Unfortunately the comm channel about the rebuilding of the former prison system named Bastille by the ORI (Oripolis, stations + Planet) was hacked and deleted by a Terror group called the A.D.M.I.N.S.
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A few months ago, not so far away from Sirius:
Seconds after the NORP vessel vanished through the gate, the connection was suddenly disrupted and the gate shut down.
*silence*
Prior Vagonbrei: We lost contact! Prior Mordren: Really? I thought it only went to screen saver mode. Prior Vagonbrei: *grml* Adria: Whatever, try to redial. Commander Valek: We are trying, mylady but we can't connect. The Problem seems to be on the Sirius side. RA': ***** Dun tell me this flying junk damaged one of our supergates???***** Adria: No, Lord. This would not be possible. We even gave them one of our 'safer wormhole' devices. Celestis: *****oh shiidddd***** Everyone: ??? Celestis: *****I reorganized the storage but I guess didn't change the labels on the stuff. What means they have most likely one of the 'super uber 1337 RoXXoR speed up my wormhole devices' instead of the 'safer wormhole' ones. Usually we use them for our motherships'¦.comparing to the seize of their vessel'¦I think'¦.yes'¦i'¦am sure they arrived quite fast over there. ***** RA': *****lol. Awesome ****. *brofist* ***** Celestis: ***** *brofist* ***** Adria: *facepalm* Prior Vagonbrei: can you guys please stop doing this *****text***** stuff? Thank you. RA': yeah, its pretty stupid. More like a running gag for celestis and me. We have seen some space fishes in Sirius doing this. Never figured out what that was good for but it looked so lol. Adria: ^^. However we need to deal with this problem now. The NORPs are flying through the galaxy in an unbelievable speed until something is in their way and our gate in Sirius is'¦overheated? Celestis: yep. We should send an engineer to repair it. Adria: No big deal. We forgot one of our engineers in Oripolis, so if he is still alive, he should be able to reach the Sirius gate and repair it. Commander Valek: Understood. I will try to contact him.
[font=System]Lagoon Station, Oripolis
Kevin Homealone was a midaged, rather silent man. He came from a desert planet and joined the ori forces during their crusade in his home system. Due to his knowledge with kites (there was a lot of wind at his hometown) he became an engineer for orbital defense systems.
This day Kevin woke up as his alarm-clock kicked him out of bed at 9 pm. He got ready and left his room. On the way he grabbed something to eat from the food automat. As he was walking through the empty corridors of the station, he said to himself: ' I hate this night shifts, always feels like id be all alone here'. In fact he had not seen another worker for 3 weeks now. Even his room-mate was gone without a word. But he decided not to give too much attention to this. Social contacts haven't been of much interest to him since his beloved girlfriend eloped with his dad. Bitch.
As he arrived at the hangar deck A51, he got his daily work in form of a sheet from 'Mr. Print', an ORI android. He read the paper'¦maintaining a weapon platform near planet Origon.
He took the 3 tool boxes 'maintain', 'repair' and 'unexpected', stored them in his RepMe X-666, the ORI version of a repair ship and launched into space towards Origon.
About 34 minutes later'¦.
Kevin prepared the ship for docking on the platform. Suddenly something happened that has not happened for weeks. *piep* *piep* His comlink pieppieped. Kevin watched his callcenter app: unknown number. 'maybe extern' he said to himself and pressed the white button:
Kevin: ORI repair and maintaining service, my name is Homealone, how may I help you?
Commander Valek: Engineer Homealone, nice to hear you are alright. The ORI need you. Now go and fulfill your destiny!
Kevin: I am honored, Commander. But'¦go where?
Commander Valek: set your navigation computer to the omicron lost system. Once you are there, open the advanced ORI map Interface and enter the coords X4. You will find a Jumphole to P3Y-229. There you move to sector 4E. Once you arrive there call +(I)-36912151821-333.
Kevin: understood. I will do the maintaining later then.
Commander Valek: ehm'¦yes. Sure.
[font=System]Meanwhile on the secret NORP station:
Dakun, the greatest action hero ever lived and his 4 elders stood in front of their finished masterpiece: the iLeave. It was built from the pieces of their old vessel, which they found in the ruins of the monastery. The only two things that survived the impact close to without damage were an old ORI book and an ORI device, which should have ensured the safe travel through the supergate.
Both were main components of the iLeave: the device was used as engine and did a great job, while the book was used as steering wheel.
It was the evening before the NORP leadership would reveal the iLeave to their fellow members and vote whether to leave Sirius or not. Dakun and his disciples sat on a long table having dinner. Suddenly in the middle of the 8th course, Dakun stood up and said to the other 4:
'Tomorrow is an important day for the NORP. We all know that the decision will be to leave Sirius. A new chapter of our history will begin. But I will not be coming with you. We have seen the fail in this people but yet i do not want to believe that all of them are the same. I will live among them as a zoner. I will take responsibility as a station leader and I will give them joy by building things they only have dreamed of. I am sure with so much happiness, they will be better people. But do not mourn as I am not out of your life. I will always be with you. He took some bread and said: "This is my body which is given for you. Every time you eat bread, think of me." Then he grabbed the wine and said: "This wine is my blood that will be shed to remove the sins of all who come to believe in me and it is the start of a new agreement between NORPs and mankind." After these words he sat down again and all continued eating.
[font=SystemSystem P3Y-229]
Kevin arrived at sector 4E. He had noticed the supergate for some time. He only saw it once before when they arrived at Sirius. Usually these gates do not need any maintaining so Kevin was wondering what he was doing out there, especially because a commander contacted him and had left no doubt that it was urgent.
He opened up the numpad of his Interface and dialed the number he was given by commander valek'¦. The +(I) area code for ORI intern calls, then 3-6-9-12-15-18-21-3-3-3'¦
*duuut*
*duuut*
*duuut*
'ORI Mothership Xedilian com-central, my name is hot lola, how may I help you?"
'Kevin Homealone here, I would like to talk to Commander Valek, please.'
'yeah kev'¦.*oooh*'¦just hang on a second'
Kevin ended up in a waiting loop.
*music*
*more music*
Then it was Lola again:
'Hey Kev boooy, I am really sorry that I cant give you what you desire but Commander Valek is currently busy. He will call you back *oooh*'
'Alright, thank you Ma'am.'
12,3 minutes later the phone symbol on Kevins Interface was blinking supported by a *ring* *ring* sound.
He pressed the 'accept' icon on his touchscreen.
Kevin: Homealone'¦hello?
Commander Valek:GOOD JOB ENGINEER!Now I needyou to concentrate!
Kevin turned down the volume.
Commander Valek: You should see a Supergate in front of you.
Kevin: check.
Commander Valek: good. Do you see anything unusual with it?
Kevin: no, sir. Big, round, shiny. It is a supergate.
Commander Valek: good. We need you to run a full scan on it. There must be something wrong with it as we are not able to dial it. Also check the temperature.
Kevin was running the scans. It took 8 mins.
Kevin: sir, I will transmit the results directly to you.
RESULT Wrote:Temperature: [color=#009900]normal
Circuit: functional
Software: GateOS 4.02 ' no new updates available
Exterior Lighting : light bulb RS-C7 out of order
Remote Control Device: functional
Commander Valek: Engineer Homealone stand by, I will forward this to our Gate Production Team.
12 minutes later
Commander Valek: Homealone, move your ship to the gate segment RS and show us a ORI tech picture of the damaged light in area C.
2 mins later.
As Kevin saw this he knew that it was a huuuge problem. ORI technology is amazing, it is far more advanced than anything else in the universe. But it is not meant to be damaged. It is kinda like the worst case. This is because the ORI never planned any technology to be damaged, that's why it is not so easy to repair if it comes to it.
Commander Valek: I am afraid the security protocols do not allow the gate to be opened as long as one of the lights is not functional. 'cause another ship could be in the explosion of the horizon while the wormhole creation as it do not see the gate. Engineer, I want you to stand by, we will send you the necessary materials and equipment. It will take a few days as we cant simply jump.
Kevin: understood.
[font=System]Meanwhile on the other side of the universe:
OBI-WAN: Use the Force, Luke!
Darth Vader: Wat?
Death Star: *boom*
[font=System]And now back to our heroes:
After 3 and a half days, Kevin's transmission hub waked him up:
Dschimmie: Wake up, Kevin, haven't seen you in a long time.
Kevin couldn't believe it.
It was Dschimmie, his former room-mate.
As he looked out the window shield, he could see 2 'RepMe X-666', 1 troop transport 'Mobile Siege C4' and a huge'¦very huge ship about 2K below him. On the upper front side stood in golden letters 'Arden-Sul'.
Kevin answered the comm channel: 'Dschimmie, where have you been? Why didn't you say that you changed the squad? And why do you bring a mothership to change the light?
Dschimmie: I will explain you the squad part later. The Arden-Sul is used as a transporter for all the parts. We first thought, it would be possible just to change the light, but then we noticed that there is no possibility to open the light box once it is closed. So we thought about changing the whole light box, but unfortunately, the box is burned into the whole segment and so they are one. So we thought about changing the whole segment'¦unfortunately once a gate is complete, you can not change single parts of it'¦and so yeah, I think you got the idea. All parts of the new gate are inside the arden-sul and we need to bring them in position and remove the old gate. We will begin in 10 minutes.
[font=System] A few systems away'¦
All NORPs entered the iLeave. All but Dakun. He was checking his mails for offers to a zoner station.
After an astonishing eloquent and moving speech of Dakun, the iLeave powered its engines.
Dakun flew in his eagle, a srius built ship beside the iLeave. As they were about 12K away from the secret norp station, the iLeave loaded its super cruise engines with the help of the ORI security device, which was now directly integrated into the power core of the ship and its engines.
Loaded 100%.
NORPs: goodbye.
Dakun: good luck my friends.
The NORP pilot pressed the button 'start cruise'
It was but the blink of an eye.
Dakun's eagle was shot through the system by the force of the shock wave.
The secret norp station was blasted away into the sun. the iLeave could not be seen anywhere.
[font=System]At the new Sirius Supergate
The ORI just finished the new gate and stored the old parts in the mothership. Some people like to worship supergate parts and therefore their price on the black market was huge.
Kevin docked on the troop transporter and was told the whole forgotten story by Dschimmie. He first was shocked but then relieved that now he was back with his people.
They kept on talking while others prepared a testrun of the gate.
Back then, no ORI noticed what happened only a few klicks away from them.
[font=System]A few Klicks away...
The NORPs only heard a loud BOOM and then the stars and everything was passing by very very fast.
The iTelltheway said something like 'Please turn around.' as they saw something right in front of them. They saw it like being in slow motion. They saw 4 huge engines right in front of them.
They all had a bad feeling about this. Some thought this was the moment to see ones life again, others had faith and believed in their survival.