A camera seem to take photos of a teenager about 17 years old wakes up and look confused, he seem to be unfamiliar to everything, he finds the camera pick it up and start looking at it after a few moments of stare he start to speak: "I know this item called video camera, but I don't know in what language, I don't know who I am where I am, I know I am called human, no more then that", he sit on the bed shakes his head a bit and keep talking: "I think I should start video blog, I don't know why, I know what a video blog is, but I don't know what language I am speaking I find it disturbing….".
Walks a bit in a room that seem to be like a room in expensive hotel, from the shiny windows of the tower on front you can see a sign in the reflection that is written in it "Erie Towers". The camera keep turning around the room until it being put on the bed while the boy search the drawers, he find a small note and he show it to the camera: "Your name is Shaimos", the boy laughs a bit and start to speak: "Well now I know my name that’s a progress don’t you think?" in the drawers he also find a letter he reads it on loud: "Dear Shaimos here you can find the key and codes for a ship that awaits you down in the parking bay, the ship is very basic but it's enough for you to start your journey and a few credits, credits are the money which is used to buy things in case you don't know. In the end of this letter you can find electronic key, when time will come you will need it, but for now keep it with you in safe place, you might find you are not usual, with love mom and dad".
"Well now I know I have mom and dad, that’s a progress. That’s just stupid; it's obvious I am not usual! 13 minutes ago I didn't even knew who I am!" sit on the bed take the camera and says: "well there is no point to stay in here, I will go outside to see what I can do out there I will leave this planet tomorrow I just have a pulse to do so, like there is a bug in my head that tells me to leave".
"I went to the docking bay one of the security personal asked for my name and my ID I simply told him my name is Shaimos and he asked "Shaimos what?" I didn't understood him, looking back it was quite funny and when he looked at my ID he told me to come with him, he took me to a small office with a nice woman that asked for my name and again I replied Shiamos and again she asked the weird question "Shaimos what?" the officer told her to look at my ID and she told me I don't have a last name in there, and kindly asked me what my last name is, I told her what, that my last name is what, I honestly thought that’s what she meant, so now I am officially called Shaimos What, anyway the voice in my head that bug me to leave becoming really annoying so I am departing right away".
Walking the street with the camera in his hand, on the way to the hangar someone stops him and offer him a job, to transport for him a large quantity of helium for a nice price of a bit over 7.500.000 SC and a bonus of Rhino class space craft.
"Well I can say this offer is very odd, but I need that money so I guess I am selling my soul huh?"
Part 2:
"I rented my self a room here in Freeport 4, and this day was 100% a day of relaxing and resting. This place nice and all but I am not intending to stay, I wish to learn and explore, oh and in case you haven't seen news yesterday the "Xenos" terrorist group destroyed "Erie Towers" they did it with several bombs in the base and the middle of the tower there were only 4 survivors that was trapped under the wrecks, I am lucky that my little bug in the head made me go away to travel huh?"
He put the camera on a table and goes grab him self a pretty big sandwich with meat inside and start to speak in barely understandable English: "I am not sure what to do with the money, I want to buy other ship then the one I have, I am just not sure which one; or where to go. So many possibilities to explore and I am not sure which one to take."
Finish his sandwich and start to speak again, only this time in a understandable way: "I think I will join those people that call themselves Zoners, they are exploring, exploring and more exploring, exactly what I want to do! But still I am not sure… I will see about it tomorrow and I will decide where to go.
Right now I am learning math, physics, Mechanics, programming and even biology all of those interest me a lot, and I learn them fast. Anyway this is the end of my broadcast for today, sorry for making it short, after all I was busy resting this day, good night and farewell people that listen to this."
Part 3:
"Good day listeners, Today when I set in the bar , getting ready to take-off I met a couple of bounty hunters, that asked me if I can take them to Sheffield Station , I replied in acceptance, and they asked me if I would like to join them, I don't like the bounty hunters much. From what I know about them anyway, they live from killing other people and that’s simply horrible. So after I refused they suggested me to go to planet New London, and there I intend to go. "
Shaimos go to the back of the ship, what seem to be it's cargo hall and talk to a nice young couple, after a few moments they shake hands, the cargo bay door opens up and the couple leave the ship, Shaimos pick up the camera and walks out of the ship too. "Well dear listeners as you can see this is the planet New London, it's nice and I met here a few Zoners, and they just fascinated me with their stories about far lands and wild life out of "House" space, they are leaving today I am sure I will follow them, I just so excited, they will give me other ship then the one I have now when I will get to out destination, which for now is unknown for me, they said it will be a surprise. Also the some-short of voice in my head haven't bugged me in a while so I think I am doing right, I learned to trust that voice it saved my life"
Shaimos walks into his ship, place the camera in such position it can record all the monitors and the window and Shaimos himself, he start to talk in a secured voice channel with people who are probably those Zoners whom he will fly with. "Well I am going to take-off any moment" The ship engine starts and he fly away to the sky, after leaving the planet it seems he is flying with 5 more companions who are Zoners, they use the trade lane that indentify it self as a trade lane from planet New London to the Cambridge, after they use the lane, somewhere near the middle of it the lane stops, and on the opposite side there are 5 ships that recognize them selves as order ships and no more, the Zoner squad leader transmit to him in a local channel: "Good day order ships, we are probably not who you seek for, so may we pass?", the respond came quick "Hand over the one who ID himself as Shaimos and you are free to go" The Zoner squad leader reply to him that Shaimos is under Zoner protection, and in result the order ships start to fire, one of the zoners tell Shaimos to follow him while the rest stall the order ships. They make a run for it. They jump into the Cambridge system and from there, just keep flying until they get to Freeport 1 in Omega-3, as they reach the zoner report the incident, and in there have a small talk with Shaimos apparently her name is Keyla Silver, and she is as young as Shaimos, only 17 years old. She promises to take him to the nearby Freeport that has ships for sale where he will get a better ship, and they could fly together and explore the large dark space.
Part 4:
"I am taking those photos from Omicron Theta I am in Freeport 9 right now and Keyla is arraigning my Zoner documents, oh wait here she comes!' the camera turn a bit and take a close-up on Keyla's face. "You are still doing that stupid video blog?" you can hear Shaimos yawns and say "It's not stupid, I find it comforting since I don't know who I am, anyway what the orders we got?" she nod her head "Well, we are ordered to go to Freeport 10 in Tau 37, and we need to get there in urgent the air is starting to heat over there between the IMG to the outcasts, and because of that we will have to go through Kusari trade lanes, sorry to disappoint you on that. Hey we can go to trips in the Tau systems while we are there, just like you wanted, explore and reveal, if we successfully do that mission you will be officially part of the Zoners. We will make a stop at the IMG base Java, cause the ship I got for you is ain't nice, and you can get there a ship like mine Raven's Talon." She walks to her ship and starts and Shaimos walks to his, "Well listeners you heard the woman let's go".
The camera turned on again, seems by accident since it laid on the side of it, you can see Shaimos aggressively talking to 2 men, one of them wear uniform of IMG and the other of Outcast, "You too, either you calm down or you take they fight out of our Freeport, and far away from it."
The outcast pulls out a gun and shot the IMG in the head, he do so by firing through Shaimos's chest, Shaimos fall down to the floor and the outcast yell to him "Nobody tells me what to do NOBODY!" he walks away to the hangar and from the window you can see a saber class ship leaving. A medical team arrives quickly and takes Shaimos away, Keyla arrives and takes Shaimos's camera and quickly run after them.
The camera turns on again, you can see Shaimos lying on Keyla's knees, he is wrapped with bandages. "Sorry dear listeners that you had to see that, anyway I feel better now and as you can see Keyla taking care of me, and the station doctor said that in few days I will be free to go" he try to take a small beautiful wooden box but he seem to cripple from pain so Keyla grab the box and bring it to him, he opens the box and show a small medal, a star around a globe surrounded by hands, the medal of bravery among the Zoners. "They say that this medal marks 2 things, that you are brave and that you are stupid." He laughs a bit but laughing cause him pain and quickly he stops. "I found my self a home, among those who are like me, wishing to explore and see far systems, exotic and wild. After I will get better me and Keyla have a trip to do in Tau 23, we heard from a few IMG workers that there is a secret house named Galia, and a jump hole toward there from Tau 23, so I guess this is where we are going, if I wouldn't learn history of the sirus I wouldn't know what's the big deal with anther house, but this one remained secret for over 800 years!"
He cripples from pain again, and Keyla speaks instead of him "Shaimos need to rest good bye listeners".
The camera turn on again, it dark and Shaimos wishpers "Keyla is sleeping and I wanted you to know, that when we flew to here, Freeport 10, I had a bad feeling, just like I had back on planet Erie, I had that feeling that I need to go throught the omicrons and not through Kusari, I wonder what will happen next, my feelings are never wrong".
"I think I can call Freeport 10 home, I am just not sure. A home is a place where you feel comfortable and recently I have the pulse to leave this place and wander to the omicrons, that pulse is becoming stronger by each day, but more then that, I just have the pulse to leave, to go anywhere but here. Of Corse Keyla don't know it, I care about her alot, I don't know what to do, every time I see her, I want to tell her, but I can't. I CAN'T leave her here, if I go I take Keyla with me, and if she refuses to do so, I won't go!"
Shaimos goes to the sink and wash his face, then turn back to the camera. "Today we are going to a system called Orkney, and from there hopefully we will continue into Gallia to explore, if that will even be possible after all those rumors about the war over there." He grab the camera and walks with it to the kitchen, he take a big sandwich that is full with meat, and continue to talk with food in his mouth "I am pretty sure that such isolated house have explored every corner in it, since it was isolated from the rest and from the edge worlds, I just hope I will leave the Taus. I am here just for too long, I joined the Zoners in first place to explore and as far as this system is beautiful, and it is very beautiful, I want to see more, learn more, and simply do more."
Keyla enters the room with only a bathrobe on her, Shaimos flush a bit and quickly go to wash his face in the sink again pretending he is washing his teeth. Keyla pick up the camera and whispers "Me and Shaimos need some privacy" she smiles with a sad look in her eyes and the camera turns off.
The camera turns on again, you can see Shaimos, angry, "Well who needs her anyway huh?" he nods his head and continue to talk "I took a mission that will take me far away, my mission is to explore Gallia as far as possible. simply exploring, and if things will start to heat up, I will leave and go back to Tau 37, give my mission report, and be assigned to a new mission."
Part 2:
The camera turns on Shaimos appear to be near a large mine field, and on one of the monitors you can see that there is a nearby station called "Reunion", he switch a few greetings words with the flight tower guy, and enter a jump hole to a system called "Languedoc" Shaimos say only one thing "The Journey to Galia, starts, NOW!", on the other side you can see a system, which appear to be a battle zone, "I will investigate the means of all these, it could be a past battle zone".
As Shaimos approach a nearby station hail to him, giving him general information, and about that he will probably be shot on sight by the Gallic Royal Navy, and it's suggested he won't go as far as after planet Quillan, after a short routine inside the system, Shaimos decide it doesn't worth the risk, and Gallia, as far as it is interesting, too dangerous at the moment.
He turns back and suddenly, stops, "I have this feeling again, that's something is not right, and also I have a weird attraction to go to that ice field, more like, make a run for it to there." And as he speaks a group of order fighters fly in great speed toward him, "Ok, this is the last time I don't trust my feelings, he make the run for it, and somewhere in the middle of the field a group of fighters that ID themselves as part of the Maquis, tell the order's ship to turn around, as they refuse, the Maquis's open fire, the order's ships were destroyed fast, and the Maquis told Shaimos he can take a rest at their base, which he will have to remain in secret from the Gallic Royal Navy.
"Wow I am lucky those guys were here, I will never, but never, going to think about my feeling I will first follow them, and then think. And what those Order pilots want from me? I thought they are Zoners' allies, what I think now is that someone owes me an explanation!"
He dock at the Maquis base, after a short time at the bar he thank them and moves away, back to Tau 37, his home for now.
Part 3:
"Well after that mission to Gallia I have been given 2 days vacation, which I'm gonna use to explore a bit, first I would like to know Orkney better and then I will go back to Tau 37 to explore it, as I never been to the other side of the sun, and I am interested to see what is in there."
Shaimos quickly jumps to his Raven's Talon, or he call it RT, and flies away, without anything special on the way, he makes a few stop at Java station to refuel and continue to Orkney, "Well listeners, we are in Orkney, and what I am intending to do in here, is to map all the planets, all the asteroids fields and then to go back. As he go and map, he doesn't find anything special, but as he approach a asteroids field, he can see a large presence of outcasts, he turn off the video link, so there is only sound "Sorry listeners, as far as I know a lot of outcasts means that there is outcast base nearby, and I like my head in the shape it is now so I turned off the video." After he docks he turns the camera on again, well nothing too special in that station, only that I gotta move out, 'cause the air in here is mixed with cardamine, and I don't want to end up addicted to it." He refuels fast and leaves the station". The camera video link is turned off again, and only after he is near a planet, which location is near Reunion station, he turns it on again. "Well the other asteroids field is already mapped by the IMG, and I got from them the required data, so now I am going back to tau 37, first I will dock at a secret IMG base, which again, I will turn the video link off, I can't just reveal it's location."
Again he flies through Tau 23 make a stop at Java base and continue to Tau 37, after he enter the jump hole to Tau 37 he turns off the video link.
"I won't bother to open up the video link again until we get to the other side of the sun system.
You can hear Shaimos talking to the seller, which tell him about a major problem in his ship, the whole bottom is ripped away, he was lucky there was a small layer left so he still had air.
"God dammit! I wanted to use tomorrow to have some nice time in spa, and relax, but I rarther go explore then do that. DARN DARN DARN!!!!!!!"
"Eh, I guess today I will search for something, there are no rooms for rent in here, I will just sit in the bar, and wait until my ship will be repaired, won't sleep for one night or something'¦"
Shaimos turns up the video link "its ok for it to be on when I am inside the base'¦ something I thought I will do only for a short while'¦"
Shaimos goes to the other side of the bar, and orders coffee, beside him there's sitting a young beautiful girl, maybe younger in a year then Shaimos, she sees that Shaimos is depressed "What happened?" she says to him, he replies "I am wasting a day in here instead of going to explore, so tomorrow I won't have my spa day, and I won't get any sleep today, 'cause my sip is all ruined and will be fixed only by tomorrow."
She tell him that if he will let her to come with him, and leave that rock, something they must do secretly, since her father won't like the idea.
"Come, we will sleep at my room, it's mine only as I am old enough for it, by IMG laws, but not old enough to be by my own'¦"
he looks at her for a few moments, and says "How old are you?"
The answer comes quickly "16 sir", he responds as quickly as her "By Zoner laws you are grown up, and don't call me sir, call me Shaimos."
She smiles, hugs him, and says her name is Jenny. She takes him to her room, show it to him, and then go to take a bath, Shaimos turn off his camera video link, you can hear her calling him to come and take a shower, the audio link is lost too.
Part 4:
The camera turns on, you can see Shaimos and Jenny hugged in her bed, apparently the camera was turned on by accident, as Shaimos moved his hand while sleeping. He wake up about a minute after that, being shocked that the camera was on, he look for how long, and then relax, give a strange look at it and turn it off.
"Sorry for before listeners, I thought the camera was on all night, anyway as you can see me and Jenny are about to go, just waiting for the hangar doors to open."
They fly away, while the video link is off, and turned on only after they are near the sun. Shaimos turns away to the other side of the system, and you can hear that Jenny is very excited. "Jenny, you know we will never come back to here, me anyway", she stops giggling and say "why is that?", "Because your father will kill me", she laugh and say "The sad part, that what you just said is truth", Shaimos have a shocked look and say only "Eh?!", after a while without any talking, they reach the system other side, "Well here we are, hey look Jenny there is a small ice cloud in there, you know anything about it?" she reply "Nope, never been in that side, nothing to look for in here, that's what I thought anyway".
Shaimos look back, he sees that Jenny just look everywhere and not on the monitors "Jenny, you are the navigator you need to tell me if something pop-up and not look through the window all the time". "Oh sorry Shaimos, hey wait I get a very low signal from the direction of that small cloud, hard to say exactly from where". "Ok Jenny, let's move and explore!" The ship fly fast toward, as Shaimos getting excited, but it seems weird, his ship getting to a speed above the normal, 390 and rising, like there is extra force the push it toward the target, as they reach the middle of the cloud, in a matter of seconds, Shaimos turn off the engine and bring the ship to a full stop. "Well Jenny where is the direction?", Jenny who seem to be totally scared, tell Shaimos "Shaimos, Your Eyes'¦ The'¦. The'¦. Theyyy'¦changed their color, they are purple!", Shaimos quickly took a mirror but when he looked in it, his eyes where fine, brown as they were always have been, "Jenny are you trying to trick me?" Jenny replies fast "No, No, No! I swear to you, they were purple, and we were driving so fast, maybe it's because of the strong G-force'¦ Hey Shaimos, the signal is much better and the direction is'¦"
Shaimos complete her "Let me guess, behind the cloud, on the other side of it." Jenny who seems to be a bit shocked "yes, how did you know?"
His answer was "I had a feeling", as they approach the signal source they see a Zoner destroyer, fearless class, only it's armor is not made from a weird metal, much stronger then the normal one used in a "Fearless" seen, Jenny seem to be a bit shocked, but Shaimos tell her "Calm down, many of Zoner designs are a reverse engineering of other vessels, that's probably one of the original designs, like the one the Zoner found, they come near it, and go on board, most of the systems seem to be fine, only it's offline, Shaimos look at it in inspiration, jenny go to something which seems to be some short of a consol, but nothing happen when she tinkle with it, Shaimos tell her to move aside and let him try, but when Shaimos touch it the ship come back alive, only not capable of moving, the ship seem to have an advance AI, after a few minutes nothing happen only Shaimos and Jenny talk to each other in excitment the AI say to them, "Hello, Sorry for your wait, I was figuring out your language, my memory seem to be damaged, but in my programming I have a code that let me chose a name, I call my self "Andromeda" from now." Shaimos a bit shocked, say to it "Ummm, Hello Andromeda, you know anything about those who operated this vessel, or how we can get it back working, or you memory is too damaged for that?" the AI respond "My memory about my creators and all history is gone, but how to operate me, and how to power me back, is something I do know.
In order to operate me, you need to put a new power-core, there is 96.7% there is a spare power-core in my cargo hold."
Shaimos quickly go there, and the only thing he find in the cargo hold, in a secret drawer that the AI has opened for him, in it he find the needed power-core, he put it back in place." The AI indicates, that since she have no crew, and no purpose, but by her programming her goal is to explore and serve her operators, in the operation manual, it's written that there is no need in a crew bigger then 5 to use the ship in a perfect way but it can work even with 0 personal, as the AI do most of the work, with her nanobots.
When Shaimos return to Freeport 10 with Jenny, he report all what happened, and as the "Andromeda" is not a zoner ship, but a private one, he may keep it, as he asks to be stationed elsewhere, the command put him in omicrons, to help there, a new chapter in Shaimos life can now begin.
"Record is on Mr.What". you can see Shaimos in a sick look, with a deep purple eyes, "As you may see I am sick, and my eyes turned purple, so does Jenny's eyes, I have been scanned to check I am infested, whatever that means, and the result was negative, I wonder what I am, recently, I doubt that I am human, or at least normal human, and the voice in my head always tell me to leave Omicron Delta system, where I am placed to guard Freeport 11, I go often to Freeport 9 in Omicron Theta to rest there."
Jenny comes and serve some tea to Shaimos, her eyes got the same color he have, and she look like she is starting to get ill too. "Hey Shaimos, I hope this will make you feel better, you know we will have to leave, the Zoners won't do us any harm, but those Order guys, everyone they suspect to be Infested they don't give him a chance to live for too long."
Shaimos, with a bit troubled look reply "We can always make a small disappearance to low down profile, and I saw a day ago 3 more people that have purple eyes like us, we need to check if there are more." Shaimos fakes, and Jenny check him quickly, she take him to the medical room in the ship, for the Andromeda to take care of him, she continue instead of him. "Shaimos told me he thinks that's what gonna happen, and he have a feeling that this is ok, so he wanted me to continue if he stop." She grabs a coffee that a robot, controlled by the Andromeda, gives her. "Thanks you Andromeda, as you can see Shaimos and I bought 2 robots to help to move stuff and such, we scare people because of our eyes so we would rather use robots for that goal." She drinks her coffee slowly, taking all the pleasure that can be taken out of it and continues "If you know anyone like us, or you are purple eyed please contact us, the ship we are using is under the Flag "EM|Andromeda", we need more crew, a crew of 10 should do more then fine, and if there are more, we are welcome to help you to get along in this world."
After a few minutes phase, Jenny continue to talk. "There is one more thing Shaimos and I fail to understand, people in omicrons always talks about the "nomads", we have never seen any nomad, and we saw order ship commands someone to drop a few nomads, but when we did a deep cargo scan, we found nothing unusual, that's very odd if you ask me, either something is wrong with us, or people here just lose their mind. Anyway to make sure no Order ship will follow us using this signal, for the first time, we shut down the broadcast itself, making no connection between us to the neural net. Farewell for now dear listeners and viewers."
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Part 2:
You can see Shaimos, still with purple eyes, not sick and actually in a very good mood. "The order stopped referring to us as the enemies, as we are not nomad, or have any nomadic cells, but we aren't human sadly, we are just using a human form, which we obtained after calculating this form is better on a survey made about 10,000 years ago, there are no well-documented on the way we looked before, but anyway I know what I am, thanks to the Andromeda, she sent a survey drones to planet Nauru. after understanding it is very likely to be her source, my kind, Serakons created her, we were Daam K'vosh allies, part of the empire after most of our zone was conquered by anther race, which identity I don't know, well after the Slomon K'hara (more known as "nomads") found one of our vessels they activated protocol shi-zan-ro-102 which will clone us in different places, from what I understood (whispers: from the limited information the Andromeda collected), after our fall. The problem was they lost the facility which had this data, they found a drone of us, with the information on the Andromeda and a very few other ships of our fleet, when they found the Andromeda it had launched Jenny's DNA pod, and my DNA pod was in a very bad condition, I am lucky they managed to clone me, a thing which relatively easy for them with their weapons, as they wished to use us as a spies inside humanity, a thing which we will not accept, our agreements were with the Daam K'vosh, and humans came after they were gone, the Slomon K'hara should negotiate with the humans in a ways of peace, and use fighting as last resort, we will not support such actions, but if they want we are willing to be a mediator between them to the humans, to agree on some-short of a deal, anyway as we are only 5 Serakons (also referred by our ships' AI as operators) , and 1 Experimental (also known as our ships, all the rest of our fleets have been destroyed), we know that there are 2 more, one in Omicron 99/ Omicron Iota, the signal is too low to determine, and one somewhere in the omegas, all of the Serakons alive are created from a small DNA eject vessel the "Nomads" found, we were more and we will rebuild, the Daam K'vosh left to us 2 facilities, which location is unknown.
I know this is only a very few data regarding us, don't worry, I will supply you much more, this is just the essence of the story".
Alarm is being sound all over the ship, as Shaimos run to the bridge and the camera turns-off.
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