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PEACE STATION


ENEMY UNSEEN






It was in the middle of the Gigerdian year 3360. The Gigerdian’s had triumphed in the short war with the Bacterians, and almost become the enemy themselves under the corrupted president Rubek, and the civil war fought just a few months ago. As the old Prophecy had told, the ancient ones would one day return and drown the old galaxy into blood and war. This prophecy had not been a Gigerdian one, no it was not. The prophecy had been from the ally of the Gigerdians, known as the T-race. The prophecy had told that the ancient ones would return, and take their place once more in this galaxy. Of course, the Gigerdians had not believed that. They thought it to be stupid “Religious” nonsense and laughed to the men who said so. When the Lightness had truly appeared a few moths ago, destroying the colonised Vega system, the gigerdians knew that it wasn’t just a prophecy. The Lightness forces begun a massive invasion of the Milky way galaxy, every single race had to choose sides. None of the races joined the Mysterious race known only as the “Lightness”, but decided to defend them selves with any means necessary. The war with the mysterious beings known as the “Lightness” had been going on for only a couple of months, but the Gigerdians still had not made any progress toward Victory. Unlike the Lightness. So far, the war had only raged in the outer sectors. But increased reports of “Lightness” scout fleets moving into the Beta and Alpha quadrants were then confirmed. The GA intelligence division had suggested that they might have some kind of a dimensional gate in to come trough from. Almost every engagement with the Lightness had been lost; The Gigerdians were only a second-generation first one race. And the Lightness and first generation first one race, so the technology level was very high on the Lightness side.


Chapter I

GAS ATREUS


PATROLLING THE SALAYNA SYSTEM


THE SALAYNA SYSTEM, ALPHA QUADRANT


Captain Machs had again received a dull assignment. The Older Syphoon class Light carrier, the Atreus had been ordered to a standard three-point patrol over the Salayna system. The Atreus’s design was at least a decade old, but the GA fleet command still kept these Carriers in active service. Machs had been in command of this particular Carrier for two years and wasn’t going to let this ship slip away from him. The 73 fighters in the Light carrier’s flight group were a mix of New and old, but they never let him down. Machs had heard about the Lightness forces invading the Outer sectors, but mostly the fact was that the Inner systems had only rumours and stories to rely on. Machs’s second in command, commander Valant had several stories to tell about the past engagements with the different foe’s, but this time he had no stories to tell about this Enemy.


He and the other Officers often talked about the past engagements and conflicts, but this war had completely shot him off guard. As the Crew became worried about their relatives in the outer sectors, Machs knew that the Alliance would try to defend itself from anything like this. Before, The Atreus had been assigned to the 78th Battle group the “Death’s hand”, but the two accompanying Prime-class Destroyers had been moved to other duties, there was talk about other ships coming to be attached to the 78th Battle group. Mach’s ready room was quite crude, just a few chairs, his table, and the Ships logo in the back wall, nothing fancy like in an Mk3 heavy cruiser or a Omega Class destroyer. Machs usually sat around his Ready room, or “Office” as he called it to remember the wild past he and his ship had. Suddenly Machs comm. Badge beeped, and he answered to it with a slight: “ Yes?”


“ Sir, we just received orders from sector command, you should come and see” the voice was his communication officer, Walres’s. “ Very well then, I’ll be coming” Machs said leaving his ready room and walking to the Turbo lift. He appeared to the bridge a moment later; the bridge had an upper gantry from which he walked to the lower area where his second in command was waiting.



“ What’s the problem now, Valant ?” Mach asked while the communications officer broadcasted the simple message they had received. “ Looks like we are having our first real job in months, sir” Valant replied and nodded for the comm. Officer to proceed. The Message was quite clear:



TO: GAS ATREUS FROM: GA FLEET COMMAND CLEARENCE CODE: 776322 SUBJECT: REPORT TO 25


Captain Machs and officer staff, The Fleet command believes that the unknown enemy attacking our borders have begun an advance against the GA forces situated in Alpha and Beta quadrants. The Recent attack on the Human/Gigerdian Vega colony had gotten us all worried. As the GA is in the process of calling 75 percent of all Delta quadrant forces to the defence of Alpha quadrant, we need you to report to Star base 25 for a closer briefing of the situation going on. Good luck on getting there in one piece.

Vice admiral Cados


Machs could not believe it was true, he could be finally called to action after so long of waiting. But he took it with a clear militaristic coolness and endeavour. The whole process was quick, But Machs ordered the Atreus to the Star base for a closer briefing. He also ordered all of the Fighter wings for immediate alert and send an squadron of fighters to escort the carrier while in Hyperspace, the rest of the staff were ordered to sharpen their skills while waiting. As the Atreus was moving to the Star base, the officer staff was exchanging rumours of their own in the Living quarters. The Command Staff was in the Conference room discussing the recent advance from the Lightness.


“ I knew that we should have not angered them, always believing that we can take them!” Yelled the ships Doctor, Vernaul. “ Well, I don’t think so. This is clearly an invasion from their side, it’s got nothing to do with our involvement” said the ships chief engineer, Welles. “ Gentlemen, clearly the fact is that the small border war has now enlarged into an full scale invasion” Commander Valant implied, Machs had been closely watching the young commander under pressure, and it seemed that perhaps he would be able to have a ship of own to command. “ Yeah, I’ve heard that they are having ships that can devour our vessels with their huge Maws!” this comment came from the Wing commander of the Atreus , Mr. Sax Vergos. “ Sure, and next you are telling me that they can curse you if you touch them” Vernaul replied which could a small grunt from everyone other in the room. “ Well, in any case we must stop this invasion before they can get to the home world” Machs emptied the conversation with his sane words. “ Sir, we are approaching the Star base” came from the old comm. Link equipment that the ship still used scrammed open. “ All right, we’ll be coming to the bridge” Machs replied. “ Well gentlemen, today all of your expectations will be rewarded”


GAS ATREUS

APPROACHING STARBASE 25


LINK SYSTEM, ALPHA QUADRANT


As the Atreus moved closer to the Star base Machs spotted a pair of Prime class Destroyers sitting beside another Similar light carrier as the Atreus. Maybe Machs would have thought of looking to the mirror but he wasn’t, and the best thing was that those were not the same Prime class destroyers that he have had in his battle group a couple of months ago. He also spotted an Hyperion Class light cruiser being resupplied by a pair of light transports. Several squadrons of fighters were hovering around the station; He knew that Vice admiral Cados would soon be contacting him. The group of gentlemen waiting in the top gantry of the bridge were anxious to hear it. And finally the message came in:

“ Good that you’re here, as you may know we have detected a large group of lightness vessels moving to the Link system, and the Argentus Sector. We need you and the Carrier group Atlantis to form a first wave of defence over this sector, only as long as the bigger boys can move in” Admiral Cados explained, some of the Crew were happy to hear that finally they would be able to get some friends from the same ships as their battle group was. “ I see, but I would be interested to hear about the status of the Gordon Liddy, and the Freelancer?” Machs was referring to the pair of Prime class destroyer, which had accompanied them a few months ago. “ Well, I’ll see what I can do while you merge, but you have a new pair of escorts already so I don’t see a need for it” the Admiral explained. “ So, what are my mission objectives?” Asked Machs. “ Well, you are cleared to fire on those lightness vessels as you encounter them, after all they have done it to us in the outer sectors” The admiral responded, “ Very well, I’ll get the other commanders online” Machs responded. He knew that the mission would now be to destroy the invaders, but not with this kind of a fleet. After the whole battle group was resupplied and rearmed, the battle group departed for the system where they thought that they would make their first encounter.


GAS ATREUS

CLOSING TO FORESTAHL ASTEROID BELT

FORESHTAL SYSTEM, ALPHA QUADRANT


Machs was now in command of five ships, the Light carrier Trieste, Two Prime class destroyers The Barnaul, and the Heroic. Along with his own ship and the Hyperion Light cruiser, The Themis. They had orders to investigate weather or not the Lightness forces had found a way into the Alpha quadrant. They had orders to find out about a science station In Forestahl system, was it still standing or not. All communication with it had been cut off, and Fleet command thought that something was wrong. But still, Machs could not figure out why the hell would they need two full carrier groups for the job. The Alliance pretty much knew that there were forces moving right up their backyard, but they needed some one to confirm it.


“ Sir, approaching the last whereabouts of the station” The Tactical officer nodded, Machs turned around and looked to the sensor scan window. The Station was gone, no debris or anything. No bodies, no fighters cut in parts, nobody. Machs was sure that the other captains in the fleet thought the same, this location housed an full research station a week ago. Suddenly the Tactical officer yelled “ Sir! , we are getting tremendous radar interference. It’s not an anomaly, somebody is doing it” , That comment got Mach worried. “ Who the hell would be doing something like that, not the pirates, nor the Daglians” Mach begun to worry. “ Sir, shall we inform the fleet command, surely we should be getting the hell away from here” asked Valant. “ No, we’ll stay and investigate” Machs replied. “ Order the launch bays to fire a group of fighters, order the Trieste to do the same” The Comm. Officer nodded.


Moments later six fighters from both carriers formed to a bigger group and proceeded to the bigger asteroid where the station had been attached. The Themis was ordered to provide covering fire in case they might find trouble. As the fighter groups closed to the asteroid, The Tactical officer aboard the Atreus got an odd signal, “ Sir, they radar interference seems to be coming from the other side of that asteroid, it is in fact where we are detecting several silhouettes of unknown origin” The Tactical officer implied, Machs looked suspicious. “ All right, order the fighters to close in on the asteroid from both sides” Machs ordered while walking to the Communications officer.

“ Tell them to bring weapons hot, and target anything that moves in that area” Machs ordered.




GD- 56 “ GIGERDI FIGHTER 2B REFIT A”

CLOSING TO THE ASTEROID

FORESHTAL SYSTEM, ALPHA QUADRANT


Lieutenant Verrier looked to the asteroid closing around him, it was huge but he still could see his Wingmen flying to cover him. The asteroid’s solid rock looked like it would have been staying there forever, but no.

“ All right Boys and girls, let’s put those weapons on stand by” Verrier said with his deep voice to the comm. He received acknowledgements from all in his squadron, “Good, “he thought. “ Gamma six, head in to scout with Alpha three” Verrier replied as the second fighter in his Six moved to scout along with the Alpha squadron’s Third pilot. “ Rest of you bad boys heat those missiles, Fox seven!”, Knight three!” He yelled to the Comm. And a moment later received the meaningful cheers of all the others in his flight wing. As the two fighters moved to the other side of the asteroid the fleet was standing by.


As the Scouting fighters reached their position, The Tactical officer reported that the Jamming was suddenly gone, but something else appeared to the sensors. Seven small, Pale, white ships, with odd tentacles sticking out of them appeared from a huge rift that nuked the whole Alpha squadron, it was situated just around the asteroid. As the Smaller Ships appeared, something bigger was already sticking it’s ugly head from another inter dimensional gate. The smaller vessels opened fire, firing odd plasma and pure antimatter blasts to the Themis, which was the closest capital ship. The Themis’s shields couldn’t take the simultaneous hits, but exploded with swift justice killing at least 55 crewmembers out of 250. The Themis’s small plasma Pulse turrets attempted to fire a couple of shots which the Lightness vessels easily absorbed.

As most of the Delta squadron members were to horrified to make heads or tails of it, most of them were crushed to bits when the Lightness Dreadnought sticked it’s hull from the Dimensional gate. As the handful of fighters from the Kyzyko’s and the Atreus’s fighter wings escaped or fired their missiles to the huge dreadnought, the smaller ships were launching odd white, small drone fighters of their own. As the Lightness Dreadnought came out of the dimensional Rift, Captain Machs had ordered the remaining fighters to launch.


GAS ATREUS

LAUNCHING FIGHTERS

FORESHTAL SYSTEM, ALPHA QUADRANT


“ Devil squadron, Launch!” Yelled Machs to the Comm. As the Second fighter wing of the Atreus was launched, the Lightness Drones moved closer to the Destroyer, Freelancer. “ Intercept those Drones!” Yelled Machs while the Kyzyko begun to Lay covering fire to the defending fighters. The Decades old pulse laser turrets begun fire on the Lightness drones, killing two. As the Battle unfolded, Machs relayed orders to Gunnery control, to fire on the two nearest Lightness Destroyers. “ Target all weapons to the Lightness Destroyer in coordinates 77,4!” Ordered Machs. “ Sir, shall we be getting the Hell out of here ?” asked the Helmsman in panic. “ No, we are here to do our job, and we will accomplish it!” replied Machs, It was now when the Freelancer was hit with Seven simultaneous Antimatter beam blasts from the Dreadnought. “ My gods, that thing almost destroyed the Freelancer!” yelled Commander Valant, Mach nodded in terror. “ This is the Destroyer Freelancer! , We are in need of assistance! All GA fleets please assist!” The Distress call was quick and had a high beep in the end. The crew looked in horror as another Beam was hit to the Freelancer cutting it to two pieces, After the ship was parted, the Lightness fighters took care of the few shuttles leaving the destroyed Hulk. The Devil squadron had scored a few hits to the enemy fighters but lost already four pilots. It looked Clear that the Lightness drone fighters supported by the Destroyers would try and cripple the Kyzyko which had so vigilantly defended itself from the attack. “ Target our weapons to those drones, don’t let no one trough!” Machs commanded. The destroyer Barnaul, had been tangling with a Lightness Destroyer for a while but was little match to it. Machs wanted to remain in the battle for as long as possible, maybe he thought that he might force the Lightness to retreat in return.


“ Captain, one of those Destroyer’s is targeting weapons on us!” The Tactical officer yelled when an sound of huge explosion waved trough the Atreus’s Hull and Shields. “ Sir, Shields just dropped to 60 !” The Tactical officer shouted, Machs rose from the floor. “ Return fire!”

Eleven turreted Beam lasers, begun to fire their bright red beams to the nearest Lightness destroyer, although old, these weapons surely were effective when it was supposed to intercept incoming fire. The old Lasers did nothing to the Lightness Destroyer’s shields. As the Devil Squadron was finally destroyed, the last two squadrons from the Atreus were launched, this time the squadrons heavily consisted of Spider Class Bombers, and Hercules class Support fighters. The Fighter squadrons were backed by the Kyzyko’s remaining fighter groups, now consisting of about twenty- five fighters. The Attack against the Lightness Destroyer proceeded well at start, the lighter fighters harassing the gun turrets while the Bombers would begin their attack run. The Black Spider class Bombers swooped near the Destroyers white Hull, the Hull was Clearly Organic. As the Lighter fighters engaged the main weapons of the Destroyer, the Bombers armed their Fusion bombs. The other Lightness destroyers along with the Dreadnought harmlessly fired odd projectiles of antimatter and Plasma to the GA destroyer Barnaul, destroying it completely. Now there were only three craft left, The heavily damaged Kyzyko, The Lightly damaged Atreus , and the Still standing Hyperion-class, The Themis. The Lightness ships thought that the Themis was dead, they didn’t know that it had lost it’s bridge but the Auxiliary bridge was still functioning. Captain Machs efforts were not in vain, as the Lightness were about to witness…….. The Bombers released their Fusion bombs to the Suspected bridge of the Lightness Destroyer, and destroyed it with a quick strafing run. As the destroyer begun to explode, the rest of the Lightness vessels opened fire on the Kyzyko. As the Kyzyko’s shields fell, Captain Machs ordered the Withdrawal of the Atreus and promised the remaining Kyzyko’s fighter pilots a place in his ship, The Kyzyko’s reactor had been hit, as even bigger hulks of Hull were torn from the Kyzyko, It’s final three turrets crushed a pair of Lightness drones, before they went silent and finally exploded in one great flash of Heat……. The Kyzyko was no more. The Huge explosion resulted from the reactor fuels and Ammo Storages in the ship whitened the whole area for a while, as the Atreus fell back the Lightness vessels remained in the same place, Captain Machs had to warn the Fleet command.


As the Atreus jumped to hyperspace, the Lightness Dreadnought continued it’s way to the nearest outpost in the third planet of the same system. The Themis was left alone, but it would lost it’s life in another battle soon. The Atreus had now received small damage, but lost the entire Atlantis Battle group along with over two fighter squadrons, meaning that the Atreus had less than half of it’s fighters still intact.



GAS ATREUS

SOMEWHERE IN HYPERSPACE

UNKNOWN, ALPHA QUADRANT


“We lost fifty four fighters in the battle, and one of the shuttles was disabled” Reported chief Engineer Garibaldi to the small group of officers in the bridge. “ How many hours till’ we can get the front shields fully recharged? , ” asked Valant. “ I’d say a couple of hours, maybe less” Garibaldi explained. “ Too bad, if those Lightness ships destroyed Forestahl system we won’t be at the top of the promotion list” replied The Comm. Officer. “ Cool off, gentlemen. We’ll get trough this” Machs said patting his first officer on the back, it seemed like an odd gesture from the man at this point. “ Communications, find me the nearest GA outpost!” Machs yelled to the Communication officer who immediately pinpointed a small GA subspace relay station just a few systems away. “ Sir, the Communications station 442 in Alvar, seems like it’s the nearest one”, Machs looked delighted. “ Good, set course to Alvar beacon 4452”

“Yes sir, targeting Alvar Beacon 4452”


GAS ATREUS

NEAR ALVAR 7

ALVAR SYSTEM, ALPHA QUADRANT


” As you may know, we have jumped into the Alvar system to find the subspace relay station there” . Explained captain Machs to the few pilots still left. “ We need you to run a quick scout mission on the Subspace relay, and to determine if it’s communication equipment is still intact, we suspect that the communication systems are down on the station and that’s why we can’t contact them” Machs continued with his speech. “ Sir, if the communication equipment truly is down, will we call the shuttles “ Asked one of the lieutenants in the small crowd.

“ Yes, let them come” Machs replied with ease. “ That’s all, dismissed!” Machs yelled as the crowd begun to disperse. “ Sir, I hope that the Lightness vessels could have not reached this position yet” Valant informed.

“ So do I, but you never know” Machs replied. “ Have Security chief Noree prepare a team of security troopers with us, just in case” Valant nodded to Machs.


As the seven small fighters launched from the huge hangar of the Atreus, Machs boarded the shuttle with his command staff. Colonel Sax Vergos was also boarding his Spider class bomber, usually the Spider bombers were not equipped to handle pilots due to their artificial intelligence central computer but this one was modified to handle The Colonel quite well. As the engines lit to power, the shields and weapons were online, The Colonel slowly lifted the fighter from the flight deck and moved away.


SX-22 “ SPIDER” CLASS BOMBER

ESCORTING THE CAPTAIN’S SHUTTLE

ALVAR SYSTEM, ALPHA QUADRANT


” Bring the captain back in one piece, will you?” asked Lieutenant Verdis from the bridge, it was an odd joke. “ Alright, I’ll keep that in mind” Vergos replied while the carrier moved slowly to the outpost. As the Seven other fighters moved to the Subspace relay station they engaged their surface scanners and after a few second one of the pilots said with relief:

“ Seems like their communication equipment is intact, but I am reading no life forms inside the station”

“ Got it Beta four, seems like the shields have been taken down and the Station has been boarded” Replied Beta squadrons leader, other pilots acknowledged.

“ Wait, this scanners could be wrong, we don’t know if those things have radar transparency”

“ Good thinking, but we’ll have to take that risk”

“ Looks quiet down here, shall we call the Shuttles?”

“ Yeah, inform them that they have the green light, other Betas, position yourself around the station”


SHUTTLE 358

READY TO DOCK WITH THE RELAY STATION


ALVAR SYSTEM, ALPHA QUADRANT


” Attention shuttle 358, you have the Green light” this report came trough the shuttles speakers. “ Good, let’s go” said Machs with his second in command sitting beside him. “ I hope that this isn’t one of those ambushes” Valant murmured. As the Shuttle moved to the dark hangar of the Station, Machs readied his Plasma pistol. “ Sir, are you sure that we are going to need this, we can let the Security Forces handle the insertion” Valant said. As the group moved away from the shuttle they found that the force field keeping the Air out of the Hangar was almost completely destroyed, meaning that it would fail any time. The Captain headed to the Bridge with a couple of guards.




SUBSPACE RELAY STATION 24


ALVAR SYSTEM, ALPHA QUADRANT



The Walls were black and full of odd holes, possibly from weapons fire. As the Captain walked around his Tri-corder was reading no life forms whatsoever. There were burned bodies, debris, and metal plates in the floor. As the group advanced, they found even more disturbing effects. As it became clearer that the outpost was attacked, The Captain ordered another small team down to the Main engineering to find out about the stations initial status. “ Seems like Pirates, But they would never have the guts to attack One of our stations, much like to kill our personnel” Valant confirmed with a tacky smile. “ Or perhaps it was the Lightness, who knows” Machs said, As the Group advanced to the bridge section. “ Seems like they came in with at least a hundred men, now way they could have caused destruction like this with a small group, even with top of the line weapons”

“ According to the Military Network Records, this station had a crew of twenty, led by one Major Lynch” Machs replied, The other members of the team were searching the small bridge area, and even found a burnt body of some sort of humanoid. “ Sir!, come and take a look at this!” yelled one of the Human Security Troopers to Machs. Machs scanned the corpse, and quickly replied to the crowd: “ Looks like this is our Major Lynch right here,” , Commander Valant looked horrified but hid his confusion from the others. Suddenly The Captains Comm. Badge flicked and He pressed it gently and asked: “ Yeah, what have you got?”



SX-22 “ SPIDER” CLASS BOMBER

STANDING BY OUTSIDE THE STATION

ALVAR SYSTEM, ALPHA QUADRANT


” Sir, we just detected a pair of Lightness Destroyers approaching along with a least a couple of dozen Drones”, Reported Colonel Vergon while picking the nearest target from the HUD screen of his cockpits combat display. “ Engage them, and prepare to cover our retreat to the Atreus ” Machs replied to Vergon. “ Affirmed, we’ll keep them busy”


“ Okay Beta squadron, heat those guns and Missiles”


As the GA fighters Engaged the Deadly Lightness Drones, the Insides of the Relay station detected something odd too. It seemed that the Lightness was also lurking inside the station, coming from the Air ducts and crawl spaces, they begun to assassinate several Human Officers which were assigned around the station.


SUBSPACE RELAY STATION 24


ALVAR SYSTEM, ALPHA QUADRANT


” Sir they are coming from the Walls!” yelled one of the Remaining Human Security as the Lightness forces closed their position. The Lightness Soldiers were White, Shining, and pure energy. As the Human/Gigerdian Phaser rifles attempted to break the Lightness Matter, the Defenders only found that the Resistance ultimately was futile. “ Renno!, their coming trough there!” Yelled the Human officer to his Security guard who was firing the orange beams from his rifle, As captain Machs pulled his Sidearm from the holster, and joined in with the Defence several other officers begun to pull to the Launch bay. “How many dead?” yelled Machs to the Security Chief by his side, As another Blue Beam sparkled in the background, The Security chief yelled “ Six, including this one” pointing to the floor where another human was lying with out his torso.

“ Let’s go, Move out!” Yelled Machs as he fired the Green beam from the Plasma pistol and incinerated the Screaming Lightness “ Trooper”, The Whole damn room full of Beams of different colour, all continuing their death sweeps to the other side, As another Gigerdian Officer fell to the floor, Machs fired covering shots to his rear where the Sniping shots seemed to be coming. As Machs and the final Human trooper were hiding behind a corner, waiting for the Lightness forces to overrun their position, Machs pulled a Newer Comm. Link from his Uniforms pocket and snapped it on, it took a few seconds for Colonel Vergos to reply, the Voice was crackling and almost silent until the Voice level was adjusted to it’s normal level by Machs.

“ Vergos, You’d better come and get us now! , it seems that we’ll have to blow this place up! , this place is dead!” , Machs stopped the conversation with a quick “ Over and out” and ran to the Deck lift. The Battle had been bloody outside of the station, killing already four pilots . Seemed like the Atreus was ready to jump to Hyperspace, but was waiting for the Captain to get aboard. As the Shuttle quickly boosted it’s engines and moved to the Atreus, Colonel Vergos and his last remaining wingmen had an idea, they would try to nuke one of the Lightness destroyers by luring it to the station and using the long range Self destruction Sequence and with the Shock wave that the station would cause, they would destroy at least one of the enemy ships. As the Closest Lightness Destroyer moved to the Station, destroying the second wingman of Vergos’s , more fighters were launched from the Atreus,


SUBSPACE RELAY STATION 24


ALVAR SYSTEM, ALPHA QUADRANT


” Damn, we lost Alpha seven!”, yelled Vergos while loading the Fusion missiles in ready to fire, There the Lightness was, once again ready to destroy him.

“All fighters, move into formation foxtrot delta 3!” , as the fighters manoeuvred into a tight formation and moved closer to each other, then released their fusion missiles against a couple of Lightness drone fighters, the orange glow of the missiles impacted into the lightness drones destroying a couple of them and leaving the GA forces ready for an offence.

“Okay gentlemen, let’s try to lure that Destroyer near the Station, and then we pull out” Vergos explained slowly, all of his wingmen acknowledged and boosted their engines to meet the station, as the lightness drones followed by an Lightness Destroyer moved closer to the station.


GAS ATREUS


ALVAR 7

ALVAR SYSTEM, ALPHA QUADRANT


” I need you to relay this self destruction order into that stations computer, and initiate it” The Captain ordered quickly, he had ran up to the bridge as the shuttle had landed, all were happy to see him alive.

“Yes, sir decoding the message now” Communications officer Walres replied and begun to work, the Captain walked to the Tactical officer and asked: “ Order the remaining fighters to return, except the Delta squadron” the captain replied. “Sir, I think that this should do it!” yelled Walres.

“Delta Group! Get your Asses out of there!” yelled the Captain.


SX-22 “ SPIDER” CLASS BOMBER

STANDING BY OUTSIDE THE STATION

ALVAR SYSTEM, ALPHA QUADRANT


”Got it, that’s a wrap people, let’s split!” yelled Vergos speeding the fighters engines to the maximum, as the Lightness Drones were caught off guard from the GA fighters quick escape, the charges were detonated inside the station, a couple of seconds later the huge station exploded generating a shockwave killing the drones and badly crippling the Lightness Destroyer, moments later the lightness ship also incinerated itself in the explosion. The remaining fighters moved into the Carrier

“Good job crew, you are cleared to land” came to voice of the captain from the pilots comm. Equipment, they were all happy to have stopped the lightness…at least for a while. The Pilots had a short break before the next mission, although the Captain did not have an idea about their next move.


G.A.S ATREUS

MOVING IN JUMPSPACE

SOMEWHERE IN HYPERSPACE, ALPHA QUADRANT


The Atreus’s “Mess-hall” or “Bar” or whatever you wanted to call it was quite full today, Colonel Vergos was sitting by table along with a couple of his remaining wingmen. The tensions were high, and the excessive losses had been a total surprise to the Captain and the Crew.

“Look, we’ll contact fleet command, and their send ships to help, I’m sure” Said Lieutenant Dinari, a Wingman of Vergos’s

“Sure they will, but what about the next step, they had a huge dreadnought out there, and our ships were like flies to it”

“But we have the tactical advantage in here, our ships and men eight times more than they do”

“But their technology is way too high for us, we lost our ships in only a few minutes”

“ Okay then, let’s try to just concentrate on the mission, and nothing more, I’m sure that the government knows what to do”

As the men decided to leave it at that, the captain was having an briefing with the command staff in his ready room or office. “ Now, the Alpha and the Beta squadron have been completely destroyed, leaving the remains of Gamma and Delta as the only squadrons around the ship” explained Commander Valant, looking grim. “ Put Mr. Vergos to lead the remaining pilots, it’s time for us to get the hell out of here”. The Atreus had been ordered to determine the threat of the Lightness forces, and it had truly been extreme, and now they must find an way out of the Systems and to warn the GA fleets.

“ Let’s see, the Sybaris 503 system is just three jumps away, there is a large contingent of ships garrisoned there” replied the ship’s Doctor. “ Yeah, maybe that would our best bet, for now that is” Valant replied. “ But what about the nearby populated systems then, we should consider the possibility of civilian losses” The Captain pointed out clearly, it would not be good to go so near of densely populated sectors, even if the Lightness would have got tables turned against them. “ Very well, Doctor Vernaul, I need you to continue the healing of the wounded crewmembers, and tell the engineering chief to try and boost our shield and engine power” The captain quickly gave orders to everyone in the room, it seemed that Sybaris system would be the last and the best bet of warning fleet command.

As the command staff had problems up in the bridge, the small forces of Engineering chief Welles were trying to boost the Engine coils to the maximum by diverting power from the Secondary power grid and the Quad-harmonic drive dispenser resonators. “ Damn, these Carriers are really paste-and-glue specials, aren’t they” Welles grunted while programming the Engine computer for the extra power, but for some reason the computer did not want to except the extra power trough the Quad-harmonic drive dispenser resonators, “Damn it all” he thought. “ Computer, run an level 5 diagnostics for the Impulse engines” Welles said scratching his head, “Running Diagnostics” the computer screen read. “ Let’s hope that this finally does it” he thought, a pair of Engineering technicians were operating an computer console in front of him, and they were not the least bit interested about Welles’s trouble with machines. “Do you guys happen to know anything about the Quad-harmonic drive dispenser resonator-units?” Welles asked with a smile, the pair of technicians looked up to Welles and the other one replied quickly: “ I think that the computer needs those new parts that came in just before we left”

“What parts?” asked Welles in amazement, it truly did sound odd, no one would order any new parts with out his direct approval, but he knew the troubles of supply and movement in war situations. “Sir, I mean the Quadra-Pulse fission regulators that came in a few weeks ago, sent directly from G-prime”, Welles nodded approvingly, maybe those things would really help to boost things up as a matter a fact. “Yeah, go get those Quadra-pulse whatever thingies from the storage closet, move” Welles replied pointing his finger to the small, grey, closet at the back wall. The Technician walked to the closet and brought the parts to him while Welles opened the computers view screen with a Laser-screwdriver. “Now that should do it, give me the parts” Welles ordered. “Here you go, sir” the Technician replied and gave the pair of parts to him, Welles begun to tinker with the parts and some other engineering tools. After a few moments, the job was done, the computer was working fine and the extra power flowed in. Welles looked thankful, once again he seemed to perform a miracle, his communications badge beeped: “ Welles here, what’s ya got?”

“Chief, this is the Captain, it seems that the extra power to the engines just bopped up and works fine, good job, bridge out” The Captain give him a warm thank you, Welles pondered it for a while and then moved to work with the Tactical systems.


The Sick bay was quiet, only three patients today. Doctor Vernaul had been on stand by for the entire day, but he had been able to save only three lives out of a squadron. “Doctor, the lieutenant on bed three has severe pain due to the Plasma burns on his chest, should I administer a hypo-spray?” asked the Nurse, the only Nurse aboard the whole ship. “ Yes, but prepare him for immediate skin-reproduction unit and then administer the Quasotamolin to his spine”, “Humans are truly hard to treat” Vernaul replied sadly, the rest of the patients were stable and needed no more treatment. The only problem was that there were several people dead, mostly pilots, and that air tight caskets were cut short, they would have to wait until the next stop to a friendly star base. “Computer, send the list of deceased to the Main database in G-prime trough Subspace communications relay 7”

“Deceased list acknowledged, sending data” the computer replied with it’s artificial voice, the Doctor nodded in silent approval.


G.A.S ATREUS

SYBARIS 503 SYSTEM

SYBARIS 503 SYSTEM, ALPHA QUADRANT


”Helmsman, move us near the third planet.” Captain Machs ordered quickly. “Yes sir, moving” reported the Helmsman, Machs walked to the communications officer and ordered: “ send a wide-band distress signal, fast” the Communications officer worked quickly, after a few seconds the answer finally came.

“This is the Frigate Cairo, we read clearly, what is your problem?” a sharp voice came in from the view screen, “ This captain Machs of the Carrier Atreus, we have been attacked by unknown forces, they have destroyed our escorts and are in pursuit, we advice you to inform the GA garrison fleet of their plans”

“ This Captain Caldwell of the Cairo, we can accompany you to the star base, can you give us the coordinates of these attackers?”

“I see, we accept the offer, just warn the Garrison” Machs replied, and nodded for his first officer to follow him to the ready room.        


   

G.A.S CAIRO

POSITIONING FOR PATROL

SYBARIS 503 SYSTEM, ALPHA QUADRANT


“Captain, the Sensors inform that the Atreus has sustained heavy damage and is in need of repairs” an officer in the Cairo’s bridge informed Captain Petain of the situation, “Good, relay this data to the Governors office and the Star-base, and launch fighters to escort the Atreus out of there”

“Sir, the attackers that they mentioned, they might be this Lightness that the early briefings mentioned, we should inform the Military intelligence of their current target” the Tactical officer replied confidently. “Mr. Korf , there is no need for you to worry yourselves about this matter, the Garrison of Sybaris can handle the enemy, no doubts about that” Petain said with authority in his voice, perhaps it was due to his secret position as a Section 18 agent or due to the fact that he was arrogant and extremely foolish to accomplish anything without proper help.


G.A.S ATREUS

SYBARIS 503 SYSTEM

SYBARIS 503 SYSTEM, ALPHA QUADRANT


“ The Fighter Escorts have positioned themselves around the ship, sir” the Tactical officer reported clearly to captain Machs. “ I see, Inform the Sick-bay to prepare their patients for emergency transport out of here” Machs informed his second in command, Commander Valant. As the Atreus moved into the clear orbit of the Third planet, they could see several Capital ships in orbit also, not just frigates, but cruisers and destroyers. “That’s a awful a lot of ships” Valant replied, “Let’s hope that the Fleet command knows what to do at this time”

As the Atreus presumed orbit, Machs had a long talk with the Fleet command, apparently the Lightness had been constructing dimensional gates to the Alpha and Beta quadrants, so that it could bring it’s massive forces to bear. The Invasion had begun only a few hours ago, but by the Atreus’s report all of the fleets were being mobilized for defence of the Gigerdi alliance space.


G.A.S ATREUS

DOCKED IN SYBARIS 503 SYSTEM

SYBARIS 503 SYSTEM, ALPHA QUADRANT


Colonel Sax Vergos looked trough the large hangar of the flight deck. The Flight deck was empty, mostly due to the fact that most of the fighters had been destroyed in the attack following the ambush in Alvar. The War was on now; people from all around the Gigerdi alliance space were gearing up for war, or recruiting themselves to the Military. Captain Machs was in the bridge, along with his command staff, receiving new orders of the war. Colonel Vergos was then given command of a new squadron aboard the Atreus, the 796th fighter Airgroup called the “Iron guard”, The Strategic command had given him a medal of honour, due to his cunning attack on one of the Lightness ships. This war would be a bloody one, but the Gigerdians would eventually win it. Commander Valant walked along the long flight deck, spotting Vergos standing silently, looking into the stars.

“You did great, congratulations” Valant said quietly, Vergos Nodded in approval but instead replied: “ I don’t know, a lot of my fellow crewmen died out there, defending their government and people, this medal might have been well deserved, but not the responsibility of this war”

“I know the feeling, but you can’t let it go over your head, you must think of the good things that you made, but now relax for a while, you’ll have a quick shore leave” Valant replied and turned to walk away, Vergos silently spoke:

“They’ll be back you know, but I’ll deal with them, the same as I did with that Destroyer”

“ Yeah, we’ll have our revenge”


 THE END…. FOR NOW? 


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