In search of a Goddess

[MotokoSusu]

In search of a Goddess

Lets us start with a introduction of myself. I am Motoko Susubo once a pilot of the Kusari Armed Forces of which I was a Major. Everyday I was tasked with the protection of transport ship entering and leaving Liberty space. That was until one day I had a misunderstanding with the Liberty Navy and caused the loss of not only a Kusari State ship but as well as face with the Armed Forces.

Unable to return to the Armed Forces I was left with few options. I returned home to my family on New Tokyo. My father was not so welcoming seeing I not only lost face, but had disgraced the family name of House Susubo as well. Father was a excellent pilot and had served in the Armed Forces until he had retired some year later and had pulled some strings to facilitate my entrance in the Armed Forces. Over the years I had moved through the ranks through hard work. But that day with the loss of the ship all I had worked for was lost.

I had decided to inform father and mother that I would be leaving Kusari space to find a new beginning that my history would not follow me. Taking all that I saved I was able to purchase a older Bishamon. With not much direction I started taking odd jobs, escorting, transporting sensitive items and the occasional engagement of unlawful mobs. This soon had become a path I did not want to tread for my real passion was SCIENCE!!! While in the academy I excelled in all matters of science from xenobiology to quantum spacial theory. That settled it I was to apply my energies to science.

After a few month I was sitting at a freeport for resupply and a well deserved rest. I had over heard some Zoners talking over drinks about a lost Colony ship that had disappeared or was never heard from again. This conversation had peaked my interest. This missing ship seemed to be the subject of wild tells told by deep space haulers and pilots alike over the course of my stay. So I sat and listened closely to all that they had to say while jotting down notes. This would be a prize of epic proportion to find such a ship. I had some leads to go on and the general course the ship had took to uncharted space. But I was not going to let such a minor details keep me from setting out on a hunt of a life time.


With the first month of searching underway I manage to stop at every station that would be in the course direction of the missing ship. Some station managers remember this passing through, one manager said you don't forget a ship of that size passing anything seeing it cast such a shadow that blocks out the sun. At that point I was not sure if he was drunk or not, I have never seen a ship large enough to cast shadow over a whole station, I had seen Battleships and Cruisers galore and thou they are large in size they never blocked out the sun. How big is this thing any way. At this point I was going to tuck that information under crazy person and continue on with my travels.

Into the second month of searching everything is running smoothly with the Bishamon I will say the GMG know how to build a reliable ship. At some point I am hoping these Order scanners will do the trick in hunting down the finial resting spot of this missing ship. All I know it could be wreckage scattered over thousands of kilometers. But I have come this far might as well continue. After a few days in to the second month I have come up on the start of the uncharted region which all the evidence points to. Looking out the flight deck windows there is no gates, no lanes, no faint glow of a freeport just black empty space with a spattering of suns which I hope have planets orbiting them. So from the point on it well be the hum of the cruise engines carrying me deeper into this uncharted area.



After a month of travel 1 have come up on a system that has three planets orbiting it the second planet seems to be one that is a good candidate to search of any sign of this ship seeing it the only one that has a atmosphere. I am hoping that if this ship was a colony vessel it would be looking for a habitable planet to settle.



The scans show nothing but desert and a small subtropical region with oxygen at acceptable levels but no sign of any surface metals of sufficient quantity that would be used in the construction of a vessel. I catalog surface readings, atmospheric data and physical data of the planet that might prove helpful later. After some disappointment not finding any evidence and knowing full well it was not going to be that easy I set course to the next sun and calculate taking 27 days to reach at full cruise.

Days are starting to run together not much to do while waiting to approach the next system just sitting and watching the sun get a little bigger each day. Finally I have reached the second sun with seven planets in it orbit of which 2 have atmospheres this might be my lucky system. Planet four and five are twins. Planet four is mostly cover in water with a few islands scattered about the surface and the atmosphere is breathable. When scanning for a sufficient quantity of surface metal, scans showed negative results.





The planet would make a nice resort planet with all the islands, I may want to think of landing on it and take a rest and get some fresh air. The oxygen generators could refill the ships supply seeing it is at one third capacity and I really do not want to run out, that would make for a short return trip. After a well needed escape from the riggers if space travel I continue with my search. On to planet five. Planet five is a 180 degree difference of planet four. Covered in mountainous regions with trees and plants, with average size bodies of water and a colder climate not a planet I would choose to plant a colony on. Conducting surface scans on the planet where difficult at best, the mountains and so much metal interference that this search was going to call for old fashion grid cartography,like was once done for old GPS travel mapping systems from hundreds of years ago.

Day 3 of mapping:Surface scans nothing much to report other one sixth of the surface is mapped and this planet so far is a mining bonanza all manner of metal is contained in these mountains. The shear cost of travel would not make for much of a profitable trade route.

Day 7 of mapping: A thunderstorm has forced me to suspend mapping and scans and also forced me to land the ship in a clearing. The lighting is causing my scanners to reset and had a few overloads that have trip breakers. So I am going to stay grounded till the storm passes before attempting any more work.

Day 8 of mapping: The storm had passed something during the night while I was asleep. The morning here seemed pleasant the temp was minus three degree Celsius and the sun did not afford much radiant heat. I decided to take a walk around the ship to inspect it for any hull breach from the lighting strikes. The view was breath taking a wide valley with snow capped mountains to each side of it. I continue with the inspection and keep having in the corner of my eye a refection of light which was really annoying me at this point. I keep looking on the haul and there is nothing that would reflect light back. At this point I sum it up to sun coming through the trees that surround the clearing that I landed the ship in. The sun starts to crest over the trees behind me and that is when the source of the reflection was known. It was defiantly large but the snow on the mountain was making it to bright to get a clear look. At this point I decide to wait till the sun has climbed higher in the sky so as to get a better look across the valley.
After a few hours of waiting. There was something on the side of that mountain,what is was I am not sure of. I run back to the ship to grab a digital imaging device and see if it can make out what it was sitting there. Everything is running through my head at this point did I find it or not. I take a image of it and run back to the ship to run it through the image scanners.



OH MY. I stand speechless. I could be holding the image of a long lost ship in my hands. Why is it here ? Why did it land there of all places? Was it forced down? Thousands of questions ran through my head. But I know I had to get up there and see this sun blocking beast for myself. I close up the ship and make way to the site where this ship rests. After a two day hike and the ship getting ever bigger I was finally face to face with her and it was huge it made a House capital ship look like a gunboat. She was buried half way in snow with a few trees growing around it. But from all account it seem intact. She looked to have been here for a hundred years and I was thinking this ship had become lost only a few years ago.

With my nervous state of mind not knowing what I would find I search for a hatch or portal to enter the ship it took a hour just to walk to the bow of her where there was a hanger deck which was left wide open. It had seemed that all the ship that where docked in the hanger had been hastily removed . Strewn across the hanger deck where personal items and medical equipment and all manner of tools. This was starting to answer the why. Looking over to what seem to be the small airlock to the main ship there was a plaque that read “Zoners Mobile Colony Ship 0010” that seemed a sanitized and generic name. Reaching into my pocket I pull out a marker and place under the name “Goddess Shizuha”. I have found my new Home.

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