Alright, back with a new story. I hope I've gotten better, so here's a new way for you guys to judge me! Yay!

It's going to be first person for this Chapter, the next chapters are omniscient. For now, narration is done by Keitaro, and all journal entries are Keitaro's unless specified otherwise

"Speech"
"Thoughts"
Writing
"Announcements / Radio"

Chapter 1: Shipwrecked

Day 1, Entry 1, Year 1030 S.E. , EarT ("Earth Time")

S.E., The star era, the new era where humans travel beyond the reaches of our solar system and even our galaxy. It's now 1018 years since travelling to the stars was made possible and practical... Even so, there are many dangers in travel, and one of the most rampant and feared fates while traveling is becoming stranded on a planet alien to you...

I still remember the warning they gave me once I entered the academy to learn how to become part of a crew, learning the basics of ship maintenance, interstellar navigation and landing and take off among other things. I dismissed them because I thought I would never get stranded. I was wrong. I was oh so wrong. For the first few years after my first venture, There weren't many problems. A few minor attacks by bandits, but nothing I couldn't handle. I joined The Grand Fleet five years after graduation and a year after that, I joined the Reconnaissance division. 6 years after joining, my crew and I, 'The K-Recon'crashed our ship, 'The Hina'. We're part of The Reconnaissance division, within The Grand Fleet and the ship is named after my grandmother, one of the people who inspired me to continue the family tradition of having at least one from each generation become part of The Grand Fleet, seeing as my ancestors were one of the founders. Great Granddad, Keisuke Urashima joined when he was of age and Granny Hina, as we call her, joined when it was her time and even met Grandad there. Both of my parents were part of The Grand Alliance, but my uncle, Kenichi Urashima, my Father's brother, didn't join. My adopted sister, Kanako Urashima, didn't join as she wanted to stay on Earth and become one of the Administrators, the people who direct the direct the IST, The InterStellarTravellers, those who go between the stars. A good thing too, I don't know what I'd do if we were stuck in a small metal container off in space, even if the travel takes a few weeks usually, she's too obsessed. I'm going off on a tangent, anyway, my crew and I crashed our ship, luckily no one died during the actual crash. However, since we landed in an uncharted planet, while exploring and doing Reconnaissance for The Grand Fleet, we didn't know much about the planet we were on. All we knew was that it had sentient life on it and that it had a slight abundance in plant life. The first we knew through scanning the island, the other was by observing the planet we landed on. We searched and searched, and eventually we found a suitable place for shelter, it was near some water and it seemed like the plants there produced oxygen and had similar structure to the plants back on Earth. We got lucky, although we've yet to encounter the natives to see whether or not they're hostile. Still, no one's dead yet so that's a good sign. I'll continue this journal, and hopefully help others who also get stranded. Keitaro Urashima, out.

Day 5, Entry 1, Year 1030 S.E. , EarT

My crew and I have been here for a few days now. We've just set up a base of operations using the gear that we managed to salvage, one of the landing party suplies, two week's worth of food and water and a set of motorbikes and a set of ammunition boxes and crates and medical supplies. The food isn't going to last long though, so we need to find food. We landed near some 'water', but the tests are still being conducted. I'm not that worried though. The plants around here are like the ones at home, so even if the water source that's near us isn't drinkable, I'm sure there'll be rain. I'm about to leave for the first hunting trips. Keitaro Urashima, out.

Day 5, Entry 2, Year 1030 S.E. , EarT

The trip was a success! We found ourselves some type of animal that looks like bison. We're going to start tests for edibility. I hope it comes back as positive. I shudder thinking about what we'd do if the food we found isn't edible. 2-3 days from now and the results should come back along with the test for the Water. We proved the water was indeed water but we've yet to see if the water is safe to drink. The results so far are showing that it is, but we've yet to be sure. Keitaro Urashima, out.

Day 8, Entry 1, Year 1030 S.E. , EarT

The results just came back. Both show that the meat is good and the water is drinkable. This is good, we're going to go out again to see if we can find ourselves other food sources. You can never be too careful after all. Especially in an Alien planet. I'll be back later to log the results of the trip. Anyway, Keitaro Urashima, out.

"Oy! Are you done writing in the journal now!? It's time for the trip!" Yelled one of my crew mates, the Co-captain, Motoko Aoyama. She is also a long-time friend of mine.

"Yeah! I just finished," I yelled back, "I'm preparing to head out! Just wait for a few more minutes and I'll go out! Make sure that Seta and Haru-chan are prepared for guard duty!" I was referring to an old professor of mine in the academy, he 'took a liking to us' and decided to join us on the Fleet. The other one was my Aunt, Haruka Urashima. Technically my cousin, but she doesn't like it when I call her that so I just calls her Haru-chan. Seta Noriyasu is the Navigator, although sometimes I have my doubts on whether or not he should be navigating, and Haru-chan is one of the cooks on board, well, not on board anymore. She cooks along with Shinobu Maehara. Shinobu does most of the cooking though, Haruka is better suited to helping us when we're on the planet, helping us to gather and do a preliminary scan to immediately see if the food can be edible. If the scan is positive, we take it back for Haru-chan to scan properly with a more sophisticated device to scan it completely to see finally whether or not it's edible.

"Keitaro-kun says to prepare for Guard duty! Make sure you protect everyone in the camp! Especially Mutsumi-san and Sarah-chan!" She then droned off to list all of the things they need to remember. It's good that she reminded them of Mutsumis-san. She's the crew's Medic, but not our field Medic. The field Medic would be Kitsune, whose real name is Mitsune Konno. A good thing too, Kitsune can sense danger and can leave and move as needed unlike Mutsumi-san who is usually confined to our camp or base of operations as she can be a ditz at times and often forgets where she is so she needs to be guarded by those on guard duty to ensure the safety of the camp residents as she is the most knowledgeable when it comes to medicine. Sara is the teenage adopted kid of Seta. She's with us in one of her first ventures, she took a liking to us in the academy, while she was with her adoptive father. She took a liking to me and Motoko-chan pretty quickly, stating she wanted to be just like us and 5 years after our graduation, she joined the five year full course like us. 5 years after that, she graduated and heard we became part of The Grand Fleet. She joined and a year later, she qualified to sign up for the Reconnaissance division, the hardest division to get into as they go to uncharted planets. She trained more, and one year after joining The Grand Fleet, she was assigned to us since she knew us and it would be easier for her to adjust if she was on my crew. We were doing well and she was learning a lot from us, but we crashed a year after that, leading us to now.

"Is everyone ready to go? Motoko-chan!" I start the call to ensure everyone is ready for the trip out of the camp.

"Hai!"

"Kitsune-san!" I call again.

"Hai! Ready as I can be for now."

"Naru-san!" Naru Narusegawa-san is one of our field operatives. She always goes with the landing party and is someone we designated to leave the camp with the hunting party now that we've crashed. She is a decent shot and is our mid-range fighter, although not as good as me since I am not only the captain, but am the sniper too. I stay back and take long shots, but I can defend myself at close range with a sword, same with Naru. We're not as good as Motoko-chan though. She has practiced since a young age and is the resident sword-mistress of our group and is the designated close-range specialist.

"Hai!"

"Suu-chan!" Kaolla Suu-chan is our resident technician. She operates a mech for the landing mission. She's currently repairing it as it got damaged during the crash. She's coming along with a portable mapping device though, so we can travel around easier after mapping the area. We're going to go farther than before to map more of the surrounding areas. For now, she's our acting Navigator since Seta's better for defending the base of operations. Soon, we'll have her prepare automated defenses along with a computer operated defense that she can operate on her own, but that'll be after she fixes the mech suit and teaches others how to use it and more importantly, teaches Seta how to operate the mapping device.

"Hiyas! I'm ready!" She replied after popping out from who knows where.

"Alright then, that's everyone going out. Haru-chan! Seta-sensei! Keep an eye on Mutsumi-san and Sarah-chan! You too, Shirai! Haitani!" Shirai and Haitani are my childhood friends. They got into the academy with me and have been with me ever since. They joined The Grand Fleet with me and joined the Reconnaissance division with me, forming a 5 man light recon squad along with Haru-chan and Motoko-chan. A light recon squad is a squad that is meant to explore a stellar system (think solar system, it's a different name for them) and not the actual planets. I was then promoted to a Captain's position allowing me to have a full reconnaissance team rather quickly (1 year when it's usually 3 before you get promoted) for what they called 'outstanding behavior'. I don't understand though, I was just doing my job. Anyway, that let me have a 7 man team, and that was when Seta-sensei, I guess just Seta now, and Kitsune-san joined us. After 3 years of that, I got promoted to 'Grand Captain' and got a 'Vanguard' Reconnaissance team. A team that is the elite Reconnaissance team. A 'Vanguard' team can have up to 30 members and is technically a fleet. They get assigned the most dangerous missions, and can sometimes get the assignment of an entire section of a Galaxy, which can mean hundreds of Stellar Systems. Upon becoming a Vanguard Rconnaissance crew, I heard that Sarah-chan was joining Reconnaissance and personally asked that she be let onto my crew. They allowed it because I knew her personally and because of my relatively fast escalation of the rank ladder. At this time, Mutsumi-san, Naru-san and Suu-san also joined, putting us as a 11 'man' Vanguard Reconnaissance crew.

"We will! Stay safe you guys!" Seta called out to us from one of the watchtowers we built along with makeshift walls and a gate. We built it into a nearby cliff-face so it didn't take that long. The walls surround the water source and are made of wood. They're not much, but they'll hold off uncoordinated groups of people and animals.

"Thank you! We're off now!" I called back, then we were off. We mounted the bikes that came with the landing party supplies. Making sure we had the exploration and testing supplies, we rode out of the gate. We traveled the path we used on our earlier trip to go back to where we found the bison-like creatures. As we arrive to where we last found them, we see that they stayed there. I guess it's their grazing grounds, at least we can trust them to stay here for long periods of time. Anyway, we kept moving forward, past the bison-like creatures, which I will refer to as space bison. We rode past what I can only assume are lakes of water. It looks off though. Better bring some back for testing. I tell the others about this and retrieved a canteen marked with a question mark and the number 1. We resume our journey. I can only hope we find something useful.

We rode for hours, mapping out the terrain. We found other things that could be useful, like a forest of what we could only assume were trees, a mountain and we spotted a camp of the natives, at least, we think it's a camp made by them. We never got close enough to confirm, we did however, see that it was advanced, they had walls made of some type of metal and even had guns. What type, we couldn't confirm, though we assume they were sniper rifles. After seeing those, we headed back to our camp. Nothing happened to it while we were gone, nothing has happened for the past few days, and I hope it stays that way. As I say this though, I can't help but feel a sense of dread come over me. It might be a premonition, I hope and pray it isn't.

(A/N) So how was it? Are you guys attached? I am, for now at least. It'll be updated inconsistently so keep that in mind. If there were any inconsistencies in the plot, please tell me about them so I can fix them. I think there were some inconsistencies that shouldn't have been inconsistent, and probably key information that I left out by accident, so if you're confused about the story, please review and tell me so. I can be absent minded at times and probably did leave things out of the story.