// Hi there, you currently reading uncomplete mess of mine was when my mind was stupid. I might end the rework of this in future, but this all you have. 02-11-825 A.S, BATTLESHIP CONSTITUTION.
"Lucas Edison signing off.."
Lucas exited the voice recorder, and closed his terminal where he writes his Captain Logs, he stood up and walked out of quarters, halls were empty, once, they were full of people, that respected him, they were always saying "Good day, sir", he made his way to bridge elevator and pressed button where it said "Bridge", after that, elevator took him to upper levels of the ship, when he arrived, two marines were standing by at the big metal door leading to bridge, when he approached the door, it automatically opened. As the door opened, the XO turned around.
"Good day, sir." said XO, wearing her Liberty Navy uniform, still, they aren't anymore in Liberty Navy.. Lucas wanted to know the status of the engine system, since they lost over 530 souls on-board, and ship needed a boost now or they would die here. "Good day, XO, whatthe status of engine?" Executive officer blinks two times at Captain "Well.. Liam is trying with his engineers to repair it, he's saying that it will be ready today if it's going to.. well, not spark anything.." Lucas wanted that answer, closer to leaving Liberty under cover of debri fields and outskirts "Good, have an Alpha wing returned from patrol?" asked Lucas "They should be here.. by now after seconds, shes sees the radar "There they are, captain!"
"This is Battleship Constitution to Alpha wing patrol, identify yourself, over."
"This is Alpha leader, we are reporting there is no danger for Constitution in nearest 30-60 kilometers, we found no Navy patrols, only unlawful ones, like.. em.. Liberty Rogues who tried to shoot us down, ships not damaged, nobody tracked us, and we are requesting to dock."
"We received transmission, Alpha leader, whole wing is allowed to land on Constitution, please remember on manually as the Battleship doesn't have docking module."
"Roger"
On secure channel, pilots were talking about a lot of things, the crew, the saddnes after they lost over many souls, one pilot Edward Smith, Alpha-2 was a bit frustrated. "Why the hell they always tell us to "please remember that there is no docking modules!" every time, I feel like I am taught every time, it's annoying for me.." says Edward "It's a Captain order, Jason, and you know it, you sound childish by the way, no offense." answered female pilot, Alpha-4, Anna Watson. "I don't giv-" he was stopped by a sigh "Alright, let's stop this talking and get on battleship already! I am tired from this patrol.." said male voice from Alpha 4, Alfred Patterson, everybody after that, docked into Battleship which was flying away into dark deep space of New York system.. after every docking, Edward heard voice over radio, male voice, a transmission more: "This is docking control, welcome home, Alpha-3!" As he said that, the deck lieutenant that watched over airlock into switched into other channel. "Captain, deck lieutenant Arnold Wright, birds are inside the Battleship, sir."
"Good thank you deck lieutenant, we'll be in touch." Edison answered and closed the audio-transmission, then he himself thinked about if to make a call to his Engineer Officer, Liam Ballantyne, which had a earpiece with allowed him to hear audio-transmission through his years. Without thinking he said words: "AI, give me Chief Engineer on speaker" as AI heard that, he started to connect into transmission, which Liam replied. "Your best Officer here, Lucas, whats up?" asked Liam, his Engineer Officer which Lucas called in "Wanted to know what are you working on there?" said Lucas."Well.. I'm working on something like remote control thing, but I don't know if it will work, still I need to test it, if it will going to work." said Engineer Officer "I see.. if it does work, would we could control from bridge engines?" asked Lucas "Well, this is going to be miracle, if it does, we would need to have only like few people on maintenance watch." Liam stops for a moment "It would be like a modern "Overlord" class Battleship! But, that's only a dream that can either come true, or not." said Liam with a bit sarcastic voice. "That enough for me, keep my updated alright?" said Lucas with serious tone "Will do. says Liam, ending his audio-transmission.
Echos of the things that happened in Bridge were roaming around Lucas head, he couldn't expected a armed resistance against him, he thought that the crew after telling them truth, would accept it, and they would leave and fight Liberty to Border worlds to find allies, then strike on Liberty for good. But, some people have other opinion or get manipulated..
"PUT YOUR HANDS UP IN THE AIR!" said female person before Lucas could turn around, he was stunned and disabled, he couldn't help to only able to hear certain things, his vision was blurred very much, only hear screams, he heard a lot of stun weapons, and then he passed out.
Lucas started to hear again, this time, somebody was telling the law
"Lucas Edison was.." he could hear only certain things "crime against repub.." again he didn't heard the last "and was found guilty of treason against Republic of Liberty." and then Lucas passed out again, the damage done to his body was really painful.
After minutes that left like hours, then hours felt eternity, he waked up, with his voice blurred again, he heard a lot of blaster shoots, he could see armed marines and rebel crew members fighting each other, and one man who was shot through his face. Then he felt he was grapped by something "DON'T YOU MOVE OR I WILL SHOOT HIM IN TH-" before he could end, he was shot in the leg, Lucas could hear screams of the man, telling them to spare him from death, and then he passed away again, he could felt that he was taken somewhere, but he couldn't know where.. until he realized he was in medical wing.
After flashback, he started to think, what if he does a wrong thing, maybe he follow lies.. mayben don't, but there is only one way to find out, he continued to be in his place, in command chair, waiting to something to happen..
And he still continued to think about what if he does a wrong thing in the history of Human race? What if Harmony is infected, and Liberty not? The thoughts were flying around his head, then, he was sick of it thoughts and forget about them. He had a dream once that Somers appeared with several Battlecruisers, equipped with destroyer of worlds, "NEMP"-class Launcher, he could see, Manhattan burning, maybe funny because it could be stopped by Navy, but the dream seemed to be so real.. he couldn't tell why.
On Engineering section of the ship, Liam Ballantyne was working on something in his office, he was drawing lines on Constitution blueprint paper. Behind him, there was four blueprints, all of them were tubes designs. One Engineer, Gabriel Nelson, entered the room of his chief. "Si-" said Nelson, scaring to death Liam."Jesus christ!" Engineer was standing there, scared a bit "Nelson, god, don't you do that ever again!" he stopped for a moment "Alright, I think you wanted to report something.. so.. go on!" Gabriel shook out of his scared state "Umm.. ee.. w-we.. have ended repair's of camera module, security should see halls now." Liam was delighted, at least, marines now, won't come to his officer, asking to repair damned cameras. Nelson look at the drawings of his chief, he was surprised of the "tubes", that he was making. "Sir, what is that?" asked Gabriel, he was really curious "This? Oh well, tubes, as you see, that will have wiring thought them." Liam stops again for a moment "It will connect to the switches in-bridge, which will control speed of the ship, this should make Battleship more-independent from big crewing it, since Liberty swapped technology from auto-tech to manual technology." ends Liam with smirk on his face "That's brilliant idea, sir!" said Nelson, with smile on his face, he smiled too, "Still, I need to present idea to our Captain, but, for sure, I think we will leave those outskirts.. at last" said Liam "Anyway, anything else, my friend?" Liam asked Nelson "Nothing else, sir.", said Gabriel "Alright then, I need to work so, you can.. I will say in Military style." he stopped for a moment ""March off, Lieutenant!""said Liam, putting on Nelson face smile again, and then going out of chief office. Liam wants to keep his engineering crew, and other happy, after they lost so many after a Manhattan battle, that was against infected forces..
13-11-825 A.S, BATTLESHIP CONSTITUTION.
Lucas is sitting on his command chair in bridge, thinking about the project that his Engineer Officer was telling him about some weeks ago. He was a bit nervous, he shouldn't be nervous at his age but that was serious. Food supplies started to run out, same for water, and he, never experienced it, and crew: was getting nervous too. He was thinking of sending Liberty Freighters, equipped with Freelancer ID and IFF, they already did that but they weren't sure if to do that. If they launch those freighters, can risk the detection of the Battleship, that really can be seen on all radar, and that would NOT be good. After some seconds, Liam came to the Bridge. "Captain, I need to speak with you. said Liam, with happy face, he stood up from command chair and turned around to him "What is, Officer? said Lucas with his glasses on. "I will show you in the engineering room, now common!" as he said that, Lucas followed him to Liam office in Engineering section of the ship, he was surprised of blueprints that he created. "So, what is it, Liam?" said Lucas, looking still at blueprints "Our escape from here" as Liam says that, he gave Lucas blueprint of Constitution, with lines all over to the bridge, to sub-section of Engineering section: engine room "Is that wiring you gonna do to make engine online without so much crew?" says Lucas, in disbelieve "Well.. says Liam before continuing "Yes, I want to do that, the wiring will be from engine room to bridge. In bridge, there will be switches to control speed of our dreadnought, wiring will send spark to make engine module working, and take up the speed, and there we go!" says Liam before continuing again: "Our perfect escape, Lucas." says Liam with a smile on his face, like it was his best day of his life.
Lucas was a bit against it, but, it was maybe his only way out to fight Liberty infection, and maybe avoid the whole food and water supply rise, which maybe could happen "Is there any other way?" ask Lucas, he still disbelieves that could do that such thing through Constitution "I don't think so.. Edison. says Liam, so it was no other way, Lucas had a choice, die here from crew hands, or, make wiring, which could maybe spark some fire on ship or something, he just couldn't trust his officer on this, but he needed to, if they were to survive, he took a deep breath and said: "It is risky, but I think we don't have other choice." said Lucas, continuing with: "You have my agreement on this operation.. just don't try to destroy the ship, Liam, please?" said Lucas looking at face of his Engineer, he shook is head up and down, and went out of the office to give a head up to his man to begin operation. Lucas knows that it would take time to complete this operation, maybe weeks, or even months..
Captain of Serenity transport, David Mellark was waiting for his crew to departure Liberty to Kansas, where his best route of money is. When he entered bridge of his ship, he detected a low signal transmission coming to him.
"All hands, this is your Captain speaking! Set course for the Alpha-5 in New York system!"
As he said that, transport pilots came to assist with navigating to Alpha-5 sector of New York system.
Meanwhile, Lucas was really tired in his quarters, he couldn't sleep after what happened. How could this go so wrong? And why it did go wrong.. after some minutes of thinking, a terminal lighted up with a request to connect to channel. He accepted and XO appeared.
"G'day, Anna."
"Cap, I coming with reports."
"I would like to hear them."
"Following the fire in engine room, we lost 2 terminal wich were for control of the engine, some engineers managed to recover one, but it's unknow if second will be recovered."
"Any thing else."
"And, Liam is creating new module, he says it will be long time before we move out of here."
"He already said that to me, I think.. I don't remember. Any way, this is all?"
"Yes, it is sir."
"Good, get back to your duties."
As he said that, XO disconnected from the channel, Lucas thought to hinself that this isn't so bad situation, he kind of relaxed, before battlestastions lights lighted up. He started to hear intercom outside.
"Action Stastions, Action stastions! This is not a drill, Captain report to Bridge immediately, repeat Action stastions, Action stastions! This is not a drill, Captain report to Bridge as fast as possible!"
As XO said in Intercom, Lucas taken on his duty-on uniform and made his way to elevator, and took himself to bridge. When he arrived, all gunners were in-place and all stastions ready for combat.
"Give me a radar screen, Mr. Karlen."
As he said, John turned on the radar on big screen.
"Unknow.. whats the size of this vessel."
"How John told me that he thinks it is Transport class."
Lucas looked again at radar screen, maybe it his friend, David Mellark, or somebody else, but there was one way to find out.
"Alright, stand, everybody, gunners stay and be on alert."
As he said that, battlestastion alarm were turned off.
"Can we establish the radio with this ship."
"Yes, sir we can."
"Good, send the radio transmission to him."
David was a bit nervous because Constitution didn't establish the radio link yet, they may think that hes a Navy or a Freelancer smuggler, but after some seconds, a radio transmission was sended.
"This is Battleship Constitution, identify yourself or we will shoot you down!"
"This is Riding Sun, the Captain Lucas Edison friend, you should give him on speaker, I am sending ID codes now. "
"Vessel responded.. ID codes are correct, it's Riding Sun sir, he requested to give you, sir, on speaker."
"Alright, give him here."
"Will you give Lucas or not? "
"Good to see you, Mellark, the Constitution is looking bad, really bad, the dock requested has been approved, we will talk inside."
"Good to see you too, my ship will going to dock at mooring fixture five. "
After Rising sun docked to Constitution, Mellark made his way to Hanger bay where he met Lucas.
"David."
"Lucas."
Both man handshake their hands.
"How life is going? "
"Pretty bad."
"I can see it in space because of the cracks on base hull, now tell me, what happend?"
"We were attacked by Nomads, last 2 months ago, we got heavily damage, we managed to repair some heavy damage, but much of the systems are still un-repaired, and NEEDS to be repaired. And, the control module of Constitution engine system, is gone. And Liberty Navy and other official parts are corrupted, we are leaving it."
"Oh really? Wow, finally you are against the Republic that is corrupted, thats good Edison.. so, your stuck here with your ship, right?"
"Not for long, I think, Liam is building new control module, I wasn't seeing him all the day, so I guess hes in his quarters?"
"Then, if your not stuck here for so long, why you need me here?"
"Well.. we need the crew to man engine section of the ship, if we do it, we can leave much sooner.."
"I see.. your need me to gather the human crew.. and this is bad idea, my friend."
"Why this is a bad idea?"
"Because I have better, idea. You see, did you ever thought that robots could control the ship systems?"
"What?"
"You never heard that ship can be controlled with robot crew, it seems."
"You aren't joking right?"
"Nope, I am here to help you, so I am here."
"Your a damm saviour, David."
"You will thank me later, now, how much crew would Constitution need for engine section of the ship? "
"Well, around.. 175-150?"
"I will buy then 175 robots from Kishiro, they making the best ones, I heard."
"Alright, better get going."
"Better create a special team of maintaing robot crew, as they could break sometimes.."
"Before you go, when you will be coming back with robots, get the food supply for us as we are running out of supplies here, and get the best robots from Kishiro."
"Sure will do, bye my friend."
"Goodbye, return soon."
As he said that, Mellark, he made his way to the airlock where his ship were docked, he entered it and made his way to the bridge transport. He undocked from Constitution and set course for Kusari.
David arrived at New Tokyo, it was raining outside, so he went to the bar to drink something, he on one of the tables where the batender always stands.
"David Mellark."
Somebody from behind said his name, he turned around, and discovered to be his old Second Officer of his ship, Scott Smith.
"Smith! How you doing! Come here, sit."
The man sat down with David, and started talking to eachother.
"So, hows the New London looking?"
"It's bad, Gallia have breached in, there are like six or I don't know maybe more Gallic capital ships, mainly Valors, and some Battlecruisers too.. everybody on Planet New London is scared for their life, I was thinking of moving out of there to somewhere safer with my wife and kids, but I don't know where.. to Rheinland or to Kusari, here.."
"In my opinion, this war doesn't have sense anymore, this is just a battle for power, who wins, will going to control Sirius, and that mad king wants that.. if you need help, any thing, just call me throught neural net, New London is going to soon fall to Gallic hands. "
"Your right.. maybe we could move in to your ship, if you agree."
David looked at him.
"I would do anything for you, Smith, you can come here and stay in my ship for long as you want with you family."
Scott standed up and huged David
"Thank you."
"No problem, tell when you will be ready to leave with your family, and I will pick you up at New London."
"Alright, I gotta go, it was good to meet you, David."
"You too, Scott, stay safe, we are in dangerous times."
As he said that, Scott left the bar.
"Now.. what I wanted to do.. oh right! Those robots for Lucas, I will need to send a transmission to Kishiro themselfs to obtain robots I think.. "
As he said that, he left the bar to the shuttle where it took him to mooring fixture, after he entered the ship, he started to write transmission to Kishiro.
BATTLESHIP CONSTITUTION
On Constitution, the repair of the engine room were underway, the supplies to repair the ship are getting low, Lucas was in the bridge, walking around it, and thinking what if David doesn't come back or what if the supplies of food and water will going to run out. After some minutes of thinking, Liam arrived at Bridge to report.
"Hows the engine room."
"It's burned alot but we terminals survived, but.. "
"But what?"
"The improved version of program is gone.. I don't know what to do anymore.."
"Don't worry, I have plan."
"Plan?"
"I will tell you that shortly, and hows the module?"
"Well, it was burned alot.. but I managed to reverse-engineer the whole manual control system from point A when it was installed firstly, so it means, the module is back to normal before it was.. edited by me, it's a bit unstable but it I asure you, it won't blow up."
"Good, very good, I trust you on this one, you know."
"Well, care to tell me about that plan of yours?"
Lucas turned around to Liam.
"We are buying robotic crew for engine section."
"What?"
"You heard me right."
"Well, I don't know if it's a good idea."
"It's a very good idea, as we don't have crew to man the engine and control it, so the robotic works will going to help engine section."
Mellark was looking out of the window in his quarters, he was seeing many stars, and Bretonia.. he started to thought about his old friend, he told him that situaction on New London is bad, for him, it was very worrying as he wanted to help his old friend, as they got out of the Lane sequence that they were in, he saw big Space Station, it was Shinagawa, he came for the robots that he requested almost two weeks ago.
"Shinagawa Station.. wasn't it smaller? I don't remember, alright, so, we are here, now.. all I need to get is food supply for Edison and those robots afcourse, he won't move witchout them.. damm Liberty and their infection.."
After he said that, he made his way out of his quarters into bridge, once Mellark was there he ordered transport pilots to dock into the stastion, the access was granted, when the docking was in progress, a neural net comm notification came up on one of the terminals, Mellark click on accept and voice only came on the screen.
"Mr. Mellark, I am an Kishiro.. how to call it.. "Assistant", you can call me that but any way, you ordered.. how the Customer Interaction Representative said? Oh right.. "one-hundred seventy-five low-autonomy, programmable service droids with maximum security suites as well as complimentary technical documentation, service software, spare parts, collision-reinforced structures, and a special bonus of extra radiation shielding.." you can retrive it at the mooring fixture of our stastion, it willl be delivered there in five minutes.. thank you for choosing Kishiro. "
Said the man, ending the neural net transmission, when Mellark heard that the robots were waiting at the doorstep of the ship, he was happy, because he didn't wanted to take one by one to the vessel. When the ship docked in it, the Kishiro "Assistant" was there, waiting at with cargo. Mellark made his way to the airlock of the ship, and connected the ship with station throught airlock docking systems.
"Soooo, your that.. "Assistant" that you called me right? Probably for the payment.. "
Mellark said looking at the Assistant.
"Yep.. so, your right that I am here for a payment and confirmation, robots are going to be loaded soon on your ship throught commodity docking ring."
"Alright then, let me get a neural net PDA.."
As he said that he reached out and took from his coat a pad, he transfered the payment to the man.
"Alright.. I got notification that your robots are in your cargo bay, and again, thank you for choosing Kishiro!"
As the man said that, he made his way to the elevator and clicked on button, doors closed and Mellark was left alone in mooring room. Mellark ordered transport pilots throught neural net to request access to undock from stastion, after that, he made his way to the bridge, once he was there, the ship was already undocking from Stastion, their new destiantion was: Constitution in New York system, just before they go there, they needed to buy supplies for Captain Lucas Edison.
BATTLESHIP CONSTITUTION
On other hand, Constitution Engine room was cleaned from fire, it was almost shining, some crewmembers were saying. Captain Lucas was sitting in his quarters, when he got the terminal transmissionn from Liam Ballantyne, he clicked on "accept".
"Hey Edison, hows the mood today?"
Liam asked thought voice comm.
"Good, got the module working?"
"Yep.. module software recognized it already, it is installed with the older software, same that we were using before.. you know.. I still got those flackbacks from the fight.. anyway.. we are ready to move, we just need those robots.. ."
Right, he forgot, that David wasn't here with robots, he even considured getting one of the Liberty Navy fighters with changed IFF and ID. Edison was a bit nervous too, as his crew was losing faith of fighting against the goverment, and most importantly, Nomads themselves.
"Right.. so, we need to wait on David to come finally."
"Oh, yes, your friend.. right, are you sure he will come?."
Liam asking with worry in his voice.
"He will come, I promise, he will not let me down."
"Whatever you say.. Liam out.."
As he said that, Liam diconnected, and Lucas, was still thinking, if David was actually coming or not..
Mellark was standing in the bridge of his transport, they bought robots and things to repair them for Constitution command. As he was looking out, he started to think again about Bretonia, what if they will fall, what if Gallia will take over the Sirius, what if.. then he started to have a stomach ache because of that, so he sat down on one of the chairs inside them and drank some water from bottle, after some seconds, the crew member have arrived to bridge with report.
"Sir, food supply is loaded." - man said
"Alright then, get the pilots here and we are going to our destination. "
As he said that, the crew member headed to the doors, and closed them.
"Hang on Lucas.. we are coming.."
BATTLESHIP CONSTITUTION
Captain Lucas was sitting in his quarters, doing something on his terminal, after sometime he stood up and made his way to the bridge like he always do: Elevator, clicking on bridge, and going to the big, armored metal door. When he arrived, the XO of the ship was there, standing by the Commanding chair.
"Good day, XO." - said Edison
"Good day, all gunners and officers are here sir. "
"Anything else?"
"Food supply got extremely low, water supply is at 75%"
Lucas was little stressed and at the same time relaxed, food supply is very low, but water is very high, he turned around to the Mr. Karlen, the man who had three roles in the ship.
"Alright, Mr. Karlen, give me an radar report."
"Radar is clear, wait, there is a contact on the scanner.. it's.. it's a Rising Sun, sir!"
Lucas eyes were opened widely, he couldn't believe, he finally came with those robots.
"Give me an direct speaking, I need to talk with him!"
As he said, the communication officer gave him access to radio speaking from Command chair.
"This is Edison speaking, good that you are here! We are running on extremly low food supply, comon dock here."
"This is Mellark, good to see you too, we have robots here, and food supply too , all of the things that you requested is here, we will dock now."
As he said that, he sent a request to dock, it was accepted and he started to moor with the ship.
As they docked in, they took cargo with them to the enter elevator, the Constitution crew members were already there at the big elevator, with the equipment they needed to unload the cargo. Lucas was with them. Whne the elevator arrived, it revealed ten Rising Sun crew members and cargo of food, robots in parts, blueprints, Mellark was with them too.
"Mellark."
Both man approached themselves.
"This all what you requested, robots, let me explain how they work, alright?"
"Alright then."
"So, they are tools, no AI, they aren't sentient, they can't feel the pain or something like that, whatever, but any way, let me continue."
Mellark catches a breath and starts to talk again.
"Robots can be programmed to do many tasks, but they will need a skeleton crew, and I know what I am talking about, right?"
"Yeah, I get it, the special team to maintain these robots in already created."
"Well, well, look whos here! G'day, I am Liam Ballantyne, the magican of this ship, so.. are these robots programable..? "
"Well, they are, and I am David Mellark, good day."
Both man shaked hands.
"Yes! This is very good, because I would have hard time, are they having.. an.. AI or something?"
Mellark looked at Liam frustrated.
"*Sigh*, I said that already to Lucas, but any way, let me tell it again, THEY, aren't AI or Sentient, they can take orders afcourse, now as we have it out of the way, you need help with unloading or something?"
"No, no, I will call my man, just move those robots and cargo a step ahead from elevator and we are good."
"Alright then.. I will ordered my crew to move a cargo and bit ahead and I am moving into Bretonia."
Lucas started to think if to ask if something is happening in Bretonia.
"How Bretonia is looking..?"
Mellark looked at Lucas.
"Badly, I met friend is bar two or one week ago, he told me that Gallia have breached the New London system.."
Both Lucas and Liam were shocked to hear this news.
"Sir, we have moved the cargo ahead."
"Good, alright.. I need to move, as my friend is in danger, see ya Edison."
"Yeah.. see ya.." - said Edison with a very suprised look..
Doors of the big elevators closed and they were alone.
"Holy.. moly.."
"This is bad.. if the Bretonia falls, Gallia will going to breach Liberty, if they take Liberty, the infection could get on them.. this is bad.."
Liam looked at Edison, with shocked eyes.
"What do we do, Lucas?"
Both man looked at each other.
"I don't know.. let's stick to the plan, I will return to the bridge, you get your engineers here, unload robots in Engine section, program them to maintain the ship engine, and then, we are leaving to Sigma-15."
"Alright then, stay safe."
"You too."
As he said that, both of them turned around and stepped into other direction, Edison made his way to Bridge and Liam made his way to the cargo and looked at them, after some seconds he called engineers to help him.
Liam was standing in the Engine room, he was ending programming last robots which he got from David Mellark. He was excited because they could finally leave this place, which was behind of one of the debris fields. He turned around to one of the Engineers.
"Alright, have you checked up the control module? Because I don't want second fire."
Jack turned around to his Officer.
"Everything should be setted up and ready to go, we just need to active pulse engine as it wasn't activated in few.. months.."
"Then better get it working, by the way, do you have the list of the robots in every section? I need to.. refresh my mind"
"Yep, I have it, you gave us all the plans where robots work.. twenty-five robots each are in Core Engine control One, another twenty-five in Core Engine control Two, in Engine room we have fifty robots here.. and other fifty by the coolant. Last twenty-five are working in Engineering section. Engineering skeleton teams and maintance teams are in-place too. "
"Alright, get back to work, okay? We need to be ready."
As he said he turned around and made his way to one of the robots who has been programmed, robot noticed him and turned around to his Engineer officer.
"Hey, robots, go work on.. uh.. Terminal Three, okay?"
Robot looked away from Liam and made his way to terminal three where he setted up the speed controller, and other two robots were controlling the engine core, other robots were working in other section of the engine compartments and engineering sections, they were important to ship engine and itself to work, they programming took sometime as they were limited in numbers.
"I love these robots."
As he said that, he moved out of the room and made his way to the nearby terminal, from there, ID himself as Engineer officer and contacted Lucas about status of the robotic crew.
Lucas was sitting on the command chair in the bridge, waiting on the report of Liam, after some seconds, thats what happened.
"So, I guess robots are working by the engine?"
"They are great, Lucas! I love them like a father!"
"And you were saying that it will be a bad idea.."
"Yep.. now I changed my mind! By the way, we are ready to go.. just give an order!"
As he said that, Lucas disconnected and has started to think, what if engine willl going to blow? But he quickly cleared his mind and thought to himselve that it was stupid idea. After some minutes he finally decided, he had a perfect timing as main pulse engine was getting activated.
"Mr. Karlen, Navigation order, set waypoint to Texas jumphole, Miss Boyne, intercom announcement that we are moving out of here right now."
As they turned aroumd ,their faces were suprised, after two months of waiting, they were actually moving out of this empty space.
"Yes sir, on it!"
"Yes sir!"
Both of them got into work in no time. After some minutes, all crew members were notified of new course, all officers were called into bridge, expect the engineer officer that was in engineering section, and that included gunners as Constitution needed defense line. John have setted destination to the Texas jumphole as Captain requested.
"Everybody take your positition and seats, we need to be on alert, Miss Boyne, give me Engineer officer on speaker, John, watch radar, XO, standby and watch and damage control be on alert."
Everybody noded or replied with typical yes sir. After some seconds, the Engineer officer was on-speaker.
"Robots are working great here, bridge, even I would say perfectly. We can start picking up the speed. "
"Alright, give an intercom."
As he said that, Miss Boyne gave him control over the intercom.
"This is Captain Lucas Edison speaking from Bridge, to the whole engineering section, order to robots, pick up speed, 90 metr per second. This is important part of our plan, if the engine fails us, we won't leave this place, and will die here, good luck."
When an intercom announcement ended, robots were starting to work on Engine to make it move, after three or two minutes, ship started to pick up the speed.
"My god.. it's working!"
"Sir, we started to pick up speed!"
As Lucas heard that, he felt proud to live with his crew. He fighted to get out of here, then here he is, with his crew, moving out of this wretched Liberty. He took the intercom on again, before he said words to the device, he turned his head to John.
"Mr. Karlen, start disabling weapons, we are entering cruise speed."
Nav-Tac-Weap officer noded with suprise.
"This is Captain Lucas Edison speaking from Bridge, to the whole engineering section, order to robots, activate cruise systems!"
As robots heard that, the ship started to prepare the engine core for cruise speeding, all of them, by the control core terminals, control terminals, heat terminals, and more. Liam was still monitoring what is happening in Engine room, he felt proud to be here, to be with people that he love to work, he lost many friend on that day, when Nomads struk the Manhattan, he still heard the playback of the emergency transmission that came in when he was on bridge. Now he wants revenge, against the infected forces within Liberty and other houses that may be hiding in and nomads themselves. But now he needed to take the revenge matters away as he needed to be focused on job.