Azaha
08-07-2005, 18:47
Aboard the Venetian, trading vessel.
"Where are we going?"
"I... I don't know. There seems to be some sort of distress signal I think, in this system, on a planet."
"What do you mean, you think?"
"I said I don't know, I got the message when everyone else was asleep, and I was doing bridge duty."
The other man sighed, "Alright, how far until we reach this signal?"
"Not long, cap'." The younger man tapped a few keys, bringing up a picture of the outside, on the front wall of the bridge. "It seems they are on that planet some where, all I could make out was screaming, and cries for help, they spoke very bad english."
The older man played with the gotee on his chin, "Where is the recording of this message?"
The younger one looked down at the ground slightly, looking a bit nervous, "There is no recording... I heard it all... in my head."
The older looked at the younger, face in confustion and anger. "Your head, you heard these voices in your head, son?"
"Yes, cap'... my head."
"Turn this ship around, we aren't going to go on some wild goose chase because you heard some voices, report yourself to med bay, immediatly."
"But sir-"
"Now!"
"Yessir-"
The ship shook, all electronics started to short and fry. Ship scanners and basic defence weapons were going offline.
"Status report!"
A man in the corner of the bridge, monitoring screens replied, "SIr! All systems are fried! I've lost steering! We're going into that red planet!"
"Open the view windows!"
Two slats within the front of the ship opened, and they were blinded quickly by the fireball that had engulfed the ship while breaking through the atmosphere. After what seemed like an eternity of burning up, the fire cleared, and the bridge crew saw first glance of the planets surface. Smoking piles of crash sites, hundreds, maybe even a thousand small ships dotted the landscape, as they could see from the high altitude.
They plumetted through the toxic air, everyone pressed into their seats or on the ground. Parts of the ship started to tear away, the hull crumbling, and men being swept away into the red abyss as they were sucked from the ship.
"My gods..."
The ship smashed into the ground. Dirt and debris scattered for hundreds of yards around. The small ship left a massive scar in the planet's surface, the red dirt pushed aside, then burnt by the engines of the starship super heating the land behind it.
Finally, the ship came to a stop. Fires quickly extinquished, as there was no oxygen for the fires to feed on, and this keep burning. All around the ship, the ground slowly started to come to life. Small black beasts rose from the ground, and slowly approached the ship. Any human that was left alive on the ship, were taken immediatly underground, any dead ones, used as food.
Slowly, some kind of black fine creeped from the ground. They peirced the red soil and crawled there way up the ship. Several larger beasts went to work onthe vessel. They spewed some sort of black organic, yet hard goo on the holes in the ship. On the inside, the smaller black aliens worked their way on some how establishing control over the ship's sytstems, mainly propulsion.
The same went for every ship. Soon the new swarm would have their way into the new unknown.
"Where are we going?"
"I... I don't know. There seems to be some sort of distress signal I think, in this system, on a planet."
"What do you mean, you think?"
"I said I don't know, I got the message when everyone else was asleep, and I was doing bridge duty."
The other man sighed, "Alright, how far until we reach this signal?"
"Not long, cap'." The younger man tapped a few keys, bringing up a picture of the outside, on the front wall of the bridge. "It seems they are on that planet some where, all I could make out was screaming, and cries for help, they spoke very bad english."
The older man played with the gotee on his chin, "Where is the recording of this message?"
The younger one looked down at the ground slightly, looking a bit nervous, "There is no recording... I heard it all... in my head."
The older looked at the younger, face in confustion and anger. "Your head, you heard these voices in your head, son?"
"Yes, cap'... my head."
"Turn this ship around, we aren't going to go on some wild goose chase because you heard some voices, report yourself to med bay, immediatly."
"But sir-"
"Now!"
"Yessir-"
The ship shook, all electronics started to short and fry. Ship scanners and basic defence weapons were going offline.
"Status report!"
A man in the corner of the bridge, monitoring screens replied, "SIr! All systems are fried! I've lost steering! We're going into that red planet!"
"Open the view windows!"
Two slats within the front of the ship opened, and they were blinded quickly by the fireball that had engulfed the ship while breaking through the atmosphere. After what seemed like an eternity of burning up, the fire cleared, and the bridge crew saw first glance of the planets surface. Smoking piles of crash sites, hundreds, maybe even a thousand small ships dotted the landscape, as they could see from the high altitude.
They plumetted through the toxic air, everyone pressed into their seats or on the ground. Parts of the ship started to tear away, the hull crumbling, and men being swept away into the red abyss as they were sucked from the ship.
"My gods..."
The ship smashed into the ground. Dirt and debris scattered for hundreds of yards around. The small ship left a massive scar in the planet's surface, the red dirt pushed aside, then burnt by the engines of the starship super heating the land behind it.
Finally, the ship came to a stop. Fires quickly extinquished, as there was no oxygen for the fires to feed on, and this keep burning. All around the ship, the ground slowly started to come to life. Small black beasts rose from the ground, and slowly approached the ship. Any human that was left alive on the ship, were taken immediatly underground, any dead ones, used as food.
Slowly, some kind of black fine creeped from the ground. They peirced the red soil and crawled there way up the ship. Several larger beasts went to work onthe vessel. They spewed some sort of black organic, yet hard goo on the holes in the ship. On the inside, the smaller black aliens worked their way on some how establishing control over the ship's sytstems, mainly propulsion.
The same went for every ship. Soon the new swarm would have their way into the new unknown.