I found the house or cave or the professor, but I wasn't the first.... I was a bit surprised to find him here, on Leeds and with the same destination to find Ravenhord. I guess, we have all the same questions and the same reason. But, why on this planet? Why the hell in the mid of this chaos.....
In front of this big hole, all of them focused on the mission to find Ravenhord... "What the hell is going in? Lisa...and Dominik, what do you do here in this cluster of nothing...?" "I have the same question, what do you want from here, or should I say from Ravenhord." "I have a few questions, for him and you?" "I know already your questions, 'How I can take this for myself, or something else." Riser laughs,"Really? How blind are you?" "I can see clear and I know your character, remember? Barrier Station? Grunder?" "Laughable," "I don't think so, it wasn't really funny..." " I don't want to stop your discussion about behaviors or characters, but we got company. Two Gallia patrols are on the way to this position." "I forgot you, Dominik. Always on the run, always.."
"And always loud and sometimes don't know when to stop talking." "Professor Ravenhord?"
"Not for long, if you don't move now, or you will eat tomorrow soup on a Gallia ship."
All went in the cave, deeper and deeper. There were only a few emergency lights, it was dark and cold. Then they finally reached a door, heavily sealed.
"Well, finally home."
Ravenhord takes out a card, types in a number from the card into a keyboard.
"Every time, I have to generate a new number for my door. A good security devices, but stupid if you lose the card."
Entered the rooms of the Professor.
"Uh, finally here. Man, smells like a Junker depot."
"I'm sorry, but somethings my air condition doesn't work so well, maybe I should take a look soon." "Prof, I hope you know why we are all here?""Yes, Ma'am. You are all here because you want information about the Archdemon, a Plasma Cannon. Seriously, what a strange name..Anyway, I'll make it simple for you, wait here."
He walks away, but comes back after one minute with a large book.
"I'll tell you now something, about the Archdemon, the Super Weapon. I hope, all of you know the 80 Years War betweem Rheinland and the Gas Miners."
All nod.
"Well, during this war a lot of things happen. Rheinland researched everything, to find a way to get rid of the pest. Most of them failed, with a few exceptions which includes the Archdemon. Not many people talked about this, and government of Rheinland sealed the files. Top Secret..But, I was one of the few lucky outsiders which were able to take a look on it. The weapon, your Archdemon, had another name at this time. It was called, the Seuche. I found later a few more information about this weapon, like a video."
All turned their faces to the screen. Lisa didn't believe, what she watches now.
"Yes, it looks like a normal Mortar Turret, but you will see what will happen if you cannot control this. As you can, before they fired the Plasma Cannon, they had to use the entire ship energy to release weapon. The result...was devastating. I never saw something like, even didn't believe this first, but after the second video....
Yes, that was a planet by the first try, now there is nothing. The fragments drifted out of the system. Here is now the second try..." "What the...,where is the fleet?"
"Gone, only a few small snubs and freighters survived this. I guess, the cannon destabilized during the charge sequence. Thousand of men, gone. Not vaporized, just vanished, deleted, erased... "Damnit, we have to stop this, but how?"
He points to the book.
"There is an easy way to find the weapon..." "Oh hell, they found us....
"Don't worry, I have an escape tunnel."
He takes the book.
"Follow me!"
Through the kitchen and the office, to an old tunnel.
"Never used the tunnel really, It was any pointless to stay here.*cough*" "I put a few charges in the front of the door, that should stop them."
30 minutes later, and a noise of an explosion.
*Professor takes a deep breath* "Finally free." "Looks like the coms are jammed, oh well" "I have an idea, follow me?"
Finally leaving this planet, once more alive. Damnit, why I came back to this smokey world.....
Too many days passed on Leeds, too many times we were in trouble on the planet surface.
We had a lot of lucky moments there, once we passed a Gallia Patrol with only a huge portion of luck. Exactly in the moment, a ship entered the atmosphere caused distraction by the Gallias. They were only one step away from us, so much luck in this moment.
I could continue with the story, and describe a lot of situations.
Captain Anders, tried to bring us back to Trafalgar, but he failed. After he caused a lot of unattractive attention, a few Gallias intercepted him and asked him strange question. He tried to play the innocent trader, but he failed. They opened fire, and system failure before the fight even started made this chaos perfect. He made it back safelty to Trafalgar, with a heavily damage Frigate.
About ourselves,,,
Well, Riser called the Archelon and picked up us. He brought us to Mactan, with only obstacle called Gallia. At least, the Gallias didn't have interest in an Outcast Ship.
Luck or not. We are back now, and continue with our work.
Half month, finally found something. I found a trace, to a depot on a Junker Base in Inverness. A few parts of the weapon are stored there, in case if I need them again.
But since, I dropped all my past forget almost what I did...never thought, I have to go there, to a place without hope.
Space Port in Inverness is rather unusual, a lot of groups and smuggler pass this station for supplies. It is the best way into the heart of Bretonia, and one of the largest systems in Sirius. The influence of Gallia is low there, and only a few people think about the danger of Gallia there.
One thing I know, do not underestimate them....but rather be always on guard.
and don't do stupid things there...
Because, if you fail there, you will die horrible....
I'm back on Leeds to pick up my Mjolnir from there and a few important things for the professor. Sadly, I couldn't find much, the Navy already destroyed, burned or carried the stuff away. But to my luck, I was able to find at least the secret box with the real important stuff....
A lot of plans in this box....well, I guess he collected them, just to kill some time or as a hobby...
Anyway, I'll take off soon from this smoking piece of planet....
All those people....
The hell with this pointless war....
The irony, sometimes I miss Rheinland, it was at least a kind of peaceful time for me.