- AngasBoy
- |
- Senior Mythic Member
- gamertag: [none]
- user homepage:
One day... I am gonna grow wings... A chemical reaction... Hysterical and useless... hystecial and let down and hanging around... crushed like a bug in the ground.
The first part is well... short, but its a prolouge so im forgiven.
Prolouge
September 2476, UNSC Shipyards, New Mitcham, Mars
The UNSC Graceful Moonlight glided gracefully by as the hundreds of spectators watched as the UNSC's first Phoenix Class Colony Ship was launched and embarked on its 8 month journey into the out reaches of UNSC controlled space. Its 2.5 Kilometre long body ascended into Mar's Earth like atmosphere. On its journey it was to be accompanied by four, state of the art, Colonial Military Administration owned Frigates, The Andraste, The Aegis Fate, The Calypso and The Tippet. Also joining the colony ship were dozens of Hospital Ships, and Supply Ships storing food, water, and spare parts for the mammoth ship.
Almost 8000 colonists had payed hundreds of thousands of credits for a spot on the Graceful, many purchasing last minute tickets from unknown dealers who had changed their mind about embarking on a journey to the unknown.
The Colony ship exited the upper atmosphere as it sped off into the darkness.
September 2476, Lagrange Point L4, Graceful Moonlight
Commander Henry Flynn and Captain Nathan Cutter both stood on the bridge of the UNSC Graceful Moonlight preparing for the first slipspace jump ever taken by a Phoenix Class Cruiser.
Henry quickly peered over at the timer and got back to his routine safety checks on the bridge equipment, he had twelve minutes to finish the check and another five before the jump was initiated he had to be quick. Captain Nathan Cutter on the other hand was warming up the colony ships' Shaw Fujikawa translight engine, a new beefed up version designed for use on larger ships. Nathan felt pride in being appointed Captain of the Phoenix Class Cruiser although it meant leaving his pregnant wife back on Reach which he outright hated having to do. Nathan had grown up in a Navy family in Reach and from before he could talk he knew that this was what he wanted to do.
Nathan looked at the timer in the top left corner of his computer screen, there was only four minutes until the jump and the translight engine was not even at 50% power. Nathan sped up the warm up period slouched back in his seat.
Commander Flynn in the meantime had just finished safety checks and was beginning to address the rest of the crew about the time until the jump. Henry, unlike the captain had been born into a heavily army orientated family and defied his parents will to become a Navy officer. "Thirty seconds to slipspace jump." He said calmly over the COMM to the rest of the crew.
Nathan sat in his chair nervously as he felt the ships engines rumble violently. He counted in his head the time to the jump. Time seemed to slow down as the rumbling continued, and then suddenly the moment of truth came as the stars and planets seemed to go out.
And they were in slipspace.
[Edited on 02.15.2010 10:44 PM PST]