Guardians: Downfall Chapter 1
Chapter 1: The UGM SerenityDate: November 8, 2777Location: Wolf 345, Epsilon Eridani System, 5 light years from LebenTime: 1350 (Military time)He stared off into the stars from his cabin, it looked so peaceful. Compared to the frontier colonies, constantly being attacked by Lothian war ships and pirates, it was safe and quiet. The Human male, in his early 50's wearing his white naval uniform, turned around and stared at his desk. a picture of his wife and child to the left corner, a monitor in the middle, and several stacks of papers to the right. a very generic table in the captains waiting room. the room itself was a pale blue color with white lights in the ceiling lighting the room. a small couch laid in the right hand corner of the room with a table in front of it. He turned around again and saw several Shuttle's flying towards the ship in a V formation. He took a deep breath and then turned around and walked out the door to the bridge. It was bustling with life, crew members walking quickly from station to station. The Helm pit was directly below the captains chair, Coms was next to it. the room itself was some what of a circle and there was a landing above him filled with officers as they double checked the ships status. he made his way to the Captains chair and sat down. "captain!" yelled a young Ensign as he ran up to the captain with a note pad in his hands. "What can i do for you Ensign....?" he motioned for the mans name. "Ensign Nielson sir." the Ensign replied as he gave a quick salute. "I'm your official Helms man sir. reporting for duty!" The Captain smiled. "Captain Scheck. Please, take your seat and prepare for launch. Once the remaining crew members and Guardians are on-board we'll begin launch sequence and take us to the Frontier for a test run." "aye Captain." The Ensign moved quickly into his pod and booted up the Helms System. the pod next to him was Coms, neat little concept, both of them would go into an air tight capsule so that way if the bridge were hit and a hole tore in the hull, they could continue to control the ship. The Captains chair had a single pod as well as several other positions namely Gunner positions and Coms Relays positions had the same function. The Captain smiled, Serenity was the newest of her class, a Goliath Warship. She was capable of holding five to six War Frigates in her hull with a crew compliment of a thousand each. The ship herself housed well over thirty thousand individuals, both Humand and Pelzigan. well over a thousand fighters, drop ships, and bombers docked in both the War Frigates and Serenity. she contained an abundance of weapons and ammunition. Several hundred nukes, approximately twenty thousand ARCHER Torpedoes, and an entire deck dedicated towards the Laser Turret Defense Grid. A new system that allowed several hundred small turrets on her hull to fire beams of plasma at their targets. Her shielding system was the best that
could be manufactered by the Unified Galactic Military. She was a war ship that was going to be hell bent on eliminating everything that got in her way. "Captain, this is Shuttle Group Gamma, we're on approach and are requesting permission to dock." "Understood Gamma, dock and get your people into their positions, once you're ready, we will be under way and will make a Jump trajectory towards the Frontier for our little test run." "understood, we'll be in position in twenty minutes Captain." "Understood, Scheck out." The Captain brought up a holographic console in front of him and tapped in a few symbols in and an audible whistle went throughout the ship. "This is Captain Scheck, listen up everyone, as we all know, the UGM Serenity is the new Flag Ship of the EEDF. this will be her maiden voyage. our primary goal for right now is take her on a test run through the Outer Rim of the Epsilon Eridani System. during which times we will be at red alert. That is all." The captain pushed several more holographic symbols and the console turned off. "ok people, prepare to clear dry dock." He said. The engines started heating up, a loud Whirring noise could be heard throughout the ship as the necessary systems came online for the ship to leave dry dock. the display in front of the captain turned on and showed their approach vector and what was in front of them. several HUD lights blinked on and showed a row of arrows moving along the path the ship would take. The hull shuddered as the engines began moving the massive ship out of dry dock. slowly but surely, they cleared dry dock and the ship was on her way to the Outer Rim of the Epsilon Eridani System. "all hands, prepare for Jump." The captain said, the whole room turned a dark blue color and there was a loud screeching noise as the Faster Than Light engines spun up and began forming the wormhole in front of the ship. A bright blue circle formed in front of the ship with a light gray on inside that slowly faded into the black of space. Streams of energy rippled across the hull of the ship as she slowly entered the wormhole. within a few seconds the whole ship had entered the wormhole and it had closed, a blue mist filled the view port as the ship went into Jump.