Poppyseed adventures

Chapter 1

the discovery of the century

“Captain's log, stardate 2107.14. Another day another dollar I guess. All systems normal and as of now nothing to report” I said to the computer with the thought in the back of my head saying that nobody is ever going to read this. “On a personal note, I don't know why but this situation is well…” as I lost my train of thought, an alarm went off. “ what the hell is it this time. It better not be another false alarm.” As I said that, a red light consumed the cabin. I  looked at the monitor to see what the problem was. “a micro meteor shower!? Awe great, just what I needed” I said to myself. “computer, set mag shields to max, polarize the hull plating...and Set the alarm to silent mode until the end of the alert, O and pause the recording” I said as I thru my helmet on and made my way to the control port. As I strapped myself into the seat, a second alarm went off. I looked at the side monitor to see that there was not enough power in reserves to do as I requested and the reactor were at 1% above minimum requirements. “computer, transfer power from gravity plating to shields and the reactor's power up sequences. Since the amount of power the gravity plating requires is three times the amount than the shield. That should give me the power requirements to power up the shield and give the reactor the boost it need to get to 35%.With that, I should make it out of this alive. With fingers crossed anyways.”

The storm came on to the Farragut rather mildly than expected. “Awe great. Are you saying this storm was all hype and no pay.!?” I said with a grunt expecting something out of a Sci-Fi film. I started to unbuckle my seat belt. “Well I better go do some scans of the meteors and (censored)” I said as I remembered that I transferred the power from the gravity plates to mag shield. “Computer, reestablish gravity to 1.0 Gs.” within the span of a minute, I went from being crammed into one of the upper corners to standing on my feet. I went back into the center cabin, started the scans and as I started to delete the useless info from my log, something pinged on my scans. I looked upon the monitor to see that my gravity detector pinged a gravitational distortion the size of earth. The more confusing thing was that the ping came from outside my standard scan range and that the range itself would not be able to be so defined with any form of boost, or so I thought. But due to my situation about my food and fuel restocking capability or lack there of, I decided to set my scans to full, and set course to this unknown planet.

The storm finally passed about an hour and a half and the computer set up the preset course correct. The computer estimated that it would take about a week to get there and since there is no guaranty that this planet will have life on it, the probability that this venture will be the end of me would be 73%. knowing that my chances of survival wouldn't be any better without it, I journeyed on. Or at least went to beat king Dodongo for the 27th time while the computer did the course correcting. Two days later, we were within sensor range and the scans show promising results. Grant you, the only scans that I could do at this range were heat detention and movement. “this planet looks good, what do you have to say now computer” I said but the computer replied “ heat detention and heat retention are two separate things.” “touche” I said with dissatisfied look on my face. But against the computer's odds, The closer we got to the planet, the more promise it showed. We were able to pick up signs of atmosphere and movement witch could be water. I held my hopes up high for my life depended on it.

As we arrived onto the planet, my hopes were quickly payed off. “ although it was clearly not earth it would suit are need. I moved the ship into geosynchronous orbit and flip the cloaking device. As I first looked upon the world, I notice that it had a form of intelligent life. In a continent the size of north and central America, my scans picked up over a hundred thousand cities, town and other landmarks that couldn't be made naturally. I was both excited and afraid. I was excited because I wouldn't have to live my life alone, beyond the computer to keep me company. I was afraid because well, you probability picked up on the factor that I’m a Trekkie. Well...Prime Directive. I believe that's all I have to say about that and if I don't, well...look it up. I took a great notice at the center of the continent where there was clearly a common architectural design beyond the northern most point where it seems to me a city make of crystal. Interested in my discovery, I reset the flight path to move me into view of the other side. What I saw was a site I wished a never laid eyes on. All though there was three time the land mass. The one thing I couldn't take my eyes off was a land mass the size of china witch look like there were three different countries. The more heartbreaking fact was that you could easily tell that the three countries had three distinct architecture but all in some way or another matches what I saw before. I guess what happened was that the three states went to war with each other and instead of rebuilding there states. They went out to build a new country where everybody was the same and equal. But without further study on the different regions, my story would have to be left to speculation. But one thing is for sure. Whenever this happen, it was a long time ago. I mean like Roman Empire long time ago.

The more I scan the region, the more I wonder about the brings that built this world. Mostly I don't see any form of living being in any of my scans. But the more detail I take in the ruins of this region, the more it look like it was built for some species that is on all fours. Or at least in some ways in other particularly in the state near the mountain range to the south. But when I tried to look more into the detail, the moon came around. And I saw something that would never happen in nature. I saw what looked like the head of a horse made out of some sort of field. And the more strange thing about it was that I quickly picked up an atmosphere within the field. Wondering why a species would look upon the stars instead of there own planet kind of scared me a bit for what lied ahead. So I figured I would start with this Lunar colony first and take steps from there. So I set course and headed towards the moon.