by Doc 42 » Mon Mar 24, 2008 11:39 pm
Martains shuttle hovered under the Ghost, pauseing for a second as three clamps shot down, grabbing onto the shuttle and hoisting it into the landing bay. The airlock door closed silently and the shuttle door opened. Nobody was there to welcome them, most likely all in the bridge. He jumped out of the cockpit. He put both hands onto his helmet, muttering a password into it. The helmet detached from the rest of his suit, the presurised air whistleing out. He took it off, the visor tinting completely red as the computer deactivated. He took a fresh breath of air and climbed up the ladder infront of him, walking across the metal floor to a door ahead. The door slid open automaticly. Inside his crew were busying themselves in different areas of the bridge. His pilot, Andruas waved and said "Nice work cap'n, you get the video of the battle?" Martain smiled and held up the pouch with the camera bullets. Andruas poped another crisp into his mouth and said, grinning "Nice one... that should provide for a good days entertainment.... Alexa was fiddleing with the main computer. She said "Good to see you managed to avoid being shot to peices despite TRYING to get yourself killed..." Martain smiled and said "Good to see you too... How is the ship?" Andruas leaned up against a console and said "Derek and Robert are down in the engine room. Robert is finally fixing that messed up combustion chamber which has been rattleing the whole time and Derek is down there all suited up because Robert says he saw something running around. Thinks we have a pop eye infestation..."
Far away from the in formal banter of Martains scout ship... Another Marican ship coasted into the orbit of a planet, pursueing the same Koult ship which had escaped The tyranids, the imperials and 3 Marican cruisers... The captain wasn't worried. The Koult had been lucky... this time however, he had them. His ship was faster, had better armour, better weapons and was gaining on them fast... He preditced that within a matter of hours they would be within missile launch range... The atmosphere in the control room was supriseingly calm considering they were on the eve of a battle... One of the flight enginers stood up with a plastic cup to get some water, saying confidently "I wish they didn't try run away as much... it would be much less time consumeing if they ju-" Before he could finish the sentence, the ship shook as if it was the epicenter of an earthquake.
Lights flickered, computer screens exploded, gravity dissappeared for a few seconds and the entire ship rolled to the side. When partial normallity restored the radio burst into activity. "What the hell is goin-" The paniced cry was cut off by a quick damage report "Left side of the ship was hit, hull breech in sector three, containment doors are down."Ship rear, Engine room is shootin sparks all over the place!" The main ships computer reactivated, showing a veiw of the ship from the outside. There was a massive orange sparked hole in the ships hull on the left side, flames tagging along the outsides of it. The engines at the back of the ship were pettering out, flames poping out in bursts... the captain shouted "Who the hell shot us and why didnt we see them first?!?!?" The computer showed no ships in the surrounding area except the one they were chaseing. It couldnt have been fired from the planets surface... it was a gas giant. He frowned, looking at the image of the planet and of their target... One of his enginers shouted "Sir, we were hit by a mk-4 plasma projectile shell, tore right through our hull and bounced into the engine room walls were it exploded. The emp created hit the engines pretty badly..." The captain watched the koult ship in the distance fire its control jets, turning around to face the Maricans... He said "How long would've it taken to orbit the planet?" The enginer said "What? What do you mean? uhh About a day I would say, those things go fast..." The Captain slammed his fist down on nearby cup, crushing it. He said "That *******... That smart motherf***ing BAST***!" He said through gritted teeth "Exactly 1 day ago those alien bast***s turned to face the planets orbit path... They fuc**** shot it around the planet and right up our as*"
he hung his head and then roared "Battle stations! We arent going down without a fight!" He kept his eyes open as he saw the Koult ship flashing... He didnt say a word, leaving the gunning crew to fire randomly at the Koult.. not bothering to direct them... Their shields wouldnt work with such a massive hole in their hull. He kept his eyes open, stareing at the blue dot... The energy pulse slammed into the Bridge window and the entire top half of the Marican ship was oblitereated in the following explosion.
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Doc 42 on Tue Mar 25, 2008 12:08 am, edited 1 time in total.

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