(Eree - The Third Might)
Eree, felt something off as his team followed the aliens deeper into the ship. The group of aliens had sleek machines on the side of her hips, the alien design made it hard to know for sure, but Eree was quite sure they were weapons. Of course it could always be a cultural thing, he knew dua felt uncomfortable when unarmed.
Covertly he shut down the exterior vocals. Switching on the com to the ship he spoke. "Shi'kin, what is the status of the communication to the Gamoraa?"
"The only solution is to fairy it back to the Gamoraa in the S-5 or the Alien ship." He heard her sigh, as he switched back to exterior coms.
The blue lady alien was speaking with a squishy blue floating one. The floating jelly fish just proved that they had artificial, if the gravity the non-spinning ship did not prove it enough.
(Illio - The Third Might)
"This one does not wish to be perceived, as superseding your command, but why are the prisoners still free?" Avana question was echoed by the nearby crew.
Double checking with the VI that the translation has stopped, Illio turned to the Hanar. "I know that you all want them safely in the brig, but they are unknown. Not only do we lack the information on their technology, but we are don't know anything about their biology. We have to find, a way to get a medical scan, before we can safely restrain them. Damage could lower their value." The more intelligent of the crew nodded, or similar actions.
Turning back to the aliens, Dua as they call themselves, she motioned to the VI to start translating again. "Why do you where those suits, if I may ask?"
The slightly shorter one responded. "Ah we breathe chlorine, and live in a lower pressure environment. So the suit keeps us alive."
Illio nodded her head. "Ah, we know of another race whose atmosphere varies majorly. The Volus are an ammonia lifeform. You would really interest our doctor." The short ones head peaked up.
(Zix - The Third Might)
Zix was about to go deeper into the conversation with the Asari, but a beep of his intra squad com stopped him. "Interruption apologize, development major, translation progresses, understanding them, conversation worries, missing parts, understand overall, prisoners you, being sold." Zix heard Xaz wretch. Slavery wasn't unknown, other systems practiced it, even pirates, outlaws, and deepspacers did. But it was considered a sign of barbarism, to think that the first aliens they would meet would be slavers, it was terrible.
Zix heard the tell-tell click of a helium canister being prepared. "Void damit Xaz we are in the blast range. Everyone weapons up, Shi'Kin I want the S-5 up and running when we get there." Zix pulled up his triple repeater, and aimed at the jellyfish like slaver. In a moment the mood had switched from friendly to hostel, everyone had weapons on each other. Even Xaz whose weapons would be deadly to everyone if fired.
"This one believes that they have seen through our deception." The comment was off kilter, but it was all that was needed to set off the powder keg of a room. Everyone shot at everyone else, the sharp cracks of his own triple repeater's chemical propulsion, mixed with the him of Xaz plasma launcher heating up, and the endless retort from Eree's auto pistol.
Xaz's voice came out over the intra com. "Everyone back away!" Most of the enemies were unharmed the slugs bouncing off personal shields, and while out void suits were tough only Mayu's, and Xaz's withstood the barrage unharmed, everyone else started to feel the pressure increase, as the suits seal foam flowed out to fill the holes. With a trigger pull Xaz changed that, everyone but Relli jumped back as the canister of super heated gas flew through the air, the sounds of battle was covered by the explosion of energized helium, followed by the micro reactor on Xaz back venting heat. The enemy was now mostly dead, but so was Relli her body just a chard half dead corpse along with the aliens.
Wasting no time Eree had us head back the way to the hanger Xaz, and Mayu leading us. The thundering of the auto grenade launcher wielded by Maui, accompanied the sounds of the enemy being torn apart, their alien shields giving way to the tide of explosives. They were entering the hanger with the dreaded sound of the machine gun clicking empty was heard.
Giving covering fire the group ran to the ship, its air lock open, and a green light showing CI was controlling the turret. The turret added to the rain of munitions, as the group got on the drop ship, the hydrogen engines already starting up. Before Six got on he felt a pain explodes on his back, falling into darkness he heard a voice echo through the sound of the dropship leaving. "This one is very displeased with our guests behavior."
(Avana - The Third Might)
The alien ship was very deft, Avana noted as the ship got out of range of the few Gardian Lasers of the Third Might. But he did not order the ship to follow. They had too precious cargo to return and chase after the dropship. Feelings and not seem to know what the relay was so it's all worked out in his favor of Avana hoped that the dropship would float uselessly around the relay desperately trying to get home.
But there was a risk if they left to chase the nimble craft. They had two of the aliens alive, although in bad condition, and the robot whose main weapons that tore chaos through the ship shut down only after the ship left.
The hanar pirate order the nearby crew to pick up the wounded alien, as he headed off to the medical bay, to do something about burns covering his body. Technology you raise staying on his mind as it had a intriguing mix of frighteningly advanced and intriguingly primitive parts. Hopefully the Batarian's pay would fix the damage, and get a new crew.
(Mayu - S-5)
Mayu watched as the rest of the crew put on undamaged void suits, the enemy's LASERs burning the seal and preventing it from filling the holes. Shi'Kin was patching up the wounded, while CI, and Eree were in an argument. "Low fuel, no reach relay, unless... no deceleration, could make, no chance study, must hope." Eree turned to the rest of the crew.
"We met aliens so advanced in the minutes we were on their ship we are months away from the relay normally. However the Queen must know of these monsters in the cosmos, and we don't have the fuel to make it. So we're going to burn all our fuel to try and get up to a good speed, Mayu get the seal boxes out and make us air tight again, Shi'Kin help Mayu till the seal is fixed then both of you help the injured. Fam is to hurt to help anyone, Xaz get working on Zix notes about the relay, CI help him with that and blast all known clearance codes to the relay. With full burn we should get there in an hour. We'll be going a good bit the speed of light so hope the relay responds."
Mayu ignored the possible death in a hour to focus on the task at hand.
(Captain Alax- Insufferable Cruelty)
Alax was surprised when they got the report, they were shipping a linker to the object. The queen decided that the FTL gate could be used to react quickly to the objects threat the cargo ships coming would ignore the fuel efficiency algorithms and accelerate at top speed, unit the halfway point where it would be reversed. It would take days, to get here, as the top acceleration rate of a Gordon would turn the ship's delicate parts to dust so full speed was inadvisable, but it was faster than normal.
It had only been an hour and the quantum particle relay at Fisha was the only reason that the Queen already knew as it was he was thinking about having the first thing through the Linker be a Cracker Nuke or at he would have if his CI didn't inform him that the power of the object would be apocalyptic at best. Stupid computer for ruining his fun.
"Sir the object is spiking in energy should I have the crew enter combat alert state?" Despite asking, the hustling bodies showed the captain that the order had been issued. Gamoraa from its position behind the Insufferable was powering up its Gordon, hoping to use the shaped nuclear charges as impromptu mines. Blue for great fish came flying out towards the intersystem. At first he was going to have insufferable try to fire and more in the queen of incoming projectile was received its message. It was the S-5 and it found life. Hostile, mind boggling advanced life. The message to Fisha also requested something to pick up the S-5.
[New Earth Kingdom intelligence network... NEKIN]
{Plasma Launcher}
The plasma launcher uses a micro fission system to generate enormous amounts of heat, turning canisters of Helium in to deadly projectiles. Then using an Pneumatic, or less safe chemical, launching system shoot the canister at the targets. The powerful heavy weapon comes with major drawbacks, in all forms. Primarily heat, the system needs to vent heat every time it is fired or the suit/tank/ship it is mounted on becomes deadly in two shots. A secondary concern is the amount of resources each launcher represents, especially personal ones, due to the micro fission generator. It also has a habit of breaking the canister during launch.
{Linker}
Linkers are simultaneously humanity's greatest, and worst achievement. In the late 28th millennium the Linkers were developed. Consisting of a pair of giant rings linkers are the only FTL humanity and dua have. At the exact same time, both linkers must be actively. Creating an Einstein-Rosen bridge, and allowing near instant travel. About one nano second per light hour. They are not widely used as they are massively expensive, and extremely dangerous. If incorrectly started up they could easily destroy a nearby planet. Destruction of an active one can cause strange events by releasing all of the energy, and matter used at the time. Thousands of Yotta Watts are needed to start it up but the power is only used during start up. Being selfsufficient all other times.
{Quantum Partial Relay, QPR}
Partial Relays transfer data between two points nearly instantly. Despite all the possible uses most interstellar QPRs only last a few hundred years. Wars, uprisings, and technical malfunctions led to the system collapse the only know exception is the Ragnarok stations.
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