Chapter 1 . From Beyond the Stars.
First: sorry for spelling errors and other mistakes but English is not my native language. if anyone would like my Fanfic and can read Spanish and want to help me out with the Translation to English I will be very grateful. Tranlation Bring to you by Google XD.
FROM THE STAR
CHAPTER 1: FROM BEYOND THE STARS
Original Text on Spanish
Thanks to My Friend Ernesto "Ernie" Gamboa for the assistance provided
Cover Art by "Gato del Futuro"
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The infinity always seems to be a very quiet place, but that peace can be broken unexpectedly. A solar flare, a meteor coming out of nowhere. But in this case what broke the peace was a big flash, as though it came from a star. When the flash faded, the star began to grow larger and larger, suddenly seemed as if the star was part of the star system where the event happened, but then something more happened. A small spot on the star started to get bigger and bigger, and soon was recognizable as a moving object; when it was close enough, you could see that it was a spaceship. Then something strange happened: as if a rock were diving into water, the ship created that effect in the space in front of it, ending with a ring of light effect at twice the size of the ship. The effect quickly disappeared and the star began to decline in size to return to its usual appearance. meanwhile the ship continued its journey.
The design of said ship was relatively simple: a dish of over 20 meters in radius and 3 meters high which widened to 8 meters to the center. The edge of the ship seen from above had a design that clearly called to mind a horseshoe. The opening ended right by the ship engines. It was the color of aluminum, and bore a pair of symbols drawn on the top and the left and right sides. The first were letters saying Eq.U.S. (Equinus United Stars). The second was a picture of a star surrounded by a halo of rainbow; below it could, be read, “Rainbow Nova”. (1)
The ship's crew was made of two beings. This might seem strange, unless of course you were a native of any of the star systems of Eq.U.S. And at that moment, they where having a conversation.
“So this is the star system? Seems too little if you ask me. I only see the star, the planet and a satellite.“ This was said by a navy blue unicorn, black mane and scruffy blue, a little black mustache and beard. On his face was a pair of thick black glasses, so black that you couldn’t see the color of his eyes. And on the side of his hindquarters was a picture of a yellow six-pointed star surrounded by four white smaller stars, quite protruding against the gray jacket and gray scarf that he wore. He was known by the name Bright Star and held the rank of Captain of the fleet.
“My instrument’s readings confirm that this is the system; however, I have problems probing the system for signs of life or energy readings outside of the star. I can not say for sure if something is interfering with the instrument or there simply are no readings,” said another unicorn that was almost identical to the first, except that she was slightly lower in height, had a finer complexion and no mustache. And her clothes also consisted of a jacket and a scarf, but were more colorful. She to had a mark of a six-pointed pink star very similar to the one Bright Star had, For she was Bright Star’s twin sister. Her name was “Shining Star,” and she was the Scientific Officer.
“Well we'll find out soon, I will put the engines at full power. And meanwhile, Remind me why we came here?”
As she rolled her green eyes as a sign of annoyance, Shining Star said, “If it were not for me, brother, you would never listen to what happens, other than your magic or complicated combat maneuvers. The command sent us because this is the star sistem where the high command thinks the 23rd joint colonization mission was lost, and they want us to go and verify if this is the case.”
“Wait,” interrupted Bright Star, “the 23rd joint colonization mission? That colonization mission?”
"Yes, that mission!” Shining Star replied “Let me see, if I remember correctly everybody gave it up for lost, because despite being the largest and best equipped colonization mission, nobody never found out if they reached their destination. There was no distress signal, there was no sign of confirmation that they had reached their destination, nothing. And to make matters worse, by that time our war against the Dracus (2) had started, and everyone took for granted that the fleet was destroyed, perhaps by an Dracus attack . At the end of the war and all, nobody tried to send missions to investigate what had become of the fleet. Not to mention that the trip here was too long and dangerous at the time.”
“But none of that is a problem for my baby,” said Bright Star, changing his tone to one that would be used for talking to a young foal, he added “isn’t it? Rainbow Nova, let's see who is the best ship in the entire fleet?”
“Brother! Although no one else besides us is here, you’re embarrassing me again, as you can tell, and the ship don't like either,” Shining Star said.
Then another voice interrupted in that moment to say, “You know, Captain, I don't like it when you use that tone with me, either. I'm not your baby; I'm the more advanced piece of engineering that has been created, and it is embarrassing to hear you speak in that voice. Even if it is just us three,” added the third voice. It was the Artificial Intelligence whose body was the entire ship and of course was known by the name of Rainbow Nova. (3)
“See? Even she doesn’t like it,” Shining Star added.
“OK, OK, I understand. Before anything more happens, tell me if there is anything else I should know?” Bright Star said. His eyes showed he was upset that they kept him from demonstrating how proud he was of his ship.
Shining Star continued “Well, according to reports, the colonization fleet consisted of 500 vessels, half of them from our allies, the Griffins. Of the total, 300 ships were civilians, while the rest was the military escort. Of those 300 civilian ships 150 were supply ships, mostly civilian cargo cruises. The civilian ships consisted of 40 Rainbow-class ships and and where laden with flora and fauna, ready to be inserted on the new planet, in case it did not have an adequate biodiversity for our needs, And with orders to stay in orbit otherwise. There were 3 ships to make the planet "habitable" and the rest were ships with settlers. The military escort consisted of the following: 60 battleships (Stampede and Percheron class from us, Raptor and Predator class from the Griffins); 120 cruisers (Pegasus and Epona-class from us, Talon and Beak from the Griffins); and various other kinds and types, such as carriers, frigates and corvettes. According to records, the military part of the fleet was more for deterrence against pirates, not because they really expected to enter into combat. In addition, and this is the most important part, the fleet carried various members of the Royalty, which caused the loss of this fleet to be even more disastrous.”
“In fact, if I remember correctly, there was a revolt against the royal family soon after and from then on, we’ve been a democracy. And the royal family finally became apparently extinct, as I recall” Added Bright Star only to be interrupted by Shining Star.
“my sensors indicate that there are remains of a battle, is a fairly large debris field, that appeared on the sensors recently, which means that something really is interfering with them. You do not think that has anything to do with the rumors that have been made on the fleet don't you?” wonder Bright Star.
“on the dropout organized fleet theory? or the other theory? that they were the first victims of the war with the dragons?” Shining Star asked.
“I heard some chat among other artificial intelligences. There are some who believe that it was actually part of a plot from the successor to the throne to disappear those who were in the fleet, which by that time were more respected and admired than him. And some even are sure that if they had not gone with the fleet, the uprising would not have happened and we would still be a monarchy.” added Rainbow Nova.
“whatever, we are here to try to find out what has happened, already have passed too much time and anything we came to discover will not change the past.“ Shining Star said and return to her console to concentrate on the task she wave at hoof.
Suddenly the ship shook. And Shining Star and Bright Star turned to look each other puzzled.
“We hit an unidentified object, not metal signal, and no trace of energy, so it bypassed the anti collision barrier, is small enough to detected it by radar, at least not until the last second. too late for a warning” Rainbow Nova reported.
“I am pointing to the object on the sensors” added Shining Star professionally, while operating the console. After a moment of analyzing the information appearing on screen Shining Star said with a notoriously puzzled expression “The object is ... Organic!, And has all the marks of fire and radiation damage accompanying something that was dead in a space combat. Before I left the sensor range, i make a superficial analysis. Is not conclusive, but by the size and the data, I think it was a bit of a dragon's body.”
"Alert!, Multiple objects of medium and small size are in our flight path, high chances of collision, evasive action are recommended. The analysis of the objects suggests that we have entered the remains of a battle, I can detect big bits far away and who are entering the field of passive long range radar” -alerted nova with some concern in his voice, even though she is a machine.
“I'm changing course, it's best to stay away, do not want to activate a missile or torpedo which did not explode on the battle” Bright Star said as she struggled with the controls, to ensure that the ship made a sudden course change maneuver. “Rainbow, reviews the inertial damper, is needs adjustment. Because the controls were hard on the turn.” said Bright and added “And Sister, I think we just confirmed the theory of the Dragon attack to the Colonization Fleet” but scarcely had he said that, another alarm sounded.
“ALERT!, I DETECTED AN ELECTROMAGNETIC DISTORTION FIELD AND ENERGY SIGNS IN THE BATTLEFIELD, WE ACTIVATED SOME KIND OF ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE MINE, IMMINENT IMPACT , IN 10 SECONDS” Rainbow Nova intervened again.
Bright Star and Shining Star, could only look to their faces with concern. They knew that a mine was designed to disable large ships such as cruisers or battleships. And yet as they had the latest anti-EMP knew that a discharge of that size would certainly cause effects on the ship, so they looked into his eyes and nodded, then adjusted the straps up their seats, just in case the gravitational fasteners came to fail and mentally prepared for the worst case scenario.
Hardly were ready on time. The pulse hit the ship, and immediately the systems began to fail. Several short-circuit jumped on the control board, the ship speed out of control momentarily, before the engines stop short. And the lights went out. Bright Star and Shining Star only had one light source. The light that came through the windows and that was reflected by the planet, which was increasingly in size. And without support or control systems They only had only one option, an emergency landing on the planet.
