The Borei

[Leo]

Day 3

My day back in the field wasn't as glorious as one would have imagined. Three rigs went down within a span of 10 minutes because of asteroid storms in the area. Each one I had to manually enter and fix damaged hull plating, and wires while in a suit. I hate spacewalking, definitely in an asteroid field. Though, after eight hours in a suit, you come back much more appreciative of being inside a ship.

The day was going smoothly until one of the rigs abruptly stopped mining.

"Oh you have got to be fracking kidding me." I said picking up the handheld computer to see what the problem was.

Code:

Ship detected. Unknown orgins. Pause mining, scan ship to verify hostility.

"Ship detected? I don't see any ship on the scanners..." I said looking over to the radar. Then, there, long distance was a small blip, and it was moving, fast. "Drone #73, disengage mining clamps, activate weapons systems and target ship on intercept course, destroy if it attacks."

The drone did as told and disengaged from the rock it was mining and spun its weapons to target the small craft. In a huge green explosion, the mining platform spun upside down and a piece of its engine broke off, spewing Mox fuel into space, freezing as soon as it left the fuel cell. The attacker was a small needle looking cobalt colored ship. It paused for a moment, looked at the command station, and fired.

The entire deck rocked as I fell to the floor.

"DRONE 73! ENGAGE TARGET!" I screamed.

The busted drone that was still spinning derelict began firing at the small ship. It quickly darted off, flying at impossible speeds away from the firing drone. However, just as it did, a huge green light flashed past the window of the command deck and hit the drone square in the center. The light that illuminated before it exploded was so bright, that I had to close and cover my eyes.

As the light then exploded, the entire command ship moved violently in space and slammed into a rock just above us, sending sparks everywhere and causing the alarms to shout warnings about hull and shield integrity. As I stood up, there was nothing left but a void field where the explosion had literally VAPORIZED the ship and rocks that were around it in the field. The small ship was nowhere on radar...

"What the hell was that thing?!"

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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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