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Post by MikDaTv on Nov 20, 2008 16:12:04 GMT -5
Six sat within the central room of his ship, the Cronus. He was along the orbital path of Tishi, where the force had been used to rip a hole in space and time. The rift was sealed shut for the moment, but Six was keeping an eye on it to make sure the seal remained stable.
He didn't like force users playing around with the fabric of reality. In truth, he felt that was his personal realm. His area of expertise that only he knew how to truly manipulate. The Cronus itself was a testament to that fact. Outside it appeared like a simple box the size of a refresher, inside however, it was a large spaceship, that Six added onto all the time welding bits and pieces of old hunks of ships that had been destroyed in battles.
Six watched the spacial disturbance with the vigilance of a hawk for nearly 12 hours strait when he finally got some activity. A burst of Chronometric radiation followed by an intense blast of gamma radiation. The spacial anomaly remained open for a period of 11 minutes. Long enough for Six to launch a probe through, take some scans, and bring it back through.
The probe came back rusted and encrusted with stellar debris. Six did a quick scan of the probe to find that the rust and stellar debris was nearly 400,000 years old. It had been in the spacial disturbance for only 11 minutes but the effects of being in multiple times at once caused it to age at a blistering fast rate.
Six opened the probe up and retrieved it's crystal hard drive for examination. It was heavily corroded but Six thought he could at least get some data from it. He put it under an analyzer and began to work.
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Post by MikDaTv on Nov 20, 2008 23:20:53 GMT -5
3 hours later, six was able to extrapolate a few minutes of video from the aged hard drive along with some minimal sensor data. The first few minutes were boring, just a star field, lots of nothing. Six was able to use the star field to find where the spacial anomaly exited though. It was within the Star Forge system. Six thought it was odd considering there was nothing there now.
Then he realized he wasn't looking at the present, but the past, when the video panned over to see the Star Forge in all its infinite glory locked in it's mortal struggle with the Republic Fleet. Six couldn't get a lot of data since the probe was too far away, but it was definably the republic fleets first wave struggling against the massive Sith armada.
The video continued to pan, towards the planet near the star forge. The camera turned just in time to see a ship leave the surface and make a beeline for the Star Forge. A magnified view showed it as the Ebon Hawk.
Six was elated. While the video panned around again he started sending all the data to his holographic generator to begin making a 3d representation of it all. This would make a great addition to the Jedi archives of the battle.
As he finished uploading the data he glanced back over to the video screen to see something he didn't expect. It showed the Ebon Hawk, still several hundred thousand miles from the Star Forge, but with a Hammerhead cruiser bearing Sith markings coming in behind it, just outside of weapons range.
Six looked in stunned rapture at the video as the cruiser targeted it's turbolasers on the Ebon Hawk and prepared to fire on the unsuspecting freighter. Then all of a sudden the Hammerhead was struck by a heavy hit. A large missile rocked it's port side followed by a few turbolaser blasts. Six didn't see who was attacking the Sith cruiser because it was off camera, and the sensor data was incomplete due to interference from the radiation coming off the spacial anomaly.
Seconds later, the Sith hammerhead broke apart and exploded violently as it's reactor went critical. the next few seconds of video were distorted with static as the explosion hit the anomaly, which is what probably caused the destabilization to occur causing the temporal rift.
Then, to Six's amazement. another ship came into view, flying through the debris field that was once the Sith Hammerhead Cruiser. Six recognized the hull number immediately. 41376... that was the hull number for the RNSX Galactica.
Six sat back in his chair dumbfounded. something is seriously, was seriously, or will seriously mess with the time line.
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Post by MikDaTv on Feb 3, 2009 4:12:55 GMT -5
Six woke up in his chair like he did most of the time lately. In front of him was the computer monitor displaying all the readings from the spacial anomaly. It had been quiet for weeks, months even. In fact it had been quiet ever since the Galactica had jumped to hyperspace strait through the anomaly.
Since then the thing had been sitting there silently. If you didn't have 25 million dollars credits worth of sensor equipment you probably wouldn't even tell it's there. Even Six' with his enhanced IQ and Kosh technology on his ship couldn't tell much about it.
He knew it responded to Cronau radiation, which caused it to go stable for a short time. When it stabilized it could lead to anywhere, any time. and even in it's stable form the anomaly was extraordinarily dangerous. Even in its dormant form it had a tendency to pulse out dangerous amounts of radiation every so often.
Six, rubbed his eyes and stood up. He walked down the corridor of his ship to the galley and grabbed a bottle of juice and some rations and walked back towards the bridge.
Half way there the radiation alarms started going off and his ship rocked. Six was thrown against a bulkhead and fell to the floor. He dropped the rations and the juice and struggled to his feet as the ship was rocked again, throwing him to the ground. He crawled forward into the bridge and struggled against yet another surge into the command chair.
He looked at the monitor and his eyes widened at what he saw. The spacial anomaly had stabilized and was ejecting massive amounts of gamma rays and atmosphere. Six did a wide area scan for ships entering the system that could be the cause for the Cronau radiation but found none. In point of fact, he couldn't find any Cronau radiation at all. The anomaly had stabilized itself, or at least, it had been stabilized by something Six couldn't see.
He piloted his ship a distance out for safety from the radiation bursts and focused his sensors on the anomaly. Whatever was happening promised to be good.
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Post by MikDaTv on Feb 4, 2009 1:23:22 GMT -5
Six rubbed his eyes and went back to staring at the computer monitor. He was on hour 48. The anomaly had remained stabled continuously over all those 48 hours and was getting bigger.
The radiation bursts had started to subside but atmosphere had continued to pour from it in thousands of square kilometers an hour. Wherever the void led, it must have been on a planet somewhere. Probably an alternate version of Tishi, or maybe even the same Tishi in a different place on our time line, Six wasn't sure.
What he did know was that if this thing got much bigger Six was going to need to find a way to shut it down, collapse it again. It would reverse any repair to the disturbance that had healed but it wasn't wise to make the thing any bigger then it already was.
Six was just about to start looking up information on reality void physics when something new happened. The sensors registered something other then nitrogen or oxygen being ejected from the voids event horizon.
It was a ship, or at least part of one. After a deep scan the senors came back registering whatever it was was the forward half of a YT-1300 freighter. It was no ordinary YT-1300 though. It's hull, the parts that weren't scorched, had an amazing paint job of the Coronet city skyline.
Six had seen a ship like that before, but he wasn't about to believe what that could mean. He locked onto the mass and set an intercept coarse. It was losing atmosphere fast so whomever was inside was in trouble if Six couldn't get to it quick.
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Post by MikDaTv on Feb 5, 2009 22:23:27 GMT -5
Six pulled the wreckage out of the area near the void using a tractor beam and brought it into orbit around Tishi. He docked with it and entered the remains of the freighter with an environment suit on.
It took him 5 minutes to explore the entirety of the ship, there was one occupant. unfortunately the pour guy was dead. he was missing his left arm and left leg, his body was burnt beyond recognition and the steering yolk of the pilots console was embedded in his chest.
Six laid him out on his small medical room's table and removed the yolk and discarded it. The body was to damaged for the scanner to extrapolate it's exact species right away, so he let it sit and the scanner do it's work.
He headed back to the control room and sat back down. The void had become unstable again but was shrinking back to it's original size.
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Post by MikDaTv on Feb 27, 2009 22:33:40 GMT -5
The Cronus stood it's vigil watch over the Tishi anomaly with six at the helm doing constant scans of the hole in space and time. The hole had remained small and stable since the last incident, but it was no longer closing in on itself like it had before.
Six was worried that irreparable damage had been done to the fabric of space and was planning a trip back to Epsilon III to see what the computers there could do to help him try and repair the tear.
He was just setting up his nava computer to make the jump when the intruder alarms went off. Six looked at the monitor and it showed the med bay bed empty, the sheet that had been on it sprawled out over the floor.
"Son of a bitch!" Six shouted as he got up and put his coat on. He ran out of the control room and into the corridor and towards the medical bay.
"Giffer, give me a location on the intruder!" Six shouted.
A hologram of a cube appeared with six, moving along with him. The cube inflected on itself as the ships computer talked. "He's moving outboard towards the engine chambers."
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Post by MikDaTv on Feb 28, 2009 23:19:33 GMT -5
The Yun-Harla exited hyperspace when it entered the gravity well projected by Tishi's sun. Jor put the ship into a wide port turn taking it towards the planet Tishi and set the console to auto-pilot.
Jor activated the com and went wide band. "Attention, Cronus, this is Yun-Harla. Six you there buddy?"
A few minutes later, Six's voice came over the com. he sounded out of breath, like he was running or something. "Hey Jor, Can't talk right now, i have an intruder on board."
Jor fed more power to the engines and his shuttle lurched forward towards the Coruns the impossibly small box shaped ship looked unassuming and simple, but Jor knew better. "Roger that pal, i'm on my way. ETA 230 seconds."
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Post by Lord Xion on Mar 1, 2009 1:00:07 GMT -5
Galera was dozing in the ship while he heard jor talking to someone and immediatly came to. He landed beside jor and after flipping switches and what not he got up and started to get out. he got out and said "hey jor, this the place? whats the mission."
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Post by MikDaTv on Mar 1, 2009 4:26:36 GMT -5
Jor pulled the Yun-Harla into a circular course around the Cronus. The small box shaped craft spun slowly and Jor matched his coarse to that of the smaller ships spin.
"Galera, i have no clue where your at right now. I'm near the outer most orbit of the planet Tishi, the only habitable planet in the system. but i haven't landed anywhere yet." Jor said into the com.
He switched frequencies to talk to Six. "Six, i'm about 200 meters away, circling you. how do i uh... dock, land, or whatever. How do i get on board.
Again, there was a delay as Six's voice came back. "Wait one."
a few moments later and the small box started elongating on one side. one side became wider and taller as it extended outward. As it got larger so to did a small circular porthole in it's center. When it was large enough the strange vessel stopped "growing."
Jor shook his head and didn't look at the vessel as it extended. Jor was one of the few people who knew the strange technologies Six employed in his ship and he didn't like watching it happen. He feared if he looked at it too closely he might catch a glimpse of the infinite spaces between universes where demons turned the gears that made the universe work and he would go insane.
Jor simply just moved his shuttle into position and locked the wings in the upward postion and started the docking procedure. He heared a metal clang and a hiss as his ship made contact with the Cronus and sealed against the hatch.
Jor got up and went to the back, grabbing his blaster and strapping it to his hip, wrapping his amphistaff around his waist and grabbing Vera, making sure she had a full charge. He opened up the ventral hatch and climbed down the ladder into the Cronus.
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Post by Lord Xion on Mar 1, 2009 17:29:59 GMT -5
Galera said back into the head set "i am about 8 killometers behind you i can see it opening. Wait.. how did you know my name?" Galera sped up a bit so that when jor had landed he could squeeze in next to him.
Right when he had landed and the wings shot up galera checked to see if he had his guns in place. Right after he grabbed his mask/helmet and put it on. He never flew with it on, he needed full veiwing of the area. He took his head set off and got out of the sith intercepter. After getting out he said again "For one, how do you know my name and for two, what is this mission and lastly, who is six?" Galera waited for a responce while making sure his weapons were prepared."
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Post by MikDaTv on Mar 1, 2009 17:51:01 GMT -5
Jor hopped down the ladder and let Vera hand from his neck as he checked his pistol for charge. Holstering the pistol he turned to Galera. "Your name? it was listed in your resume and therefore it's in your file."
Jor shrugged, he thought that would have been obvious. "and like i said before, Six is a friend of mine and he called me here to look at something he thought i needed to see. You know as much as i do on that. When we got here he said he had an intruder on board his ship."
Jor turned to one of the many doors. "Be really careful in here guy. Six built his ship like a fun house maze. in case you haven't realized it already, his ship is bigger on the inside then on the outside. You'll find passages that lead to nowhere, doors that appear and disappear depending on the time of day, corridors that shift over time to lead to completely different rooms."
Jor put his right hand down to Vera's hand grip but didn't heft the weapon yet, just held it. With his free hand he plucked his comlink from his belt and brought it up to his lips. "Six, i'm on board and i have a friend with me. Where is this intruder you speak of?"
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Post by Lord Xion on Mar 1, 2009 18:00:08 GMT -5
Galera said back to jor "Really? i listed my actual name? i could have sworn i wrote C-88..... oh well.. as long as you know just call me 88, C-88, 8, or any varients you find appropriate. This ship is a work of art.. i have never seen anything so well built." Galera listened to jor and heard him say something about an intruder. Galera gripped both of the blaster pistols on his waste, pulled them out and spun them a couple of times and said "If there is an intruder and he is in here, then he has the advantage here. he has had time to get used to the functions... i guess we wait for your buddy six seing that we will probably end up in a super nova after walking through a wrong door?"
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Post by MikDaTv on Mar 1, 2009 18:27:29 GMT -5
Six's voice came over Jor's comlink. "Jor, he's in main engineering near the ships center. If he starts playing with the controls..." Six's voice dropped off.
Jor knew very well the kind of energy this ship used, the power running from it's reactor for one minute could power the entire planet of coruscant for weeks. Jor clicked his com mic. "Roger that Six, i'll head there now"
"Good," Six's voice came back over the com link. "I'll have Giffer guide you."
With that, the hologram of a cube materialized in front of Jor. "Good afternoon Mr. Halcyon." the cube said. it's surface jiggled and warbled as it spoke. "Please follow me."
The cube hologram floated off through one of the doors and Jor walked after it, keeping his hand on Vera's grip, but not lifting her yet.
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Post by Lord Xion on Mar 1, 2009 18:34:41 GMT -5
Galera stood there and watched the cube as it mysteriously materialized. he said to jor "this our guide? a little odd don't ya think?ohh well." Galera walked and followed the little droid/cube and jor.
"Where is it taking us?"
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Post by MikDaTv on Mar 1, 2009 19:35:32 GMT -5
"The engineering compartments. The intruder is in engineering and if he does something wrong in there it could have disastrous results for the entire system. There's a lot of energy running through this ship." Jor explained.
The cube led them through a maze of corridors and chambers. At times it seemed like they were going in circles, walking through the same room over and over again, but Jor knew better. The Cronus was kilometers long on the inside, but Six kept everything close together using weird doors which folded space and time so that traveling the kilometers took only minutes.
It only took them 5 minutes to get to the engineering spaces. the cube stopped and began speaking again. "We are getting close Mr. Halcyon. My master is on the other side of the ship heading towards you, the intruder is trapped between the two of you."
Jor nodded. "Good, has he done anything yet?"
"negative" the Giffer responded. "It seems he's quite content in trying to find a place to hide."
"Any data on him yet?" Jor asked.
"Biological scans have been unsuccessful, his body is emitting Cronau radiation in small amounts which is causing interference for our sensors. He's humanoid, possibly human or near-human, male and naked." The cube responded.
"Naked? Jor said with a raised eyebrow.
"Affirmative" Giffer said.
"Ok." Jor said, nodding to himself.
He turned to Galera "The guy is naked and unarmed, i don't think we'll need those." Jor said pointing to his pistols. "but keep a sharp eye out, just in case he tried to bolt passed us."
Jor let go of Vera and let the strap hold her whole weight. shifting the rifle around to his back and stepped forward. He reached out with the force, trying to find the intruder. It took him seconds to find the mind of the person they were hunting. He wasn't scared, but rather confused. He didn't know where he was, or how he got here. The technology around him was similar to something he'd seen before, but not exactly the same.
The intruder didn't give any sign that he was aware of Jor's mental probing so Jor assumed he wasn't a force user because Jor could sense the force flowing through the intruder as if he'd been a trained Jedi for most of his life. In fact, he felt a power within the intruder Jor had never sensed before... except once, a few months ago on the surface of Tishi. It was a great power, but it wasn't a part of the intruder himself, it was a link to something greater. some other power was linked to this mystery man across a... an incredibly vast distance. An immeasurable distance. A true testament to the Force's power.
Jor looked back over his shoulder to Galera again. "Careful, he might be a force user. you might need your blasters after all, but keep them on stun."
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