries:
Pray send information you have on case studies of tethers, not just what is related to our own circumstances. Also texts and studies on voidstorms, void tear phenomenon and voidspace in general. These will aid if we are sent on a mission related to these phenomenon again. Textbooks and studies of medicines which are helpful against voidtravel's side effects will also be useful. If you can't provide these, pray give titles and how to procure them so we may do so ourselves.

Please list any other voidcraft present so that reports can be correctly cross referenced.
There were no other voidcraft I was aware of.