“I’m on it,” Case replied and started to type furiously as her companion started to project a virtual net around her. “Now, I wonder what is in those missiles?” Colin said, “Not worried about the security intrusion?” “If Case needs us, we’ll do something, and if she can’t keep them out of our records, I suspect a couple of missiles will be the least of our worries. Now, I suggest we fire the rail cannon…
“I hope not, I don’t think either race would be able to live down the shame,” Leah said with a chuckle, and the rest all followed suit. “Man and I thought I was supposed to be the comedian?” He shook his head in fake disdain. “Nah, we just laugh to make you feel better,” Case added with a look of sympathy. “It’s not my day.” “Brighten up, it could be worse, at least you didn’t…
Case and Colin flew through the rumbling station avoiding splinters of metalwork that had been blasted throughout the station like flechettes from a cannon due to the explosions occurring throughout the rings superstructure. They started down the duct leading back to the deck that the deck where the Ushingi was docked, Colin checking over his shoulder to make sure Case was still behind him, then they rocketed downwards. Halfway down the duct, there was a…
The Ushingi’s floodlights lit the scene as the figures of Yori and Case slowly propelled towards the surface of the megastructure the environment suits had small multi-directional thrusters. Yori glanced at a location next to the docking door and instructed her suit that it was where she wanted to get to and the thrusters started to release careful jets of pressurised gas. Case instructed her suit to follow closely behind Yori. From the ship, the…
Sat in the cockpit Vivek, Yori, and Colin were going through the final checks for launch they’d spent the last few hours making sure the ship was fully supplied and ready for launch. The companion fox was laying in the space between the bank of consoles at the front and the windows, evidently having powered down for a while. “Hey, shouldn’t we give the ship a name?” Vivek turned from his console asking the rest…
The fox was sitting like an ancient monument to some long-forgotten fox god, a clear sense of aloofness and disdain about it. “What does that mean?” Yori squinted. “Sorry, I’m not entirely used to the vocabulary in this thing as of yet. I was created due to emergency circumstances, and I am not a naturally born life form.” “Well that much seems clear,” Leah interjected head leaning against the side of her cushioned headrest. “Why…
They were stood in the large room with the now dormant device, looking around they’d failed to find anything working, now it was more like a silent relic of a distant past. There were several floodlights set up and the group scattered about looking closely at screens and scanners perplexed looks on their faces. Yori and Colin were stood near Case who was staring at a scanner and surrounded by survey gear. Leah and Vivek…
There was a sound like a crack of thunder and an almighty wind that almost blew him over he used his arms to cover his face and held tight to the rope he’d been using to climb out of the hole. The wind blew past, and the ringing in his ears died down, and Colin set about climbing the rope again. He looked down momentarily to check to see what was happening. Still, nothing seemed…
The trees were magnificent towering into the sky like mountains and, their trunks were dozens of meters thick everywhere they looked they could see alien shrubs, small critters scurried through the ankle-deep brush. The five of them spent their time collecting soil samples, tree cores, samples of leaves and a whole host of other samples needed for the corp to get an even better understanding of the planet. “Man, I am tired of putting leaves…
The scout vessel orbited a planet covered in green with occasional pools of blue, white and grey clouds created intricate patterns, the planet Lava-227-4 was covered in thick forests, it had a breathable atmosphere. It was rated a B for safety from the Space Adventurers Planetary Advisory committee which rated worlds. Which meant mainly that the main threats were the planets Apex predators, the group had spent the last few days flipping through pages of…