NationStates Jolt Archive

The USS republic, the USS concord, the USS Lexington, the USS washing ton and the USS crusader all rumbled along there hulls gleaming along the stars, as they floated through the dead of space, they were escorting construction ships and cargo vessels. There sleek but rough hulls reflecting some of the starlight.

The ships engines revved up even more as they sped up heading towards a world along over a dozen worlds the same scene was repeated as the union expanded in all directions building new military bases way stations and supply posts.

Some of the new Polaris class ships were also present in some expeditions.


On the bridge of the Republic the scene was rather melancholy and boring, the captain was sitting on his chair looking at the con officer commenting

”Can this be more boring hail the fleet and tell them to begin to unload and build the bas, we’ll stick around”

The tactical officer chuckled “ the sooner we get this done sir the sooner we get back out to defending the union and.. Fun”


The ships began floating towards a few planets and some asteroids there bays un packing small worker bees bingeing to swarm they were like silver bugs rushing around the ship, the scene soon began very busy with construction

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A faint message breaks the relative silence and radio chatter of the Federal fleet. It is weak and distant. To those without some sort of translator it sounds like a series of hisses, whistles, snarls, and click. To those with a translator or the technology to translate it it comes out as a garbled but distinguishable message.


Attention, to any Kalden garbled who are recieving this, static is the Kalden Space Vessel Explorer Prime. We are losing power and life support. Please respond. Our jump gen-static failed. I repeat-

The message continues to loop, beaming into space.

The bridge of the republic was filled with the message, the captain raised a brow and said” that’s verry odd, con get a trace on that” tactical go to yellow alert have the fleet do the same.”

With in seconds the fleet went to condition yellow, the con officer had tracked the lopping message to a cluster several thousand kilometers away form the fleet.

The con officer spoke “ well sir I pinpointed the message, we have managed to patch it through the UT its from the race or nation called Kalden, we have also located the position of the distress call, I had the helms officer patch it in to the console”

The commander nodded “good, set a course One half speed”


With in second’s the republic deviated from the fleet and headed towards the unknown are the construction was continuing as it did so.

As the Federal fleet closes in, light reflects off of a dull metal hull. The ship is an elongated oval shape, with regular bumps covering the surface. There are no viewports or weapons visible, but there are some obvious engines towards waht is obviously the rear of the vessel. It is relatively short, only two hundred and fifty meters. The engines themselves seem to have sustained damage from some sort of poweroverload and are occasionally flashing with a blue light.

The captain hummed a bit and said, “ con scan that ship I want to see what happened”

The con officer tapped a few buttons on the glassy panel.

The con officer stated quickly “sir apparently the ship suffered a power overload , there is extensive damage”


The captain hummed a bit and said “ prepare an away mission have them ware pressured hazard suits just encase scan for Atmosphere and beam them in to unaffected sections.


The con officer nodded relaying orders


Mean while the hazard was preparing to beam over their Grey and black suits plainly riddled with patches, the team of five walked along the decks of the ship to the transporter room, they stepped on the glass pad and the team leader said “ energize!”


With in seconds the team appeared in a flash of white and blue ?… (insert scene)
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Bridge of the Explorer Prime

The away team appears in a sparkle of blue and white light onto what appears to be some sort of circular command center nestled deep within the vessel. A large holographic viewscreen is et in the front of the bridge, with a command chair set directly in the center. It is dimly lit by emergency lighting and several control panels occasionally spark or give off smoke. There are control panels scattered at regular intervals around the room, with a two doors to the back of the bridge and a another on the left-hand side.

Slumped over control interfaces are lizard-like creatures with blue scale-like skin. They have short, blunt snouts and most are wearing some sort of rebreather or breathing equipment. Their uniforms are black, with small gold or silver geometric shapes on the left breast or collar representing a rank.

In the central command chair one of the aliens is slumped voer, it's chest rising and falling shallowly. The rank insignia is gold, a circle with a triangel at the cardinal points of the compass. It is deathly still. One ofthe crew members' eyes cracks open as the light begins to fade and he or she struggles to rise before slumping over again.