Full Summary:

Within the Drone Galaxy there is another intelligent species. They also came from another galaxy like the crew of the Destiny. Unlike the crew of the Destiny, there war ships are far more advanced and were built to house not only soldiers but also their families, animals for food & transportation, a greenhouse of sorts and any means of energy. What happens when a young woman is picked up by the crew of the Destiny? Why was she alone on a somewhat abandoned planet? What technology does she carry that could wipe out the Drones for good? And do her people ever find her? How does Destiny's crew react if/when they do?

The Vitalins:

We were a peaceful people, explorers if that is what you wish to call us. We'd left our home world many years ago. It had stopped its function and was no longer habitable. Ships were built to house entire populations plus anything we would need to survive long-term life in space. Most of the ships were round in shape and 8 stories deep. The middle of the ship could house two docked war ships trying to save power and strengthen shields. Because most of our power came from ZPM's (though some of our ships were solar powered), we made sure to stock up on as many as we could get our hands on, which in itself wasn't all that hard. Our sister planet had an abundance of ZPM's; they practically grew in the mines of the planet. Each ship had a stock of nearly five thousand ZPM's in their vaults. The warships held only enough to keep power and shields up. The support ships held maybe ten each. The warships were our first line of defense, because though our Home Ships had shields and weapons, they were still vulnerable to outside attacks.

Our Home Ships held entire families; from babies to kids to adults and soldiers. There was the Hydroponics Departments on each ship that grew our food. There was the Zoological Departments that housed all the animals that fed us as well as helped with transportation when on planet missions. The Science Departments allowed us to keep advancing with our technology and to keep advancing with our weapons systems. It also lets us help others that might have needed our help.

When we left our home world, we stopped at every habited planet in the Galaxy and added to our collection of ships. It seemed that every planet was dying and we had no reason for it. People genially wanted to live and this was their way of doing it. It didn't matter if we had been enemies before; this was the only way to survive. Our Home Ships were also fitted with a Stargate. All ships were outfitted with FTL drives. I wish we could say that we were advanced enough to have Hyperspace on the ships but I can't.

With every planet in our system dying, we headed out of our galaxy to find more worlds that would be suitable for us to live on. What we weren't expecting was to come upon an alien race that wanted us dead for no reason. When we got to the Drone galaxy, we thought that at first we had found our new home but we were soon proven wrong. Somehow, we inadvertently awoke the dormant enemy and they have been attacking us ever since. We knew there had to be a way to destroy the, so we hatched a plan.

As Commander of my own ship, I took a small shuttle and detached from my ship, leaving my young husband in charge. I would never see him again. My short trip turned into a two year voyage. With the shuttle irreparably damaged, I had no other choice by to land on an uninhabited plant and hope my people found me in time. I knew my siblings would never give up looking or me. And though I hoped the same for my young husband, I also knew that he couldn't really be trusted to be faithful. I had called my brother and told him that if my husband wasn't faithful, to annul the marriage and to take command of my ship.

My mission was to try and board one of the command ships to see if it was possible to find a way to destroy them. And it worked, at first. I had tricked the Command Ship into thinking I was one of its drones returning from a scouting mission. I was able to dock and commenced with the mission. The race that had built the drones would have had to be able to get on the Command Ship to do repairs and they would have needed an access door to do so. The door was easy to find and once inside, I was able to find the bridge easily as well. I thought I would be kicked out of the system as soon as I entered it but the Command Ship wasn't built to stop hackers, it was built to destroy any technology foreign to it.

I started hacking into the system as soon as I could. It was easier than I thought and when I found the map of the galaxy, I knew I'd found the jackpot. But I should've known that my hacking would have adverse effects on the Command Ship itself. The Command Ship started to fall and the faster it fell the more I realized it was going to crash land on the planet below. I recovered as much data as I could, transferring it to an 'Unencrypted' drive so that it wouldn't be destroyed, then I made a mad dash back to my shuttle and tried to detach from the falling ship; tried being the operative word.

Unable to detach from the Command Ship, I upped the strength of my shield as well as the inertia dampeners and then buckled myself into the pilot seat. I was able to look outside the shuttle and noticed a ship dropping out of FTL. My guess is they noticed that the ship was falling but knowing it was an enemy, did nothing to help. The drones in the area lay dormant and the Command Ship hit the planet about as hard as I thought it would. My shuttle was ejected and flipped a few times before coming to a halt. I was dazed but otherwise unhurt. I knew that I couldn't stay in the shuttle so I unbuckled, went to the back and grabbed bags to start packing. Hopefully the ship that had dropped out of FTL would send someone down to investigate why the Command Ship fell from space; hopefully.

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