I jumped a little when the lieutenant opened the door with haste and yelled at me: they took her, the pirates took her. It took me a few seconds to understand what he meant, but then I got it, they had taken her, the only thing I swore to protect, my one love in this world. I had intense hate in my mind when I told him to alert the council that we were taking the infinity. The infinity was the crown jewel in the UEA (United Earth Alliance) fleet, and had never met a worthy adversary, and had defeated entire invasion fleets alone, and I was the captain.
Less than 40 minutes later the docking clamps lifted from the cold hull of the 3 and a half mile long capital ship. And the thrusters fired at full to lift this monster of a ship into the cold and empty space. And as soon as the ship was clear of the debris floating in earth orbit the lieutenant asked if he was to engage FTL (Faster Than Light) drives 1–4 and I corrected him with drives 1-16. He did what he was ordered to do, knowing that that many FTL drives would consume most of our fuel. We entered warp space but emerged only 3 minutes later, after traveling 13 light-years, from earth to our destination, the omega colony at the planet Miranda.
As soon as we emerged from warp space we preformed a scan of the system, only to find all allied ships in pieces, and pirates in control of the system. I decided to give them a chance to walk away, and opened an open communications channel. The captain of the fleet orbiting Miranda was named Isaac, and knew me from my long record in the alliance. He wanted 300 million credits for the release of the prisoners held at the omega colony, I replied that he had 10 minutes to engage FTL drives or stay to be eliminated. To that he responded: fool, and ordered his fleet into attack positions.
I yelled trough the bridge: heat up all weapon systems and raise shields. And I watched as the bridge crew started manning their positions. The infinity was armed with 40 MACs (Mass Acceleration Cannon), 160 anti-fighter flak and 100 heavy plasma turrets. And I watched as the guns rose from the hull of the ship and turned against the enemy. The enemy started firing salvoes of super heated plasma rounds towards our ship but the shields held steady, and I felt like we had held back for long enough as I issued the command to open fire!
The sight of super heated plasma flying trough space towards the enemy never gets old but all I could think of was my love down at the colony. The battle only lasted for 19 minutes and our shields held steady at 93% power, though all 37 enemy ships of all classes from frigate to destroyer, where either in pieces or retreating. And we finally reached the planet orbit.
This was something I could not let others handle, I thought as I made my way down to the hangar. When my lift arrived in the hangar I went straight to the prototype armor suit and climbed in. the suit was 5 meters tall and was equipped with the newest of cloaking technology, 2 dual ion Gatling-guns, 40 light ground to ground missiles and an experimental psy blade. I powered it up as we entered orbit and the drop-ship fired its main engines to take me down there.