:: Unknown ::
Another day in hyperspace. A
bluish tinted light filled the tiny viewport in his quarters.
Soon the engins would need to be refueled and overhauled. Hopeing
the rest of the fleet could keep up with his flag ship and his
squad he sat on his bunk and took a rag from a cup of clear
liquid and placed it along his forehead. Sighing as the cool
fluid came out of the rag. He got into his officers uniform and
took a quick look in the mirror, "Are you a man today?"
he asked himself in his thoughts then left the tiny quarters and
headed to the bridge. Entering the bridge he was met by the smell
of warm coffee. Taking a deep breath he walked forward into the
partially lit room. The officer, a lieutenant, was dozing off in
the head chair just as the the commander walked to it. The
Lieutenant saw the shine of the shoes and immediatly jumped up
and saluted. Startled he said
" Good morning sir, uh we uh,
are uh ten minutes to the 6th squad, and uh I uh ummm recieved
word from the Saurus that the 9th and 11th Companies were joing
us at Hapinsellus." The Commander looked at the young man
who was now sweating and said in a raspy low voice
"Good work, dismissed."
and with that he dismissed the night crew. Right as the
Lieutenant was leaving the Commander turned and said "Oh
leutenant?" the leutenant turned "The next time you
decide to dose off, don't do it on this ship or we will all be
sleeping with the asteroids." The stunned lieutenant turned
and quickly left the bridge. The Commander grining to himself as
he looked out the main view port thought back to his junior
officer days and how scared he was of his Commander when he
caught him sleeping while on patrol. "Helm," he said
," what is the status of the Karum and the rest of the
fleet?" The young woman at the helm controls responded
"The Karum and the 4th
company are all green but the 2nd squad has fallen behind due to
Astrogation troubles and will be 2.2 shifts late." The
Commander frowned and said to himself "We can't even get
through a jump with out having people fall back and be
defenceless." He turned to the helm.
"Are the 2nd's still able to
get to the meet point before the enemy spots us?" The
helmswoman looked at her console then tunred back and shook her
head, "If they have a miricle they will make it for middle
of the harvest transfer." The Commander sat up in his chair
" Open the com the the 2nd's
lead ship." With a flicker the viewscreen went from blue to
black and a hum began. Then a humanoid face appeared, the
Commander said "Report Commander." The oldman said
"We have sustained a
malfunction in our navigational sensors and will be a bit late
for the party." The Commander looked back at the older
Commander and said
"Sir you know we need all the
ships we can get so step it up alittle more, I didn't drag the
rest of the fleet out here to get shot at. Now please you have
1.8 cycles to get to the meet point. Fleet Commander out."
With a gentle hum the humanoid figure left and the bluish tint
came back to the window. With that the Commander sat back down in
his chair. An alarm went off. "Dropping to normal space in
2, 1," There was a sharp jolt then the bluish light went
away and now the viewport filled with stars.
"Helm move us away from the
drop point, I don't want to get hit by the rest of the
fleet." The viewscreen came back on with a woman's face, The
Commander turned to see the screen
"Commander" she said
softly "We are almost to the resource site, permission to
deploy harvester units?" The Commander looked back at his
personel data unit and said
"Deploy harvestor units in
.03cycles, we are not yet a complete fleet and have yet to
establish a defence perimeter." The viewscreen went back to
open space. The Commanders own ships were taking position around
the asteriod feild. Then something caught his eye to the right of
the screen he saw dozens of tiny objects. An alarm went off just
as he realized what they were. "Battlestations" he
barked, a whining alarm came on and emergency lights came on.
"1st Squad evade and deploy countermeasures, all fighters
engage outside the defence perimeter." Just then an
explosion could be seen as the ships on the outter perimeter were
obliterated. "Sensors! Give me a reading on what hit ships 5
and 7!" A young man's voice yelled out "Sir Missle
destroyers heading straight for us!" The Commander sat down.
"Open fire, all batteries." The ship was bombarded with
a light spectacle as small fighters erupted into balls of fire.
Then the Commander saw it along with the bridge crew, the missle
destroyers had fired a full volly of warheads straight at them.
"HELM....."
