Talk:Aneph Enterprises Consolidated Fleet/@comment-12161342-20150120205659

Secret Aneph Installation, Olympus Mons, Mars

''A severe dust storm has been raging across the entire globe of Mars for days, obscuring the planet's surface. Over the muted roar of the Martian winds, however, a deep humming can be heard, along with the sounds of gigantic blast doors opening. Suddenly, the door noises stop, and a dark blue glow appears through the dust, faintly outlining the figure of the final Io-class vessel as it leaves its cradle and heads towards space. Rising out of the dust, it enters warp instead of conducting trials around Mars, since the MRP might find out. Arriving at Earth thirty seconds later, it conducts its trials en route to the Aneph homeland. Once there, it berths next to a gigantic Aneph cargo transporter, which is currently being loaded with the surface vessels and supplies requested by Vice Admiral Houston for deployment on Tenelapis. Meanwhile, the new Io is quickly swarmed by hundreds of workers and vehicles. The dock's rail yards are clogged with dozens of freight trains laden with long, slender containers covered with multiple warning symbols. Over the course of the next several hours, the army of workers and equipment unload the trains of their cargoes, transferring each container to machines that extract the deadly missiles within and eject the empty metal containers into a giant furnace to be melted down and reused. The missiles are loaded onto conveyer belts which feed into every available opening of the new Io, which is loaded to capacity and then some, as there are so many missiles that the torpedo and missile bays overflow into general cargo storage rooms. The ship, laden with tens of thousands of Earthshatter (Mk 1 & 2) missiles, is quickly christened A.N.F. Tenelapis, and it departs along with the fully laden cargo transporter, headed towards orbit via an out-of-the-way route that takes them over the North Pole so as to avoid any possible incidents with other ships. Once in orbit, both ships set out towards Tenelapis at warp, destined to carry out their vital missions.''

OOC: The next RP post will take place on Tenelapis, and a heads up to everyone there: big things are going to happen. I didn't cram 50,000 earthshatter missiles into a new Io class ship just to make a pretty fireworks display, though there will certainly be one. Also, I had them go over the north pole because not only am I being REALLY cautious with these cargoes, but also because that is going to trigger a new round of RP events.