Captain’s log;
Earth Stardate 3537 – 12 – 16
USC Narada
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Earth Stardate 2146, or as later referred to, ‘The year of Hell’.
2146, the year we lost control over our technology. The technology that helped us in many ways gained the upper hand over us living beings. The tragedies that came forth from these events were.. to put it mildly.. catastrophic.
The memories of these tragedies are kept alive quite vividly by most of the inhabitants of our Solar System. Wait.., no. Scratch that.
The memories of those tragedies have been rudely awoken just over an hour ago.
It has just been over an hour that all ships in the Sol System received the same alarming message, followed by static and general disbelief. A general disbelief so large, that for several minutes all Terran (and non-Terran personnel for that matter) seemed to simply stop living.
The message that shocked us? - “Oh my Lord, it’s headed straight for Earth!” followed by static on all comm lines.
By the time most of my crew came back to their senses the gravidar was filled with red blips. The scanners had by long relayed the information to the onboard speakers, warning all crewmembers of A.G.I. ships in the vicinity. This really was standard procedure as it was our Terran duty to get rid of the last remnant A.G.I. ships that still roamed the universe.
Though, when I finally was slapped back to my senses by my first officer the assault had already started and we were taking heavy fire from all possible directions and angles.
Never in my life have I been more grateful to serve on a new Luna class carrier. The new shields were holding out just long enough for us to escape the onslaught going on in Mars orbit and into the relative safety of the magnetic fields around the moon of Titan.
The communication channels were chaos. Reports coming in from all sectors regarding mostly one thing. Everyone that had been watching had seen it. Earth.. our majestic blue pearl, which we kept safe for so long.. had imploded onto itself. Presumably by a pod fired from an unknown vessel that was spotted jumping in close to the planet that once was.
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This ship managed to fire a pod with the capability to implode planets? A complete A.G.I. armada quickly following in it’s wake, assaulting the other planets in the System. Destr.. no. Completely decimating everything they run in to. Not to mention that we were lead to believe the main A.G.I. core had been destroyed over five hundred years ago! That the A.G.I. had been wiped out of existence, aside of a minor number of ships in hiding! This was bad, with a capital letter B.
Back to reality. Well, reality is only forty minutes later as most of the Terran fleet has assembled close to Titan and Saturn. Ready to ‘give ‘em hell!’.
So while the fleet slowly gets in formation whilst scooping up all remaining A.G.I. ships in Saturn orbit we prepare to clean sweep Jupiter and the Asteroid Belt. This all went according to plan, but while we were preparing to head for Mars -that- ship shows up again, immediately sprawling hundreds of torpedoes. Needless to say that this reduced most our ragtag fleet to rubble in a matter of luttle seconds.
I’m issuing evasive actions as suddenly the ‘maw’ of the thing opens and glows bright red. Another of those pods was launched shortly after and soars right past our stern. Thinking we got lucky my gaze suddenly drifts to where Mars once was. Just as Earth, Venus and Mercury, it was merely gone. That’s when I realised that we weren’t the target, but Jupiter was! A flash later and there was nothing left but a gaping emptiness.
The scanners had recorded the event and showed that the pod seemed to contain a form of Anti-Matter we were not familiar with. Upon impact it created a singularity strong enough to devour the planet whole. In all the chaos my helmsman failed to notice that the black hole had a gravity field so strong that it was actually sucking us in. Or well, failed to notice on time anyway. He found out just as the board computer warned us of a missile lock. I found him jumping around like a lunatic, shouting, while I motioned for him to brace for impact…
- “Impact in 5 seconds.”
- “Impact in 4 seconds.”
- “Impact in 3 seconds.”
- “Impact in 2 seconds.”
- “Impact in 1 second.”
Another flash. Everything went silent as I looked around with a mixed expression of fear and confusion. The ship shook and I was thrown into the air. It all seemed to go in slow-motion, though it was over in a few seconds.
I blinked, as we were still in one piece. The computer had silenced it’s horns, and the general red-alert was lifted as well.
“Status report!” I shouted, forgetting about the silence on board.
“S…Sir.. the A.G.I. ship is gone. Everything is gone, sir!” exclaimed a slightly shaking tactical ops crewman.
“What do you mean ‘everything is gone’ John!?” I replied.
“Just as I said, sir. There are no ships within scanning range. No debris either. Just some small asteroids on the short range scanners.”
I couldn’t help but wonder what had just happened. As did everyone most probably.
The long range scanners were damaged during the initial assault, so accurate reports could not be made yet. Other then that, the ship was in a horrible state. Shield strength was down to 16%. Hull integrity was failing on decks five through nine. Engines offline. Life-support was running on minimal. General power supplies were down a bare 3% of maximum. As an added ‘bonus’ all our weapon systems were destroyed with no chance of repairs.
I’ve ordered all technicians to get repairs going. Most importantly the main power generator, the shield generator, the engines and the scanners. Surprisingly our communication systems were still functional, although we were not getting any response.
There is an emergency staff meeting in two minutes while a check-list of all crew members is being made.
Lysander Ryker, out.
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Yes. You guessed it. Another story about one of the many adventures in the X-Universe.
I have decided on a bit more fantasised story which will unfold in the oncoming chapters.
Here's the general information:
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Main Character: Lysander Ryker. Captain of the M1 Luna Class carrier "USC Narada"
Time line:
- Start of the story: Earth Startdate 3537
- (will be updated as the story unveils!)
Game Start: USC Commander
Game Type: Dead-is-Dead
Rule set: Coming soon (tm)
More information will be added here after chapters 2 and 3 are finished (should be tomorrow evening). I don't want to spoil some things yet, though a smart person will undoubtedly can see a hint of the first few oncoming events.
While I will try to keep this as much of a story as I can, it will inevitably contain some game data which may disrupt the flow of the story. My apologies in advance
{moved from X-Universe; see note by CBJ - Carlo}
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