In an unnamned star system the forces of chaos met with those of the Imperial Navy, despite the losses of hundreds of thousands of voidsmen and dozens of ships the ruinous powers were forced into retreat. The flagship Divine Retribution of it's fleet had suffered a few blows, but this was not deemed to be too serious. The presence of a series of small insect like robots of alien manufacture that had made a nest in one of the secondary gellar field systems was also notable. But as it made to enter the warp, something happened and it found itself thrown itself through dimensional boundaries far beyond their materium, the warp or anything that they've known to a new reality, burst through the skane of hyperspace into something in many way similar to the reality they knew but in many ways distinct. This was made evident by the fact that the Astropath saw not the light of the Astronomicon nor could hear anything. For days the crew and the officers of the Divine Retribution attempted to figure out what was going on and effect repairs. Little did they know that their arrival had been noticed.





Nine days after their arrival, the Divine Retribution was met by a strange xenos ship. It was an odd thing, small at only 500 or so meters long made of unknown materials and surrounded by strange energy fields. It came towards it and hailed. It declared itself to be the Rapid Offensive Unit New Toy (apparently run by an an Abominable Intelligence) and that it and it's crew would be willing to offer assistance. The Captain of the Ship and the Admiral were of one mind and ordered a hasty response. A broadside of Macrocannons fired on the strange ship, but to the surprise the projectiles launched with enough force to engulf vast swaths of land in fire were decelerated and cast aside by exotic energy fields. Soon afterwards the New Toy's Mind Effectorized their lance weapons and torpedo launchers to disable them while their main reactors powered down.







Ceasing control of the of vox systems aboard the Divine Retribution the ROU informed that things are different here and that they had better learn how to play nice. At the same time it gave them a star chart of the region and coordinates to a system where they could rebuild and make a life for themselves. After functionality was restored the Imperial Navy vessel with some trepedation made their way to the system and set up a small colony on a sizeable but lifeless moon orbiting a gas giant. The colony would be periodically monitored by Contact with attempts at starting formal relations being periodically attempted and rebuffed for the next century, though Special Circumstances managed to sneak an agent in 112 years after the Divine Retribution's arrival to hopefully nudge things to something ready to deal with the Involved as productive members of the galactic metacivilization.







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