Post by Little on Jan 3, 2008 19:34:18 GMT -5
((The one thing I did save from the Old WR. THIS IS NOT AN RP, although do feel free to post comments.))
This is a story told a thousand times. To small children. Most would call it just a scare story,but it is not. Captain Drake did exist. He did mysteriously go missing. And no one knows why. Many claimed mutiny. Some claimed insanity. More still claimed navigation errors. But the thing that really made them disappear was another legend,that also turned out to be all too real...
Captain Drake yawned. He took another sip from his compact warming thermos. It was another long shipment of electronics through the forbidden zone. Captain Drake lacked the almost superstitious fear that made other traders avoid this place. But going through cut down travel times by 50%, and that had made him rich. He had bought bigger ships, more crew and guards, and even two large escort cruisers to protect him and his ship. You could never be too careful with all the pirates around.
A sudden jarring woke him awake. The ship had braked rapidly.
A officer of his yelled: "Asteroid ahead! Ship stopped! What are your orders?"
Captain Drake buzzed the intercom and said: "Put three locaters on it. We can come back later and mine it."
He watched the three orbs shoot out the front of the ship and hit the asteroid.
Suddenly, the lights went out. A voice came over the intercom.
"Hello,trespassers. You have launched a projectile attack on a Monta weapons platform. We give you thirty seconds to enter the correct authorization code."
The emergency lights flicked on. Captain Drake yelled: "What code!?"
And then it happened. The asteroid split down the middle. It opened wide. Inside it were thousand,tens of thousands, of missiles, pointing straight. A massive sea of green lights flicked above each and every missile. Then the lights above the missiles went out for ten seconds. Then,above three missles,a red light turned on. The missiles engines blared as the deadly projectile flew towards the three ships. The crew of the escort ships and the main ships hardly had time to blink before the missiles accelerated. One impact registered on each ship's external sensors for a fraction of a second before the explosion. The ships blew apart. No survivors.
The asteroid closed,guarding the edges of a vast civilization that no longer existed. It was guarding pointlessly,but that didn't register on the computers controlling the missiles. It closed and went into stealth mode,waiting for the next impact…
This is a story told a thousand times. To small children. Most would call it just a scare story,but it is not. Captain Drake did exist. He did mysteriously go missing. And no one knows why. Many claimed mutiny. Some claimed insanity. More still claimed navigation errors. But the thing that really made them disappear was another legend,that also turned out to be all too real...
Captain Drake yawned. He took another sip from his compact warming thermos. It was another long shipment of electronics through the forbidden zone. Captain Drake lacked the almost superstitious fear that made other traders avoid this place. But going through cut down travel times by 50%, and that had made him rich. He had bought bigger ships, more crew and guards, and even two large escort cruisers to protect him and his ship. You could never be too careful with all the pirates around.
A sudden jarring woke him awake. The ship had braked rapidly.
A officer of his yelled: "Asteroid ahead! Ship stopped! What are your orders?"
Captain Drake buzzed the intercom and said: "Put three locaters on it. We can come back later and mine it."
He watched the three orbs shoot out the front of the ship and hit the asteroid.
Suddenly, the lights went out. A voice came over the intercom.
"Hello,trespassers. You have launched a projectile attack on a Monta weapons platform. We give you thirty seconds to enter the correct authorization code."
The emergency lights flicked on. Captain Drake yelled: "What code!?"
And then it happened. The asteroid split down the middle. It opened wide. Inside it were thousand,tens of thousands, of missiles, pointing straight. A massive sea of green lights flicked above each and every missile. Then the lights above the missiles went out for ten seconds. Then,above three missles,a red light turned on. The missiles engines blared as the deadly projectile flew towards the three ships. The crew of the escort ships and the main ships hardly had time to blink before the missiles accelerated. One impact registered on each ship's external sensors for a fraction of a second before the explosion. The ships blew apart. No survivors.
The asteroid closed,guarding the edges of a vast civilization that no longer existed. It was guarding pointlessly,but that didn't register on the computers controlling the missiles. It closed and went into stealth mode,waiting for the next impact…
