I hope you like the story, feed back is much appreciated! I intend to continue on with it as my characture makes his way through the sirius sector. I know the Logo at the bottom could use some work so any suggestions please feel free to add in. Feel free to post what you think about it and hopefully i can improve!
In an unknown system, far beyond the reaches of the conventional gate system, only accessible via hyperspace, an Osiris Classed battleship named the Olocron fights an unwinnable battle against the nomads.
'Sir we are sustaining heavy damage, our shields are at 20%!' screamed the first officer
'Recall all fighter wings, cover their retreat and prepare for hyperspace!' Yelled Captain Jacobs
' All fighter wings this is the Olocron, break formation and return to the hanger!'
Captain Jacobs looked over to his first officer; 'Prepare the Jump drive!' The first officer nodded briskly.
'All decks, all decks.. This is the bridge, prepare for extreme acceleration we are preparing to jump into hyperspace!'
'Sir Jump drive is 68% charged!' Shouted the head technician
'All remaining fighters have returned Captain!' Said the first officer with a sigh of relief in her voice
Captain Jacobs looked over to the Head Technician and said with a slight annoyance in his voice 'How much longer on the charge?!'
'We are at 84% sir!'
'SIR' screamed the first officer
'What is it Renee?!'
There was a small silence as the first officer, Renee took a deep breath
'Sir... 6 more Marduk class vessels have appeared on short range scanners...'
Captain Jacobs face turned white as he paused for a moment to take a breath. It felt as though time itself had slowed down around him. The Nomad Marduk vessels began to open fire on the Olocron.
'SSSSSUUUUURRRRR!' Said Renee in a very slow and deep voice
Captain Jacobs shook his head and snapped out of the trance. He looked over to Renee.
'Sir, Enemy ships have opened fire!'
Captain Jacobs looked over to his Head technician and pointed with his right hand,
'How much longer on the Jump drive?!!'
'92% sir'
'Engage Jump drive'
'But sir, it could burn out or become unstable!'
'Engage the Jump drive, NOW!' Yelled Captain Jacobs
'Yes Sir, engaging Jump drive. Prepare for extreme acceleration.'
'Jump Drive engaged'
The Olocron successfully opened a hyperspace window but as it was about to enter, one of the blasts from the Marduk vessel hit the rear of the ship. The ship shuddered violently.
'Sir, we have been hit!' Yelled Renee
'We are venting Atmosphere!' Said the Head Technician
'Seal off the damaged section of the ship! Release nanobots!' Said Captain Jacobs hastily
'Sir, coolant systems to the Jump drive has been damaged' said the head technician
'Re-divert the coolant to the Jump drive!'
'Controls are unresponsive sir!' Said the head technician
'Entering Hyperspace.... NOW!' Shouted Renee
The Olocron entered an unstable Hyperspace window. Only but a few minutes had passed when the battle ship began to shudder. An immense explosion from the rear living courters, forced the Olocron out of hyper space. As the ship began extreme deceleration many of the crew where thrown forward in a vicious manor. Small internal explosions where happening within the ship as a result of damaged systems and the gaping hole towards the rear of the ship.
Captain Jacobs looked around the bridge as small explosions of sparks and coolant fluid filled the room. There was mass panic aboard the ship as injured personal scrambled to contain the explosions.
Captain Jacobs turned around to Renee and asked with haste 'What has happened? What was that large explosion?'
'Sir, it appears that the explosion was caused by the instability of the Hyperspace Window that we had entered. Exposed parts of the ship not protected by the shield had deteriorated until one of the main H-Fuel lines was hit.' Said Renee with a rather scared but confident voice
'Well how come the whole ship hasn't blown up yet?' Captain Jacobs said rather confused
'Well sir, that area was venting atmosphere prior to the attack from the nomad vessel. We sealed off the area to prevent further loss of atmosphere.'
'Hmm.. Casualties?'
'Unknown at the present time sir! There are a lot of injured personnel after leaving hyperspace with no prior preparation or warning.'
Captain Jacobs looked around at his crew. There were many people injured and even more dead. Captain Jacobs looked over to Renee and asked with a curious tone 'What is our position?'
Renee pulled up the map of the Sirius sector. Captain Jacobs sat down in his chair and looked at the holographic projection of the map.
'Is that correct?' Said Captain Jacobs with a shaky voice
'It appears so sir.' Said Renee
'But.. How is this possible? According to this map we are 700 thousand light years from our previous position. That would have taken us at least 4 weeks in hyperspace on maximum!' Said Captain Jacobs
'That's correct sir! Let me run a.. Uh.. Systems diagnostics'
As Renee was running a systems diagnostics Jacobs looked over to his navigation officer and said rather hastily 'I want a full report on our current where abouts and potential known threats in the area.'
'Yes Sir' replied the navigation officer.
Jacobs walked up to the holographic map and stared at it as it gave off a strange humming noise and pulsated. He walked through the projection and towards the front of the bridge. He stared out the window trying to spot any planets or suns. The navigation officer turned around and stood. 'Sir!'
'Yes, what is it?'
'It appears we are in blank space.. There is nothing here but'¦ but Us!'
'How far to the nearest known habitable planet?'
'100 light years sir. With sub light engines sir we will be there in'¦.' said the navigation officer as he put the calculations into his computer
'We will be there in 131 years sir'
Jacobs walked back to his seat and sat down, pondering over the decision he had to make. Jacobs pulled up his terminal and checked the status of the stasis pods. There were only but a few in working order, the rest were destroyed with the explosion.
'Renee, any word yet on how we ended up here?'
'I suspect that when we entered the Hyperspace window it was unstable. When the H-Fuel line exploded we must have further unstabelised the hyperspace window. In theory we may have passed through or even created an active super wormhole.'
'Oh, well then.. We should do something about this. Send out a subsace transmission on all known active branches of the order, we don't want anyone else knowing our position.'
'On It now sir'
Jacobs got up out of his seat to go and tend to the injured personnel. As he got up the navigations officer screamed 'SIR!'
'What is it Darren?'
'I have done some more searching on known areas in this particular sector of space. It appears we are in Gallia territory. We had best be careful.'
'Understood'
Jacobs left the bridge with some injured personnel and accompanied them to the Infirmary. As Jacobs was being treated for his wounds he felt a slight shudder in the ship. The shudder grew in strength and viciousness. Jacobs got up and pushed the nurse aside as he rushed to the bridge. As he was running back to the bridge the intercom came on;
'Captain Jacobs to the bridge immediately!'
Jacobs rushed to the bridge. When he arrived he said 'Whats the problem, what is this vibrating?' There was no response from anyone, They were all looking out the large window on the bridge. Jacobs slowly walked towards the front of the bridge. He noticed an extremely bright Blue light, massive in comparison to the ship. The whole bridge was bedazzled by the light. The ship shaking became more and more violent but no one seemed to notice.
From the light, appeared a ship. The light faded in an amazing array of rings as the ship completely exited the light. This is a ship that no one had ever seen before, the immense size of the ship was overwhelming, it appeared to be over 100 times the size of the Olocron. As everyone looked upon the ship and the amazing lights that expanded from behind it, there was a moment of peace and silence. Jacobs realised that this ship may be a potential threat and he screamed 'EVERYONE ATTACK STATIONS! NOW, LETS MOVE!!!'
Everyone broke away and preceded to their attack stations with great haste.
'Charge shields to maximum! Fire upon my command only!' shouted Jacobs.
'Sir shields will only charge to 15% and main forward guns are offline!' Said Renee
'GAH!' aggressively sighed Jacobs
'Move into defensive position so all available batteries are ready to open fire!' yelled Jacobs
'Yes Sir! Positioning! Sir we are in postion!' said Renee
The communications officer received a transmission 'Sir, we are being Haled!'
'Bring it up!'
The holographic projector appeared in front of him but white noise only appeared
'This is Captain Jacobs of The Order Vessel Olocron! State your intentions'
The white noise disappeared and came forth a being that no one had ever seen. The bridge went silent. The being spoke with an echo in his voice. 'I am Supreme Lord Councilor Jadus of the Marr, this is my mother ship the Relistner! We come in peace'