Story of the OCV|Abydos

[Jaika]

The return:

Somewhere in the uncharted space regions.
Recent days.
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A really damaged ship can be seen in the distance. It's a Osiris class Order battle ship the Abydos.
-Sir, we getting some kind of emergency transmission. It seems to be...a Order signal?
-What?! That's cannot be. Let me see it. Oh my god, maybe finally we can go home.
-Sir, i think i can clear it out. Almost...yes, we got it. It's a automated message but it's not using the Toledo protocol.
-Strange. Let us hear it.

The message begins: -This is da Shadow Walker, if anyone hear this message then our ship is disabled, please send a rescue unit for us.

-That is all?
-No sir, but i can't clear out the rest, maybe their transmitter got damaged.
-Can we follow the source of the signal?
-Yes sir, the signal is weak but we can get the ship's coordinates.
-Alright then, lets go, maybe they have some info how to get back to home.

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A few hours later.
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The Abydos made it to the expected coordinates of the signal's source, but it's really surprised everyone when they saw what was there.

-Sir, we're at the location of the Shadow Walker, it is heavily damaged from nomad weapon fire but the life support is online.
-Right, send the commando squad to it.
-Understood. This is the first mate to the commando squad gamma. Prepare for boardin action, we've got a unkown type of ship but it show human life signs.
-This is Gamma lead, roger that, we're ready for the transport in ten minutes.
-The hangar bay is clear...and still working *snickers*
-Heh...copy.

A few minutes later in the Gamma squad's room:

-Alright ladies and gents, the captin got something and it's up to the Gammas to check it out. They said they have some human life signs on that ship. So we may gonna need some medical stuff too. But don't expect anything good, this ain't gonna be a picnic.

On the bridge:

-So what do you think Tom? We found some of our guys maybe?
-Don't know, i hope they aren't infected.
-Me too my friend, me too. This ship, it's strange, it has Order weaponry but it is much more advanced then our ships.
-Yes, but who knows what they developed in the last year. All the researches they made. It was our biggest luck that we got that new food production chamber right before we moved off to begin the Iota mission.
-You're right.
-This is Gamma lead, we're in the hangar and ready for action.
-Roger that Gamma lead. Bring back to us anybody you find on that ship. Maybe we can save some of them. Hawk-one you're clear to leave, good luck boys.
-Aye aye sir. Hawk one moving out.

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One minutes later, onboard the Shadow Walker.
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-Hawk-one to the Abydos, we're at the back of the ship. There is a big hole on the hull. Maybe we can use it to get in. That's gonna be the best. I don't want to risk anything. Maybe if we try to cut thru the hull the whole ship will fall apart.
-Roger that Hawk-one. Gamma squad, report in after everyone managed to get inside the ship.
-Copy that.
-This is Gamma One, i'm in.
-Gamma Two here, i made inside too.
-Gamma lead reporting in, i'm in too and Gamma Two already working on the cargo bay door.
-It's opening, looks like the gravitational stabilizers are working in the rest of the ship. And the safety field is also still active. So we have normal air inside i think.
-Move in, everyone.
-Captain, i found a working computer terminal, Gamma One and Gamma lead can check out the command room of the ship while i download all the data from here and send it to the Abydos.
-Do that commando, but be careful. I don't want to lose anyone.
-Two, first search for the ship's schematics and upload it to our nav system. That'll make our job a lot more easyer.
-Right, hmm...seems like this is a Order board computer but it's more advanced then the one we have on the Abydos. Oh and here we go guys. The ship's schematics are uploaded.
-Thanks, now lets go. If the navmap is right, then the command room is at the end of this corridor.
-Abydos, i open up a channel where i can send over everything i found.
-Roger that, we're ready to recive it.

At the end of the corridor:

-Alright One, here we are. I'll open the door and you cover me. Ready?
-Ready.
-Opening door now.

The door opens slowly because its frame has got deformed from explosion.

-Ready your weapon. Here we go.
-Sir, i don't see any hostiles, but there is a few body over there.
-Gamma Two can you come over here? We got some bodys, and they're maybe still alive. But they got knocked out.
-On my way.
-One, check 'em out.
-Okay.

]He goes to the one who's possibly the captain of this ship.

-Boss, this guy is still alive, barely but he's alive. And here's another one, he's also breathing. And this woman here. Her heart is beating but she's unconscious as like the others.
-Right, is the command console still working?
-Erm...yup.
-Then check it out maybe we got more passengers aboard.
On it, hmm...no, nothing, i think they are the only ones. I got the first few lines of the ship log and it sais it has only three crewmen.
-Then we found every...wait, did you feel it?
-Yes, the ship is shaked a bit.
-You know what that means, take the captain, Two bring that woman i take the other guy there and head back with them to the transport, NOW!
-Yes sir!

Right after Gamma squad made it in to the Hawk-one, the hull of this strange ship started to fall in to pieces.

-Hawk-one here, we're left the ship with thre additional personel aboard, this wreck will fall into pieces in every minute.
-Roger that Hawk-one, the hangar door is open, you're clear to land.
-Gamma Squad nice work, after the transport is docked take that thre men in to the med-room.
-Sir.
-Yes Tom?
-We've got a unstable jumphole on our scanners not far from here.
-Really? Hmm...maybe...
-Maybe what?
-Nothing, we better check it out. Bring us to that jumphole.
-Okay sir.

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Twenty minutes later.
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-We're at the JH sir.
-Is it stable enough to go thru?
-Yes, but we don't know where we end up. What if we just jump in to a middle of a nomad hive system.
-Well see that with in a few minutes. But i have a feeling that this jumphole holds no danger for us. Just think about it Tom. If this ship came here thru that one, then why the nomads not followed it? Maybe they got here as we did back in Iota a year ago. Do you remember?
-You mean when they hit the Delta JH with that beam?
-Yes, i think that ship met with the same, or a similar kind of nomad what we saw a year ago in Iota.
-So, you really wanna see the other side, right Jaika?
-Yes.
-Alrigh, lets hope this old warhorse still can hold out. Our shields are working on 85% so that's not gonna be a problem but the hull integrity isn't the best.
-What do you mean under isn't the best?
-Weeeell...
-Well?
-Don't worry we're gonna make it. Jump sequence initiated in three, two, one. Aaaand jumping.

As the Abydos entered in to the jumphole the whole ship started make trange noises and shaked. Flashes can be seen all over the ship as the gravitational dampening field collided with the sides of the wormhole.

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Two hours later.
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-Are we still in this damned wormhole?
-Yes sir but the scanner sais we're almost at the end.

Right after Tom finished his sentence the Abydos dropped out from the wormhole.

-And here we are. Damn...this end of that jumphole has collapsed right after we came out.
-Here? Erm...where exactly?
-Don't know sir, but this cloud and those rocks aren't too reassuring.
-Any contact?
-No sir, the comms are...wait a sec, i read a huge structure under us. It's 300K away so it'll take some time to reach it. The scanner sais unkown type of metal and organic composite. But maybe it's just got damaged and can't make difference between the panels and the people on the station.
-So you say we got a human made station with 300K under us? You sure?
-Well, i'm not sure but i think it's a space station.
-Alright let's check it out.
-It's gonna take some time until we get there 'coz we can't engage the cruise engines. They got damaged two weeks ago in the last nomad attack and we have no more spare parts to repair them.
-Alright. Well, if it's really a human station, then i don't really care now how long it'll take to get there. Just be sure we make it there in one piece.

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Hours later.
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-Sir we're near to the installation, but no radio contact yet.
-Hmm...strange, we're only fifteen K's away and they don't even hail us.
-Good, god. This is...it's a nomad station!
-What?! This is the captain, everyone be ready, we've got a nomad base not far from us. Bring the ship in to combat alert alpha! Pilots in to your ships. All men to the turret controls! Tom, when they attack use evasive maneuvers!
-Yes sir! The Abydos is combat ready but one of our anti-fighter turrets is not working and we also can't use the mortar, the kick-back power what it generates can tear out a big part from the ship 'coz the hull got damaged around it in the same fight where we lost our cruise engine.
-Alright try to keep us alive and use whatever you can.
-Understood.

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After a half hour or more.
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The Abydos moved a few K's closer to the base, to check out what they facing with, but when they arrived they didn't saw a single nomad ship, not even a voidrunner.

-Strange, it seems to be derelict. Keep the combat alert and move closer, lets do a circle around this station. Any info about it?
-Not much sir, but it seems like we've got closer to Sirius 'coz it shows many similarity with the derelict nomad base in O-92. Wait what's that? It sais match found.
-Match found with what?
-With the derelict base in O-92, so that means we can be really close to the Omicrons.
-Don't get your hopes to high but maybe we can try to send out a message. Is the Gamma squad found any kind of comm log in the Shadow Walker's database?
-Yes, a few. They've sent out a transmission not much before the automated emergecy signal was activated.
-Then try to use that channel, maybe someone is looking for them.
-Alright sir, sending the message now.

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