Occupied Escape Pods Discovered
04 Sep 2017Darthjazzhands
Continued from my Character Bio31 August 3303 - LAUR SYSTEM
Scanned a signal source during a cargo delivery to Euthymenes Camp in Laur, an Imperial controlled system. It yielded a degraded emissions signature. I disengaged from supercruise as at least three ships waked from the signal area.
I was too late. Debris from a battle was floating everywhere. The only contacts were several occupied escape pods. No other materials or ships.
Without hesitating, I sent my limpets out to collect the pods. As they came back, so did my memories.
My last memory of my family is hazy… an attack on a luxury liner when I was 5 or 6 years old… being carried by my father to an escape pod and stuffed into my mother’s arms… my mother holding me tight as the pod jettisoned hard into the black.
We floated for what seemed like mere seconds when the liner cracked open like an egg and exploded. Wreckage struck our pod, cracking the canopy and knocking us farther from the main group of pods. I remember the sickening sound of that crack growing slowly as we tumbled. We watched helplessly as the attack wing scooped up all the materials and most of the other pods, then waked. Hours later, the remaining pods were scooped up by what my mother said must be a rescue ship. She was wrong. It was worse than a rescue.
I would not let these folks meet the same fate. A few jumps later and I was in Federal space. The relief on their faces was all I needed to know I made a difference.
If only I had a wake scanner, I would have chased down those bastards and made a bigger difference. That's a mistake I won't repeat.
--DJ