Chapter Two
Year 82 of the Wraith War
Galeb walked onto the bridge and looked around the tattered room, consoles were blown out and debris was strewn across the floor. He walked to the command chair in the center of the bridge and sat down. Galeb exhaled as he looked around at the other bridge crew members, they tended to their own tasks as several consoles still smoked and their lights flickered. He leaned his head on his arm as he gazed out into space.
"We've got our shields power output back up to thirty percent and our drone launchers are loaded and ready to fire," reported Weapons Officer Hans Keldon.
The man was young as were most officers on Lantian vessels at this point in the war. So many had died in this war, either in brutal firey deaths on their ships or the long tormenting death of having a Wraith feed on you. Either way it was a brutal death that no person deserved no matter what they did. But no matter what, they couldn't give up. They wouldn't give in to their ruthless enemy. With everything they had, the Lantians would fight to the bitter end no matter what happened.
"Good, hows our hyperdrive coming along?"
The man frowned and looked over at the holographic hud at his workstation. "Its still disabled, but Brant says he'll have it fixed within a few minutes."
Galeb nodded and watched the young man walk away and back to his station. The whole wall was charred black by the fire that had errupted their. His station had several scorch marks at it, flames had licked there way up and down the wall where he was sitting. The man manning that station at the time had been burnt alive as the flames engulfed him during the battle. The battle had gone badly for them and even worse for the people they had to leave behind on the planet below. Over two million people were on that planet when they had started the battle with the Wraith fleet. They had to leave them all behind just to escape with their lives. Now they might die in the mass void of space if they got caught by a few Wraith ships and couldn't get their hyperdrive fixed in time.
"Notify me once the hyper drive is fixed, i'll be in the medical bay," ordered Galeb as he got up and walked out of the bridge.
Galeb walked into the medical bay and saw Dr. Kie Los standing over the bloody body of a man. His shirt and pants were soaked in his own scarlet red blood. She closed her eyes and placed her hands on several of his wounds. A look of pure concentration crossed her face, the mans burns and torn open body began to seal up slowly at her effort. The man opened his eyes and slowly got to his feet, he thanked the doctor and slowly walked out of the medical bay.
Kie wiped the sweat from her brow and moved onto the next patient, she quickly scanned him with a scanner. A look of relief crossed her face and she began to use a small hand held device to treat him. The device hummed as it treated the internal bleeding of the man she was working on. The device stopped and Kie moved onto the next injured man.
"Doctor," said Galeb as he walked into the medical bay. He stepped over a large pool of red blood on the floor as he walked over to Kie. He frowned as he looked at the large peice of metal jutting out of the next patients chest, it was covered in blood. Blood was draining on the bed and floor below it as it poured out of the mans body.
"Give me a second, I have to get this out of this mans chest right now or we'll lose him."
Galeb frowned as he watched her wave the device over his chest and the skin began to seal up around the metal chunk. She pulled on the metal and it slid out of his chest slightly gushing blood as it did. She continued to slide it out and blood spurted up and onto her white shirt as it finally came out. She quickly waved the device and it sealed up quickly as more blood gushed out and down the mans clothes. Kie walked away from the man and looked at Galeb.
"How many did you manage to save?"
"I saved fourteen out of the twenty nine people who came in here," she reported with a sad look in her eye. "That makes our total casualties at twenty one people."
Galeb frowned as he took in the information, "well good work doctor. Thanks to you it wasn't as bad as it could..."
"Captain?"
Galeb looked up as the internal communication system activated and the voice of Hans Keldon boomed over the speakers. "What is it?"
"Sir, we've got a distress call from the Seti."
Galeb turned and walked out of the medical bay, he walked quickly down the corridor. "Whats their status?"
"They report their underattack by Wraith ships at Galinishi and need assisantance from any friendly ships," replied Hans.
"Tell Brant we need that hyperdrive now," ordered Galeb as he walked to the bridge.