"Warp drive unstable, engine damaged! What is your command my lord?"
The perilous travel through the localized warp storm has damaged the freighter's warp drive and engine, diverting it to an uncharted planet of the galaxy instead of the intended space hulk. As their vox channels are short ranged they are effectively cut off from the Explorator Fleet. With the engine damaged and the warp drive overloading, Salazar Biachenko only has two options: they either attempt a landing and risk being stuck on the planet forever, or try and stabilize the warp drive that may result in a catastrophic explosion. Both cases were extremely perilous, and he quickly weighed in the options.
Even if we somehow manage to stabilize our warp drive, it will still be damaged and will be incapable of large warp jumps. We also have no effective way of determining our location and any attempts of long range communication are futile. On the other hand, attempting an emergency landing on the planet will render our craft inoperable afterwards. However there is an off chance that civilization thrives that might allow them to create a beacon to contact the fleet. He thought to himself.
"I guess I don't really have a better choice." He said aloud. "My fellow adepts, prepare the ship for planetary emergency landing. May the Omnissiah protect us. "
The tech-priests had to cut the main power to minimize the risk of explosions and fires, meaning that the grav-pads and the engine will not be functional; however, the Maximus Crusade was a heavy assault freighter, designed for quickly deploying a company of troops from orbit along with all their war gear in the thick of enemy fire. Salazar had no doubts that it can survive the impact, but with the grav-pads and engine offline, the force of the impact will cause significant damage to the ship and the occupants inside will need time to recover from the crash landing.
The city of Piltover
Jinx was on another rampage of mindless destruction, 10 police cruisers chasing her down. The sounds of gunfire and explosions drowning out the police sirens and the screams of the terrorized civilians on the streets. She fires a salvo of rockets aim straight towards the crusiers. The police frantically dodge the rockets but the resulting explosions causes them to lose steering and makes 4 of the cars to crash into another, pinning down the rest of them. As she makes her gateaway she notices something up in the sky losing altitude rapidly. It was far larger than any airship she can think off, and it seems like it was on fire.
She giggled and thought: Today was much more interesting and fun than I thought it would be.
The police department had been bombarded by emergency reports, Sheriff Caitlyn was recieving reports of a huge unknown airborne craft had just crash landed onto the city square.
Medical personnel, firefighters and police were on the crash site and some of Piltover's champions has been sent to investigate this foreign object by request of the mayor. The craft was made out of pure metal and was far larger than any airship. On its prow it had a huge insignia of a partly mechanical skull surrounded by a cog.
"So what exactly is it Heimerdinger? Is it Zaunite?" asked Jayce, who was wary it might be a trap set up by their rivals.
"Im not exactly sure on what it is, but I can tell you it is definitely not Zaunite." the professor answered. On closer inspection, he figured out that the prow was actually a gigantic ramp. "I think I may have leads on what the ship is, and it might be used for transporting goods. But what could it be possibly transporting? It must be something really important as the whole craft is clad in metal." he deduced.
"What ever the hell that thing is transporting I want to know now." Caitlyn quickly remarked. "Setup a perimeter, I don't want to be taking any chances" she ordered. "Ziggs, you think you can crack that ship open?"
"Of course! It also looks like the vessel has received massive structural damage after the crash. Nothing a couple of satchel charges can't do!" Ziggs enthusiastically replied.
Just before Ziggs was about to detonate his hexplosives, the champions and police heard metallic clanking in rhythm with a march coming from the inside of the vessel. Then the unexpected happened, the prow started lowering ever so slowly. As the prow lowered even more, they started seeing multiple pairs of blue dots.
"Brace yourselves!" Caitlyn was not taking any chances with whatever awaits them. The police started forming firing lines, while the champions readied themselves for what they might face.
(Author's Notes: Hi guys, this is my first time writing any sort of fanfiction. Constructive criticism is greatly appreciated. Kept the chapter short and concise, but I personally think it lacks build up.)