Subnautica, Ghosts of the past

by Vesper110

it has been 5 years since the aurora exploded and the lone survivor recieves a message from another vessel that responded to the Aurora's distress signal and fearing the worst the survivor frantically sends a message to warn the vessel away but it fails and just like the ships before it the ship crash-lands and forces the survivor to stop history repeating itself

12. Chapter 12 Epilogue

Chapter 12: Epilogue

Everything must end, this is all too true; the precursors knew this and so did I, My father was taken from me by the madness of one person; one rogue precursor who let her heart twist into something evil, her name was Celeste Scepton; the mother of my father Richard Scepton who died due to her madness, My name is Jade Scepton, the last hope for the Scepton Family; along with my sisters Aura and Argentine we want to end this fight between human and precursor once and for all.

Previously on Subnautica: Ghosts of the past…

"But wh..Why papa? Why can't you come home?" to which Richard said "I'm sorry but I have been infected by a new strain of Carar and it is one that will kill me in three days so I am staying here now you must leave," Jade started to cry and ran over to him in the prawn suit and begged him to not give up to which he said "I'm sorry but go! Please don't make this harder than it already is, I have led a relatively good life, I have three beautiful daughters three beautiful wives and one wonderful friend, not forgetting three loving big sisters so it isn't all bad all of you are my most treasured memories so I have no regrets." He then overridden the PRAWN suit with his PDA and forced it out of the airlock and piloted it back to planet 4546B with his sobbing, heartbroken daughter vainly trying to override the autopilot and once he was sure she was out of harm's way he sealed the drive core and detonated the core with him still inside it killing him instantly as his daughter cried out in despair as the rest bowed their head in respect for their fallen comrade.

As Jade returned to the planet heartbroken she swore to avenge her father's death by capturing the culprit and locking her away permanently so she didn't harm anyone else, as she returned to the Scepton gun she saw her mother Crystal and her second mother figures, Sapphire and Amythyst crying bitterly over Richard's death to which Crystal said in tears "That's it! I've had it, this is unacceptable! Celeste must die for her crimes against us and I don't care if she is family! That bitch is going down!" Seeing how worked up her mother was Jade embraced her with tears in her eyes and said "No mother, you mustn't! Two wrongs don't make a right, she will be arrested and brought to justice, that much is certain," to which a hysterical Crystal said "Brought to justice?! NO I WANT HER HEAD! She took Richard from us for what? Some small grudge against humanity?! No way am I letting her get away with this." Still trying to get through to Crystal Jade said "Look mother, I am just as upset as you are, I only got to spend ten years of my life with him and I wanted more! But that was taken from me and so will you if you go in there unprepared, and to make things worse, the Alterra ships that escaped are coming back to destroy us! We have to stop them!" while all of this was going on the attack ships of Alterra returned with a vengeance as they opened fire on the guns, luckily the guns were made up of an alloy that stopped them from being destroyed by conventional weapons. After an hour of barrages from the attacking ships it all went quiet and one of the ship commanders spoke up "Attention Precursors, this is commander Radford of the Alterra attack ship Gauss, as you can tell our weapons have no effect on you ad as a result we are going to send a small force down to take the guns from you, your actions committed by using a biological weapon cannot and will not be ignored lay down your arms and await restraint, you will pay for your crimes against Alterra." Desperate to prevent the arrest of her family Jade replied to them and said "Please captain Radford hear me out! My name is Jade Scepton and we did not send that biological weapon to your ship, it was a rogue precursor by the name of Celeste my father, Richard Scepton Sacrificed himself to prevent the Virus from travelling off world in an effort to safe you people. Please if you find his PDA I am sure it will tell you all you need to know!" Sadly the captain of the Gauss ignored her pleas and sent a small attack group to the planet surface but to her surprise someone else heard her and spoke up,

"This is Captain Alba of the Alterra ship new hope, we have received your message Jade and are ready to assist you, captain Radford; stand down from your attack or you will find yourself relived of your command by force and your ship boarded, Jade Scepton I am trusting that you will not attack my people as they approach the crash site of the Dagenham?" Jade replied and said "Send me the transponder signal of your ship Captain Alba and I will enter you as an authorised ship in the array," The communication was quiet for a few moments then the captain spoke up and said "Before we do that, as an act of good faith I shall send you the blueprints of the attack ships so you can dispatch them with ease ut please just disable their weapons and drive systems." Captain Alba did this and the plans were uploaded to Jade's PDA followed by the transponder signal of the ship New Hope.

After the signal was put in the "New Hope" Approached the crash site of the Dagenham and retrieved the PDA of the now deceased Richard and sent a message to Jade "Miss Scepton, I have retrieved your father's PDA and I am bringing it to you personally, does my ship have permission to make planetfall?" to which Jade said "Yes Captain Alba but just make sure the attack ships don't interfere," Captain Alba okayed that and sent a message to his ship and no sooner had he done that the New hope opened fire on the guns of the Gauss while the Ground to air defence systems of all four of the nobles of planet 4546B opened fire on the remaining six disabling their drives and their guns as the New Hope made planetfall and stopped about five miles in the air as a dropship flew in with captain Alba on board.

As the dropship landed on the intended sunbeam landing spot A young man looking no older than sixteen stepped out of the ship holding Richard's PDA up above his head and got down on the floor so Jade could approach and when she got there she helped him up and said "you are not a prisoner, you are a guest Captain Alba," to which Captain Alba said "Just call me William or Bill, I never was one for rank and formalities; now here is the PDA I acquired, I hope you don't mind but I took a look at the message that was left for you so shall I play it?" to which Jade just nodded as Bill activated the video recording.

"to my dear family, if you are watching this then it means that I have died in an effort to protect the other planets from carar, this was recorded after I learned of my Mother's intent to harm, if anyone at Alterra is watching this with my family then I thank you for accepting responsibility for your past actions and hope that you will work with my family to forge a true path of pacifism. In order to do this, you must eliminate Lady Celeste in any way possible that takes her out of the equation but I cannot stress this enough, only kill her if it is the last resort; I love my family and I feel nothing but regret for the lives lost as a result of the actions of the precursors, this includes the destruction of the Degassi and the subsequent destructions of the Aurora and of the Sunbeam, I also feel the sting of regret for the actions my mother took for revenge, my family had nothing to do with this so please spare them. The one person that must be stopped is my mother and my mother alone. I hope this message will set us off on a new path, regards Richard Scepton. Message ends"

As the screen faded Jade started to cry as Bill comforted her and said "Well this tells me everything that I need to know, as of this moment this is an Alterra related matter and there will be NO aggression so Captain Radford if you wouldn't mind, clear off from this planet and take your attack dos with you! This is an executive order from Alterra Corp, end of discussion." With that Bill returned to his ship and resumed orbit of the planet while staying in contact with Jade, much to the displeasure of Captain Radford as his ship was taken away by the non-aggressive Alterra ships along with his immobilised attack fleet while Captain Alba started his duties. After an hour of preparation Captain Alba returned to the planet and started to speak with Jade on a less formal note and they even started to laugh and joke with each other, eventually Jade and Bill bonded and became good friends as he cleared up every question that was sent his way and finally once all the preparations were complete they began their attack against Celeste.

After a few days an Alterra team lead by Bill had linked up with The Vespertillio corporation team headed by Isajin Ryokuto and Serena, who had linked up with the team led by Jade in one final assault against a common enemy in an effort to undo the damage done to both Alterra and the precursors by Celeste, they made their way to the lost river base and entered it only to find it destroyed once more, when she saw this Jade exited the Cyclops and entered the facility to download all the data she could and once that was done, she stumbled upon a pre-recorded message that disclosed the place that Lady Celeste had retreated to, all she could make out was that the place she retreated to was in a very hot place and as soon as she downloaded the data a signal came up on her PDA and it read Inactive lava zone. With that they headed to the inactive lava zone and began to track Celeste down, After an hour they finally found her and as she tried to escape Akémi, Sakura and Kari stopped her escape and restrained her to which Crystal brutally attacked her and beat her to within an inch of her life before knocking her unconscious and restraining her.

Hours later they locked Celeste away in a high security prison on planet 4546B and inhibited her abilities by injecting her with multiple strains of non-lethal carar, then making sure she never escaped to which Crystal said "I really wish we could kill her but, that is not what Richard would have wanted so I guess she has been locked away for good now?" to which Jade said "Yes mother she has been locked away for good and she will never escape, because if she does she will die! I will make sure of it!" with those words Jade and the teams lead by Alterra and Isajin worked on a cure for the new strain of carar that Celeste had created and it was completed with the help of Altera and the Vespertillio corp before being released galaxy wide while Alterra and the Vespertillio corp rebuilt the phasegate network across the Ariadne arm galaxy, then an agreement was made between Alterra, the precursors and the Vespertillio corp to ensure fair-trade and transport between galaxies far and wide.

6 years later…

After the incident on planet 4546B was rectified, Jade and Bill got married and had a son, when he was born they named him Richard, after his grandfather who against all odds brought about a new period of peace between humanity and the precursors with his own self-sacrifice, ensuring a bright future for all races human or otherwise, that was his legacy and now the baton has passed to a new guide and her name is Jade Alba-Scepton.

End