The Tale of the Tyche

[Leo]

The woman rocked back and forth, huddled in the corner. "Don't let them get me." she kept saying over and over again as the doctors looked onwards with sadness. She had been through far too much. After her ship mysteriously went missing and re-appeared in Coronado a few months later short of a crew, the council wanted answers. However, the ship was stolen and sold by a mercenary group in the system and the commander of the vessel, Julianne Gabriel, was in no shape to answer any questions of the sort.

The vessel's cruiser, the TZS-Arrow was also missing, but was recovered on the far end of Sirius, near Omega-5, nearly 15 lightyears away from the Tyche. Along with all the gunboats on board AND the crew of the ship. This baffled everyone, as the only sole survivor of the ship was the commander, who had been driven insane by whatever horrors they had seen or what had been done to them...it was apparent, however, that whatever it was, drove their commander to the brink of hell and back.

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The Tyche was a mighty fine ship. It was equipped with the very first "subspace" drive, capable of traveling greater distances than simple FTL drives with ease. Also, it took less time to charge, and even less time to cool down, enabling the ship to make quick jumps to different systems with the help of subspace. The drive was experimental, however, and the crew and it's commander were let known the possibility of the drive failing somewhere and leaving them stranded in space somewhere for a very long time.

Julianne Gabriel wasn't one to take assignments such as this one, however she knew she had to get out of Sirius space. Her parents were nagging her to come visit and she was in no mood to deal with her father's preaching and her mothers nagging. That was when she decided to take this assignment. Commanding a Jinkusu, reminded her of the Audacity.

The Tyche was like any other Jinkusu, except for, of course, the experimental drive that took up most of the space underneath the ship. It wasn't like any other design of Jinkusu either, it was completely re-designed, this one with only two hydroponics bays each larger than the old ones. The armor of the ship was increased along with retractable defenses to shield the living bays if needed, and able to be retracted to power solar panels and allow the windows to be opened into space for the effect.

Julia was impressed at the quality of the ship, and even more impressed at the fact that the ship was docked so far out of the way in Omicron-74 to go to the expense of parking it inside a minefield.

"Commander Gabriel. Good to see you've made it." said the deckhand. "We have your quarters already setup along with all your belongings comfortably seated in the netting until we get underway."

"Thank you." Julia replied slowly to him as he walked away. Efficient bunch weren't they? Good. She didn't want any slackers on her watch.

She climbed the stairs up to the bridge and as she did so marveled at the redesigned bridge. It was enlarged further than the last one and completely redone. Much more sleek. The crew noticed her presence and nodded as she passed their command consoles. She smiled weakly and nodded in return, reaching the command chair.

"Are we ready?" she said.

"Yes Commander, we are ready to jump when you are"

"Very well then, notify the rest of the crew, Gabby and activate the drive and prepare to jump to subspace."

"Yes ma'am." Gabby made the preparations across the intercom and waited for the lights to all register green. "We're ready ma'am."

"Good. Power the drive and jump."

Within minutes, the space around the bridge warped and spun out of control, until it eventually vanished...

...and so began the five years of hell...

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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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