Chapter 1: For science of course!
I awoke with a start in a brightly lit and alcohol smelling room blinking rapidly, after a few moments I sat up with a painful groan and blinked the fogginess away before noticing the person standing nearby with a bright smile, "Boss!" the woman as I now recognized what she was exclaimed at me. I blinked again staring at this woman for a few moments before noticing her strange clothing it was grey with a NASA logo on the shoulder and a four triangles of gold, very futuristic looking fabric making up most of the jumpsuit, I blink again before saying "Morning where am-" before I gasp and put a hand to my mouth, that was a female voice almost guaranteed. I blink before looking down realizing I have the same jumpsuit on with a star on the shoulder patch, then I notice breast, probably C's and rather compressed by the jumpsuit I then notice hair in front of my eyes to the right. I gasp before coughing rather loudly choking on my own spit, I'm female, a girl, x chromosome genetics from both parents, my right eye twitches slightly before the other woman speaks up "Captain I'm so glad you're awake its been a week since we arrived in the unknown system and since you have fallen unconscious, the crew was starting to worry you'd never wake up." at this statement my mind went blank. Captain, leader of others, commander, all titles that I have never possessed in my life. I blinked yet again and stared more closely at the woman speaking to me, her long brown hair complimented her green eyes and rounded face rather nicely, she was much more well endowed then me and spoke with a slight accent I couldn't place, I raised my eyes to her and spoke softly "I'm sorry to have worried you, has anything happened since I've been out?" I queried trying not to wince at my own voice.
A lot had happened since I had "fallen Unconscious" apparently, the crew had decided to mine the nearby gas and asteroid fields to build up resources for repairs of our remaining ships the serenity was fine so was our only battleship but two of our ten destroyers where missing and half our patrol cruisers, twenty in total had gone missing. After a few hours of conversation I stood up slightly unsteadily and headed for the door to the exit following the woman who I had learned was names Thea through said door. Upon exiting I got quite a few looks from the other crew members amongst our two thousand strong base crew before reaching Boso Tao's chambers, Thea smiled lightly at me and saluted before heading back to man the Serenity she was the captain of. Upon entering the chambers the strange alien smiled at me "Ah your finally awake! We have much to discuss Najia!" Najia, I guess that was the name of my character in X4, I had started to piece together what had happened to me, I had been transported into my game somehow and now was the leader of the United Free Stations company that I had named and built over hours of game play, It was a wild thought but no entirely impossible now that I stared at the annoying alien scientist who had helped build this facility up to where it was now. I almost missed what Boso had said next "We should hopefully be able to enter the planet safely considering its general atmosphere is almost exactly that of Terra's! It quite exciting my current scans show much life on the planet and even some basic civilizations I can't wait to see how you handle this unique challenge of diplomacy!" He all but shouted at me through the intercom linking his liquid chambers to the outside world. I sighed before saying " You mean to tell me I have to go down to this unknown planet and make first contact with an unknown species all by myself?" I sighed after that knowing the answer the second I asked.
I was not going alone, A compliment of guards guided me to the transport ship destined to land in a remote forested location upon the planet. The compliment of guards where well armed and armored and rigid faced marines, definitely either three or four star marines I had hired to capture abandoned ships I came across, a total of ten of them shuffled onto the ship with me after saluting rigidly at me. We quickly made our way onboard and sat silently as the ship set off from my station into space. The jolt of the liftoff shocked my unprepared senses as the pull into the seat caused a rather not masculine sound to emit from my mouth before I blushed heavily and looked down trying to to look at any other member of our little team.
Prologue: Why are we doing this again?
My hull was critical and my shield evaporated but still the flagship stood before me terrifying and magnificent in its might.
Still my desire to pull through and end this scourge to the galaxy pushed me forward swerving between beams of red angry lighting and triggering my flares at an incoming missile I chased a simple M fighter swerving around the great beast before me in pursuit of simpler prey while my Executioner Star Force battleship continued to pelt the deadly behemoth with pulsing blue bursts of plasma I continued forward blasting away at the annoying fighter that had destroyed three of my heavy fighters out of pure luck. Fifteen shots later and the annoying gnat of a ship was debris in the endless expanse of space before me, I turned my attention at the current threat in time to see its shields fall and ten Perseus fighters started pelting the dreadful beast with beams of light.
A short while later and two fighters gone I watched the behemoth split in two after an awe inspiring explosion of light and fire I relaxed in my chair and grinned a little to wide at my screen before frowning slightly at the annoying voice of Boso Tao who brought me out of my short reverie I huffed slightly before opening my messages only to see something very intriguing. A new mission to move my expansive Player Headquarters to a previously unknown sector. My eyes lit up at the prospect of exploring a new and unknown sector, I had read nothing about this on the forums and knew right away I was experiencing something only the developers and a select few players had experienced so far.
Upon entering this new system I knew something was up I had never noticed a star so close to a sector or a moon for that matter, the green and blue planet nearby looked almost inviting as I flew closer I found a nice little asteroid field to call my new home, I placed several resource probes into the asteroid field and the nearby gas field before dropping a nav beacon into an open space between the two and traveling back. Shortly after I had gone to Boso Tao and inquired about a warp, the second I clicked the option my vision grew dark and before I could react I slumped in my chair and consciousness faded away.
Author's Note
Third attempt at a story hopefully I can keep motivation for this one.
