Title: 1812 to the Rescue! Part 1
Author: ScaperDeage
Rating: G
Summery: Exactly what the title suggests.
Disclaimer: The only thing I own is a little clay 1812 model I made who sits on my computer. Other than that I have no claim to any of the characters.
Notes: Sequel to "They Can't Be Dead"

Any and all grammar and spelling screw ups are mine and mine alone.

*ALSO PLEASE NOTE*

1812 thoughts are italicized

Moya's thoughts are in funky little bracket arrow things that I can't remember what they are called


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A lone DRD with a strip of blue tape sits in command observing two members of the crew...

[Chiana] "Do you really think that's them?"

[D'Argo] "Scans confirm it"

[Chiana] "But how can we really be sure D'Argo? I mean how could they just be turned into crystals?"

[D'Argo] "I don't know, but I saw it with my own eyes. The ship came in, shot them, and turned them into crystals."

[Chiana] "But do you think they are dead?"

[D'Argo] "I saw them get shot, and we have their remains. Noranti says it's them and Stark says he doesn't sense their souls."

[Chiana] "Well I didn't see what happened and I don't think they are gone!"

[D'Argo] "Chiana, I know how you feel, but they are gone and we are going to have to accept that."

[Chiana] "Why don't we find the frelick who did it right now!"

[D'Argo] "Pilot said Moya doesn't know where it went, it just disappeared."

[Chiana] "Well she's not trying hard enough!"

[D'Argo] "We will avenge John and Aeryn's deaths, but first we are going to find the Diagnosan and have your sight restored and then give John and Aeryn a proper burial."

[Chiana] "I still don't think they are dead. I just have a feeling that they aren't"

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Meanwhile....

I didn't have to go far to find one of Moya's DRDs. I told him I wanted to talk to Moya about my friend, John and his mate's death. I told her what I felt and how I believed that they were not dead and that they could be brought back. She said she agreed with me and also wanted to do anything to bring them back. But she said the crew and pilot might not believe me; or rather not take the ideas of a DRD seriously, at least without any evidence to support my idea that they can be repaired. So that is what I'm doing now. With the help of Moya and some other DRDs, we are going to find the evidence, no matter how small that evidence is, and do so before we have to leave this planet. Moya says she will try to delay this as much as possible, but says sooner or later the crew will demand to leave.

The other DRDs and I go over the recording of the ship and we analyze the "remains", and we find nothing new. But as I watch the recording again, something came to me.
"Moya" I ask via another DRD, "do you have any knowledge of a weapon like the one used on John and Aeryn?"

I do not have any such weapon in my data stores... I do find this a bit odd

"Why is that?"

Well though there are different kinds of weapons made by all types of species they do tend to cause relatively similar in how they work and in the type of damage they cause

"Meaning?"

Meaning weapons are designed for a certain purpose and this purpose usually determines the type of damage it will cause. For example both a Qualta blade and a pulse rifle, though different in how they work and look, cause relatively the same amount of damage to what they hit

"But John and Aeryn were hit by a weapon from a ship"

Yes, but the same idea applies. D'Argo's ship fires a weapon that completely decimates what it hits, while frag cannons from Peacekeeper command carriers basically attempt to destroy something by shooting big holes in it. They are different but they both accomplish the same thing and that is to destroy something

"But the weapon that was used on our friends turned them into crystals, isn't that like destroying them?"

Yes, but why turn them into crystals? If the being in the ship wished to kill them why do so in that manner? It would be easier to use a simpler weapon to do so and get the same result. The weapon the unknown ship used appeared to be more complicated then any weapon used mainly to destroy that I know of. Much thought must have been put into a weapon that can turn living matter into a crystalline form

"So it seems unlikely that a weapon that is as complicated as that one is not used to kill, but rather was created and used for another purpose?"

Yes, That is what I believe

To be continued...