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AUTHOR NOTES: Well this is the third chapter, I want to finish this fic, but even I am surprised that I have continued it. The story may have parts that may not make any sense, but I am not an expert or dedicated writer, but Ill try to keep a solid story, don't worry this fic is long from over for those who have read it and have liked it. Thank you very much everyone who has reviewed.
Talk is in ""and thought or dreams are in - -.
Thank you very much, please review.
***
Chapter 2.
"Shadows Among Us"
FAR EDGE CENTAURI REPUBLIC.
An orange distortion in the space time continuum appeared from nowhere, and a blue ship exited the event, it immediately dispatched several small ships and cloaked, so as not to be seen.
"Ensign Miller" captain Anderson called from the bridge of the Safe Keeper to the young female manning the helm station of the massive Alyssian carrier "Inform the ships that they are to report in two days, and maintain radio silence at all times, and move us near the most populated planet and start scans" "Aye aye sir" the young ensign called from her station while complying the orders.
It has been a week since the Safe Keeper departed from its counterparts, and already they had gathered a wealth of information regarding the nearby area of space, most of this information reverted to a place called Babylon 5, apparently a key piece in the surrounding environment, however there was a lot of turmoil in what referred to this station, but for now it was unimportant to the Alyssian vessel, which was starting to gather data from the world below.
"Captain all sensors have been secured on passive, and where starting to gather the data" "very well ensign, call the scientists, and start looking over the data to see what important thing we can uncover" captain Anderson called after the young ensign.
***
ALYSSIAN HEAVY CARRIER MESSENGER OF LIGHT ORBITING NEW ALYSSIA.
While the Safe Keeper gathered information in the surrounding star systems and races the Messenger of Light and the Redemption had started the construction of a new star port in a system not very far from the boarders of the younger races.
"Very well, so as you all know, although we are not short in material or resources, we are short on personnel" Admiral Tronas started speaking to the command crew of his ship "At this moment we have two resource bases nearly completed, and from estimates enough resources to finish the processing part of the station with actual resources, however we will need to increase our manpower pool in order to fill the necessary jobs to start anew, since all of the experiments to return home, which have taken place have failed, so I'm open to suggestions as to how we could increase our manpower"
"Well there is the fact that we have encountered several races so far, according to the Safe Keeper, however it seems that most of these species are at war or with some major problems" the second in command Vice Admiral Kent Dorias started "however, this Babylon 5 station seems to be a very important place, or so the reports show"
"Well vice admiral, I will take that into account, however we did not come here to start a war or to interfere in matters which we do not understand, merely know about" the admiral spoke, while the rest of the command crew started to argue about the idea –To go to this station is a good idea, however we also know that although some of these people are very advanced, we posses technologies, which could change the course of history here, and I do not wish to interfere with these people unless absolutely necessary- the admiral finished the thought just as alarms started going on all over the ship.
"Bridge to admiral" the voice of ensign Cadwell was heard over the intercom "this is the admiral go ahead ensign" admiral Tronas answered immediately "Sir long range sensors have just picked up an unknown contact just over 200.000 km on the starboard side" "very well ensign were going keep sensors on the contact and prepare the cloak generator, inform the Redemption of the situation" the admiral started walking with the whole command crew to the bridge and personal stations.
***
It thought that there where no sentients in this part of the galaxy, deep space probes had revealed nothing, until a few days ago it sensed these strange vessels which matched nothing in the known races, so it decided to investigate, it reached for the walls of real space, and entered through the familiar dimensional gap.
It arrived at normal space, it stretched its senses to seek the unknown contact, but found nothing, stretching itself several times produced the same result, nothing was there. It was confused it didn't know what had happened, just a few moments ago two vessels where within sensor range near a blue planet similar to the Earth of the Humans, but when it appeared in normal space it couldn't sense them.
Not willing to give up it moved closer to the place where the ships it had sensed had been. As it got nearer, the planet grew, but nothing was there. It stretched its sensors to the nearby asteroid belt where it had also sensed strange structures in some of the asteroid belt, but nothing was there either, had it imagined those shapes, no it couldn't be, they never imagined things.
The masters called they we're ordering it to return to the fleet, it accepted, and reached for the walls of the space time continuum, and vanished from view, but kept thinking about what it had sensed, but regarded it as a ghost, and never looked back.
***
"What was that?" asked admiral Tronas, while the silent humming of the cloak generator subsided. "We are not sure admiral" ensign Cadwell called from his station "It wasn't a space born creature, it seemed to be looking for something, but it didn't find it, and it simply suddenly left, but not cloaked" "Didn't cloak?, explain ensign" Inquired admiral Tronas, " Well sir our advanced recon vessel was monitoring all the activity, and reported that when it disappeared from view sensors stopped seeing it, but hyperspace sensors detected an invisible opening in the space time fabric"
"It is possible admiral that this was a vessel, much like the ones used by the Elathen, but more advanced" proposed Vice admiral Dorias, while reviewing the data.
"However, we where unable to detect shields on this vessel" said ensign Cadwell from his station "But how would a ship so advanced be without shields?" inquired admiral Tronas "Unknown sir, however sensor showed that this ships skin is so thick that it probably doesn't need them, but our weapons could penetrate it, given we can maintain the beam long enough"
"Very well, continue reviewing the data, and inform the jamming vessels to continue covering the resource bases, carry on" admiral Tronas ordered, and the calmness returned to the bridge, little did they know that this was just the beginning of a major conflict.
***
ALYSSIAN CARRIER SAFE KEEPER 3 DAY LATER NEAR BABYLON 5 NEUTRAL ZONE.
"Captain, we are receiving a distress signal from a nearby convoy, they are heavily damaged and request support" ensign Miller reported from her station. "Can you identify the race of the convoy?" captain Anderson called from his command chair "Yes captain, they say that they are from a Narn convoy being followed by Centauri raiders".
"I don't wish to start a conflict, but a request of assistance cannot be denied, ensign call the red alert, have all crew prepared for the hyperspace jump" "Aye aye captain" ensign Miller said and in an instant the red alert hail started, all over the ship the crews started to get ready, and a few minutes later an orange distortion in the space time continuum appeared, an the ship was no more.
AUTHOR NOTES: Well this is the third chapter, I want to finish this fic, but even I am surprised that I have continued it. The story may have parts that may not make any sense, but I am not an expert or dedicated writer, but Ill try to keep a solid story, don't worry this fic is long from over for those who have read it and have liked it. Thank you very much everyone who has reviewed.
Talk is in ""and thought or dreams are in - -.
Thank you very much, please review.
***
Chapter 2.
"Shadows Among Us"
FAR EDGE CENTAURI REPUBLIC.
An orange distortion in the space time continuum appeared from nowhere, and a blue ship exited the event, it immediately dispatched several small ships and cloaked, so as not to be seen.
"Ensign Miller" captain Anderson called from the bridge of the Safe Keeper to the young female manning the helm station of the massive Alyssian carrier "Inform the ships that they are to report in two days, and maintain radio silence at all times, and move us near the most populated planet and start scans" "Aye aye sir" the young ensign called from her station while complying the orders.
It has been a week since the Safe Keeper departed from its counterparts, and already they had gathered a wealth of information regarding the nearby area of space, most of this information reverted to a place called Babylon 5, apparently a key piece in the surrounding environment, however there was a lot of turmoil in what referred to this station, but for now it was unimportant to the Alyssian vessel, which was starting to gather data from the world below.
"Captain all sensors have been secured on passive, and where starting to gather the data" "very well ensign, call the scientists, and start looking over the data to see what important thing we can uncover" captain Anderson called after the young ensign.
***
ALYSSIAN HEAVY CARRIER MESSENGER OF LIGHT ORBITING NEW ALYSSIA.
While the Safe Keeper gathered information in the surrounding star systems and races the Messenger of Light and the Redemption had started the construction of a new star port in a system not very far from the boarders of the younger races.
"Very well, so as you all know, although we are not short in material or resources, we are short on personnel" Admiral Tronas started speaking to the command crew of his ship "At this moment we have two resource bases nearly completed, and from estimates enough resources to finish the processing part of the station with actual resources, however we will need to increase our manpower pool in order to fill the necessary jobs to start anew, since all of the experiments to return home, which have taken place have failed, so I'm open to suggestions as to how we could increase our manpower"
"Well there is the fact that we have encountered several races so far, according to the Safe Keeper, however it seems that most of these species are at war or with some major problems" the second in command Vice Admiral Kent Dorias started "however, this Babylon 5 station seems to be a very important place, or so the reports show"
"Well vice admiral, I will take that into account, however we did not come here to start a war or to interfere in matters which we do not understand, merely know about" the admiral spoke, while the rest of the command crew started to argue about the idea –To go to this station is a good idea, however we also know that although some of these people are very advanced, we posses technologies, which could change the course of history here, and I do not wish to interfere with these people unless absolutely necessary- the admiral finished the thought just as alarms started going on all over the ship.
"Bridge to admiral" the voice of ensign Cadwell was heard over the intercom "this is the admiral go ahead ensign" admiral Tronas answered immediately "Sir long range sensors have just picked up an unknown contact just over 200.000 km on the starboard side" "very well ensign were going keep sensors on the contact and prepare the cloak generator, inform the Redemption of the situation" the admiral started walking with the whole command crew to the bridge and personal stations.
***
It thought that there where no sentients in this part of the galaxy, deep space probes had revealed nothing, until a few days ago it sensed these strange vessels which matched nothing in the known races, so it decided to investigate, it reached for the walls of real space, and entered through the familiar dimensional gap.
It arrived at normal space, it stretched its senses to seek the unknown contact, but found nothing, stretching itself several times produced the same result, nothing was there. It was confused it didn't know what had happened, just a few moments ago two vessels where within sensor range near a blue planet similar to the Earth of the Humans, but when it appeared in normal space it couldn't sense them.
Not willing to give up it moved closer to the place where the ships it had sensed had been. As it got nearer, the planet grew, but nothing was there. It stretched its sensors to the nearby asteroid belt where it had also sensed strange structures in some of the asteroid belt, but nothing was there either, had it imagined those shapes, no it couldn't be, they never imagined things.
The masters called they we're ordering it to return to the fleet, it accepted, and reached for the walls of the space time continuum, and vanished from view, but kept thinking about what it had sensed, but regarded it as a ghost, and never looked back.
***
"What was that?" asked admiral Tronas, while the silent humming of the cloak generator subsided. "We are not sure admiral" ensign Cadwell called from his station "It wasn't a space born creature, it seemed to be looking for something, but it didn't find it, and it simply suddenly left, but not cloaked" "Didn't cloak?, explain ensign" Inquired admiral Tronas, " Well sir our advanced recon vessel was monitoring all the activity, and reported that when it disappeared from view sensors stopped seeing it, but hyperspace sensors detected an invisible opening in the space time fabric"
"It is possible admiral that this was a vessel, much like the ones used by the Elathen, but more advanced" proposed Vice admiral Dorias, while reviewing the data.
"However, we where unable to detect shields on this vessel" said ensign Cadwell from his station "But how would a ship so advanced be without shields?" inquired admiral Tronas "Unknown sir, however sensor showed that this ships skin is so thick that it probably doesn't need them, but our weapons could penetrate it, given we can maintain the beam long enough"
"Very well, continue reviewing the data, and inform the jamming vessels to continue covering the resource bases, carry on" admiral Tronas ordered, and the calmness returned to the bridge, little did they know that this was just the beginning of a major conflict.
***
ALYSSIAN CARRIER SAFE KEEPER 3 DAY LATER NEAR BABYLON 5 NEUTRAL ZONE.
"Captain, we are receiving a distress signal from a nearby convoy, they are heavily damaged and request support" ensign Miller reported from her station. "Can you identify the race of the convoy?" captain Anderson called from his command chair "Yes captain, they say that they are from a Narn convoy being followed by Centauri raiders".
"I don't wish to start a conflict, but a request of assistance cannot be denied, ensign call the red alert, have all crew prepared for the hyperspace jump" "Aye aye captain" ensign Miller said and in an instant the red alert hail started, all over the ship the crews started to get ready, and a few minutes later an orange distortion in the space time continuum appeared, an the ship was no more.