01-11-2010, 04:51 PM
The Arkania
The Arkania was the first ship of a line of nine ships which weren't build for the Police or Military, instead it was sold to a private person. The Ship was purchased by a rich business man who used the ship for smuggling slaves from the border worlds into the core systems, mainly Liberty and Kusari, by putting them in between to the Prisoners who he shipped in Order for the Police or Military from the Prisons on the planet to the Prison Stations. One day, while making the tour from Manhattan to Sugarland, the ship was attacked by a small force of Outcast, which damaged the ship badly and killed the Captain and a huge amount of the crew. While the old ship was badly damaged, the Leading Engineer Rachel Morgan tried her best to prevent the ship from becoming a wreck.
Because of the Nanobot technology wasn't as high developed as today it was always a risk of using them. While Rachel was programming on of them to close a breach in the hull she made some mistake and the Nanobot in her hands became active. Thinking she was the hull breach, it putted his Nanites into the Body of Rachel. Rachel now began a slowly and painful transformation. At the end, several hours after her infection she was no longer a human...former a hybrid of Human and Technology.
At first, Rachel was disappointed and did nothing. The other members of the repair teams looked at her and were scared. They had never seen something like that what happened to Rachel. But as Rachel spoke to them and they heard her Voice and Orders to continue the Repairs of the ship, they moved back to work. Rachel left the engines room when nobody was there and went directly, controlled by the Machines now, to the bridge where all the dead bodies of the killed crew laid around. But she didn't care about them. Instead she moved to the ship main computer and activated from there the remaining Nanobots. The Nanobots finished their duties but instead of remaining powered down, they all went to the bridge and to Rachel. After Rachel changed the program of the Nanobots these bots began to rebuild the Bridge. But not like the old one was. Instead they created a complete new one. With a ring in the Middle where data links to the main computer were build in.
All the former consoles were removed and the deck and the ceiling was now full of cables and other links to the ring. The transformation took around a week but when it was completed, a whole new bridge was created. At the end, Rachel moved in the middle of the new bridge and the ring came down, being now around her. Then the remaining Nanobots putted all the cables in the Ring and the ports on Rachel. Rachel screamed when the cables were put in the ports but it quickly was turned off when the Nanites in her body took the control. Right shortly after Rachel was linked into the ring she was surprised about all the Data in the Main computer. Unable to handle all the data, Rachel made some mistakes and the ship plotted curse to the Coronado System where the flight ended for a long time. While being in the Orbit around the planet the rest of the crew died and so the ship drifted around in the system. When Rachel learned how to use the specific systems she set course to gain knowledge about the Universe what have changed...
Rachel on her new created Bridge,studying the Nav Map