Human First Contact 2
Halo, The Expanse, Battlestar Galactica, Mass Effect, Babylon 5, Stargate, Mass Crossover.
I don't own any of these masterpieces, just the fics AU and that's still debatable.
A map at the current political borders of the galaxy circa 2503 is located on my my page.
June 4th, 2503 CE
Star System Ilus Romanus IV, PEV ISABEL
On board the Private Exploratory Vessel (PEV) Isabel, the captain Shirou Anthony was sitting in his private quarters, Shirou Anthony a 53 year old light skinned man of Caucasian and Eastern asian origin was sipping a cup of tea out of a styrofoam cup. He and his crew had just finished a 4 day journey from the last system he and his crew had explored (Which in itself is a month long journey back to the nearest system with even a hint of civilization in it). Their AI woke them up from cryosleep roughly 2 hours beforehand and they were still checking the ship for any malfunctions that might hinder their return trip back the Ilus Cluster.
'Ah, the Illus cluster, can't wait to get back home.' Thought Shirou. 'Exploring the Galaxy is great and all, but this is all a means to an end. After this last system we can finally go home.
The reason they were out here is because of the massive reward for locations of potential mining areas and habitable worlds. Private Vessels would explore these areas at their own risk and catalog entire systems worth of information to sell to the Ilus cluster government, The Hamasaki Lordship.
The Hamasaki Family and Lordship control the capital planet of the sector Ilus. Ilusians before the fall of Earth and Mars were a very multicultural and multi ethnic people, the original colony and now capital Ilus was settled by a multitude of people who belonged to an almost now extinct group back in Sol known as "Belters", but unfortunately they were wiped out by an Ilusian born plague 5 years before the fall of Earth and Mars. But after the fall of Earth and Mars the Laconians encouraged the poor sickly people of Earth to move to these new worlds. Ilus was then recolonized mostly by settlers from Europe and Eastern Asia using "advanced terraforming techniques" (which involved using asteroids and reseeding Ilus with Earth born life), and in 2401 was fully colonized with a population of 2 billion from migrants from Earth, and in 2450 was given Feudal status by Consol (Empress) Elizabeth Duarte who appointed the Hamasaki Family who had helped the Matriarch of humanity's father Winston Duarte develop Laconia and conquer Sol was appointed control over Ilus and later after the development of the Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine and various colonization was appointed as the regional capital over the 100 star and growing star cluster surrounding the Ilus system.
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The Lordship would then sell this information to private corporations for very large sums of money, this and a variety of other alternate ways to gain large sums of money helped lessen taxes on the Native citizens of the Ilus Cluster known to the rest of the Empire as the Ilusians.
"Captain!"
'Hmm, that was a weird sound.' Obviously ignoring the voice.
"Don't make me do it captain." the voice said threateningly.
"There is that noise again? Hmm weird." Shirou said out loud this time.
A loud emergency alarm started sounding in his quarters, an almost ear piercing. Sirou had his hands over his ears. "OK ok!" The alarm stopped. "Jesus!"
"Yes Artemis?!" the Captain said exasperated. On a holographic projector in his room appeared a 20 year old looking girl in 21st century hunting garb, there was a red tint to her. This was the 2nd generation Smart AI Artemis.
"Sorry to disturb your relaxation captain but as by your orders im to tell you when were about 2 AU from the nearest planet in the system, and we are. I have already taken the liberty to launch our probe about 1 AU ago while you and the rest of the crew were in cryo." replied Artemis sounding very chipper.
"How kind of you Arty." said Shirou said sighing, the shortening of her name causes Artemis to pout."How long until the probe reaches the planet?"
She closes her eyes for a second. "The probe will arrive in about 20 minutes Captain."
"And when will we arrive?"
"4 days a slow down burn, 8 days at 1 g, and 2 days at 4." she replied. "But I doubt you want to wait 8 days, and I seriously doubt we are on such a time crunch that we need 4 g's so I have set for an automatic turn and burn of 2 g's in about an hour."
The Captain nodded approvingly. "You're definitely learning Arty-""Quit calling me that!""-If you keep this up I'll recommend the Illusian Government to have you Indexed."
"Why thank you si-" Artemis then suddenly closes her eyes and opens them just as fast. "Captain! You and the rest of the officers are needed on the bridge I may have detected a possible threat."
Bridge of the PEV Isabel, June 4th, 2503
Captain Shirou along with his 2nd Officer Mikayla Toru, and Science Officer Doctor Issei Nakamura were standing around a circular holographic projector, the only thing on the projector was the planet, an indicator for the Isabel and an red exclamation point Icon.
"Approximately 5 minutes ago a bright flash lasting half a second was caught on our observation cameras, and now our Radar is seeing an object with a little over 1,000 meters in length now in orbit around the planet we are heading to." Explained Artemis. "Extreme amounts of hawking radiation and photons was released in the half second. Meaning that while the hawking radiation wouldn't have us raise any eyebrows the massive amounts of photons released does."
Artemis folds her arms. "As you all know in Slipspace photons don't exist naturally, with only the photons in Slipspace being created through artificial means like lights or our fusion drives, or in the few seconds it takes to open a Slipspace hole and natural star made photons slip through."
"So what you're saying is that there are a limited amount of things this could actually be?" Science Officer Issei questioned.
"Yes"
"So what do we think it is?" asked Mikayla nervously. The Captain was the one who answered her.
"There are three objects this could be in my imagination." He said holding up his hand. " It's either a normal ship whos fusion reactors malfunctioned in Slipspace transit and then exploded when they entered normal space." 1st finger.
"It's either a prototype FTL engine in being tested by the Imperial Navy." 2nd finger.
"Or it's aliens." 3rd finger.
The three other members at the table looked at him like he was stupid. Doctor Nakamura went to speak, but stopped himself when the captain held out his hand. He looked back at them all with a deadpan. "Let me explain myself…."
The two human officers leaned back into their chairs. Artemis herself projected herself a chair to sit in. Captain Anthony's eye twitched.
Sigh. "Ok, it can't be the first, because as you know fusion drive explosions tend to rip the ship apart and accelerate away from the epicenter of the explosion." He points to the projection. "The thing we see on radar is in one piece, and the "blast" we saw only lasted half a second. Definitely not the multitude of minutes like a nuclear explosion."
The captain pushes a button on the table, a map of explored space appeared on the projection. "Arty, show me all public known civilian no fly zones." On the map appeared 6 red markers.
"The reason the second can't be true is because all the no fly zones are only a few light years away from the ring gates in interstellar space, and as we all know or was at least theorized is that these are all classified scientific and technological development government ran stations. These are all at least 2 months from us right now. Far, way to far away from us, and if they were gunna test here they would have made it a no fly zone."
Artemis looked at him impressed. "So you think that ALIENS is the only logical conclusion?"
Captain Shirou nodded his head.
"…"
"..."
"I dig it." Artemis says shrugging.
"Great then. Arty, change the trajectory of our planetary probe towards the anomaly!"
"Already did so 10 minutes ago Captain!" There was a huge grin on her face.
"Gah! There is a command structure to these things Arty!"
Her grin got wider.
Mid year 2003 KE (Kobol Exodus).
Star System Curanus Dyeus III, Exploratory Battlestar Archias
Captain Thrace Oberam was usually a very patient woman for her age, but of course that patience can be truly be tested when she didn't have the ichor of the Gods, coffee, in her hands when she wakes up to a busy morning.
This was one of those days.
EXCOM or Exploration Command, was the exploratory arm of the Colonial Military had decided to replace her ship's aging scientific instrument outfitted raptors or SIOR's for short, and they wanted to do it before we headed to several new systems queued for exploration.
"Here you go captain!" said her assistant Etan Allar. 'Oh thank Zeus!' she thinks gratefully and starts borderline chugging her coffee.
"So…" Starts Etan.
Captain Thrace nods her head still face full in her coffee motioning him to continue.
"When are we scheduled to head to the new systems?" he asks excitedly.
She removes her face from her coffee gasping for breath, Etan pats her back while she catches her breath. "By Zeus captain if we gave you a bigger cup you would drown in your coffee."
She mock glares at him and regains her breath, amusement in her eyes. "You act like I would consider that a bad thing."
They both laugh.
She wipes a tear from her eye then turns toward him. "To answer your question the last SIOR arrives in about an hour, then we will be leaving an hour after that, a final maintenance and all that."
"It definitely wouldn't be good if the new Raptors didn't work once we got there." says Etan.
"I can drink to that!" She then buries her face into what's left of her coffee. Etan stops her then takes away her cup. "Lack of oxygen is bad for the brain ma'am."
"Fucking smartass"
A/N: SECOND CHAPTER YAAAAY. Hope you guys enjoy this chapter, had lots of fun writing the dialogue and even more fun fleshing out the universe a little bit, especially the Laconians (who don't have much screen time in the books right).
These are going to be my favorite captains in my verse, not only because they have a sense of humor, but their behavior can turn on a dime when stuff becomes fubar.
This is all OC and AU for all universe involved, and I plan on making a lot of the universe's stronger than they are and all have a more flawed view of the universe.
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