005: Aliens! They DO exist!
26 Mar 2021Piratescribe
Date: 26-3-3307Locn: Moni's Point [MAIA]
To prove I actually can be brief, here's a short update that belies the significance of what just happened:
I saw aliens! Thargoid I believe they're called. I responded to a non-human signal wondering what the frack THAT is, and I found out what the frack that is! A giant star-shaped ship in a green cloud filling my viewport!
I reflexively hit stealthmode just as a beam shot out of it and bathed my ship in a disturbing light. I thought sure I was dead. But then it ended, and it moved on.
...to scan other wrecked ships on fire. I arrived shortly after some battle. I waited with bated breath, popping a heatsink as sparks began flying out of my console, and watched as the massive, alien (in every sense of the word) craft shimmered and disappeared! I cringed as I un-stealthed and started up my engines (even though I knew in the back of my mind they ship quite obviously knew I was there -- they scanned me directly), and started scanning through the wreckage.
I did find an escape pod! And no, I did NOT save it to give to Etienne. (I'm feeling increasingly weird about that arrangement.) I took it and the black box I found immediately back here to Moni's Hub to be saved. I hope they're alright....
Well, that's all about that, for now. I'm still kind of shaking after that encounter. Hell, I even forgot all about the fracking black hole I almost fell into earlier in the day! My first one of those as well!
What. A. Day!
Cmdr Keyton "Piratescribe" Magnusson