On of the worst avoidable disasters in recent aeons, the Ultimate Void Tour disaster cost the lives of over 1,000,300 lifeforms. Only 15 Deep Void Survival Suits were on board the Deep Void craft that caused the disaster, and these were stored in the mess hall beneath several tons of illicit Gravedust Psychoactive Snort being transported by the tour operators to Phallatus, during what was to be an unadvertised sex-party debarkation.
The group was part of tour scheduled to visit a number of Minor Voids and supernovae during a six month holiday excursion. The Void Tour Craft docked successfully with the stationary Holiday Complex Eureka! and the entire party of 500,000 guests were debarked onto the Irradiation Platform for disinfection. The complex already hosted over 500,000 guests and was due to begin festivities later that day. Negative Matter Anchor Technology was still in the development stage and the complex was using the antiquated Fuel/Thrust repulsion method. As the tour craft disengaged from the complex, the pilot misjudged the clearance between his craft and the Thrust Pylons. His wing struck the pylon with enough force to loose it from its mooring. Additionally, both large bore fuel lines inside the pylon ruptured, sending a glut of fuel to the thrusters. The complex began a relatively slow turn aft, resulting in the attitude in relation to the void becoming dangerously unstable.
The tour craft remained in controlled flight for no more than five seconds. Then, the damaged wing, weakened by the impact with the pylon, simply fell away and was sucked toward the void. Without any mechanism for steering, the craft listed drunkenly. At this point, the situation could have been stabilized with quick thinking from the pilot. Inexplicably, rather than fire his tractor wire into an unpopulated portion of the complex, he disengaged his engines and fired three short bursts of gamma bolts into empty space. The offsite flight controller recorded the pilot’s last words as, “Oh, fuck. . ." before communication was broken.
Without steering or propulsion, the tour craft followed its damaged wing toward the void.
The complex was equipped with a medium-level shield, as required by universal law, that was capable of withstanding impacts of dense objects up to five by five yards in diameter. There was no possibility that it could resist the massive tour ship.
The wing struck first, impacting directly above the Irradiation platform. It slammed into the shield with massive force, puncturing it and continuing through to the platform. In the seconds before a complete vacuum was created, the wing collided with the platform deck, crushing several thousand people to death in an instant. A second later, it was wrenched from the deck and back through the hole in the shield, along with the majority of the people who had been waiting on the platform. It is believed that they died almost instantly and did not suffer Void Compression.
The thruster meanwhile, had spent its fuel and came to a sudden cold stop. Without thrust and with a massive hole in the shield, the complex began a quick fall into the void. The rogue tour craft, diverted by the void pull and sudden relocation of the complex, struck a glancing blow along the Food Court. The tearing away of the wing had ruptured one of the craft’s supercooled fuel storage tanks, and a spark from the contact with the complex ignited it and the other nearly full tanks. The resulting explosion incinerated the tour craft and much of the complex in an instant. The remaining portions fell into the void and disappeared.
Overall, it is believed that 1,000,300 people lost their lives during the few seconds it took for this disaster to occur. Subsequent interviews with friends and family of the tour craft pilot have revealed that he had struggled with GPS addition for many years. Tour company records indicate that this was his inaugural flight after returning from a two-year suspension for using GPS while operating his tour craft.
To this day, governmental and private investigations into the causes and consequences of the disaster are ongoing.
The group was part of tour scheduled to visit a number of Minor Voids and supernovae during a six month holiday excursion. The Void Tour Craft docked successfully with the stationary Holiday Complex Eureka! and the entire party of 500,000 guests were debarked onto the Irradiation Platform for disinfection. The complex already hosted over 500,000 guests and was due to begin festivities later that day. Negative Matter Anchor Technology was still in the development stage and the complex was using the antiquated Fuel/Thrust repulsion method. As the tour craft disengaged from the complex, the pilot misjudged the clearance between his craft and the Thrust Pylons. His wing struck the pylon with enough force to loose it from its mooring. Additionally, both large bore fuel lines inside the pylon ruptured, sending a glut of fuel to the thrusters. The complex began a relatively slow turn aft, resulting in the attitude in relation to the void becoming dangerously unstable.
The tour craft remained in controlled flight for no more than five seconds. Then, the damaged wing, weakened by the impact with the pylon, simply fell away and was sucked toward the void. Without any mechanism for steering, the craft listed drunkenly. At this point, the situation could have been stabilized with quick thinking from the pilot. Inexplicably, rather than fire his tractor wire into an unpopulated portion of the complex, he disengaged his engines and fired three short bursts of gamma bolts into empty space. The offsite flight controller recorded the pilot’s last words as, “Oh, fuck. . ." before communication was broken.
Without steering or propulsion, the tour craft followed its damaged wing toward the void.
The complex was equipped with a medium-level shield, as required by universal law, that was capable of withstanding impacts of dense objects up to five by five yards in diameter. There was no possibility that it could resist the massive tour ship.
The wing struck first, impacting directly above the Irradiation platform. It slammed into the shield with massive force, puncturing it and continuing through to the platform. In the seconds before a complete vacuum was created, the wing collided with the platform deck, crushing several thousand people to death in an instant. A second later, it was wrenched from the deck and back through the hole in the shield, along with the majority of the people who had been waiting on the platform. It is believed that they died almost instantly and did not suffer Void Compression.
The thruster meanwhile, had spent its fuel and came to a sudden cold stop. Without thrust and with a massive hole in the shield, the complex began a quick fall into the void. The rogue tour craft, diverted by the void pull and sudden relocation of the complex, struck a glancing blow along the Food Court. The tearing away of the wing had ruptured one of the craft’s supercooled fuel storage tanks, and a spark from the contact with the complex ignited it and the other nearly full tanks. The resulting explosion incinerated the tour craft and much of the complex in an instant. The remaining portions fell into the void and disappeared.
Overall, it is believed that 1,000,300 people lost their lives during the few seconds it took for this disaster to occur. Subsequent interviews with friends and family of the tour craft pilot have revealed that he had struggled with GPS addition for many years. Tour company records indicate that this was his inaugural flight after returning from a two-year suspension for using GPS while operating his tour craft.
To this day, governmental and private investigations into the causes and consequences of the disaster are ongoing.
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