<strong>Time/Date:</strong>0034 to 0115 EDT 6 Apr 2102<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Stane Industries Platform Foxtrot Zero Nine Six.<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>All<br/><strong>Mentioned:</strong>Atlantis,<em>U.S.S. Byers</em><br/><strong>NSFW Warning:</strong>None<br/><br/><hr/>The rig had stood since before the start of the Sentinel War, and kept in place for its duration, it serving as a mining platform for the precious metals and other materials for the construction of sentinels.  As such it had been a valued resource and protected as it mined and exploited the vast deposits of titanium and tungsten in the mountain range below the surface of the water, untouched till the need for resources outweighed environmental concerns.  While the methods used were not completely toxic and irreversible to ocean, they were invasive and not completely "green" technologies in use.  It had drawn the attention of Atlantis, and something which Queen Andromeda could not ignore.  She had sent a team to disrupt mining operations, and they were successful.  The first time.<br/><br/>The Sentinels were a methodical and implacable foe and they merely sent over a squadron to repair and protect the installation.  The second attack upon the mining platform and others like it had not been successful.  The adaptive and sub-luminal and they were able to beat back the second attack.  While it had not been the success the first attack had been, they could not afford the threat the mining programs represented to Atlantis.  The third attack against the mining platforms ended with the decimation of the Atlantean forces.  Over a third of their military might went into the strike operations, and not a single Atlantean survived.   No further attacks happened and Queen Andromeda was overthrown.  The new King, Mydril, pulled everything back and turned Atlantis into a fortified stronghold in the event of a Sentinel attack.  The fact it never came the Atlanteans could ow to the ill-liked surface world, something which galled Mydril for years.<br/><br/>With the defeat of the Sentinels however, Mydril could afford to take some action, which was how Platform Foxtrot Zero Nine Six fell under the control of the Atlanteans.  For the last five years they have been using it as forward operation base, gathering intelligence on the so called North American Union.  They had been protecting the location as if it were a part of Atlantis itself, and as such several ships had been reporting missing.  Enough so SHIELD decided to investigate, sending in the destroyer<em>Byers</em>, especially outfitted for reconnaissance.  No one, be they human, Atlantean, or enhanced, were prepared for what happened next.<br/><br/>Like a lightning strike hurled by the gods of old, the ship carrying the Eternal Helios hurled through the night air, making the patch of Atlantic Ocean as if a second sun had risen.  As if it had been purposefully aimed, it struck Platform Foxtrot Zero Nine Six.  The impact and the energy behind it was just short of a nuclear strike, again lighting up the night.  It destroyed the platform, and the Atlanteans who had been stationed on-board, though the fact it was occupied at all had been a secret.  The<em>Byers</em>altered course immediately and turned into the massive wave the impact caused, the command echoed out to the crew, military and civilian alike to brace for impact.  The wave rocked the<em>Byers</em>almost capsized the ship.  It was however a fatal event for the ship as its superstructure and keel were cracked.  Next as the ship started to list, all communications channels were swamped with the following message,<em><strong>"Mayday, mayday, mayday to anyone in receiving distance, this is the U.S.S. Byers and we are going down, repeat we are going down and require immediate assistance."</strong></em><br/><br/>And the wave continued on...