New Beginnings

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[color=#FFCC33]Chapter 1

"It was on that day the world ended. Planet Earth and the planets around
it all destroyed. Mars,Mercury, Saturn, and Uranus Sector. All destroyed.
The coalition that though they claimed victory suddenly attacking things
they've never seen before, just minutes before it was all destroyed.
With the alliance long gone. Our one ship was the only thing we
had against those things."

A man told the story of what we did so long ago. We were just drinking
and chatting in the main lounge area of the ship. The only view
outside was rocks. Nothing but rocks. The man was talking about
how we chased down the purple things that attacked our home, Planet
Earth. I don't know why we've been told this story so much. It was
so long ago. Yet it seems like it was only last month. The ship itself
has sustained our lives for this long and all we've been doing is
chasing something, we don't know how far it is. All we know is that
the beacon we placed on it is still active and ever so often that
beacon moved to another location.

I sat at the officers table looking at the reports from that
encounter. That's all I do, every day. Reading the reports
of a massive object never seen before by our eyes. Launching
a beam directly at the sun. Blowing it up and causing an explosion
so massive the only choice the leader of the ship had was to
do an emergency jump to beat the blast. I looked at the pictures
of that ship. The only evidence that the story the old man was talking
about exist. Funny how I call him an old man when I'm only ten
years younger. I also found it funny that we just so happen to
built this ship just for the same reason that the purple thing had.
To destroy life.

Our ship. The crew gave her a nickname even though none of her
weapons were ever tested. Her name "The Reaper of Dreams."
The name held because most the crews dreams to see land ever
were slim to none. Taking that dream the ship took many others.
If what the ships stats state. This ship should be able to
blow up any object from long distance in a single shot. So far
we haven't tested that ability. After reading I decided to listen
a bit more to the story the old man was saying.

"She's a beauty aint she (He was referring to the ship) took us
almost 10 years to make but she's finally come to life. Keeping
us alive is what she was made for."

As he continued to ramble on about the ship. I thought to myself
how we were technologically superior compared to the alliance.
Yet we acted nothing like the Coalition. We chose to title our
selves as independent after a year of this chase.

The ship has a lower section dedicated to hydroponics,
which was what the man was talking about.
As I continued to listen my video-phone went off.

"Sir you might want to come look at this."

That one sentence echoed throughout the entire lounge.
Which sent a slight shiver down my spine as everyone, including
the old man, stopped talking.

I stood up and started to walk out of the lounge, toward the bridge
of the ship. The bridge is basically the command center just shortened
down to one word, made life easier for me I guess.
As I walked toward the exit of the lounge everyone in the room stared
at me all the way to the exit. They knew something was up.

After walking down the long corridor. Away from everyone I arrived at
the bridge. Everyone in the room stood up and saluted me. As I
nodded they all went back to work. My second in command, Admiral
Jessica Hinton came up to me.

She handed me a infocard with lots of data on it.
"We found it sir." She said with a small grin.

The infocard showed a large purple object. Just like the image in
the reports sitting next to a rather large planet. Which was shielded
from what we can tell. Around the planet there was a bunch of smaller
purple objects just flying all over the place. From what we could tell
we weren't detected.



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