The Fedral Union
09-06-2008, 20:25
“What is it?” Said an old man sitting on a large chair on this massive well lit bridge, people wandering behind him and around him doing their work linked directly in to the ship via QE.. he was looking up to a young woman who was handing him a personal data pad with scribblings and words on its crystal screen.
“Its our orders for when we reach the Demeter System Commander, Fleet command didn't want to let any one know their orders until we were at least half way towards the system.”
He grumbled a bit taking the pad with his gloved hand aggressively and looking up to the woman who had given him a smug look. He began to read the writing scrolling down on the screen by tapping his finger on an arrow pointing down, he looked at equations and other things, he sighed gently saying.
“Why do they have to do this to us, I mean its not like we're enemies of the state or some thing right?”
The woman shook her head and said. “Right but you know the government, they don't want any chance of this mission to screw up and frankly I don't either.”
The commander waved his hand with a scoff.
“Bah if they didn't want this mission to screw up they would have given us a larger escorts than a cruiser two destroyers and a couple of fighters. Besides, with void drive we should have been there by now but I don't know why they want to keep us at such low speeds”
The womans response was with an eye roll and a few mutters out of her mouth just loud enough for the old commander to hear.
“Sir we're going through unknown space, in fact we may be passing through national airspaces of other powers, we cant afford to be shoot down at this juncture so to prevent detection we're moving at a slow speed.”
The commander just sighed folding his black gloved hands over his lap shaking it gently as he leaned back.
“Well I hope this is worth it, we have billions worth of equipment there, including mining equipment, I know one reason the government is so interested in a system so far away from our space in unknown space surrounded by unknown threats, dark energy deposits apically around that massive black hole we're going around”
The woman just shrugged and walked off , the TSS-Riveting Rosy, was an old Habakkuk class Freighter, massive able to haul loads across the stars at high speeds with no issue, it belonged to the famous Interplanetary Tera former cooperation or Form-corp as slag put it as. It was busy hauling several dissembled spin controllers bio tanks filled with gentility enhanced and splice algae and spores. As well as several Huge industrial replicators , it was in a fleet of several freighters a cruiser three destroyers and eight fighters as well as several construction ships.
Several days passed, the fleet was moving so slow for good reason it was passing through hostile and unknown space, the crew were getting restless , they wanted to get this over with quickly. The command an old star navy captain was John Richardson , he had noticed the change in the crews behavior.
He sat in his large lavish quarters peering out in to the dead night of the void, the were nearing their detestation obviously, sensors detected the black hole several light years away from the system, they were near it. It was obvious in void space because black holes connected this universe to other universes , and this seemed to do the same. Dimensional waves and distortions filled the area as the ships maneuvered around in void space several light seconds away from the massive dimensional well colored white fuel of the portal connecting the black hole in normal space to another membrane that was so far away it was unseen.
He smiled a bit seeing the light show as the ship passed speeding up now with their void drives jumping from low power to moderate power. The fleet had came to a stop bursting out of space and time in to normal space, the ships glimmering In the light of the binary star system they were set to transform. It was magnificent, the Riveting Rosy moved ahead of the civilian fleet its massive form dwarfing several objects around it. The commander had rushed up to the bridge and said to the crew as he slammed his hand on the inter com.
“All right men stop your whining we;re here , set the AI bots, and drones to auto Assembly and get your asses in to the control pods move it!”
He said this just as the fleet began setting up an orbit around a seemingly mars like barren yet volcanic and active planet. It was detected by probes to have some water, and the ability to house life, it was slightly bigger than earth it would be a new resource and exploration outpost as well as have the destiny to host the first string world ever built but that would come after it was established Bays on the rosy opened up. Thousands of drones moved out in to position, massive Spin controllers began materializing from atoms in bright flashes of blue light as matter assembly telle-porters reassembled them from buffered components.
The first stage was to get the planets fast spin stabilized, while that was going on automated robots began to construct habitats that could be moved down in to the planet via self entry mainly domed habitats they would serve as a basic outpost as teraforming went on they would be mainly automated with a skeleton crew of a few people.
Orbital industrial and other infrastructure was being constructed at the same time automated facilitates to produce the necessary items for comfortable living to provide energy from the binary systems stars down to the surface, to construct ships and to see far and wide.
all this activity was buzzing around this one planet. This one planet that will become a new jewel in the sky of unknown space....
“Its our orders for when we reach the Demeter System Commander, Fleet command didn't want to let any one know their orders until we were at least half way towards the system.”
He grumbled a bit taking the pad with his gloved hand aggressively and looking up to the woman who had given him a smug look. He began to read the writing scrolling down on the screen by tapping his finger on an arrow pointing down, he looked at equations and other things, he sighed gently saying.
“Why do they have to do this to us, I mean its not like we're enemies of the state or some thing right?”
The woman shook her head and said. “Right but you know the government, they don't want any chance of this mission to screw up and frankly I don't either.”
The commander waved his hand with a scoff.
“Bah if they didn't want this mission to screw up they would have given us a larger escorts than a cruiser two destroyers and a couple of fighters. Besides, with void drive we should have been there by now but I don't know why they want to keep us at such low speeds”
The womans response was with an eye roll and a few mutters out of her mouth just loud enough for the old commander to hear.
“Sir we're going through unknown space, in fact we may be passing through national airspaces of other powers, we cant afford to be shoot down at this juncture so to prevent detection we're moving at a slow speed.”
The commander just sighed folding his black gloved hands over his lap shaking it gently as he leaned back.
“Well I hope this is worth it, we have billions worth of equipment there, including mining equipment, I know one reason the government is so interested in a system so far away from our space in unknown space surrounded by unknown threats, dark energy deposits apically around that massive black hole we're going around”
The woman just shrugged and walked off , the TSS-Riveting Rosy, was an old Habakkuk class Freighter, massive able to haul loads across the stars at high speeds with no issue, it belonged to the famous Interplanetary Tera former cooperation or Form-corp as slag put it as. It was busy hauling several dissembled spin controllers bio tanks filled with gentility enhanced and splice algae and spores. As well as several Huge industrial replicators , it was in a fleet of several freighters a cruiser three destroyers and eight fighters as well as several construction ships.
Several days passed, the fleet was moving so slow for good reason it was passing through hostile and unknown space, the crew were getting restless , they wanted to get this over with quickly. The command an old star navy captain was John Richardson , he had noticed the change in the crews behavior.
He sat in his large lavish quarters peering out in to the dead night of the void, the were nearing their detestation obviously, sensors detected the black hole several light years away from the system, they were near it. It was obvious in void space because black holes connected this universe to other universes , and this seemed to do the same. Dimensional waves and distortions filled the area as the ships maneuvered around in void space several light seconds away from the massive dimensional well colored white fuel of the portal connecting the black hole in normal space to another membrane that was so far away it was unseen.
He smiled a bit seeing the light show as the ship passed speeding up now with their void drives jumping from low power to moderate power. The fleet had came to a stop bursting out of space and time in to normal space, the ships glimmering In the light of the binary star system they were set to transform. It was magnificent, the Riveting Rosy moved ahead of the civilian fleet its massive form dwarfing several objects around it. The commander had rushed up to the bridge and said to the crew as he slammed his hand on the inter com.
“All right men stop your whining we;re here , set the AI bots, and drones to auto Assembly and get your asses in to the control pods move it!”
He said this just as the fleet began setting up an orbit around a seemingly mars like barren yet volcanic and active planet. It was detected by probes to have some water, and the ability to house life, it was slightly bigger than earth it would be a new resource and exploration outpost as well as have the destiny to host the first string world ever built but that would come after it was established Bays on the rosy opened up. Thousands of drones moved out in to position, massive Spin controllers began materializing from atoms in bright flashes of blue light as matter assembly telle-porters reassembled them from buffered components.
The first stage was to get the planets fast spin stabilized, while that was going on automated robots began to construct habitats that could be moved down in to the planet via self entry mainly domed habitats they would serve as a basic outpost as teraforming went on they would be mainly automated with a skeleton crew of a few people.
Orbital industrial and other infrastructure was being constructed at the same time automated facilitates to produce the necessary items for comfortable living to provide energy from the binary systems stars down to the surface, to construct ships and to see far and wide.
all this activity was buzzing around this one planet. This one planet that will become a new jewel in the sky of unknown space....