Log 29 --- 30/09/3303
30 Sep 2017Finnvos123
--- CMDR FINNVOS123 -- LOCATION: UNABLE TO DETERMINE LOCATION -- DATE: 29/09/3303 ---Finn is sitting in his room, staring at the wall.... Suddenly, a new message pops up
ALIEN ACTIVITY REPORTED IN PLEIADES NEBULA
He looks at the message and pauses for a few seconds
So the day has finally come....
He jumps up and runs to the door. After closing the door to his room he starts to run towards the hangar while bumping into everyone in his way
He arrives at the hangar and keeps pressing the button to open the door
Come ooooonnnnn... If alien activity doesn't even make you open quickly then what will!?
The door opens and he jumps in the cockpit. He starts the engines and attempts to take off when an alarm goes off
Sigh what now?
AIRLOCK OPEN
Fiiiine... I'll close it.. He presses a few buttons
Are you happy now?
The ship doesn't respond
Great....... Just...... Great......
The Diamondback's engines roar as he boosts out of the mailslot, in the background angry flight controllers can be heard
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The ship drifts through the void with the blue glow of the Pleiades Nebula in the background
Meanwhile, Finn is staring at his scanners without paying attention to where he's flying
No aliens........ Come on scanner................
NON-HUMAN SIGNATURE DETECTED
Aha!
He turns his ship towards the source and flies towards it
Then he cuts the power to the FSD making the ship drop from supercruise and spin violently
Perfect... Now what's this?
His ship smashes into another ship while still spinning
Ow..... I said be careful!
Once again no response can be heard from the ship except the sound of metal scraping against metal
After a few seconds the ship stops spinning and comes to a halt
Finn starts to look around and sees he's surrounded by a green mist.... It almost looks like a nebula.. just... smaller
Whoa... They can paint nebulae!?... I need to get my hands on their nebula painting tech right no-
He is interrupted by a bright green light shining through his canopy
Behind the stream of light is a big flower-like object
Wha....
He keeps staring at the light
Without looking away he presses some buttons
PROGRAMMING LIMPET DRONE
The limpet shoots out from his ship and flies towards the unknown vessel
Meanwhile the vessel stops its green light... thing... and turns away from Finn
Nononononono wait... Bring the pretty lights back!
INITIATING FUEL TRANSFER
The limpet made it to the unknown vessel and attached itself to its hull
FUEL TRANSFER FAILED
The limpet detaches itself from the hull, drifts away and self destructs
As soon as the limpet explodes the unknown object turns towards Finn and lights up red
Errrr....... I'm sorry?
Hundreds of small things fly out from the unknown vessel and start circling it
Finn takes a look at his scanner again and spots an occupied escape pod near one of the broken ships
Let's just get that and get out of here
He flies his ship to the escape pod and prepares to scoop it
As he approaches the pod the unknown vessel approaches him, still red
He scoops the pod and the unknown vessel opens fire
BOOOOOOOST!
The Diamondback quickly boosts away and hits a damaged corvette
NOT THERE
He rapidly presses every button he can find
His ship stops spinning, fires more fuel limpets, attempts to scan the limpets, jettisons the escape pod, diverts all power to weapons even though it doesn't have any, diverts power back to shields. While Finn presses every single button the ship continues to do every single thing it can
STOOOOOP
The ship slows down
Behind him the Thargoid ship is distracted for a moment as it scoops up the escape pod
NO DON'T STOP
He boosts away again, this time avoiding any collisions
The alien vessel starts chasing him again
FRAMESHIFT DRIVE CHARGING
WARNING: HULL AT 10%
Come ooon
5.... 4.....
HULL AT 8%
3......
HULL AT 7%
2......
HULL AT 6%, DAMAGE CRITICAL
1......
Bye
The Diamondback disappears with a bright flash, leaving the Thargoid ship behind
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WARNING: LOCATION UNKNOWN
SHUT UP... It's intentional
If I don't know where I am then the Thargoids won't know either...
I just need to record a message for... for...... I don't know
I'll record it anyway
ahem So er.... if you're listening to this... then er.... my plan is... well... then I'm executing my plan...
Now you probably don't know what my plan is... that's because I don't know either... so er... I'll make one up now...
I will fly to a secret base in [REDACTED] to hide.... and when you have defeated them I'll come back... if you defeat them
He sends the message to his home station
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The next day...
--- CMDR FINNVOS123 -- LOCATION: [REDACTED] -- DATE: 30/09/3303 ---
His ship is docked with an asteroid base in the [REDACTED] nebula
Finn is walking around the hangar thinking about the things he saw
That...... thing..... it destroyed all of those ships..
But there were no escape pods except the one I..... I... accidentally jettisoned....
Why would they collect them?
He stops and stares at the wall in front of him for a minute
This is boring... waiting is boring... they don't even have crayons or pencils or paint here!... How do these people live!?
He turns around and runs back to the cockpit
If those aliens think they can just scoop up occupied escape pods, not to mention refuse my fuel, then I will race them to the pods
I'll er.... I'll come up with a plan...
He grabs some paper and his crayons
Right... so...... space is black..... errrr..... then some white bits in the background......
Where did I leave the green crayon.... er... ah there... so I guess I'll just draw a green flower then...
Oh! It had like yellow greenish waves pulling stuff... I'll just put that... over here... I think..... no wait... that's wrong...
The pod!... what does a pod look like... like.. a grey.... blob...... perfect
Now... the green flower will pull the pod with the yellow greenish wavy things towards itself...
I need to draw my ship.... how do you draw a dbx.... er..... I guess just an orange block somewhere off to the side... Oh! cargo hatch!... I'll stick that on the botttom.
Soo...... I'll fly in, fly though their fancy laser show and scoop the pod.... and then I'll boost..
Then I'll be like: weeeeee.. and the goids will be like: heeeeeyyyy.... our pooood... give it baaaack...
Perfect
He hangs the picture on a wall in the cockpit and sits down
Sometimes I wonder who I'm talking to....
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