Border Disputes Chapter Two

[Hawk_strike]

CHAPTER ONE AND SETTING NOTES

Chapter 2: Out of the Frying pan...

Captain Seldon crawled in a daze, electrical Cables flailing around him and broke glass of the monitors and sensitive Equipment. Seldon thought to himself, in an optimistic view that only he could "well at least I might get a new ship." He opened his eyes to find a smoke filled bridged, and called out to see who was around
"Saya!?!"
"Paul!?!"
"Is anyone with you?" Seldon enquired
"Only Steven!"

Steven was the ships cook, he had a way of never being around when wanted, and always being around when needed
"What the Hell did you do to my Kitchen Seldon!"? Steve said trying to make light of a very bad situation
"It wasn’t me I swear, there was something in that Split ship... Where are you!?!"
"We're in the Navigation room"
"Right am coming!" Seldon finally got the courage to stand up when he got there
"Anything still working?"
"Only the Short range Gravidar, we can only see for 500 metres" "great, so lets analyse the situation" said Steven "We’ve got no Shields, we can only see for 500 Metres,
Were full of smoke, everywhere we go in the ship we could get electrocuted or sucked into space, and we don’t know if anyone other then us is alive, so its business as usual then" Steves little joke didn’t go down well, as suddenly Saya and seldon realised that indeed, they didn’t know who was alive, or the extent of the damage the ship had suffered.

They didn’t have to wait long before the Argon rescue and Salvage ships appeared to clean up, the 3 where extracted from the Centaur by a Small Argon Discoverer, as they pulled away, they found the entire drive section of the ship destroyed, and most of the crew quarters exposed to space or Totally destroyed, saya broke down as she saw her crew quarters, her only home. She joined the service because she was kicked out of her house, and now she’s back there, her pet cat buster was in her room at the time "I remember the way he used to scratch at the carpet, and id yell at him" she remarked.

It was potluck that the Centaur had been designed with the Command decks sealed off, otherwise the three wouldn’t have survived. But as it is, they were not thinking about how they survived, but how others died. They started the day with a crew of 10 as Steven pointed out, and ended up with three. "Your good luck seldon, id be dead too if you didn’t make me make me bring you a cup of water in the mornings." Seldon responded with a nod and looked back at the wreckage of the ship he so damned earlier.

The Disco Pilot thought now would be a good time to give seldon more bad news "Captain Seldon, your to report to the Titan Rigil Kent for a full debriefing, I hate to say it man, but command is fuming"
"When is the Rigil Kent Arriving?"
"Its scheduled to jump into the sector in 15 Minutes, admiral Kho is going to be aboard"
"Ugh just what I need, I get to be yelled at by a Silver Spoon"
"Aye, you know these terracorp types, seems like they run the Federation nowadays"
"Its not made any better by the fact that Julian Brennan became a senator, I remember when he was just a petty thief, all this cos his dads got cash"

The conversation dragged on for another 10 minutes mainly focused about how many high-ranking terracorp personnel had whittled their way into the Argon Government since the Kha'ak Wars.

The Argon Titan Rigil Kent could be clearly seen leaving the eastern gate followed by a short and slightly rude hail "Discovery 089 you are cleared to dock with this vessel."

The Discovery Slinked into the docking port, dwarfed by the massive titan
"Pfft where was this when those pirates showed up in Teladi Osprey?" Seldon Cursed

They completed docking procedures and disembarked, Seldon was immediately handcuffed and taken to Admiral Saya Kho's Office
"What the hell happened!!!”? She screamed as he entered the office
"The ship exploded that all we know" Seldon Calmly answered
"Well seldon, am glad you can stay calm because the split and the Argon federation are at war, Half an hour ago we received a message that YOUR patrol ship was attacking a Split Refugee transport from the Boron conflict, the fact that theres at least 12 Argon and Split Ships in pieces out there, am inclined to believe them!"
Seldon couldn’t respond, what could he say, he knew he was innocent and here he was being confronted with the idea that hes started an Interacial war.
"Its most unfortunate that it had to be split ships though, they’re not as reasonable as the paranid or teladi, there taking this as an act of war, and several Split ships have mobilised in Thuruks Beard we believe there going to travel through Hatikvah's Faith and attack THIS sector from there, some for of Split justice"
Seldon just stared into space trying to comprehend what happened, did he do anything?
"What I want to know is WHAT WHERE YOU THINKING!"
"We didnt fire on those ships mam, why would we?"
"my question exactly, why would you?"

Seldon couldn’t be bothered telling the Admiral what happened, she wouldn’t listen, he was now to fester in the brig with his two comrades whilst his people prepare for war.

[KiwiNZ]

Nice way of including the game characters into the story

Hysterical girl. I think apart from her standard uniform nobody ever like her

Looks ike Seldon is bit in DS here and will find it difficult to di his way out. Considering the size of the explosion there will be not a lot left of any recordings. On the other hand, you mentioned the separate command centre of the corvette. So there ma be some light after all.

Looking forward to the next installment.

[Hawk_strike]

Well i sorta had to do it this way, when i started writing this Last night, i was thinking "what character is obscure enough to not be noticed too much, yet important enough for emphasis to shift" i came up with Leutenant Seldon and his preparing a disco, i imagined him as a washed up, pessimistic Corvette captain going no where in some backwater system.

Ill be posting the 3rd Chapter in alittle While probably Compiled with Chapters 1 and 2.

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I generally pictured Terracorp being like a some modern day corporations, having a foot in the goverment and military, though Old cast wont have much to do with the story, other then Bret...... but that comes later