Future Vision: Chapter 2
Chapt 2
As the years went by, Humanity with their ships explored and learned about their new, vast space that they now called home. It was so vast in fact, that they soon discovered that they were running out of names, and eventually started calling solar systems random conjunctions of number and letters. By the time they were done, they discovered that there were over 300+ systems at their disposal, and they had no idea what to do with them all. Some had abandoned stations, some had no livable planets, and some were nothing but empty space.
Exploring the space was relatively easy since their ships had a built in database for every part of the space they were traveling to, through, or by. The computers could tell them how to get from one system to another, which system had viable resources and which didn't, and what systems dead ended. In the end though, they decided that the place they were dropped off and left to rebuilt their civilization would be the center of their new home, and where the building blocks would begin.
As luck would have it, the system had 12 planets, all of the habitable and full of resources. Though some of the resources were new and unknown, it did not take too long for scientist to sort them out into what they were best at, and made a few categories for practically important ones.
Asatonium was an unstable, yet non-radioactive gas that was extremely flammable, yet while pressurized it was non-volatile and often made excellent air coolant due to its ability to absorb mass amounts of heat. When it compressed into a liquid state, it had the viscosity of water and its ability to absorb heat tripled, and it was not electrically conductive.
Magneton was an extremely magnetic metal, which when electrically charge became stronger. It has no known maximum electrical capacity, which made it extremely useful in weapon construction, and anchor to hold orbiting objects securely in space around a planet or moon. However it is a practically fragile metal and is most often enclosed in a well secured container or housing unit to avoid damage.
Anadine and Anadone are very similar to liquid nitrogen in viscosity and looks; however they only exists as a liquid form and cannot be turned into a gas or solid. The difference between the two is that Anadine has a very hard, reactive surface tension, and the faster something collides into it, the less the object can penetrate it. Anadone has virtually no surface tention, but on the other side of the spectrum it allows very heavy and large objects to float it in with ease. It is so heavy in fact that even molten rock floats on top of it.
Dalnor was the hard metal that their ships Armor Plating were made of. What made this material interesting was that inside of the structure itself were little micro-tunnels that ran through the whole structure. The tunnels seemed to have no ill-effect on the substance, and the only things that would even damage it was extreme heat pinpointed at a particular spot. Any range of the same heat level that consumed the entire material had no effect as the metal acts as a giant heat sink for itself. The same rules applied for kinetic force as well since the metal had superior anti-vibration qualities.
The final most important element was Dillireum. It was a strong, yet easily pliable metal which could be morphed into any shape that was desired. It shared many of the characteristic of lead, but was non-toxic and could be hardened. This made it an excellent candidate to make ship hulls out of and other structures that demanded a non-angular design. However it is very dense and the structure of the metal itself is week, so it often has to be reinforced with other metalloids or metals to make it maintain its shape during stress.
All of this was discovered with in the first year of their research and exploration, yet they still did not have a full understanding of how the ships they flew actually worked. However they had among them creations of the Gods themselves, the Vari.
Though the Vari was once the creation of the Humans, their Guardians fixed many of the problems that plagued Humanity in their research. They now could fully understand and communicate with Humans using their language, had a life expectancy of at least 75 years, had superior abstract thinking and comprehension, and had unparalleled endurance and strength. They also carried knowledge that the Guardians embedded in their DNA that gave them an instinctual knowledge on how the advanced technology worked. They were in summery better than any Human in existence.
The Vari became the elite scientist of the universe and the master ship builders. They tried to show Humanity how things worked and went together but the dated race just didn't have the capacity. They were is no way dumb when it came to intergalactic space travel, or when it came to constructing advanced equipment, they just could not understand all the intricate systems that made everything work.
Humanity became tired of trying to understand the technology the Vari were using and improving upon, and became set in old ways. They decided they if their old ships worked for them on earth, they would make more of those. This however caused controversy inside Humanity's fragile social network and sent them into a civil war for many months.
The war was suddenly ended when all the Humans who wanted to advance took all the ships that were given to them and headed deep into the pockets of space, leaving the more barbaric creatures behind. Having no one to have pity on them or help them, they turned against the already superior Vari hoping to at least crush part of their society. The Vari having some pity on them left the planet as well with good load of the resources, leaving the barbaric creatures to fend for themselves.
Unlike the Humans that seemly left charted territory, they simply moved to the far side of known space, and continued developing and the supreme race. Though the technical year was 2511, they started a new calendar, and they day they landed on their new home planet, it became January 1, 01. They of course took into consideration that their new home had a 35 hour day, and rotated around the sun at about 3 times slower than the Human's old planet did. Instead of developing a whole new system for time, they simply tacked on extra days on the months and made it match with the seasons that earth experienced, and just for jealousy purposes named it Earth.
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Viper knew his history well enough to know not to make deals with humans, but the situation he was in was different. At heart he was a thief, and not someone to be messed with. However being out numbered can severely impact someone's self confidence, not to mention tactical advantages. His 42 meter long interceptor was not match for a 92 meter long EW frigate. His sensors were fine for quick locks on small targets and for quick navigation, but with them being jammed he could do nothing more than to burn as quickly as he could away from the electronic warfare. However the poorly constructed frigate was just as fast and lightweight and had no problems keeping range. Fusion reactor burning at max and pumping all of its power into the thrusters, all he could do was roll to avoid the incoming barrage of barbaric liquefied material flying at his ship. He knew he could not take many hits as his shields were not meant to prolonged combat and that the ship had no armor and tinfoil for a hull.
Luckily for him, Humans still could not manage to make anything better than Blasters and Magnetically Accelerated Rails. More fortunate was that this frigate had blasters giving it horrible range and accuracy over 15 kilometers, which even better mean that the further the blasted ammo went the more it slowed down. Viper would normally be laughing at this situation if he was jammed and locked up tighter than a Christmas present from an old relative.
Everyone in the Vari society knew that Humans did not develop electronic warfare equipment, rather stole it in 2513 when they sent some thieves into a top secret research facility. However the equipment required more power than a human frigate could put out, so Viper was puzzled to why this particular frigate was able to use it so effectively.
He switched on his rear facing camera and zoomed in on the frigate trying to see differences in it than the ordinary human frigates. The hull configuration matched the Mark-VII Chaser build that humans prided, but it had an extra solar-panel attached to a wing structure on the top of the ship. "I bet that's the source of the extra juice" he whispered to himself before turning his ship around and set a trajectory aimed straight at the structure. Already pushing his overpowered thrusters to the max, he overwrote the safety protocol for safe fusion operation and pushed them to a 120% maximum velocity.
"Warning! Thruster Power out of tolerance! One minute until reactor emergency shutdown" the speakers in the walls blurted out right after he entered the command. His ship now running at 1,354 meter-per-second, he couldn't help but feel like this was going to be a bad decision. Apparently the frigate felt the same as it turned around and tried to outrun him. However his ship was still much more agile and at this point 400 meters-per-second faster than the frigate.
At about 8,000 meter away, the computer voiced another concern. "Warning, Possible collision detected. Please take evasive maneuvers as soon as possible." He always found it funny that it added "As Soon as possible" to the end of a sentence that didn't need it, however he didn't have time to laugh as his ship rammed through the wing structure.
Blaring alarms is all he noticed after coming back after a semi-unconscious state. Putting a paw to his forehead he noticed he was bleeding quite a bit. He shook his head trying to get the ringing out of his ears so he could makes sense of all the noises.
"Warning! Shield generator offline. Hull strength out of tolerance. Tactical systems offline. Weapons offline. Reactor output at 75% and falling. Hard radiation detected. Containment failure in 3 minutes."
Clearing his head of the screaming pain of his body, he quickly punched in the coordinates of a safe station in the next system over. As long as the reactor kept outputting 35% of its power, he could make it. His ship required next to nothing to initiate a warp, but it needed at least 25% of the reactor to keep the bubble up.
As his ship moaned and spun up the drive to warp to the gate to the next system, he couldn't help but laugh at the fact that his ship had survived the collision. "Stupid Humans. That should teach not to make flimsy ships with tall wingy bits"