NationStates Jolt Archive

Union City, Yuk

Inside the Senate building a podium was set up...in a few hours The President would make a speech, one that would change the lives of every Yukatan forever.

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"My brothers, sisters. Today you shall learn the extent of your Governments knowledge." A large screen flashed on with numbers flowing across it, the screen eventually showed a map.

"For the past five years we have been watching these planets, awaiting the day for our Colony ships to be finished. Now! Today we start a long journey, a journey that will propel the Federation into a Galactic Power!"

The map inlarged and showed 21 planets arrayed around Yuk. Each one was alien and never seen before. [img=http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/5929/yukatania20vk.th.jpg] (http://img107.imageshack.us/my.php?image=yukatania20vk.jpg)

"These planets, each one capable of supporting life will be our stepping stone into the upper rings of Galatic Power. For so long we have been contained to this one System, but no longer, now our Federations shall stretch across the stars!"

When the President finsihed his speech all over the planet you could hear clapping and screaming.

Orbital Shipyards

The last Colony Ship was finished and awaiting it's new crew to enter. Once the of 500 Crew entered and the ship left the dock, cheers could be heard thoughout the station.

Colonist Recuiting Station

Millions entered the building to leave and be on the forefront of the Federation space. Only a select few would meet The Federation's standards for Colonists.

He couldn't belive it, Out of his whole class he was chosen to leave the planet and go to the Colonies. His family was so proud, they held a party for him before it was his time to board the Colony ship.

Orbital Tether

This was one of 300 orbital tethers connected to Stations in orbit. Mitchell Trawnson entered the elevator along with hundreds of other applicants that were to board the Colony Ship Oddessy headed for the Colony of Reach.

"I can't belive it."---"We get to go!"

Everyone was saying something, no one was paying attention to the other. Then a voice was heard. "Now arriving at Station SDP-044"

"Were here!"

A Marine guard awaited for the Colonists and directed them to the Ship. Once they entered the Cargo area they noticed that thousands of other people were there too.

"Wow so many of us"---"Well we do have to colonize a whole planet!"

The Captian of the Ship Stood infront of the Civilan group and grabbed a mic.

"Ahem."---The Colonists became quiet and turned to the Captian.

"Today, we will embark on a great journey, one that will take us farther than any other civilian has gone before. You ahve 2 hours before we leave, I'd suggest you get ready."

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The Oddessy lept forward from the Station.

"This is the Oddessy, see you later Yuk, you've never looked so good."

"Oddessy, This is SDP-044 Good luck, and good bye."

A Slipstream renosance enveloped the ship and propelled it through the stars towards Reach.

21 other ships around Yuk entered Slipspace and were propelled to their respective colonies. They carried their thousands of passengers not just to new places, but to the future. They carried the hopes and dreams of the Government and Billions of people.

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Colony Ship Odyssey

Although Reach was the closest Habitable Planet in relation to Yuk, it would still take a few days for the sip to get to Reach. The Civilians inside the ship either slept or got to know each other since they would be spending the rest of their lives together.

Exploration Fleet 099 Orbit over Reach

They had to prepare for the Colonists, today was the day that they would Send down the Marines to make final surveys for landing sights.

Pelican Dropships came screaming out of the 3 Ship Fleet above Reach. They were to touch down at specific places that the Scans showed to be decent places for a city.

What the Navy and Marines didn't know, was that an ONI Prowler was also on the scene, They were looking at a place that the Regular Military didn't even knew exist. Their own Pelican left the docking bay and headed to the North Pole of the Planet.

ONI Dropship

The 12 ONI Agents were decked out in cold weather gear, and the Pelican was carrying a large drill.

"Lieutenant, why are we heading to the North pole?"

Lieutenant McKay turned to the Young Agent, "Even I don't know that, Section 3 wants us to drill at these coordenants and report when we find."

As the Marines were touching down at other locations on Reach the ONI agents were just arriving at The Drill Location. The Pilot looked over her shoulder "Touch-down in 20 seconds!"

"Agents, get ready, I want the drill off the Pelican in Five seconds!"

The Pelican touched down on the Ice and Snow. The Agents dis-embarked and off-loaded the Drill. The Pelican Shut off it's engine and the pilot watched the ONI Agents go to work. It took a half an hour to set up the drill in the freezing weather, but once it was set up the drilling commmenced.

Marine Surveyors were landing at the other 20 planets looking for City sites, and getting ready for the Civilian Colonists. No one knew about the Events unfolding at Reach, and no one ever will. ONI Agents kept everything as tightly closed as possible.
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ONI Drill Site

Over the howling wind and freezing snow the large drill continued to boar down through the ice and dirt. The constant hum of the drill was destroyed by a large "Snap and Crack" and the drill came flying up destroyed.

"Sir, I think we've hit something!"

McKay looked at the destroyed drill..."Yathink?!"

The Hole that was made went down 100 Feet..too far for Anyone to jump down.

"Alright, how to get down there..."

"Well sir, we can use the ropes."

"Fantastic!, get them."

Three ropes were flung over the side and anchored down to the Ground.

"Ok, you three go down and report what you find."

The three ONI agents rappelled down the hole, in a few minutes they reached the bottom, what they found would stun the whole Military Command.

"...Sir...We've found a door."

The Door was just the begining, underneath no one knew. The ONI Agents on Reach had only a few days before the Colonist would arrive. They were lucky that their Prowlers were faster than the Colony ships. Soon 3 more Prowlers with 36 more ONI Agents arrived in system and they went down to the surface.

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ONI Drill Camp

The 3 new Pelicans touched down at the make-shift Camp. The 36 new ONI Agents quickly went to work securing the immediate area. They created a make-shit runway and Communications building. The good thing about the Cold weather was that the Insta-crete dried quickly. In a few hours they had a full base set up with full provisions. Above them the ONI Prowlers kept in Geo-sync orbit.

The 48 ONI agents met in the Main Building where Lieutenant McKay begun to brief them on what they were about to do.

After the Briefing 36 of the ONI agents took up positions around the Hole, 3 of them went down with torches to open the door. The other 12 ket the base running, and opened up communication with Home.

"How thick is this thing?"--"I dunno."

"Well what makes them think we can open it?"--"I DON'T know Frank, Just start cutting."

"Ok..Ok."

Reports were flooding into Centrel Command about successful Planetary Landings. 5 Out of the 21 Colonies were already colonized and were on their way. Events on Reach were unfolding rapidly each one brining new questions.

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ONI Drill Camp

It took a few days and several tanks of acetyline to cut through, but they did it.

"Frank!, get back up there and tell the El-Tee that we broke through."

"Yeah give me a minute."

Word spread around the ONI camp quickley the rest of the agents rushed to the drill site. Clapping and whooping began to take hold of the ONI agents as the final agents who were cutting climbed out of the hole.

"Sir!, when do we get to go down?"

"We will start Explorations of whatever is down there tommorow, for now rest up. I need to report this to Section 2."

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The ONI agents on Reach only had a few more hours untill the Colonists would arrive. Soon they would have to put the whole North Pole of Reach under complete lockdown.

For the Federation the Colonization was going smoothly, only the few farthest colonies weren't under the influence of the Federation, but that was going to change in a few days. Back on Reach the ONI agents were about to explore what they've uncovered.

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ONI Drill Camp

The first exploration squad rappelled down the blown open door, and onto the Alien Floor. The air was cold and filled with a semi-green mist. The ONI Agents immediately turned on their Data-Recorders to record everything.

"Fire Team Alpha, go right. Fire Team Bravo, go left. Fire Team Charlie, go straight."

"Yes Sir!''

The 12 man group split off in three teams of four and headed off into different directions. As they moved further away from each other their odds of surviving grew less.

The ONI expedition team inside the Alien Structure, while they were gaining considerable data, were about to meet their doom. Unbeknownst to them danger was lurking in the shadows.

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"Fire team Charlie come in!"--This was the third time Seargant Beal yelled into his comm.

"Goddamit, Bravo, we're going to see whats up with Fire Team Charlie."

The four ONI agents headed to the last known position of Fire Team Charlie.

When the ONI agents arrived on scene, they saw the Remains of FTC.

"My god..."--"What happened!"

Sgt. Beal turned to his men "Police the bodies, I'm going to get FTA on the comms and get them over here."

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PFC Jenkins and LCP Houser rounded the corner and Jenkins fired a few rounds behind them.

"What are they!"--"I don't know dammit Just keep moving."

Time was slowly running out for The Men inside the Alien Structure, as they spent more time in there, their chance of getting out was getting smaller.

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"Shit, Shit!"

"Keep running!"

PFC Jenkins and LCP Houser kept running down unknown corridors growing more lost by the second. Every door, every turn looked exactly the same.

"Goddamit where are we going!"

"Ok Ok lets rest here for a minute I think we lost them."

"God Houser what were thoughs things?!"

"I have no idea, whatever they are the wiped the rest of our fire team out."

LCP Houser's personal Radio came to life. "...anyone from Alpha please respond!"

"This is LCP Houser, me and Jenkins are all that is left of FTA."

"..What?!, what happened."

"I dunno, we were attacked by something, me and Jenkins ran."

"I'm going to upload a NAV point into your IFF Radar. Follow it to meet up with us."

"Yes sir."

A NAV point appeared on Houser's HUD, it showed Bravo's posistion and they were only a few hundred meters away.

"Roger that, me and Jenkins are on our way."

It took LCP Houser, and PFC Jenkins 20 minutes to reach Fire Team Bravo. When they did arrive they found the four men of FTB in defensive positions.

“Hey, we finally made it.”

Sgt. Beal waved the survivors of TFA into the protective circle. “Alright you guys can help, cover that door-way while I try and get a Channel open to the Camp.”

A piercing scream cut through the air.

“What the hell was that?!”

Jenkins’ eyes went wide “It must’ve followed us!”

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ONI Camp

“It’s been several hours with no contact from the Expedition Team.”

“Sir, should we send another team down?”

“No, I am going to contact Section 3.”

Section 3 reacted quickly to the news of the Disappearance of the ONI Exploration Team. They re-routed a Squad of Spartans to Reach. The ONI Camp awaited their arrival with glee; most of them have never seen a Spartan before.

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A Halcyon Class Cruiser exited Slipspace at the edge of Reach's System. It proceeded towards Reach under its own power; it would get within Pelican Release Distance in about 19 hours.

Spartan-070 stood in front of his squad, "So are we all clear on the Mission Objective?"

The Spartan squad replied in unison "Yes, Sir!"

"Alright, we get in find out what happened to the ONI Squad, eliminate any hostiles, and find any other critical information."..."We're going to go into something alien, so everyone needs to be heads up, we depart in about 17 hours. Get some rest."

It took a while but the Cruiser finally reached the Insertion point for the Spartans Pelican. The Spartans gathered their gear and made the short walk from the Bunk rooms to the Hanger.

"Alright Spartans, load up, we depart in five minutes!"

One by one the Spartans loaded up into the Pelican, once all 12 were inside and the aft hatch closed, the main docking bay was pressurized and then the Doors opened. The Pelican lifted off with Spartan-070's squad inside.

The ride down to ONI's encampment was uneventful and quiet, each Spartan was preparing for the mission in their own way.

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The ONI Agents left their positions in the camp and surrounded the Airfield. As the Pelican came down and landed, the men of the Camp clapped. Spartan-070 disembarked from the pelican and walked up to one of the ONI Agents.

"Spartan-070 reporting for duty!"

The rest of the Spartans off-loaded their gear from the Pelican.

The Spartans sat in the briefing room, as Lieutenant McKay walked infront of them and begun the briefing.

"Around 0700 last week, we found the door, a few days later we cut through. Now this place is totally alien to us, we have no idea what is inside, so we sent in a 12 man exploration squad."--"At 1000 hours two nights ago we lost contact with the team, we have no idea what is down there, Your mission is to find out what happened to the ONI squad, and to get as much information as possible from the alien structure."

Spartan-070 was shocked to hear that an ONI squad just dissapeared within an Alien structure. He was also excited to be one of the first to enter the structure and learn it's secrets.

"You Spartans better get ready you guys head down in a few minutes."

The Spartan Squad assembled at the Opening to the Door. The ONI agents watched as the Spartans one-by-one rappelled down into the Alien Structure.

As the 12 man team hit the Alien Floor, lights came on to illuminate the immediate area.

"Alright, the ONI team split up, we aren't going to do that. The last known location of FTC was here." A Plip came up on every Spartans hud.

The Spartans kept 360 degree security as they moved to FTC's location.

Spartan-055 brought up the rear, he couldn't quite place it but something about this place seemed familier, and although he didn't know it the other Spartans felt the same way.

It took a while but The Spartans finally made thier way to the last location of Charlie and Bravo. What they saw was absolute horror, blood and shell casings were apparent. But no bodies were to be found.

"My god..where are the bodies?!"

"Well, they were wiped out, but maybe they all didn't die."

"Gather any ammo you can find, I think we might need it."

The Spartans continued down a few corridors, sometimes seeing blood stained walls, or a few bullet holes. They rounded a corner and to everyones surprise saw an ONI Agent slumped against the wall just staring at nothing, when he noticed the Spartans in thier green armour he jumped back and brought his Pistol up to bear.

"Stay back!"

"Easy, what happened to the resto of your squad?"

"You're not coming any closer!, I don't want to turn into one of those things!"

"What things?"--"What happened?"

"Get back!"

Wanting more information the Spartans retreated a little from the ONI Agent.

"Alright we backed off, can you tell us what hap..."

A Piercing scream tore through the air. The ONI Agents eyes went wide, "They're back!"

He placed the gun under his chin and fired. The Bullet tore through his skull, killing him instantly.

"What could make an ONI Agent snap like that?"

"I think we are about to find out, I'm seeing Hostiles on my Motion Sensor!"

"Spartans!, defensive Positions!"

"Spartans! hold your fire untill you see the targets!"

The Spartans took up positions that overlooked all the enterances into the chamber they were in. Shadows moved just beyond their visual range..shuffleing could be heard just in the darkness.

A limb darted out and grabbed Spartan-051 into the darkness, screaming could be heard as he was dragged into the Darkness.

"Spartans! Open fire!"

The remaining 11 Spartans opened fire into the darkness, Bullets tore into walls and scared off what ever was there.

"Spartans prime glow-rods, and throw them."

The whole chamber was illuminated in a short-time, revealing how huge it really was.

"My god, this place is huge!"

"Where's 51's body!"

"Whatever attacked us must've taken it."

Spartan-070's personal Comm, came to life with the voice of Lieutenant McKay.

"Spartans, we have picked something up on our deep-penetration radar, I'm uploading the Coordinates to you, go find out what it is."

A plip was placed on 070's hud, the marker was a few clicks away. Not wanting to stay in the chamber anymore 070's squad began to move out.

The Spartans were attacked sporadically making their way to whatever ONI found. Every time they were attacked they were fired on with Human Weapons, The Spartans tried to make contact, but just gave up and fired back with their own weapons.

"Sir!, how much further to the target?"

"A few hundred meters, and then we can make our way out of this place."

The Spartans came up to a locked door, the NAV point on his HUD said to go only a few more Meters, so this door was their only obstacle.

"Goddamit IT!"

A scream erupted behind them..."Sir! we have to open this door!"

070 looked down and noticed a Marine Chatter was attached to this door, he pressed the glowing button and the door opened up. A ONI Agent's body fell out of the door-way landing into 070's hands. Immediately he turned around and saw that nothing but his Spartans were there. He laid down the Agent.

"Common lets get in."

The 11 remaining Spartans moved through the door, lights were activated by some sort of sensor, illuminating the whole of the room. The room itself was large, but there was no floor. In the middle of nothing, a large panal was suspended by an unknown mechanism.

Spartan 070 turned back and looked at the door they just went through, he noticed a panal on the side of it, when he turned his head to look at it, it started to glow. He made his way to it and put his hand across it.

A blue beam shot out from the platform they were standing on and wrapped itself around the panal in the middle of the room.

"Sir!, what did you do?!"

"I..I don't fully know, but I think we found our way to that panal."

One of the Spartans was terrified of the idea, "If you think I'm getting on that your fucking crazy!"

070 paid no attention to him and took a hesitant step onto the light, sensing solidness, he put his full weight on it. Seeing as 070 didn't fall the other Spartans followed suit in disbelief.

Reaching the Panal in the middle it began to glow an eery green. Spartan 070, stared at it and reached out and touched it.

Numbers began flowing across the air, stars were shown, some familer others ghostly alien.

It stoped at a certain star and a beacon was seen blinking. 070 touched the panal again and it zoomed in onto the location. Telementry data and ranges from nearby stars.

"060 take a picture of this."

"Why sir?"

"Just do it."

060 took a picture effectivly making a map of the data shown in the air. Spartan 046 leaned in to 070, "Sir, what do you think we will find there?"

"I have no idea."

As the Spartans exited the Alien Structure and into the ONI Camp, they Agents couldn't help but realize that 3 were missing. Lieutenant McKay walked up to 070, "Sir, what happened down there?"

"I don't want to talk about it out here, seal that door, and never open it."

"Why?"

"Just do it, for the love of God."

The ONI Agents welded a large piece of Titanium-A to the Opening effectively sealing the Alien Structure off.

The map was passed to the highest chain of commands, and once it reached there is sent cascades of orders down from High Command. The orders were to find out exactly this was, and to aquire it.

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