before you get started i would like to say a few words. this is my first fanfic and all so im betting its gonna be kinda crap, dont forget to rate and review so i can see how i screwed up. i hope you guys like what ive made, see you later.
smoke is in the air its getting hard to see, red lights on my hud, system errors flying past my field of view like the stars in hyperspace.
i hate pirates, the people who will kill you for a few units or just for the hell of it. im about to become another number on a pirate's killcount
the pirate is coming around for about pass, i think about all ive seen, ever since i was a kid i wanted to fly among the stars see places no one has seen before. be a trail blazer of the sky.
ive seen so many species of life, flora and fauna, on the ground of planets and in the stars. life really does find a way.
but like most trail blazers i will die, leaving behind what i've learnt or found for the next adventurer in some way. a deta log on a random planet, a weapon system for a starship so they wont fall to pirates.
the pirate has come around for the second pass. smoke is filling the cabin, i feel lightheaded.
in flight school they always called it the no mans sky, saying that it would kill you at some point. and that it was a place so full of life and wonder that you couldnt help but go there and see all there is to see and that i wouldnt go back to being ground bound after seeing it. they were right. my place is among the stars. they said my habbit of not useing my helmet when in my ship might be the end of me. i think they were right.
i remember a song from flight school.
'this metal hull it carrys me across the stars, never going back never going back, get right in your ship gun the engines and blast to the skys, hyper space calls my name like a past lover, bitter and sweet.'
i fire the damaged drives once more, the metal of ship feels like my own flesh, scared and old but working.
i set a course to the pirate. im gonna try to take him down with me, i wont make it outta this. the pirate kills me or the o2 scrubbers give out.
the engines lit with blue power as i push the throttle to full speed, half the engines arent working. i check the weapon charge, 30% that'll do. my photon cannons bark away at him, the pirate lights up his phase beams, they slice along my hull.
systems are crashing o2 is leeking fast ship power is failing as the reactor fields are smashed and it is force shutdown to keep from it detonating.
my photon rounds slam into the pirate, i see his shield flare into being, a bright flash when my rounds hit the shield. the flashes flade as more rounds inpact the ship, blasting past the shield and hitting the hull and systems. i see ores come flying out of his cargohold, shiny nugget of metal among the stars.
the glass on my cockpit cracks like spiderwebing. i check my weapon charge again, it reads 15%. i hear an explosion, it must be the fuel tanks or the weapon battarys blowing, a silence louder then any gun fill the cockpit. i see chunks of my ship missing, the air is gone i will die within seconds of my exo shield failing. see the light of my shielding dim like a dieing candle.
it shatters like glass, i think to myself that this is my end. i guess they do call it the no mans sky for a reason.