Holdac
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- TNP Nation
- Great Jenovah
- Discord
- Holdac#3124
A small ship burst out from hyperspace with smoke trailing from the left wing and debris flying right off the hull like little specks of paint; colorful lights scattering in all directions from the entry point like dancing flames over a campfire. It was an old starship, barely moving along with the bell-shaped thrusters at the back coughing out the last fuel it had stored in the ruptured tanks. It spun out of control as it entered at a speed of millions of kilometers per hour in the vast void, seemingly tearing the ship apart and stripping it of all functionality within seconds. It was a X-12aL light cargo vessel manufactured lightyears away and was primarily used by smugglers to deliver illicit products without being detected by the many policing forces of the galaxy. A young woman was at the helm of the dying ship as it sped through the system; her name was Ahadi and she had escaped a devastating encounter with pirates several lightyears away from Jenovah, destroying the valuable shipment onboard and reducing the starship to a wreckage that only had enough fuel and drive for a single jump to a random location within range. A single jump which would ultimately lead Ahadi here. To Jenovah. A desolate, yet mysterious and awe-filling system which was devoid of any life and was not on most star charts found. It was by chance that she had ended up here, as the last jump could’ve taken her to the hundred other surrounding star systems. Inside the X-12aL’s cramped cockpit, Ahadi lay unconscious in the pilot’s seat as smoke poured into the room from a fire in the unstable reactor onboard and electrical sparks rained from the torn wires in the control and navigations systems above. As the ship slowly drifted through the abyss, the breathtaking view of the iron sun slowly began to unravel as the planets which blocked the view moved aside. A grandiose megastructure which wrapped around the entire star in the system, covered by enormous strips of metal and a millennia of hardwork from the civilization that built it. It was something out of stories that Ahadi heard when she was a child; stories of an iron sun in the farthest corners of the galaxy which lay dormant protecting a valuable secret and the history of an entire species predating most in the galaxy. It was unfortunate that Ahadi was unconscious throughout this; a single beam of light from the thousand cracks in the structure shined on her teal skin and russet freckles which dotted her face, irritating the twisted horns which pointed backwards on top of her head. A contorted voice in the cockpit began to speak to Ahadi, cutting out abruptly in the middle.
“X-12aL has sustained too much damage; artificial gravity systems disabled. 22 hours of methane left. Assessing damages to control syste— “
Ahadi slowly started to float upwards from her seat, slipping out from underneath the loose buckle. It was at this time that the spacecraft began to slow down, pulled in all directions by the powerful gravity wells of the surrounding planet and moons. A smaller planet, one that was classified as “26-12C Jenovah” by the navigational computers onboard before they were destroyed, had latched onto the ship and moved it into orbit above the planet. 26-12C had vast rings of ice and metal debris, seemingly of alien origin with pieces of simple, communications satellites among them. It was shrouded by dark clouds of ash in the atmosphere, with specks of ocean blue in them. 26-12C had two moons, 26-12C-a and 26-12C-b, both of whom were extraordinarily far from the planet and were on the brink of flying out of orbit.
12 hours would pass before Ahadi awoke, with only 10 hours of methane left for her to breathe and a single fuel cell onboard which was leaking. It would take her all the energy that she had left to maneuver the spacecraft through the debris field and through the thick atmosphere where she would ultimately land, since an oxygen contamination in the damaged filtration system caused Ahadi to feel nauseous and disoriented when she approached the pilot’s seat; buckling herself in and shutting the doors to the cockpit in a futile attempt to stop the smoke from the main compartment from invading the room, she used some of the fuel she had left to move the ship into position before pushing into the joystick to propel the X-12aL into the planet.
As the ship accelerated, a fireball formed around the cockpit completely engulfing the outside and blocking the view of Ahadi. It was a violent re-entry, ripping off both wings from the spacecraft and melting the rubber on the tires of the landing gear which hung lazily from underneath the belly of the ship. Ahadi gradually let go of the joystick when she felt the vibrations of the cockpit ease, praying quietly underneath her breath and shutting her eyes. As the dark clouds cleared and the fireball quelled, Ahadi looked beyond at the landscape of the planet. It was white. A palette of white and nothing else of kilometers beyond; a flat plain ran throughout the entirety of the planet, which was an enormous ice sheet covered by radioactive ash. It contributed in giving a scarlet tint to the planet’s sky, alongside with the exceptionally high levels of carbon dioxide present. Ahadi felt her spacecraft falling apart as it sped down and was due to crash into the ice sheet; the glass in her cockpit slowly cracking, creating small holes which let oxygen into the cockpit. Ahida looked around and reached for the controls frantically, seeing more fractures in the glass and ejecting herself out of the spacecraft before the entire cockpit collapsed. As the remains of the spacecraft twirled down in the sky and violently crashed into the ice, skidding across for several minutes and leaving behind a trail of metal debris, Ahida slowly descended on a parachute attached to her ejected seat; taking deep breath, she realized the air that she was breathing was made up of methane, meaning it was safe for her to breathe without equipment. Ahida landed onto the ash-covered ice sheet shortly, swiping off the ash with the heel of her boot and looking around in every direction of the white plain. All she saw was a void.
“X-12aL has sustained too much damage; artificial gravity systems disabled. 22 hours of methane left. Assessing damages to control syste— “
Ahadi slowly started to float upwards from her seat, slipping out from underneath the loose buckle. It was at this time that the spacecraft began to slow down, pulled in all directions by the powerful gravity wells of the surrounding planet and moons. A smaller planet, one that was classified as “26-12C Jenovah” by the navigational computers onboard before they were destroyed, had latched onto the ship and moved it into orbit above the planet. 26-12C had vast rings of ice and metal debris, seemingly of alien origin with pieces of simple, communications satellites among them. It was shrouded by dark clouds of ash in the atmosphere, with specks of ocean blue in them. 26-12C had two moons, 26-12C-a and 26-12C-b, both of whom were extraordinarily far from the planet and were on the brink of flying out of orbit.
12 hours would pass before Ahadi awoke, with only 10 hours of methane left for her to breathe and a single fuel cell onboard which was leaking. It would take her all the energy that she had left to maneuver the spacecraft through the debris field and through the thick atmosphere where she would ultimately land, since an oxygen contamination in the damaged filtration system caused Ahadi to feel nauseous and disoriented when she approached the pilot’s seat; buckling herself in and shutting the doors to the cockpit in a futile attempt to stop the smoke from the main compartment from invading the room, she used some of the fuel she had left to move the ship into position before pushing into the joystick to propel the X-12aL into the planet.
As the ship accelerated, a fireball formed around the cockpit completely engulfing the outside and blocking the view of Ahadi. It was a violent re-entry, ripping off both wings from the spacecraft and melting the rubber on the tires of the landing gear which hung lazily from underneath the belly of the ship. Ahadi gradually let go of the joystick when she felt the vibrations of the cockpit ease, praying quietly underneath her breath and shutting her eyes. As the dark clouds cleared and the fireball quelled, Ahadi looked beyond at the landscape of the planet. It was white. A palette of white and nothing else of kilometers beyond; a flat plain ran throughout the entirety of the planet, which was an enormous ice sheet covered by radioactive ash. It contributed in giving a scarlet tint to the planet’s sky, alongside with the exceptionally high levels of carbon dioxide present. Ahadi felt her spacecraft falling apart as it sped down and was due to crash into the ice sheet; the glass in her cockpit slowly cracking, creating small holes which let oxygen into the cockpit. Ahida looked around and reached for the controls frantically, seeing more fractures in the glass and ejecting herself out of the spacecraft before the entire cockpit collapsed. As the remains of the spacecraft twirled down in the sky and violently crashed into the ice, skidding across for several minutes and leaving behind a trail of metal debris, Ahida slowly descended on a parachute attached to her ejected seat; taking deep breath, she realized the air that she was breathing was made up of methane, meaning it was safe for her to breathe without equipment. Ahida landed onto the ash-covered ice sheet shortly, swiping off the ash with the heel of her boot and looking around in every direction of the white plain. All she saw was a void.