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In the mist - LSF related - kingvaillant - 06-10-2009
In the mist,
Drawn unconscious by a mind attack, according to a report, David was drawn by his autopilot to an uncharted system. . .
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David wakes up, with a headache like he never happened to get, even after a night out. All his muscle were aching, due do an intense physical effort maybe. His mouth was as arid as Mojave. Red eyes, with the iris wide open. David felt the same way as someone who was awakening from a long period of torture. After a quick self-inspection, he saw no traces of wounds or battle remains. In fact, even the ship was intact, beside maybe some space dust here and there.
Luckily, even in the small cockpit, David was able flex some of his muscle to reduce the pain associated to them. He quickly realized that he was subject to a very intense stress before the blackout. Still, he couldn’t even remember what happened to him; his memory was still blurred. As an attempt to refresh his thoughts, he also drank some water from the supplies; thinking when dehydrated never gives anything constructive. He was certainly unconscious for a day…minimum.
The cabin was cold, as if the ship life support system were hibernating since a few hours. By reflex, he started all the ship’s systems to solve this little issue. He then lifted his head up to see where he was… nothing around him was familiar.
He was standing between two planetoids; a gas giant and its moon. His ship was in the orbit of the small satellite. Proves that the on-board computer was working when he lost sights of the reality.
“Computer, state location”
“Location unknown, uncharted systems, scanners dysfunctional”
“Time since departure?”
“72 hours, 36 minutes, 29 seconds”
“What?! How come any allied ships...”
***Welcome***den***Human*** says a voice in his head.
In the mist - LSF related - kingvaillant - 06-10-2009
“Here starts the fun..., [swears] who are you?!”
***Path***light***freedom***peace***
“Heh, so I see you were 'infected' by some hippies?” he dared to say.
***Idiotic humor***future disciple***
“The only persons I will serve are those I accept to.”
***Soon***servitude awaits***Patience***
“Just get out of my head before I destroy your physical envelope”
***Treats***Typical***fear***Patience needed***
Then, the voice stopped speaking to him.
How do I get out of here now, he wonders to himself.
“Computer! Retrace the latests changes of direction you've made in this system.”
“Error! Large disturbance detected, High-frequency operations cannot be accomplished.”
“Argh, Computer, locate the source and inform me about it.”
“Error! Cannot locate source, The source is nearby, moderately dangerous. Plausibly Alien technology.”
“How near?!”
“1 hours on cruising speed.”
“That must be a Nomad Jumpgate, lets hope it is one...”
Nearby, David spotted a large field of asteroids. Unaware of the Jumpgate that was hiding behind the gas giant, He activated the ships engines and headed toward the asteroids.
In the mist - LSF related - kingvaillant - 06-15-2009
What he met was a large field of nothingness. Only a few scarce rocks around and dust. There was also a fair bit of radiation in the field, slowly deteriorating the ship's armor seconds by seconds. Whilst being dangerous, the field was also appealing, somewhat bringing comfort to the pilot. All this harmonic mixing of colors was a marvel. A cursed marvel... he reminded to himself.
It was just a question of time, staying in this system for one more day would be deadly for David. Radiations would end up damaging the systems of the ship and his own body. His sole quest was to get out of this mysterious location before the nomads could find him.
After flying for minutes within the field, he quickly realized that it was far larger than he imagined. Finding a way out of the system was like find a needle in a haystack.
Why haven't we ever heard of this place? David wonders to himself.
***Servitude soon, human***
You'll have to find me first, scum
***Already done***
Then, the voice stopped.
Startled, he quickly looked around him, searching for any movements, problems, anomalies, enemies, etc. There was...nothing; the only things he saw were those stupid rocks floating around!
Was he getting crazy?! Overwhelmed by the events, he was certainly hallucinating entities talking to him. Materializing his fears. Every more minute he was staying in the system, was a torture. He could feel the panic slowly flow in his veins. Heart was beating violently and internal body temperature was rising at the same speed. Getting out, how?
He looked around, trying to find a way to go... beside the planetoids from where he came from, he had no clue of his actual location. He was also reticent to go back to the starting point. It wouldn't bring him any benefits he thoughts. Instead, he chose to go even farther away from the real position of the exit, without knowing in what kind of trap he was falling into.
In the mist - LSF related - kingvaillant - 06-20-2009
The ship was slowly running out of O2 supplies. A grim situation since David hasn't yet found a way out of the system he was in. Scanners were still blind and communication devices where not captioning any signals. Ever since he woke up, he kept searching for any rescue parties while also looking out for an exit from the system.
A few days have passed since he awoke in this hellhole. Never charted, the system was a total mystery for the pilot. It seems that only Nomads knew about it. Ever since he woke up, they harassed him. Trying to push him to his limits, they were constantly talking about their desire to see David become some kind of servant of something. Every time he thought about what he was being told by the nomads, he was getting shivers down his spine. He didn't know the real motives of this harassment, but suspected the nomads to attempt to control him and use him to infiltrate the higher echelons of the government. Not a really enviable fate for any living being.
As the days have passed, rations and water were lacking. The ship was not outfitted to stay in space for so long. Avionics were starting to show signs of fatigue, they needed to be greased and checked. On the other side, the ship powercore was still in fine shape; with the solar panels, the engine was able to stay in an economical mode to prevent any undesirable waste of fuels.
With the constant treat around him in the system, David didn't sleep at all since he spoke with the nomad. Sure that they would attempt to ambush him while he was asleep, he didn't take a chance. In desperate situations, desperate solutions... Fatigue, hunger and thirst were slowly eroding him. Thinking rationally was even more difficult in these conditions. Also, with the O2 slowly lacking, he forced the ship inboard computer to distribute a quantity of air equivalent to be at 5000 meters above sea level. This would at least prevent suffocation.
Hours passed by, dancing between consciousness and unconsciousness, David was struggling to stay in the reality and not to fall asleep. Hunger and thirst were weakening him, making his fatigue more apparent. Suddenly, a bright light lighted up the ship's cockpit. Blinded by it, David covered his face with his hands...
Mr. Copperfield, we've been searching you for days. Thank god you're alive says the other pilot
David slowly moves toward the central ship console and press the comm link key.
Thank you for finding Mr... Ahum...Who are you?
Sorry, my name is Joseph Browning. Me and the two ships with me are civilians. The government is giving a huge sum of money to whoever finds you
Good to hear, bu...
Manage your energy director, we will drive you to a close installation in this system. We will fix your ship and heal you. interrupted Joseph.
Too tired to ask any questions David activated the ship remote command system.
Mr. Browning, my ship is now at your command
Alright, we will escoooooooooooo...
Voices became impossible to understand, the cockpit started to spin and David' legs stopped supporting him. He felt unconscious on the floor.
In the mist - LSF related - kingvaillant - 06-26-2009
“Greeting Director Copperfield” hears the pilot when he comes back to reality.
David turn his head to meet a robotic nurse. At least, he was being treated while unconscious. He quickly inspect himself and realize that his body is not showing any new scars, good thing since it proves that no experiments were done on him.
“Nurse, state patient condition please” ask David
“Heartbeat: stable and regular. Respiration: Stable and regular. Blood pressure: Stable and regular. Body self-defense system: Very good state. Body senses: Very good state. Rehabilitation is complete”
“Good, Patient symptoms when met please”
“Patient symptoms: severe dehydration, light starvation, severe hypoxemic hypoxia, critical level of fatigue, insufficient cardiac rhythm and blood pressure, light hyperventilation. Vital signs were at 19%, life signs were critical.”
“No wonders... Any wounds?”
“None, but numerous old scars were seen. Mostly attributed to combat”
“Any parasites found?”
“None”
“How long have I been here and when can I leave?”
“27 hours and you are allowed to leave the clinic, Mr. Browning is waiting for you outside of the clinic, at the end of the long corridor”
Without saying a word, David get up on his legs and walks out of the clinic memorizing everything he saw and heard. Even if he was treated well during his small coma, he had to keep himself alert for any signs of danger. Those “Civilians” were quite curious... hanging in an uncharted system unknown to Liberty Forces possibly swarmed by nomads. These peoples could possibly be fugitives or even worse... He felt shivers going through his spine at the slightest thought about this possibility.
On his way out of the sub-facility David gave himself some very precise and important objectives. First, he had to find his equipment, which could possibly be in a secured area. Without it, it is impossible to start the ship or be recognized in case of a catastrophe. Second, he had to find his ship of course...and make it flight worthy. If the life support systems of the ship weren't refiled, he wouldn't be able to go very far before dying. Third, although secondary, he thought it would be a good idea to find a map of the system. Even if the scanners were not functional, it was still feasible to navigate with a simple map and some other items. Without any key about a way out, he could waste an enormous amount of time in the system and even perish there...
Failure was not an option. Any mistake could be fatal. Aware of this simple reality, David was ready to manipulate, and kill anyone standing against him. Bribery was not a good idea, as one of the “civilian” could accept the money, and betray him right after. Such risks were not worth being taken. While walking toward the directions mentioned by the robot, he was memorizing all the possible cache to hide vital objects... even bodies. Medical freezers were abundant. A good thing as the cold temperature would slow the deterioration of a victim which will prevent the development of any undesirable smell.
In the mist - LSF related - kingvaillant - 07-07-2009
David woke up, around him were the standing the walls of his new “home”; A small room with a toilet, shower, bed and a small table. The strict minimum for comfort in fact. A few days have passed since he left the clinic.
Outside the medical facility that day, Browning told him that David' ship was too damaged by radiations to take off safely. According to the pilot, the reparations would take a few days, even weeks, depending if they can get their hands on spare parts. Lies, David knew that, the last time he was in his cockpit, the ship was still in a decent enough shape to allow him to travel from one spot to another. All his experience with criminals showed him how solid ships were build. These outlaws were quite ingenious with their them. Jokes about Xenos using tape for fixing their ships were not that far from reality. If those outlaws would hire a man for ship safety verification, they'll end up with all their ships grounded. Yet, they were still able to fly, fight, and... kill. In reality, the only thing David' ship needed was some fuel, oxygens, food, water, and a little bit of grease of moving parts like rudders and wings.
Something was really wrong with those persons. He was smart enough to notice their little strategy. However, he was still clueless about their motives, and that... was not a good thing at all. At least, he was given a room to sleep and suffice to his need. Not as big as his apartment back in Liberty space though.
Browning asked Dave to do some work around the station in exchange of a room. Again, this simple request had a second hidden objective. By keeping him as busy as possible, he would have less time to find a way to escape from the station. Entire days he was cleaning rooms spread all around the station. What the persons responsible of his “captivity” didn't think about is that his tasks were helping him to get an alibi to move around station and notice important details that could help him to get out. A trained agent doesn't need days to find the information he seeks, experience and knowledge accumulated make things go at a much faster rate. In a single day, he knew the position of all the key facilities of the station as well as some ways to sneak into them. The navigation room was combined with the hangar control room, which were right beside the hangar itself of course. Getting a map to get out of the system and reaching for the ship wouldn't take more than a minute.
He also found the armory... The room was holding a huge amount of conventional weapons, but also a few experimental weapons that were manufactured during the Nomad war by nomad infested government. To see such dangerous tools of destruction on a civilian base was extremely alarming. After leaving this “prison” David thought about coming back with a strike force and to destroy these inventions. Some of them were nightmares, in all sense of the word. Some of these prototypes were known to attack the human brain directly. The projectile, if hitting the target, was sending an impulse to the brain, causing an intense pain throughout the body. They were tools for torture. Seeing them was bringing a lot of bad souvenirs back on the surface of his memory.
Browning thought he had the situation in hand, he was wrong. David promised himself to turn this prison into a playground of chaos, his chaos before leaving it.
In the mist - LSF related - kingvaillant - 07-12-2009
Agitated, David wokes up in the middle of the night. First he thought it was a nightmare, but heard it again. This time it was even more distinctive. Someone was attacking a woman living on the station. He could hear her crying and begging for mercy.
No please! NOOOOOoooo finally screamed the victim as her last words.
In the blink of an eye, the Director got up on his foot and ran down the corridor toward the source of all the noise. When he turned the corner, he found nothing but an empty section of the space station with only him in it.
Then, something, a small object, was reflecting light. Drawing his attention. Crouching over it he noticed that it was a woman earring. Made of pure Silver, the object was the only proof that someone was there. Nearby, something else caught his attention; From where the earring was, to the end of the corridor, leading to one of the storage David had no access to, were Fingernails marks on the floor. What kind of crime could have happened to scare someone that much?
Curious of nature, he proceeded to the door of the forbidden room. There were no cameras and sensors of any kind. Confident, he attempted to eavesdrop the room, he could hear someone talking, but it was barely audible. Luckily, the door was not locked, a good and a bad sign at the same time... He could get in, without any problem, but the suspect could leave the room by this door at any moment. Otherwise, it would have been already locked. Slowly, he entered the room, at first sight, it looked like a storage but a few oddities showed David that there was something behind the wall of boxes he was facing. Determined, he inspected all the boxes that were big enough to let someone pass through. With luck, he found one, a 5' tall box. Someone entering the storage without looking for it wouldn't have noticed the air inaudibly whistling around the box.
Silently, David opened the box and found what he was looking out for. Behind the box, there was a long dark alley leading to an other door. This one, surprisingly, was armored. Staying away from any light sources, he walked to the door and listened to the conversation on the other side.
I will ask you one more time, will you join us human? asked a voice in the room
Please Joseph, why are you doing this to me? What is wrong with you begged the woman.
Your current nature, we will implant you a seed.
A nomad! Dave thought
At this moment, David jumped into the room. At his right, a tall man was guarding the door. In the quarter of a second David grabbed the man' arm and pulled it behind his back passing over the shoulder breaking all the articulations of the arm and pushing the man against the floor. Taking profit of the suspect' position, the LSF director crushed the person' cervical vertebra with his feet, killing the criminal instantaneously. In front of him was standing a man in front of a woman tied up in a chair. Turning his face to look at him, David recognized the last suspect, Browning.
In the mist - LSF related - kingvaillant - 07-14-2009
***Welcome Director Copperfield*** tell the nomad throughout David' mind while Browning says it orally. (//The nomad and Browning will always speak at the same time)
I knew there were something wrong in all this, the psychic attack, this system, the nomad communicating with me, this base, and you. I should have been more prudent but because of the precarious state I was in you took the opportunity. Now, why haven't you planted a seed in me while I was in the clinic?
***Your body was too weak to survive the implantation of a seed. You would have died instantaneously and this would have been detrimental for our plans***
What plan? You want to infest the government again? We now have tools to prevent you from infiltrating us.
***It is not the government that we want, Human. We want what was belong to us, and we want those who are holding it***
I see, but how will you try to plant a seed now that I know your true nature and that we are alone in this room? Nomads are now daredevils?
***Cut the humor director, even if we have failed to plant a seed in you, you are still trapped here. I am not the only Nomad present here. All the key staff of the station has joined us.***
Does Browning has access to all the sectors of this station? While looking briefly at the poor woman sitting in the chair and listening to the conversation. She was still intact, David stopped the ceremony at the right moment.
***Yes, but it does not mat...***
Thanks interrupted David That is all I need to know
At the same moment, the Director picks up a crowbar lying beside him on one of the boxes he saw when entering the room and pushes Browning' arm away as a sword was coming out of it. In the blink of an eye, David ripped off the nomad' host throat with the bar. Once dead, he removed the sword from the corpse and tied it to his arm. As precaution, he stabbed the body half a dozen of times to made sure the parasite would die and then cut the head of the body. He puts it inside a bag and then untie the woman from his chair.
Wh..wh...whoo are you? She ask, frightened.
Well, I'm the director of the Liberty Security Force. We have little time at hands, take the guard' pistol and follow me if you want to live says Dave while picking up Joseph' laser pistol. We need to get out of here before it's too late. If it isn't already
In the mist - LSF related - kingvaillant - 07-16-2009
One minute after he left the storage room, the alarm started to ring all across the station. Browning's head in a bag and his pistol in the other, the director was checking every possible angle for any enemy. LSF pilots were trained to fight in hostile environment, but fighting alone (considering the woman being unskilled and untrained) against the staff of this station was a big risk. Chances of survival were close to being inexistent.
After turning a few corners and running during a few minutes, David and the woman arrived in front of the armory. Taking profit of the element of surprise, he shot the guard and left them agonizing in their blood. He quickly inspected one of the guards and stole his data-pad. Leaving the station without knowing what did happen here wouldn't be a good idea; especially if the Navy or the LSF would storm the site.
Pulling out the head from the bag, David passed Joseph' eyes in front of the retinal scanner, unlocking the door. Once inside, David passed a body armor to the woman and picked one for himself as well, he then found some helmets and proceeded the same way. With all these protections, they would have more chances to make it out alive from the station. From the walls, he stole an laser assault rifle and enough clips to make him last for days against an invading horde. He was tempted to give a much more powerful weapon to the lady, but she didn't seem strong enough to compensate the recoil without hurting herself or...David. For personal safety... or a much effective killing, David took some grenades with him. Seeing enemies' blood on the floor was always reassuring him. The deadlier the better, he thought with a wide smile on his face.
“Where are we going now Director?” She asked, still in shock.
“Well, now that we are well equipped, we will go to the control room to unlock the hangar doors. However, we might have a problem. Once the hangar doors opened, a spacesuit will be needed to walk from the entrance to the ship since the doors cannot be controlled from outside the control room obviously.”
“Nonononono, I will not walk in zero atmosphere. Never ever please!” It was obvious that the woman had a phobia of zero oxygen environments noted David.
“So um, since you seem uncomfortable with my idea, go straight into the ship once I've cleared the hanger and wait for me. Let's hurry now we have no time”
Persuaded, the woman continued to follow David to their objective. There wasn't anyone in the corridor; a very bad sign.
***Human*** says a voice in the Director' head.
“Argh, for [swear] god sake, not you again”
***Servitude***only possibility***
At the same moment, a man appeared from a dark corner, standing in their way.
In the mist - LSF related - kingvaillant - 07-18-2009
***You've been warned, you cannot leave this station, Director*** says the unknown man.
You and your friends are really stubborn... Yes, I will leave this hell hole.
***David, think about the peace and the harmony if you join us***
And sacrifice my liberty at the same time? You really think I am an idiot or what? Masking your true goals with stories of peace and harmony will not change my mind. Now stand aside if you want your host to live a tad longer.
David walked toward the stranger, as if he has never been there, and stops at a meter from him. He then realized that his move was a great mistake, so close to the man, he was unable to pull out his weapon and shoot him.
***You have made a mistake human, you...***
Are standing to close to your enemy to use a firearm? Yes yes, I should have killed you before walking here... Well, ain't too late yet. before the last words of his sentence, he pulled out Joseph' sword from his arm and stabs the host' abdomen. The victim was not expecting such thing. He was trying to keep himself on a standing position, but his forces were leaving him as he was loosing blood at a very high rate. Falling unto the floor, the suspect dropped a small black box from one of his pockets. Intrigued, David took it with him, the symbol written on it were unusual; He couldn't decipher any of the symbols, even after years spent on studying artifacts. It was made by the Dom'Kavosh a long time ago obviously. Why was this man having it on him was a total mystery for David.
Let's go, we have wasted way too much time already Said the LSF member to the woman while observing the small box.