Fiction:Realities Altered/Distorted Reflection

Chapter 1
DSB and DCP ships moved into orbit around Sulbis, a desert planet on the DSB side of the Zarni Neutral Zone. Intelligent reports suggested that the Zarni were about the attack the planet as part of an ongoing series of incursions they'd been making throughout the year.

The DCP claimed to have a new weapon that they were willing to test on the Zarni. The DSB was happy to have their support in the ongoing border conflicts. Paladin Ingcos himself was going to participate in this battle, eager to see what the DCP had in store for the Zarni. He was eager to get back out into space since he was assigned a new ship, The Sword of Truth, an enhanced Cobalt-Class battleship.. And so the fleet lay in wait over Sulbis.

Two hours later, a group of Zarni battleships arrived in the system. The DSB-DCP fleet moved in to engage. The lead DCP ship declared that they were about to fire their weapon. A bright blue pulse arced from the DCP vessel, across the darkness of space, and then dispersed in the middle of the Zarni fleet. None of the Zarni ships was damaged, not even fazed! Ingcos was unimpressed. He immediately ordered the fleet to directly engage the Zarni. The DSB ships all flew forward to engage the Zarni. The DCP ships held back, and sent a urgent transmission to the DSB ships. Too late, the DSB ships were told that the DCP's new weapon had a delayed reaction...

The region of space were the pulse gas dispersed suddenly tore open. A bright blue wormhole sucked down The Sword of Truth and a Zarni battleship. The two were thrown through a corridor of blue-light... before finding themselves back in orbit around Sulbis.

But something was wrong. The rest of the DSB and Zarni ships were gone. The DCP ships had been replaced with some very archaic designs and were joined by several Ravon ships had also joined them. Ingcos attempted to open a channel with the Zarni ship, but it rejected and attacked the DCP and Ravon ships.

Ingcos ordered his ship to fire on the Zarni ship, to protect the DCP and Ravons (they were DSB allies, after all) who followed suit. The Zarni ship's shields fell very quickly, and Ingcos ordered the firing cease. The Sword of Truth stopped firing, but the DCP and Ravons kept going, and the Zarni ship was destroyed.

The DCP and Ravon ships began staring down The Sword of Truth. Ingocs attempted to hail them, but they did not reply. Suddenly, they opened fire. The Sword of Truth's shields were enough to resist their fire for now, but Ingcos was unwilling to fight back. Out of nowhere, several unidentified ships came out of FTL and attacked the DCP-Ravon ships. They burst like fireworks from the bright orange beams of the new ships.

Observing the newly arrived ships, Ingcos noted that they resembled DSB designs, but with a bronze colouration. Ingcos had no idea what was going on. He was attacked by DCP and Ravon ships, both allies of the DSB, which were subsequently destroyed by bronzed DSB-ships. Furthermore, the DCP ships were of an archaic design, and there were no transmissions coming up from Sulbis. As Ingcos was trying to make sense of it, a transmission came in from one of the bronze ships.