My Story by Cmdr Lagnered, dpty Wing cmdr for The Hive
13 Jun 2018Lagnered
16 years old I suddenly woke in the middle of the night with fire raining down from the pitch black sky, first seconds I though it was beautiful until I realized the immediate danger. I lost everything that night, my twin sister, my parents, my friends. Maybe I should have been dead too joining my family's faith. I miss them deeply but I have no more tears to shed.
I should have been with them if I didn't sneaked out with my friend Daniel Zeitman who was a brilliant boy and had a natural talent for applied physics. That night I fell asleep in the cockpit of his grandfather's old Viper MkIII he had been working on restoring for years.
As the orbital bombardment came down, igniting the bioluminecent forrest surrounding us and where the Viper was hidden fear struck me. I was paralyzed seeing the majestic trees consumed in blue flames flanking me and Daniel on all sides. Like blue glowing spiders the flames crawled closer every second. Suddenly I felt the engines igniting and my friend screemed:
-You need to go!
- But what about you?
- There is only room for one in the cockpit, go before or is too late.
He remotely boosted the Viper engines in a 90 degree angle. I never saw him again and I owe him my life.
On the way trough the atmosphere I watched my home planet burn, everything I ever know, my family, my friend, my future. Leaving the stratosphere I spotted an Empire majestic class interdictor Inv Achenar II occupied with raining down fire over my belloved ones and I swore I will get my revenge.
Alone in space, nowhere to go not a single credit in my balance I felt disheartened what would I do? Looking at my panels and didn't have clue how to operate them. I felt below my seat and found an old almost ancient ragged book with about 100 pages, it was the original Delacy Viper flight manual. An hour later I engaged my frame shift drive and jumped to the closest system.
10 years have past since and I am a different person, the first years alone in space was tough but they hardened me, I had to fight for everything, long gone is the young unexperienced girl that escaped the battle of Morana with an old Viper dodgeing a capital ship.
I made a small fortune mining rare minerals in pristine rings at Delkar, that got me into a Python. In the back of my my head I always remembered the blue spider like flames that consumed my best friend. One day I got my revenge. Fighting on the federation side in the conflict of Cet system I dropped into a high intensity combat zone, soon frame shift anomalies appeard and two capital ships dropped out, they engaged in glorious battle and I enjoyed the show. That's when I saw the Interdictor name, it was the same ship that killed everyone I knew. I had to do something that ship wouldn't ever leave that zone again. Knowing that engaging alone is suicide I sneaked by the enormous beams and multicannons finding the small heat vents, destroying them one by one almost undetected. Suddenly a huge explosion lit up and the enormous ringed power plant was obliterated, leaving the Inv Achenar II dead in space. The ferragut battle cruizer disengaged but I slowly pierced the enormous hull, finally killing the ship and tasted sweet revenge.
For a time life was good, my crew member Sam Gaudry and I grew closer and suddenly found our selfs in a passionate relationship, it was my first and for the first time in 10 years I was happy. We even took a romantic trip to the heart nebula finding an unexplored elw nearby and spent a few weeks discovering it togheter, the glowing red back drop at night was stunning, maybe we should have stayed there. If I manage to survive long enough I might build my self a house there, leaving invasions, wars and politics behind me.
On a trip to Maia I left Sam at Obsidian orbital, having to attend business back in the bubble. While waiting for some cargo to unload I watched the galnet news.
My heart froze and I couldn't move, thargoids had attacked Obsidian orbital, what about Sam was he alive? 3 Medusa variants had killed thousands of people in a few seconds. I rushed my conda immediately down to Maia boosted into the station looking for him, seeing the mass of refugees I had no other choice helping the evacuation effort. For 5 days I tirelessly hauled refugees out from the station, but never found Sam. His name is now on a black painite wall togheter with all that died that day, but I will never know for sure what happened.
Strucked with grief and lust for revenge I started researching Thargoid combat. With a new found dedication I quickly climbed the last few ranks for the Federation and bought a Corvette. I named her Vinterstorm after the frozen feeling of my heart. I equipped her with AX multi cannons and AX missilies, hired a new crew member, a female this time and set out to kill a Thargoid cyclop, after the fight of my life I looked at the corpse of my nemesis and had found my new purpose in life.
After my Cyclop kill I received a message from a mysterious organisation calling them self The Hive and their leader Cmdr Spooky_Vanguard. A few months later The Hive is now my purpose, we protect Humanity from The Thargoids we work endlessly in restoring what they destroyed and under our feets lies thousands of slain Alien Invaders. I will defend humanity, my signature is a glowing blue spider.
I am Cmdr Lagnered, deputy wing Commander of the Hive and this is my story.
O7
For The Hive