Miniroth
01-04-2005, 04:00
The twelve-mile-long sleeper ship groaned with tension. The massive gravitational pull of the ancient blue dwarf, Fausta, began to pull the nose of the scarred and blackened seed ship away from it's programmed coordinates. As the four-hundred-year-old ship pulled towards the nearby (relatively) star. On every corridorr of ever deck, every service hatch and every last elevator was doused with an angry red light. Following it, a booming alert wailed through the sub-zero temperatures of the non-essential sections of the craft.
No one was awake.
In another twelve years, the craft began to gain speed. Racing towards the unstable sphere of pure and raw energy, the thin and elegant nose of the grand ship began to glow red. The ship's charred panelling pulled away like so much cardboard, but to no avail. The old star could not finish the job in time.
As the craft glided through the weakened corona, the engines faltered.
When it was hit by a solar flare, a slow, agonizing turn brought the hull integrity to twelve percent.
On impact, 400,000,000,000,000 kilos of saved oxygen, synthetic (combustible) cryogenic protein substances, and a large quantity of hydrogen fuel cells were instantly melted. But not without a fight.
A some detonation equivalent to about 3.5 million megaton explosion occured, setting a fatal ripple across the star.
Have you ever seen a star implode? Nasty things. Suck everything they can with them. Greedy bastards, eh?
Boom.
When Fausta imploded, it simultaneously occurs with three more sleeper ships being discovered, somewhere in deep space.
Find them.
No one was awake.
In another twelve years, the craft began to gain speed. Racing towards the unstable sphere of pure and raw energy, the thin and elegant nose of the grand ship began to glow red. The ship's charred panelling pulled away like so much cardboard, but to no avail. The old star could not finish the job in time.
As the craft glided through the weakened corona, the engines faltered.
When it was hit by a solar flare, a slow, agonizing turn brought the hull integrity to twelve percent.
On impact, 400,000,000,000,000 kilos of saved oxygen, synthetic (combustible) cryogenic protein substances, and a large quantity of hydrogen fuel cells were instantly melted. But not without a fight.
A some detonation equivalent to about 3.5 million megaton explosion occured, setting a fatal ripple across the star.
Have you ever seen a star implode? Nasty things. Suck everything they can with them. Greedy bastards, eh?
Boom.
When Fausta imploded, it simultaneously occurs with three more sleeper ships being discovered, somewhere in deep space.
Find them.