The Neverending Story

Hey, guys, do you want to link stories as Avar333 and Slinky2397 suggested?... Here's a little something to get this started. Hope you like SF.


All was quiet on the SHOOTING STAR - the Galactic Empire's newest experimental jump-ship. John Morgan - the pilot - was sound asleep in his cryogenic bath waiting for the ship to end its pre-programmed series of hyperjumps.

The SHOOTING STAR was the first ship to ever aim at another galaxy - a goal, untill recently, presumed imposible. It was the fuel that posed the greatest problem. Ships could simply not carry enough to cover the unthinkable gap between two galaxies. Every additional pound of weight took energy to be accelerated beyond the speed of light... It was an exponential function, so there was a point beyond which adding fuel had no effect or even had negative effect on the jump distance.

The invention of jumpgates over a century ago had a great effect on star travel. The starting gate catapulted ships and the receiver gate pulled them through hyperspace so ship fuel was not an issue when travelling on established trade routes... There was one drawback though - someone had to go and establish a gate in the desired location. And other galaxies were just too far away.

A breakthrough in High Energy Science Center two years ago changed all that. Those smartasses there had come up with a new mysterious energy source somewhat a million times more eficient than standart jumpship fuel. How they had done it noone knew - they screwed up and and a whole planet went nova. It took two years to scrape up about 200 pounds of this material called infernium from the remains. More than enough to jet a ship loaded with a foothold jumpgate to the nearest galaxy. This ship was the SHOOTING STAR.

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Alarms sounded as the ship was forced out of hyperspace caught by a warp disruptor net two jumps from the edge of the galaxy. Escort ships were too far away to receive the distress signal but Bioautomat I sent it anyway then started the emergency sequence to defreeze Morgan - combat situations demanded human presence. Emergency defreezind was almost complete when the attack came. Bioautomat I raised the shields and powered up the antimeteor gun (AMG). This was bad. The SHOOTING STAR was no battleship.

The first torpedo hit on the shields...

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John bolted to consciousness just as the torpedo shred through the aft gun cargo hold sending him hurtling to the ground. A sting on his right cheek where a piece of metal had been logded. Jumping to his feet, John ran furiously towards his space suit suspended on the wall, but he was too late, his feet lifted off the ground as he was hurtled backwards, out of the gaping hole as the cabin pressurized quickly.

He then realized that he was in the midst of a tractor beam, being slowly pulled towards his attackers vessel. It looked like no other ship he had seen before, glowing with a green hue, and barely visible against the starry dark of space. As he was pulled closer, he could see it better, and saw the name of which it went by. SERLAPAGUS M IV

Being pulled closer and closer, a bay door opened up as he slowly was pulled in, he could see that he was in a hangar, where 2 rows of ships were held, all a miniture version of the SERLAPAGUS. He was roughly 8 feet above the deck when he fell, landing sideways as his elbow gouged into his ribs, cracking 3 of them, he lay there dazed, his vision blurry, he looked up and saw 7 armed guards pointing the barrels of their rifles at his face...

This stuff is not that bad! Myabe we should make a little writers forum in here

There will probably be problems with people writing a part at the same time, but I can see this getting really good.

John couldn't see the guards' faces as they were wearing full-body spacesuits that covered them completely... Still dazed he tried to get up, and slowly he managed to do that. The hangar was lit with a dim light the source of which John couldn't locate. One of the figures in space suits came towards John and started talking in a language that John didn't understand. The voice was unusually high-pitched and didn't sound like it belonged to a human being. Seeing John's confusion the space suit started switching from one language to another, until John finally heard a phrase in English

"Hello and welcome aboard SERLAPAGUS M IV. You have invaded the territory of the Quatlarpss and will be detained until further notice, starting immediately."

After the initial shock has passed, John took a long breath and asked the stranger "Who... what are you?".



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The large guard looked down at john as if insulted - then kicked john in the side. "What means do you have to ask questions!?" The large creature asked.

John didnt understand why they were so hostile, though didnt dare to ask anymore questions due to the fact that his ribs were pulsating with pain.

Two of the guards picked john up and pulled him to a large elevater gap in the wall. The guards didnt seem to have to struggle at all with his weight. Talking could be heard, though John didnt understand what they were saying since they turned their language back to their original high pitched clanking noise. The light of the elevated flickered green as it passed each presumably floor of the ship, then haulted quickly and the door opened.

The room was big and contained a lot of voices coming in many different languages. Inside the room John could see many different species of humanoids. They seemed to be unwell and lashed out with their hands through the bars that kept them...

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Well thats my little bit - i didnt know how much you wanted to get this going till i followed your link.. lol - well, let me get started with the new writers forum and i will check this story out in a bit we have a really good one going at Arcane Gamerz - though when i get the Writing forum installed - i will move it over for people can continue its work

Well - enjoy!

(Avar)

..as the unwell creatures lashed out through their cages, John quickly realized that he had to get out and qickly! Dazed and in pain, he grabs his side to relieve just a little of the pain, as he does this, John realizes that he has a little pasma pistol stuffed under his belt.

As the humamoids lay him on a cold, steel table, then begin to chat amongst themselves, almost in an argument. John lays still for a little while and begins to ponder about what has happened and if he wil be able to get out of this!

As the humanoids get into their heated argument about what do with our wayward hero, when he was reaching for his plasma pistol and noticed that one of the creatures that was in a cage seemed to be trying to tell him something. As he was watching the little green, pointed ear, drooling like there was a naked alien in the room, he noticed that the creature seemed to be signaling him to look at a little buton on the side of the wall. John glanced over, without looking to obvious, and noticed a little siver panel to the right of him that the creature seemed to want John to notice.

All at once he was surronded by the multi lingual aliens again and the started to grab hold of, what seem like shiny silver medical tools that had just appeared out of nowhere! In a panic, John grabs his plasma pistol and shoots at the silver panel and then............



Thought I'd play too!

Good, but I hate sci-fi crap :P

Originally posted by GraveRobber@Jul 20 2003, 09:02 PM
Good, but I hate sci-fi crap :P

Don't interfere with the story then and go finish alter echo preview instead wasting valuable time reading it Writing this from parents' house, will be home in 1/2 hour to check on progress :P