Chapter "Fly Unsinkable Archangel (Part 3)"

*The group moved to the bridge to watch as the archangel finished there preparations to leave the atmosphere.*

*As they get to the bridge, they notice its peculiar arrangement. They had expected something like the bridge of a ship, but instead they see something more similar to a base's central command center. The elevator to the bridge was long, climbing nearly 8 stories, 4 when in combat arrangement when the bridge was lowered into the ship. When they came out in front of them was 3 chairs, 2 facing opposite each other facing the walls, in them were 2 people wearing headsets looking into something similer to a radar screen. The 3rd chair faced forward towards the windows that surrounded the front end of the bridge. *

*In front of these 3 was 2 chairs with people that they immediately recognized must be the helmsmen. Why? Because these particular people were staring into radar screens, and had steering wheels in front of them. It would later be explained to them that the one on the right was in controls of the levitations systems, and the one on the right was in control of where they went.*

*To the right was a large screen split in 1/2 showing all Fairy, Human, and EFGF/ECOAS surface traffic on one side. On the other was all fairy, human, and EFSF satellites/ship movements.*

*To hear left was a large hole in the ground, with a staircase going into it. This area was very dark so its occupants could see all there monitors and controls surfaces glow. This was the CIC, where all pilots assigned to the ship respond to, it also holds the aiming systems for all 125 aft missile launchers (all held non-nuclear tipped ICBM's or anti-beam Depth Charges) , the 2 'Lohengrin', the 2 'God-Freed' particle cannons, the 2 'Valiant' rail cannons, the 'Hell-Dart' multi missile launchers, for anti-MA/MS combat, finally it also controls the 673 75mm Anti-Air/ Anti-Missile 'Igelstellon' CIWS Gatling cannons. Other than the CIWS all of these weapons had to be laser guided, because of the N-Jammers the ship was forced to use to hide their presence, all radar, and non-GN particle communications would not function.*

Artemis: "This is a bit more than I expected…"

*The one chair facing forward swings around revealing a woman with a version of the symbol Shiro, and Ray had on, on the collar of her shirt. Her uniform also has 'Lt. Rommius' on it, as it turns out the archangel has higher-ranking pilots then the bridge crew. This has apparently been a tradition on the archangel since the 1 year war of C.E 71, but no one actually knew of this outside of there higher ranking crew members.*

Lt. Rommius: "Hello, welcome aboard the EFSF 8th fleet, ship Archangel. I'm sorry but you have been exposed to a heavy secret of our military, thus we cannot allow you to leave, at least not until we finish our mission."

Holly: "We have our own problems, miss…" *stops to read the name off her tag.* "Rommius"

Lt. Rommius: "Please don't bother with formalities on this ship. If we did you wouldn't be here protocol says that during operational times no non-military personal are to be on the bridge. But most of these rules are outdated." holds out her hand to shake Holly's "My name is Muru, Lt. Muru Rommius. Captain of this vessel. As for your problems I'm afraid for now you got caught in a place you shouldn't have. We cannot do anything about it, we'll be in heavens pillar soon anyway. Well since we're all here, begin transferring power to activate the engines and 'lohengrin'"

Officer in the CIC: "aye Ma'm!"

*The shutters over the front windows close, and for a time it is dark, but then all the shutters turn into monitors, and the lights come on. A large screen in the front turns on and a screen pops up showing a diagram of the entire archangel, along with a countdown from 230 seconds for how much longer it takes to provide enough power from the 'Neuclio-Dueturion' beam reactors, after all this ship could not use nuclear power, but they could use Dueturion, an almost endless supply of power, after all its light. And light produces itself. It is by no means a infinite energy source, but it provides enough power to supply the ship if not over-exerted for 3 months before the reactors would need to be restarted. In order to supply the amount of power this created over that time you would need to run a nuclear reactor for 15 years.*

Lt. Rommius: "Lower the bridge, and inform the rest of the crew we will fire and take off in 230 seconds."

Artemis: "why 230 seconds how did you come up with such a weird number?"

Lt. Rommius: "Lohengrin requires a large amount of power, and once the engines are operating we can fire it every 30 seconds. But there are 16 beam engines and those take a while to get them up and running. As for how we came up with that number I have as much a clue as you do. All I know is it takes 200 seconds to start all the engines and 30 seconds to prepare Lohengrin."

Foaly: "What's Dueturion. Wouldn't it be better to use nuclear energy so you wouldn't use so much of your Dueturion fuel?"

Shiro: "No it would not be a good idea to use something like that. Nuclear provides a massive amount of power for a long time, but not enough for our needs. Also Dueturion only needs to be refueled every 3 months, and it only takes 5 seconds. All it takes is a direct line of sight with the moon and the reactors can be recharged. Also our government in the Julius 7 treaty of C.E. 91 outlawed the use of nuclear weapons and nuclear power."

Foaly: "Why would you outlaw nuclear power? Weapons I can understand but power as well?"

*All the humans in the room went silent as if morning. Finally ray broke the silence.*

Ray: "All the humans on this ship would prefer if they did not know the reason for it themselves. After all they hold a place in there heart's for the tragedy placed upon them by their ancestors."

Foaly and Artemis: "would you care to elaborate on this tragedy."

Ray: "Around CE71 20 years before the treaty there was a 1 year war. During this war, there was multiple colonies destroyed. All of them were hit by a nuclear weapon, causing around 950 million deaths over the course of 1 year. 20 years later after the treaty the people of earth decided they had, had enough of their corrupt selves. They activated the WMD-01Turn A, destroying all life on earth and planting new seeds. The earth was restarted and our current world comes into existence. They left around 600 million people alive in the colonies, and the pillar for this restart, was allowed to remain. This was the 15th restart of what they call "The Dark history".