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Tales of the Wilde Werewolf - komet - 09-08-2009
Many stories have been told and retold for many years about this sunject. Despite its popularity, the origination of the legend has remained unknown to this very day. Most people treat it as a piece of folklore, some tell it to their children at night to give them something to think about, while some believe the legend is a warning predicting something terrible. Many stories have been told in many different cantinas and bars throughout Rheinland and the systems surrounding it regarding sightings of the ship.
Some people think it is a prank pulled by some group of Zoners or a stunt pulled by the Military to keep people from traveling around uncharted areas in Rheinland. Some go as a far to say that the ship is a living organism. All of these theories, ideas, and conspiracies have parallels, parallels that have lead to the ship getting a common name: der Werewolf.
***
She sat there silently. Watching, waiting. She was inhumanly stiff, but there was an explanation for that. She watched from the darkness as the humans sat in their chairs. She could only wonder if they would ever guess the true nature of this questioning meeting.
The lights in the room came on without warning, causing the two men who were sitting in the center of the room in director style chairs to cover their faces from the large show lights. “Sorry about that!” a young female voice said in the distance. The lights dimmed a bit allowing the two men to show their faces. One of them, a younger man around a meter and a half in height with blue eyes and brown hair, looked around nervously. The other, a older, gray haired man, in his seventies, looked forwards without any fear. His distilled brown eyes showed no fear; he had been through hell and back several times.
“Alright, everyone ready?” asked the female voice from the darkness. The men gave a collective “Yes.” “Good. Just to make this clear, we will not reveal your identities as long as you do not reveal ours. We don't want the government coming after us over a simple folktale. “This ain't no folktale!” The older man yelled out. “I apologize, Gustaz. Let's move on, then. Edel-” the younger man looked up and scratched the side of his neck. “- would you like to start off?” “Su-sure thing.”
Tale I
Gutentag, everyone. I would just like to say there is no way to be certain if the legend of der Werewolf is true or false, but I can tell you one thing, I believe in it. My-my name is Edel Gessner, and this is what I have heard...
“Edel? Edel?” A woman's voice sounded in the background. “It is time for bed kind!” I opened my eyes and saw my mother standing above me. “My kind! You are only three years old, this is no place to sleep!” I sat upright in the couch and looked around, trying to figure out where I was. She crouched down and began to tickle me. “Look at you! All of that running must of wore you out. Time for beddy by, Edel.”
My mother picked me up and brought me to my bedroom. As we passed through the small apartment's hall, I noticed everything was dark, only a few lights remained on. I could feel sleep begin to pull me again.
“Here we are my friend.” My mother plopped me into my little bed and kissed me on the forehead. “I will be right back, Edel.” His mother walked out of the room, leaving me to play with one of the numerous stuffed animals I had back then. I slowly began to nod off, when I felt something. At first it was nothing, but then it turned into a wondrous feeling. Thoughts began popping into my head.
**We...*tale* Ours**
I did not know what exactly was going on, but I was intrigued, like any other child my age would be. Lights flashed by, stars, planets, heavenly bodies, things that I knew little about back then, amazed me so easily.
The visions began to slow, revealing a human made ship flying through an asteroid field. A bright orange color covered half of the void, the other was black. The human ship, a long line of components attached to one another, made a sudden stop as an object flew from a distance and struck nearby the ship's engines.
Panning in, another vision revealed a group of smaller ships flying towards the larger one. They began firing their weapons at the ship. I understood little of what was happening. However, I could feel something like dread or maybe even horror when I thought of the train ship. When I thought of the smaller ships, I could feel happiness and maybe even joy.
One of the components exploded sending its cargo flying through space. Another larger human vessel, most likely a trade ship, appeared from behind one of the asteroids and used a tractor beam to take in the cargo. I felt even worse. I wanted to cry, but I could not.
Suddenly, another ship appeared in the distance. It looked almost like a twisted animal, something terrible. The Mysterious ship came from deep within the field and lit up, as if it were trying to scare away the group of small ships. When the small ships saw the Mysterious ship approaching, they immediately began attacking it. I could now feel the group's hatred and fear of the Unknown vessel.
The Mysterious ship pulsed with anger, purple light flew from the ship and pushed one of the smaller ships into an asteroid, causing it to explode. A large beam of light smashed into the larger ship that had tractored in the stolen cargo, causing it to explode into millions of pieces.
The smaller ships turned and fled to the outer reaches of the field, leaving the ship they attacked earlier with the Mysterious ship. I felt better and the Mysterious ship seemed to be happy. The crew on board the train ship was in awe.
The Mysterious ship flew around the larger ship and tractored in the cargo that had been taken from one of the larger ship's components. Light began to gather at the back of the Mysterious ship as it began to retreat back into the field.
The large human ship lit up as power came back to it. The crew was happy, joyful. I felt relieved.
**We *walk* *green* (Joy)**
I opened my eyes. I was back in my little room. I turned my head and saw my mother walking back into my bedroom. She sat down beside me on the bed and asked: “Would you like to hear a bed time story?”
Tales of the Wilde Werewolf - komet - 09-08-2009
“That is all I can remember, miss.” Edel whispered. “No, that's great Edel! I could never remember things from my childhood in that level of detail.” the woman's voice explained calmly from the darkness. “Your turn, Gustaz.” “Okey. Here goes nuthin'.”
Tale II
I have a great story, freunds. I will tell it as it happened. No lies, no spiels, no witze. Some people think der Werewolf is a fairy tale, a legend, a lie. I can understand why they think that, but I will tell you what I know.
I am Gustav Lukas, and dis is whut I've seen...
It was a lonely trip. My three man crew, me being one of dem, had just picked up a small shipment of goods from a Daumann base and were going to bring them out to the Cardiff Mining Facility in Cambridge. Of course, we had no idea what the goods are, but we needed the money at the time.
Because we operate a small cargo train ship, we make sure all of the containers are attached properly and secured. During our preflight check, my mechanic, Jacob Haen, noticed something peculiar with one of the cargo containers, or pods as we call them. It was giving off small amounts of radiation. After doing some figuring, we decided it was not a problem. We decided to kill two birds with one stone by going through the Omegas to get to Cambridge. That way, we could avoid being exposed to the radiation for too long and make the best possible time to Cardiff.
Of course we knew the Omegas can be a risky place, but we chose to ignore that risk. It was a poor choice.
“Gustav!” my navigator, Matthias Kalm, called out. “I just picked up some Hessian ships. They're chasing us down, herr!”
“Damnit! Jacob, see what you can do wit' de engines. Make dem go faster!” I activated the the counter measure system, but it was too late. A lucky cruise disruptor missile managed to narrowly miss a few of the smaller asteroids and hit the engines. The ship came to a dead stop.
“Damn I just lost power to de engines, Gustav. Der's nothing we can do...” Jacob replied sadly.
There must have been at least four Hessian ships. They all fired on one of the pods, causing one of them to explode. We were worried about the cargo, but we were more worried about our own lives. I've heard some terrible things in de' past that they do to people they catch. We knew we were in for a terrible time.
“Herr, we're losing power to the ship now!” Jacob said as he ran around the cockpit, trying to keep the ship from shutting down.“Take everythin' in for the life support, living is the important thing 'ere, not de cargo!” “On it, Gustav!” Jacob ran to his console and began typing in some commands.
The ship rumbled and its hull buckled as it took even more weapons fire from the Hessian ships. The light in the room went to red, indicating we were on emergency power. Just as that happened the sounds stopped. I thought we had died.
I turned around and looked at Matthias. “Wh... What the hell is going on?” Matthias had blood running down the side of his head, but he was still looking on at the nav. Computer. “Looks like another ship just came in, herr. Looks like die Hessians are retreating!” I was shocked.
“Dat ain't possible! Do our cameras still work?” “One second, herr.” Jason exclaimed. A camera feed popped up on the main view screen and revealed a darkened ship tractoring in some of the goods we had lost.
“Whut in the...” Matthias said aloud. “Whut is dat?” The ship did a quick turn and passed us, disappearing into the asteroid field.
“Whoa!” Jason said. “That radioactive pod is gone! That ship just helped us out... I think.” “Gud, we better get out of here den. Matthias, plot a course back to the Daumann base. We're going to need repairs and some drinks!” “Aye aye, herr!”