Shark Tales

[Jamez]

Shark Tales

James Rennie is..was, a respected officer of the Liberty Security Force, operating as one of the few gunboat captains of the organisation.
He captains the LNS SkyShark, which has completed its twenty-fourth term of service this year.
He joined the LSF after he was approached with a work contract, after aiding the LSF in a fierce peacekeeping battle in the Texas system.
A short period later, he was fully enrolled as an agent.

For a time, it was good.

Captain Rennie had heard a great deal about the Dom-Kavashi guardian aliens we know as 'Nomads'.
He had encountered the species on a few seperate occasions, to no horriffic avail, and wasn't particularly disturbed by them.
In fact, he had partaken on some Nomad-hunting missions, to obtain valuble equipment from their fighters' 'corpses'.

Recently, one such encounter with a lone Nomad was by means of telecommunication no less, and in a bid to find out more about the aliens,
he decided to act passive towards it, astonishingly, it also remained passive.


'He is a madman!' I hear you cry. Don't talk about me like that.


To make sure the alien wasnt vaporised on sight near Zone 21, I broadcasted that it was part of an LSF assignment. It was the first thing that I could think of.
But an LPi officer was relucant to leave, as Nomads are considered so extremely dangerous, he disobeyed my request and harrassed the creature.

When I heard a cry, muffled by static, and noticed a ship had disappeared from my scopes, I knew I was screwed.

All attempts of further communications with the alien craft failed. From then on, I knew I couldn't stay in Liberty.
I predicted that the military forces would not understand the situation, ad would only see a killer waiting to be killed.
Well I didn't feel like being blown up. So I took the obvious escape route - the jumpgate to Alaska.

For such a Nomad-infested system, there were extremely few of them as I passed through. This made me feel even more alone as I thought desperately, for a plan
of action, to prevent being caught and killed. I saught refuge in Omicron Minor. The Liberty forces wouldn't follow me that far.
A recon fighter proved me wrong, although.

I didn't have any map data for the Omicron Minor system and thus the recon unit basically had me trapped. Apart from the jumpgate I had on scanners.
All the way out here, I wondered. Until I saw it with my own eyes.

It was massive. Larger than any space station, battleship or other jumpgate I had seen before, I was awed by it. A white flash of light erupted from its
centre as I flew closer. It was active, and the energies it was emmiting were almost identical to that of a jumphole, and similar to a jumpate.

I had a choice. Death, or an interesting experience, and then death. I chose the latter. The recon fighter knew better than to sit infront of the SkyShark's
Forward gun, and stayed silent, probably in sheer confusion, at me flying into the strange object.

I was pulled into its centre and, to some satisfaction, into the familiar looking wormhole one sees when entering a jump/warpgate. I was shot out of an identical
structure at the other 'end' of the wormhole to find myself looking at the most odd system I had seen. It was mainly grey, with a bright orange planet relatively close by,
which looked completely out of place. I also notice that the system /i had a floor. It was completely surreal. But I didn't pay too much attenton to it, as there were no
hostile contacts on my scope and the recon fighter had the sense to leave me in here.

I was safe for now..

// typed this up a while back, and i thought i'd realease it for people's enjoyment, and also to fill people in on what happenned to LSF SkyShark. Enjoy!

Feedback appreciated; story is private-only.

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