More Questions than Answers, Return from HIP 22460
14 Aug 2022Lazulit
Homer Hub, 27 G. Caeli.Home, sweet home... looks even better when you return from HIP 22460.
Entering the bar I saw some of my carrier crew sitting around a table, drinking cocktails.
I picked a drink at the bar...
„Hey everybody, all drinks on me“
My crew looked at me with signs of relief
„Hey Skip, good to see you in one piece“
„Dammn, you shouldn´t go out there again, last time the ship was nearly scrap“
„ This time I brought it back in one piece“
„And, whats the situation out there, any changes?“
„Still a monstro clusterfuck, Goids agressive as ever, they are still able to locate ships in real space, but cooling and silent running helps a lot. Guardian tech gets still shreddered... Ships in supercruise are still safe... so, no changes.
Scanned some moons...“
„Any survivors?“ my fighter pilot asked.
„No, nothing, but on the moon 10B I found two thargoid structures...“
„Two?“ They stared at me
„Yeah, the structure where these azimuth idiots installed their proteus wave, the structure is still active and looks quite impressive...“
„The second one looks quite normal...“
They looked at the pictures...
„Bit small“ Head of Engineering said...
„Well, distance is 100 km, as a Goid appeared i went to supercruise again... caution is the better part of bravery in this system“
„Strange, never heard of two structures on one moon bevor... was it already there?“
I shrugged...
„No idea... otherwise, checked some structures in other systems, everything was eerily quiet...“
My Crewmembers looked somberly at each other...
„And now“ The commanding carrier officer asked?
„No idea what will happen. Maybe the goids construct something, to attack us with this destructive field... would get ugly, when we cannot use our best AX-Weapons. Or they will attack some starports... or both... or they will do nothing“
„But what if they think, that we are a mortal danger to them...“
Evereybody went quiet...
„Well... we´ll see. Officer Dale, Carrier will be on medium alert, ready to operate on short notice“
She nodded
„How is our Tritium“
„Tank is nearly full, 7500 in Storage“
„Very good, we might need the „Salamander“ for rescue operations, check it please“
„Checked already, Commander“ my Engineer smiled.
„So, what will we do now“ Of. Dale asked.
„We can only wait and see. If there is a some project of Ram Tah, Professor Teserau or anyone else researching Thargoids...
we will try to help everyone... except Azimuth!“