[K-E11] Missing ship

[EpsilonEta]

Location: E11

Tags: Spaceship, Exploration

This got a bit long, hope you don't mind too much.

Raven is reading up on the company’s progress in Andromeda when she stumble on a curios report. A Kawashita scout ship in E11 was about to investigate what appeared to be a distress signal. They found a damaged Octan ship but when they were about to board it, contact was lost.

Octan deny missing any ship in that area. Another Kawashita team have been sent to investigate.

Missing ship

Cancel the team investigating the missing scout ship, errand number 3816-01-20-24601

A couple of minutes later her assistant hear about it and call her.

Ma'am, what are you doing? Canceling a routine mission? You can’t micro manage like this. And how will we know what happened if we don’t investigate?

I’m not leaving it unattended, I will investigate myself. Cancel my appointments for today.

But we have a team on the way, they will be there before you even reach the hangar.

No, because I canceled them. Besides, I was out the hangar an hour ago.

You just hapened to be out flying?

I needed to clear my head from all this CEO stuff. Besides, I’m one of the best tracker this company have and I need something real to do or I’ll go crazy.

Raven soon send the first report.

I have taken a look at the signal. It’s very simple and may well be a distress call but the frequencies doesn’t match any standard ever used by humans. Prepare a military team to meet up with me.

The scout ship does not respond to location pings but this is just why I ordered to install independent tracking systems in all ships. In case the standard tracking system was turned off without authorization the backup will send its position after 90 minutes.

Later come a second report.

Approaching the signals origin now. No sight of the scout ship. Visual contact with the other ship. How they thought it was an Octan ship is beyond me. Other than being white it match none of their design standards and it isn’t like Octan, who put their logo on coffee mugs, to miss the opportunity to put a logo on their ship. I doubt this ship was even made by humans.

I read no life signs, heat or movement inside. I will take a closer look while waiting for the backup tracking signal.

I actually intended to stop here but now we had a double week and we got a lot of domination on E11 so I take two stories in one now.

And as before, Adrasteia is my challenge 2 ship and shouldn't to be judged.

Raven matches velocity with the alien ship (i.e. park next to it) and exit Adrasteia.

The alien ship show heavy damage and was probably in a fight before it got here.

She fly over to a big hole in the side of the ship and enter.

I have found two aliens. One very dead in some kind of preservation tank which failed long ago and another on the floor, probably dead.

Two tanks are empty. Presumably there was a third alien who took off with our missing scout ship. No sign of our scouts. The alien on the floor could have been killed in a fight with them.

Continuing to search the ship.

Shortly after.

Raven to base, no one else on board, human or alien.

The aliens either brought our people with them or destroyed them completely. There is no sign of anyone floating around in space nearby. The one on the floor haven’t moved, most likely dead.

Send a science team with armed guard to investigate the ship and aliens.

I'm getting back to my ship and prepare to pursue our missing ship.

Raven is taking a break from "CEO stuff" to do some "real" work for a while now.

I started making the alien ship "as new" but though it was better for the story if it was damaged.

Making it look damaged was hard as it's kind of small and already have a strange shape.

Then I realiced I could use my "rejected bricks" (most of them from my childhood) I think it turned out realy good.

Here are a few pictures of the ship before I "damaged" it.

[Dragonfire]

Nice ship design! I like the aliens too

[StarHawk3]

Cool micro ships. I like the broken tank to. The skeletal General Greivous alien is especially freaky.

[SpacerSteve]

Great story. I didn't think it was too long. I loved the explanation on why it wasn't an Octan ship. I love your fighter from the ship challenge. I like how it has kind for become Ravens personal ship. The grievous skeleton is pretty awesome.

[Col. Brik]

Great story and MOC's as usual. Love the design of the ship.

[Isundir]

Fantastic work, my favorite among your builds for me so far, the story wasn't too long and it was an enjoyable read

[Andromedas Gates]

The judges awarded you 5 points.

[Orange Leader]

Both space ships are very cool looking. I like how you used the windscreen in Raven's ship, I might try that someday.