Chapter 3
Kennich
My discovery was just hitting the Newsline the next day as I pulled out of beta-space into the area that my database said Kennich was. They had a vocal reading of the file "Mission Report" and even a detailed report of everything I'd done and learned from Torka. My name was instantly famous.
I had already brought up a connection to the Newsline while I was in beta-space, so as I pulled back into alpha-space, hundreds of thousands of listeners heard me exclaim "Oh, my god!" I cleared my head a bit and said "Samuel Harper, here. Shortly after finding out, yesterday, where the Space Pirates had retreated to, I used the database on my computer to find the location of the planet in question. I have just pulled out of beta-space to find the planet the file called Kennich in fragments. Scanners indicate that the biggest piece is about sixty kilometers across. No signs of any life forms, so the planet must have been evacuated before being destroyed." Or else there were no survivors. I added to myself.
Suddenly, I noticed something: "Wait…..there's a bunch of fragments here that look as if they could go together. Computer's working out what they might have been…..it appears they were once a tunnel. Each fragment is scorched on one side. The scorch marks, according to a timeline scan, were made just before the planet was destroyed. The angles and type of burns indicate that they were made by the exhaust vents of a ship. The only kind of ship that could fit through and still be big enough to make these marks would be a standard-style Bounty Hunter ship. It would seem that Samus flew out of here just before the planet blew. Question is…….where did she go?"
I was sitting there, listening to the excited chattering going across the Newsline, trying to figure out what to do next when, suddenly: "Holy SHIT! Ummm…….each piece of Kennich that is soccerball-size or bigger has just activated engines like a spaceship's and is headed for an unknown destination. They're all going to the same place, wherever that may be…..I guess I'll follow."
I lit up the engines, striking up a speed equalized with that of the fragments.
A few hours later, I knew where we were headed. "Oh, crap…….," I said. "If our course remains constant, the fragments and I are headed for the Metroid home planet, SR-388. As you may or may not know…….the scientists are still not certain whether or not Samus really did destroy all of the Metroids within the catacombs of their homeworld."
Kennich
My discovery was just hitting the Newsline the next day as I pulled out of beta-space into the area that my database said Kennich was. They had a vocal reading of the file "Mission Report" and even a detailed report of everything I'd done and learned from Torka. My name was instantly famous.
I had already brought up a connection to the Newsline while I was in beta-space, so as I pulled back into alpha-space, hundreds of thousands of listeners heard me exclaim "Oh, my god!" I cleared my head a bit and said "Samuel Harper, here. Shortly after finding out, yesterday, where the Space Pirates had retreated to, I used the database on my computer to find the location of the planet in question. I have just pulled out of beta-space to find the planet the file called Kennich in fragments. Scanners indicate that the biggest piece is about sixty kilometers across. No signs of any life forms, so the planet must have been evacuated before being destroyed." Or else there were no survivors. I added to myself.
Suddenly, I noticed something: "Wait…..there's a bunch of fragments here that look as if they could go together. Computer's working out what they might have been…..it appears they were once a tunnel. Each fragment is scorched on one side. The scorch marks, according to a timeline scan, were made just before the planet was destroyed. The angles and type of burns indicate that they were made by the exhaust vents of a ship. The only kind of ship that could fit through and still be big enough to make these marks would be a standard-style Bounty Hunter ship. It would seem that Samus flew out of here just before the planet blew. Question is…….where did she go?"
I was sitting there, listening to the excited chattering going across the Newsline, trying to figure out what to do next when, suddenly: "Holy SHIT! Ummm…….each piece of Kennich that is soccerball-size or bigger has just activated engines like a spaceship's and is headed for an unknown destination. They're all going to the same place, wherever that may be…..I guess I'll follow."
I lit up the engines, striking up a speed equalized with that of the fragments.
A few hours later, I knew where we were headed. "Oh, crap…….," I said. "If our course remains constant, the fragments and I are headed for the Metroid home planet, SR-388. As you may or may not know…….the scientists are still not certain whether or not Samus really did destroy all of the Metroids within the catacombs of their homeworld."