The Story of the Lost ARC

[ARC-13]

Single planet of the Omicron minor system is orbited with a large field of wrecks, while some of these flotsam and jetsam are merely the ghosts of vessels, something else drift on a orbit, something long since lost. That something is the legendary vessel - the Isis, a mighty experimental warship from the time of Orders power peak. Once a behemoth of the war machine, the Isis blazed across the stars and forged a path into the void. Now the Isis is riven by battle and weathered by years adrift, its hull plating is warped and scores countless impact craters.

FUBAR-0 and FUBAR-1 are leaving ARCs hold. One of them is heading for a hull breach near a ships bridge pierced by an ARCs guns, another is gliding to a stern for an engine and powercore sections survey. FUBARs (fetch unit breaching automated recon) are modified repair units designed for external repairs of ARCs hull, vaguely resembling AI drones, though much smaller, carrying manipulators and short range energy projectors. The main modification is a vast raise of processing power, provided by a complete change of central processor and adding cognitive circuits, thus granting to the unit a limited ability to take own decision within its search and retrieve mission. Generally repair units are controlled directly by ARC, but it’s very likely that warships hull will cut off any signals.

Survey results are deplorable. If the exterior of the Isis is a scarred and warped nightmare, then the interior is even worse. The tight confines of a warship turned into a twisted and broken maze of dark tunnels and caves. The interior of the Isis is extremely unnerving, with lightless corridors full of debris, some of them damp and mould with pockets of stale air. What was once the grand bridge of a glorious vessel is now a dusty crypt. Computers and data banks purged from any traces of information. Storage holds cleaned out. Everything of value is taken away. Powercore blast has destroyed engines, roaring flame rolled through decks reducing to ashes everything on its ways, leaving nothing to recover.

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The Story of the Lost ARC