Rogue Huntress

[Tenacity]

<... Location: Uncharted System, 0712 Hours ...>

Commander Mathews groaned in pain as he came to, the bridge of the Bastet was fuzzy at first, but slowly came into view. He picked himself up off the floor, the grate markings sticking to his face from the hours spent unconcious. His entire body was wracked with pain, and despite having a fairly clear view of his surroundings, everything felt like it was spinning.

Moments later, the other bridge crew began to shrug off the effects of the stun weapon that had been used against them. Mathews climbed into his XO chair and began to take count of the other crew on the bridge. Everyone was here... except Aki. He fumbled with the console controls on his chair, bringing up the ship's internal scanners; there was no sign of Aki on the ship, but all other crew were accounted for.

Lieutenant Morris looked towards him, "Commander, where is Admiral Kimura?"

Mathews slammed a fist down on the console, "I dont know, she's not on the ship. Check scanner records and see if we have any idea who was flying that ship that hit us."

"None, sir, it wasnt any recognized human, nomad, or phantom design."

The Commander sighed, "Where are we? Anything on the stellar charts?"

The Lieutenant shook her head, "No sir, we're not far from where the attack occured, it seems we've drifted out of the Dark Matter cloud, but we're still in uncharted space, no stellar objects detected."

"Do we have any good news, Lieutenant?"

She turned to her console, "Pulling up a damage report now, Commander..." she paused for a moment before turning back, "All of the K'vosh technology we had onboard is gone, the jump drive has disappeared, only thing left behind is the power cables. Cloaking device is missing, the K'vosh sensor array is absent, all the weapon capacitors are gone... everything that wasnt put on this ship by the Order has vanished."

Mathews grumbled under his breath, "Who the hell could have done this... how long were we out Lieutenant?"

"Records show that it's been roughly seven hours since the attack, we've drifted about twenty kilometers in that time."

Mathews stood and started to head for his quarters to file a report, before exiting the bridge he looked back to Morris, "Lieutenant, you have the bridge. Set a course for Omicron Minor... we're going home."

She nodded hesitantly, "Without the jump drive it will take several days to make it back to that side of sirius..."

"Just do it."

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