Lasers & Bracelets
Volume 1
A Wonder Woman Series
Wonder ship; Milky Way Galaxy; Multiverse
The Amazonian demigod Diana brought her signature invisible starship out of hyperdrive to begin her latest mission of space exploration. This was something that she had wanted to do for a very long time. She had just wanted to get away from everything; particularly earth. Being the last of her kind Diana had chosen not to resurrect her people where she could have ruled as queen eternal after Ares had slaughtered them; all to get at her no less. She had lost much more and hadn't wanted to look back; she'd let earth solve its own problems for a while. For now she would simply move forward; by taking to the stars. Fortunately to empower her to this end her magical all purpose vehicle could function in any environment as needed; thus she needed no other. She had contemplated exploring earth's oceans but getting away from earth had felt more right than anything else thus she had done just that. There were countless species out here and Diana being a trained scientist was intrigued to learn about them all. She had only done this to a moderate extent when the Amazons had thrived; but now she would have to represent them all on her own. Ares had gone back into the woodpile as he always did; she didn't expect to find him out here but anything was possible. She hoped to not encounter her archenemy for at least a century; for mortals that was a lot but for her it was nothing.
A massive asteroid field greeted her as she went to sublight velocity. There were reports of many alien beings in this spatial region but surprisingly knowledge on them was rather lacking. She wanted to help clarify that. Earth still was way behind on its space program and she'd used her considerable influence as WW to help move things along but earth was still moving too slow in her view for her to wait to come back out here. That being said she'd developed her own policy of non interference with earth's evolutionary development. This could apply to any developing civilization in general. She'd also chosen the invention of the hyperdrive as a way to gauge how far a civilization had developed. She'd honestly gotten this idea from the hit earth show Star Trek (one of her favorites); particularly the prime directive concept. She thought that was brilliant and thought that could work well here as she represented both earth and the Amazons (even though she was the last of the latter in that sense) as both an explorer and ambassador.
She piloted the wonder ship into the asteroid field. The ship's scanners reported there was a lot of vessel activity present; and all alien of course. She focused her scans on them. Some of the species appeared as familiar on the ship's scanners; others not. They originated from a to/from point deeper in the field. She had the ship lock onto that point and let it auto fly for it. It did so deftly as only such a physics defying vehicle of its advanced magical capability could in fact do. The daughter of Zeus took in the sights of the asteroid field as they went deeper into it. Nothing was trivial to the explorer/superhero/warrior from afar. She was a student of the multiverse and all its ways; along with ultimately being its divine protector. This place was essentially her celestial playground. It was all stardust inasmuch as she was; her human part anyway; her divinized portion remained beyond the reach of those things.
The ship dodged around the flying asteroids with ease whereas the many other alien pilots in most cases had to maneuver their more physical vessels manually to get the same results they wanted due to the numerous space rocks present. Then, she saw it - it was a massive space port and travel hub built right into a massive asteroid; this was where all the ships were coming/going from. Again, nothing was trivial to her. This sight was nothing less than...wonderful for her to see. That word was a vital part of her nom de guerre after all. The ship instinctively assumed a visible design inspired by some alien ones they had encountered in the past. This was a good idea as she wasn't trying to draw or cause trouble, or appear deceptive in any way; hence the negation of the ship's normal invisible appearance. The goal was to be open and friendly.
The ship's comm system crackled to life. "Unidentified vessel; this is Coreyantor control," a robotic voice said. "State your business here."
"I am Diana of the Amazon nation."
"We are not familiar with that species."
"You wouldn't be. I'm the first of my kind to visit here that I am aware of."
"Very well. Proceed to the landing coordinates that you shall receive. From there you will be fully inspected by our security units. Cooperate fully or strict penalties may occur."
"Understood." By Hera they're super friendly. They must have had trouble here recently. That's worth looking into more. She took manual control of the wonder ship and flew it to the coordinates received. Her first galactic mission of pure exploration in a very long time was about to occur. She couldn't wait.