I do not own Space Engineers!
I groaned as my eyes opened to see an asteroid in front of me. Fully waking up I jumped up and looked around. The ship I was on D9-6 an explorer ship crashed into an asteroid and took out the front of the ship. No one was around, a ship of around 30 members and I was the only one who was around. My predicament was shocking but I had no time to worry about that and I looked at my wearable pad. I had to survive now, there was nothing else for it. Looking at the pad I found that some of the memory was damaged and therefore I could not build some things.
I was a space engineer of the now gone Kolvas Corporation. I was also in the military for a few years so I knew how to survive. Looking at my pad I decided that I needed to find a good place to make a base and survive from there. Turning around I headed to the backup cockpit and took control of the ship. Turing the engines back on I gently brought the ship back a few meters to give me space from the asteroid. Once I was well away from it I shut the engines down to save power and got off the cockpit and made my way to the front.
Looking around at the damage front I figured that I could cannibalise it for a mining ship. Taking out my grinder from my pack I began working on the broken parts first as they would be more useful for a smaller ship. I managed to take off a few part of the light armour blocks before checking out the refinery which was working on some ore that some of the mining crew recently acquired. Some of the iron ore was already converted to ingots.
Flying over to the seconded deck I set the assembler for making 300 steel plates and a few motors. While it was working I then started to remove the top part of the ship, why it was there I never knew but I happy removed it before turning my focus on the left engine nacelle. It wasn't needed for the time being and could be converted into a landing platform. I flew down to it and began grinding and harvesting away at the thruster. Given the about of equipment the thruster had I had to make several trips from the thruster to a cargo container and place everything I harvested from the thruster inside it.
Soon I removed the reactor, thrusters and covering blocks from the nacelle effectively turning it into a lading pad. Smiling I checked my power and widened my eyes when I saw I was down to 10% moaning I landed on the platform and walked over to the cockpit and charged up my suit. As I did I checked the assembler's progress and found that the metal plates and motors where done. It didn't take long for the charge to be completed and as soon as it was done I got off the cockpit controls and made my way to the assembler to get the items I needed.
After flying down to the landing platform and turned my jetpack off and engaged by 3D holo blueprint system for a small landing gear. Once placed I welded the parts it needed on then began laying out the basic layout for the mining ship. 3 drills, 2 cargo containers and two thrusters on all six sides. The layout of it was from a mining ship called the 'Honey Badger' or the 'Bumble bee'. I extended the hull and placed the layout for a large reactor. Seeing my power down to %5 I headed back to the cockpit to recharge.
Just then my monitor alarms buzzed. I checked the radar to see a cargo ship coming in around 10k away. I breathed a sigh of relief it was just a drone business shipment that was passing through. After my suit got charged I went back to building the mining ship.
OOOOO
Far away a orange large ship with four thruster nacelles on it's sides. The flew casually in the asteroid field. Inside the ship was a crew of around 40 people who lived out in space. To normal people they where known as space Nomads, tribal groups who fly around space finding their own place but space is there home. Given this people sort of see some problems in these tribes such as poor immune systems and brittle bones to name a few.
Hiding behind an asteroid was a group of MKII Henry-class fighters waiting to attack. The large ship passed the asteroid and the fighters flew in. Alarms sounded in the large ship making everyone panic. The nomads tended to ware stripped down versions of spacesuits with belts and jewellery on. Their skin was also covered in tribal tattoo's as part of their coming of age.
"MOVE MOVE MOVE!" Warriors yelled.
Rockets impacted the light armour as a female warrior in a full space suit made her way to the hanger where pilots started to climb into their fighters. She was about too but an older man pulled her off the fighter.
"Father what is it?" she asked.
He didn't say anything but handed her her a metal box.
"Leave get out of here, you must keep it safe." he said.
Her eyes widened and looked at him. "No no I'm not leaving you father!" she demanded.
"You have too." he said as a troop transport came in and unloaded bandits armed with assault riles.
There was no time to argue she climbed inside her fighter and closed the cockpit and flew out. The nomad ship got swarmed by bandit ships she just could look back as she just sped forward towards unknown space.
OOOOO
As I came out of a large asteroid in a small basic mining ship my alarm went off of ship coming in I looked around to see a small nacelle fighter ship with fighters on their tail. Something was up.
