Authors note
Ok this note is to inform you that this story has been rewritten. Because of real world problems I was forced to leave the story and when I tried to pick it up I couldn't get into the feel of it and as a result I could only manage 800 words in over4 weeks of trying. But because I have put to much effort in so far and I am a stubborn git I have decided to alter and reedit the story.
Disclaimer: I do not in any way shape or form own any of the things from any movies TV shows or games except my original characters and I didn't make any money.
Also a apology for spelling and grammar English is my first language I'm just no good at it :o)
I plan on a few changes to the SOTS ships like they don't need dedicated sections to have things like cloak. Sensors, mine layers, point defence, or shields but they do for tankers, repair, and mining.
Also I'm setting it in an alternate future so the technology is more advanced and the ships are bigger and nastier.
Another thing is that command sips act as carriers for fighters just because I feel they will need it because of the cross over with 3 different shows that I'm planning x-overs use heavy fighter support.
Lost colony
Bridge of sol force armour cruiser Achilles SFS AC258 MK 12 refit
Sector 928/520 outside Teran Alliance space
02:52 AM 02/06/3741 CE
It was nearly 3:00 am and LT Jessica Straten was still bored out of her mind being forced to command the night shift after accidentally altering the targeting algorithms for the point defence network, luckily DEX the ship A.I. caught it in a standard diagnostic but still the captain believed it would show her the meaning of responsibility, either that or leave her to tired to mess with the ship for a few weeks.
"So LT Straten with tonight it makes 7 down and just another 14 days to go. Do you think you can keep the ship in one piece till then" enquired DEX being his usual pleasant self.
"So the snitch finally shows his face, I'm surprised your not spying on the recreation deck making notes of who's drinking to much and reporting it to the captain or at least to Doc Pierce" she replied now that her favourite play mate had shown up.
DEX had an annoyed if not a little amused look on his holographic face and repeated his reply from the last half a dozen times she made that statement "as I've mentioned before I don't make it a habit of reporting minor infractions but yours compromised the entire ships DEFNET, oh and if I wanted to I could simultaneously spy on the crew report it to the captain and still be able to stand here having this lovely little chat" DEX replied with mock annoyance "as I've said before, the Achilles isn't the newest or most capable ship in the fleet but we still get the job done and I still have enough teeth to make any one think twice before messing with me"
Jessica smiled at that and knew it was the truth, the Achilles was a refitted Agamemnon class armour type cruiser, a ship design dating back to the first intergalactic war between Sol Force and the Liir against the Hivers and the Tarkas and that war ended over 900 years ago, the only reason any Agamemnon class cruiser ship was in service and not in the mothball fleet around Jupiter was because of the ship losses during the Zuul war 200 years ago which wiped out over 60 percent of the Sol Force active fleet.
Only in recent years had Sol Force recovered enough to start sending ships back to the mothball fleet so that the new ships fresh out of space dock would get their more experienced crews and AI's. "So any idea when we'll be recalled for a new predator class ship?" asked Ensign Jimmy Barnes from his seat at the helm.
"Sorry ensign the last two slots were filled by the Victory and Endeavour and the next batch won't be ready for another 6 months" DEX replied hoping he would get one but knew the odds were against him, there were only 250 ships per batch and there where still over 12000 assorted mothball ships that needed replacing before being sent back to Jupiter.
"So, dose any one know why where out here past sector 700 without an escort" jimmy asked trying to pass the last 3 hours of the night shift.
DEX answered "yes, our base on Lambeli prime picked up a distress signal from an old MK 1 long range colony ship last month and they traced its signal and believe it originated from sector 957/522 and were here to investigate".
"Investigate what, those ships haven't been used in 1300 years and they didn't have either node space or sub space comms so at this range that signals got to be over 1000 years old" said jimmy resisting the urge to yawn.
DEX smiled looking at the young ensign and noticing that if his internal sensors were correct he'd most probably be asleep well before 0600 at this rate. "Actually they estimated closer to 1200 years and were investigating because they have no idea how the ship got there or who was on it"
LT Straten was starting to get interested that how a ship with a maximum range of 80 light-years managed to travel nearly 100000 light-years in such a short time "are you saying that neither SF or the TA have any info on the ship, I know it would have been around the time of the first war but there must be something"
DEX simply nodded "the only information the distress signal gave was the ships authentication code and its name, both of which indicated a ship that disappeared sometimes after we liberated Vager sector"
Jimmy was barely interested but decided to find out more "ok it's a mystery, but why send us, the last time Sol Force sent ships this far out they sent a full Cruiser flotilla and they didn't come out even half this far"
"He has a point DEX, why send one Cruiser this far out without backup" LT Straten said
DEX had an annoyed look on his face as he answered "Well the truth is we weren't supposed to be on this mission, the 228th Cruiser squadron was supposed to investigate but two days before they where supposed to leave new orders came in and they were redeployed to the new Washington fleet node in Exeter sector"
"They where planning on sending a force of nearly 600 ships but decided on sending us at the last minute?" Jimmy asked clearly shocked
"It doesn't surprise me, my brother is serving on a Dreadnought in the 22nd fleet and he said they've been redeployed 12 times in the last two years. Do you have any idea what's going on?" Jessica asked.
DEX was slightly distracted going over some unusual energy and communication signals that had started to register on his long range sensors but did his best to answer the LT "I'm sorry LT, I was distracted but to answer your question no, the increase in fleet redeployments over the past 5 years seem random"
Now the LT was really getting interested "what do you mean distracted, what could be so interesting" DEX was getting annoyed at being interrupted while he was still trying to analyze the sensor data and turned to ensign Angela Dane at the sensor and electronic warfare station "ensign are you picking up those energy and com signals on the long range sensors".
The young ensign was worried that she had messed up and looked to the AI and stammered her reply "y…ye yes sir I thought it was interference from that unstable star 2.6 light-years away" DEX smiled at the young crewmember and tried to calm her nerves "easy there ensign easy mistake to make but the readings are slightly off course from the star and are accruing far too regularly to be random interference"
"Any matches on the signals DEX" asked LT Straten "only a partial match on the energy signals, they are similar to Tarkas and Liir warp engines but the energy output is far too low and the duration is less than 3 seconds while the com signal is similar to an AI data transfer only weaker but with a surprisingly longer range"
"Sir you mentioned a ship name from the distress signal" the LT asked
DEX was surprised she remembered after the discussion on the unknown readings "yes the SFS Zodiac there was n…"
Before he could finish he was interrupted by Ensign Dane "Sir" and the ships automated combat alarm blurring to life "report" LT Straten shouted over the noise of the alarm.
"We just detected 50 unknown fighters appear in system, they match no known design in the archive" Ensign Dane replied trying to determine how they appeared so far inside a gravity well.
The LT activated the com unit on her wrist scanner "captain Mathews please report to the bridge we have a first contact situation" she then turned to DEX "DEX what can you tell me"
DEX reviewed the sensor data on the 50 unknowns "crescent shaped around 9 meters long by 5 and half meters wide by 1 and a half meters high. I'm not detecting a pilot but they appear to be bio mechanical so I'm assuming they are run by some form of AI. That is all I can determine at this range with the standard sensors, should I use the AHPSB" reported DEX
captain Mathews who had heard the report over the com stepped on to the bridge and relieved LT Straten of command "DEX use the sensor blade, I want to know how they got this far inside a gravity well and if they have any other tricks up there sleeves"
As the 50 unknown fighters slowly approached the Achilles there sensors where suddenly blinded as the 3 sensor blades swept over them and gathered there data.
DEX paused to analyze the newer data that was gathered "they appear to be using an FTL drive of unknown origin that isn't affected by gravity wells. I'm detecting 2 kinetic energy weapons along with multiple missiles several of witch are showing up as low yield nuclear missiles" DEX stopped as his networks firewall was attacked "captain the unknown fighters are attempting to invade the main computer with multiple Trojan and worm viral programs"
To be continued
AN ok hands up who didn't see that coming, and here's some info on the crew and ship.
Partial crew manifest
Name Jonathan Mathews
Age 87
Rank captain
Position commanding officer sol force armour cruiser Achilles
Limited History joined Sol Force in 3675 at the age of 21, in 3679 was assigned as a fighter pilot to delta wing on board SFS Argonia, in 3682 was promoted to LT commander and transferred to SFS Titan as CAG for alpha wing, in 3697 was promoted to commander assigned as first officer to SFS Achilles, in 3709 was promoted to the rank of captain and given the command of SFS Achilles.
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Name DEX
Age 715
Rank LT
Position AI and 3rd in command of Sol Force armour cruiser Achilles
Limited History 3026-3588 classified clearance code omega 5 top secret,
3588-present AI of sol force armour cruiser Achilles
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Name Jessica Straten
Age 28
Rank LT
Position primary sensor and electronic warfare officer for alpha shift, temporarily assigned as bridge commander for gamma shift (AKA night shift)
Limited History joined Sol Force in 3731 at age of 18, first assigned to SFS Achilles as secondary sensor and electronic warfare officer for Bata shift in 3738, promoted to LT and assigned as primary sensor and electronic warfare officer for alpha shift.
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Name Jimmy Barnes
Age 24
Rank ensign
Position helm officer for gamma shift
Limited History joined Sol Force in 3735 at age of 18, first assigned to SFS Achilles as helm officer for gamma shift in 3741.
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Name Angela Dane
Age 23
Rank ensign
Position primary sensor and electronic warfare officer for gamma shift
Limited History daughter of Admiral Patrick Dane and sister to commodore Alexander Dane, youngest of 3 children and 12th generation Sol Force officer, like her brother before her she was placed in the Sol Force advanced officer training program at age 18 in 3736, in 3740 was assigned as sensor and electronic warfare officer for gamma shift.
Design and Technology archive
Name Achilles
Type armour cruiser MK 12 refit
Designation SFS A1982586-AC258B
History the Agamemnon class AC was first deployed in 2497 during the first intergalactic war. Within 2 years it was considered by many to be the premium ship of the line.
Length 3596 meters
With 1273 meters
Height 1273 meters
Primary Power reactors 6 MK 14 twin matter antimatter reactors.
Secondary power reactors 10 MK 9 matter antimatter reactors.
Speed tactical 29.85 PLS, sub light 0.5482 LM, node drive 50.958 LM
Engines
Sub light 6 MK 12 ion jet engines
Gravity drive MK 28 cruiser drive
Node drives MK 7 N-Pathing node engine
Defensive
Armour 2.8 meters thick Tibernium alloy
Deflectors forward facing MK 8 magnetron deflector
Shields 8 MK 4 quantum pulse shield generators
Point defence 64 MK 9 twin phasers turrets, 24 MK 5 interceptors
Sensor and electronic warfare systems MK 12 enhanced spectral sensor system, MK 3 enhanced tactical warfare system, 3 MK 4 AHP sensor blade
Cloak N/A
Weaponry
Small 25 MK 19 flack cannons, 15 MK 8 pulse phasers cannons,
Medium 20 MK 20M missile tubes, 20 MK 10 phasers,
10 MK 4 antimatter cannons
Heavy 20 MK 20H missile tubes, 5 MK 9 mass drivers, 5 MK 9 ion cannons,
4 MK 6 burst drivers,
Assault 20 MK 20A missile tubes, 4 MK 12 fixed cutting lancers, 8 MK 5 heavy fusion cannons, 2 MK 2 plasma projector, 3 MK 9 antimatter torpedoes.
Wrist scanner
A Sol Force standard issue MK 3 Wrist scanner is worn by every Sol Force officer and is used for navigation, communication, has a short range sensor pallet and monitors the user at all time and sends real time medical information to the officers base or ship in order to prevent most medical emergencies
AN ok that's it I hope its better received than my last fanfic and please I don't mind constructive criticism I would even welcome it just don't review to simply be nasty.