Talk:AF: Armada of Freedom/@comment-11135771-20141129043307

Although the recent battle had concluded with a major victory against the Prometheus Corporation, the AF had suffered a small amount of damage aside from the few ships it had lost. As it turned out, bringing large quantities of uncontained, metal-eating Prometheus nanomachines home had been a bad move.

Although the nanites had been dormant while they were being transported to the AF laboratory, in reality they had merely been ordered to conserve their limited batteries for a better opportunity to cause damage. Said opportunity arrived when they reached the lab, at which point they immediately came to life before they could be transferred into proper containment chambers, spending the last few minutes before their batteries died eating virtually the entire lab.

The tiny machines had died and subsequently self-destructed shortly after, preventing them from causing any further damage, but the laboratory complex was left in ruins, with most of the facility having been converted into fine dust. The thoroughness of the destruction prevented much data from being recoverable, and much of the research being done there was lost. Although other laboratories across the AF continued to work, the loss of this one would result in delays.

OOC: I would normally not do this without giving you a post to counter, but you literally just brought a whole pile of nanomachines designed to disintegrate/recombine stuff into your lab, and there isn't really much that can be done about that. Also because it's not much damage. Maybe four days (realtime) delay on current research projects or something like that?