They knew somebody would follow them. They knew it since they left the galic systems behind them.
The royal navy never would leak any informations about out.
" Lieutenant, we passed the hole to the Edingbourgh system."
" Are they still behind us Petterson ? "
" No signatures yet. ", said Nav-officer Patterson.
"Keep thumbs, we wont survive a second attack by this pirate bastards. Rodrigetz, can you identify the ID`s of this vessels ?"
"Well, it`s strange. They signatures are simmilar to many different ships in Sirius. But I never saw such high-tech weapons as they use. They totaly ignored our shields and hurted our hull directly. They just melted it.
Suddenly, six new ships entered the systems.
"Lieutenant Clark! We have detected 6 new vessels. They are intercepting us."
"Understood, everyone on battlestation. Dance a little bit with them. Navigator Presley, lead the Farragut on the planet 5.4 K away from here. We will make a harsh landing"
The Farragut made a course correction for a perfect emergency crash. Hundreds of lights appeared in the dark space. No side knew any grace for each other. In the bright light of the sun, the great symbol of cerberus was noticeable after it got melted by one of the enemy lasers...
"45-to-68. If we cannot change our current position, we wont survive.", said NavOfficer Petterson.
"Understood, do we have any options how we can correct our curse ? I dont want to end as a sandwich."
Lt. Clark recognized a transmission of the maintenance officer.
"Here is maintenance officer Zhenkov. I have a little idea how we can save our ass. We could pull out our plasma tanks, used for the weapons. In the fact that we are in the atmosphere, they will explode immediately above our engines. If we are lucky, the detonation will pull us into the right landing curse and we "might" survive"
"Why do you wait Zhenkov?"
Every member of the bridge looked at the big front window. The big surface of the planet was noticable. A big wasteland. They heared the deformating hull, making a creaky noise.
"Detonation in: 6,..5,..4,..3,..2,..1,.."
The whole ship trembled, everyone crashed on the metall ground. After a few seconds they had the anwser everyone was waiting for...
"Status ?", asked Lt.Clark, a bit confused after the shock.
"Gathering informations... very good sir, if we still can speak of a good situation. We will crash uncontrolled but we can be sure that we wont get smashed into the ground like a spartans spear into the corpse of a persian. Lieutenant, you know that we forgot the possebility that this detonation could have wiped the whole ship out. We had luck that they did not detonate so fast. Including thi..." whispered NavOfficer Patterson to Clark after she got interupted by him.
"Well officer I guess I forgot that the option to colidate with a planet is a better option. Beside that, good news. Immediatly after the landing I want to have a fully detailed report about our current situation and ambulances in every corner. Of course only if we survive... "
The whole ship shaced and something hits the occiput of Aver. He only saw darkness infront of him...
"Lieutenant Clark, we have three Nomad fighters on our scanner !" shouted the com. officer into the room.
"Understood Mendez load the shields and activate the doublequat weaponbatteries !"
Many People run throw the room, activated some consoles or shouted something into the communication channel. The bright light of the brige changed into a deep red.
" Show me them Patterson, I want to see them .... "
"Ok lieutenant I bring the ship into a frontal course "
"Show me you`re ugly faces nomads ".....
A loud crack and the ship falled on the left side."Lieutenant the fighters are loading their weapons ! "
"Hmm.... fight-parameter Alpha/Tango-Z we will kick their asses bag to Omicron 100"
Abruptly Clark shouted and fall of his chair.“Lieutenant ! All right ? Have I bring you to the doc ? „ asked the Patterson.“No ….. all is good with me … take you´re asset and prepare for attack „.
„We have more truble captain ! „ said the com. officer. „Whats up ? More blue ghosts?“
„No ….. bigger. It`s a nomad ship of the Marduk class „
„States ? „
„15 Weaponbatteries, a nomad superior veil and a hull strengh of 1.340.000“
„I think it`s time to activate our engines“
„To late lieutenant“
A big blue hole opens and a also full blue ship comes out. It was wonderfull like the ocean in the universe. The ship locks like a bananana with three convoluted tours.
„Open fire gunner Mendez“
„Wait Lieutenant ! Look at this they dont attack us …. they only stay their...strange.
Sir... they call us „
Everybody on the bridge had a frightned face, feared to be called from the nomads.
„Open a channel“
„Which channel?“
„Try a non-restricted channel“
Clark goes to the com. desk and typed a code in. Only a static sound
„-----Avery! I know you hear me-----“
„Who are you ?“
„------A friend Avery-----,-------You know who I am ------“
Abrupt the captain feld down and saw a bright light.
Clark awakend, sweaty and surrounded by people dressed in the ambulance uniform of the Farragut. It was only a dream... .
Every crew-member ran histeric throw the corridors, trying to gather equipment for the defense. The corridors were filled with dead corpses andf blood. They had no time to make a honourable funeral for them.
"Establish a communication barque outside. Gather scrap and build defense-nests outside. We cannot allow that they enter the ship. If we loose, split the ship into 4 areas which we can lock down and defend best. If they reach the bridge we will activate the self-destruction. I try to contact Colonel Daniels. "
"Aye-Lieutenant, we do our best"
Avery placed the communication barque at a little hill, 20 meters away from the ship. Now he had the chance to notice how much deformed his ship is. He could not even see if it lay on the back or the top. He typed some codes in and a green light allowed him to speak his message. After he finished a security officer shouted at him:
