Nickels and Nails

[Leo]

Without notice, the box with the artifact exploded open and the artifact floated out, hovering just behind my seat. The sudden movement brought me out of whatever it was that was happening to me. I pulled back on the throttle but the ships tractor locked on to my ship and began pulling it despite the full reverse of my engines.

"Jess! Damnit! Jessie! Reverse full engines!!" I screamed over the comms. He must have heard me because he too reverse engines. I got my first real look of the cruiser as he backed up enough to get a full view. The entire aft end of the ship was completely taken over by what looked like a Nomad.

This is the LNS Tundra to Freelancer vessels. Please cease engine control of your vessels and prepare to be towed into dock.

The sound of the voice almost put me back into a daze but I faught it and continued to hold the engines in full reverse, slowly I was pulling away from the monstrosity. The ships weapons systems were powering up according to the ships scanners but I continued to hold the thruster in full reverse.

"What the bloody hell happened?!" I heard Jess say over comms.

"F***ing Nomad bastards are trying to take us over. Keep your engines in full reverse, divert all spare power to your forward shields, the cruiser is powering weapons. We're getting away from it's tractor beam. Just hold it down."

The cruiser launched its first volley of ammo at us and damn near killed our shields completely. Just as it fired however, we both broke free of the tractor beam and launched to cruise almost instantly. As we did so, the cruiser fired up it's cruise engines, the eerie blue smoke eminating from it's now Nomad infrastructure.

"Bloody hell, not even five minutes into Nomad space and we're already being chased..." I said to myself.

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You fear oblivion. Yet you forget. The universe remembers every atom of your being. Even dust hums your name in the dark.

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