This is Sean speaking...Sean Goodwin. I just returned from the Omicrons. Something terrible happened. Zakir...he...he didn't made it out.
When Zakir asked me to join him on a trip to the Omicrons, I couldn't deny. I had never seen them before, and when he mentioned that over there would be a jumpgate of alien technology I was very curious, because I heard of such an object before. A freelancer once told me that one was supposed to be in Liberty.
Zakir and I met at the Sigma-17 jumpgate in Sigma-19. We flew further until we arrived at Omicron Theta jumphole in Sig-17. We crossed Theta, Kappa, Delta and Zeta without incident. In Zeta, we took a jumphole to Omicron Minor. First, I couldn't see anything but debrid and dustclouds, but the view I then got let me shiver. In the middle of Minor, the nebula suddenly cleared up and a planet appeared. Or more like what's left of it. Zakir told me, that Minor once was the setting of a battle between the Order, Bounty Hunters and nomads. I never saw such before. The surface looked completely devastated and radiation gnewed on our ships, so we soon left.
Minor is no system anymore. It's a graveyard. A graveyard, with all his attackers and defenders buried.
We moved on to our main destination; the jumpgate. While we looked at it, Zakir wanted to get a scan. I told him not to. I told him that we should get back to the Freeport. I told him that we could activate it, but he insisted on going ahead, so I joined in. I wish I didn't. While we were still scanning it, it suddenly activated itself and pulled us inside of it.
On the other side, we were completly mind-blown. Infront of us laid...well...I don't know. It looked like some kind of...a floor? I first thought we were on a giant planet, because of the floor-like thing, but then we recognized a small sun and a dry planet. I told him to return, to not go further. He didn't listen, so I followed him.
When we came closer, we arrived at some kind of a lock, with rifts around it. As we were about to scan it, suddenly... 'it' appeared. A giant, blue...something. 'It' flew and it looked organic. Zakir told me to back off, so I made a turn, ready to leave. But when I looked back, I saw him firing a torpedo at 'it'. I told him to get back. I yelled at him to stop fighting and start running! He fired over and over again at 'it', but it didn't seem to even make a scratch. 'It' destroyed Zakir's engines, and he floated away. I tried to get him out of there, but his pod was stuck. He yelled, telling me to run. Then 'it' finished him. I couldn't belive my eyes, when I saw his ship bursting out. 'It' turned, pointing 'it's' guns at me. I enabled cruise and ran. I jumped back to Minor. It felt like returning to the graveyard, after visting the catacombs.
I flew back to Zeta. To Delta. I can't remember what happened after that. I woke up at Freeport 11, with a few broken ribs and a bad headache. The feeling I had back there...I never felt such strong fear before. I felt like a little child facing it's worst nightmares.
I'm sorry. I couldn't get Zakir out of there. I'm really, really sorry. I will visit my wife now. I need some days off.
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