Location: 'Draconequus Continuum'.
Universe 13 (owned by Lord Discord)
current Sector 5/10
(planet and raw mass collection).
Hiveship 'Antaeus Legancy'
En route to Equus, personal resort of
Lord Discord.

Ship Class: Refitted Hiveship Dreadnought
(refitted for more effectiv use for mixed crew and more cargospace via extended external structures fixed to the rear with connectors)

Current Crew:
500 Organic personel, 110 Synths personal , 1 VIP ~~Kitten~~ ambassador Fluffels.

Current load:
200/200 Mega-Tons capacity.
(100 do to external connector structure.)
50 Mega-Tons of organic Foodsupples, 50 Mega-Tons of manufacturing materials for Synths, 20 Mega-Tons of Synths Foodsupplys, 10 Mega-Tons of Civilian grade infrastructure hardware, 20 Mega-Tons of military grade hardware,
50 Mega-Tons of raw materials.

3 Days , 10 Hours and 2 Minutes estimated time until the 'Antaeus Legancy' reached the planet Equus and it's Terraforming platform named 'Moon'.

Antaeus Legancy Core A.I. nickname 'Mother': "Core A.I. to all personal. Estimated arrival time 3 Days, 10 hours. Prepare for shift switch, send all not sended status updates despite delay or incomplet document. That is all."

Captain of the Antaeus Legancy : "Really smooth Mother, i guess you'r trying to gently remind our teamleaders to stop slacking off?"

Antaeus Legancy Core A.I. nickname 'Mother:
"It was elusive enough not to indicate to a specific group or individual Sir, that is within my allowance."

Captain of the Antaeus Legancy gently chuckels displaying a playful smile at his visor and continues: "Ooo don't get me wrong Mother, they can need a little reminder that i have there tails if they forget to fullfill there duty's. I was actualy about to compliment you for the vigilance and care for them to keep there tail out of the fire."

Antaeus Legancy Core A.I. nickname 'Mother: "You'r welcome Sir."

3 Days, 9 Hours and 45 Minutes until estimated arrival to Equus & Moon.

Core A.I. nickname 'Mother: "Sir? We have a problem that needs you'r immediate attension Sir."

Captain of the Antaeus Legancy: "Where is the fire mother ?"

Core A.I. nickname 'Mother: " There is no fire Sir, i would have sounded blue alert otherwise Sir."

Captain of the Antaeus Legancy: "It's a idiom, Mother... What's the problem?"

Core A.I. nickname 'Mother: "I'm missing a status report of Chief Ingenieur 'Lichtbringer' Sir and Duty rooster confirmation bu..."

Captain of the Antaeus Legancy interrupted the A.I.: "Don't worry to mutch about the Kid, yes - he is young but if he wasnt up to the task my supperior wouldnt have replaced my old Chief Ingenieur with him. Besides... The old fart is standing at the ready if..."

Core A.I. Mother: "SIR, this is seriouse please don't interrupt me!"

The Captain of the Antaeus Legancy was shocked of the aggression of Mother voice, that only happend when shit was about to hit the floor.

Captain Antaeus was at laserpoint focus in that moment: "Report!".

Core A.I. Mother: "We have a unknown contact on sensor's!"

The Sensor Officer on duty looked shellshocked for a moment having overlooked the warning indicators that having been blinking for half a minute.
This few seconds of lost attention would cost them dearly, this incident would change the Crew's life forever.

Core A.I.: "Sensor contact is inconclusiv, but i estimate a 85,6 % chance of a Astroid shower that is going to hit us in 1 Minute or less."
Captain Antaeus: "Captain Antaeus to all personal, All stations, CODE RED, THIS IS NOT A DRILL! CODE RED! ALL PERSONAL REPORT TO YOU'R STATIONS!!!"

Suddenly the ship lurged despite internal dampers working on 100%, to the left side throwing the bridge crew standing off there station, while the Captain taking a double take at getting thrown out of his Seat.

The Captain of the Antaeus Legancy crawled surprised back to his captains seat and activated the seatbelts.

The Captain: "Bridge crew, get you'r tails in the seat and buckle up!"

Antaeus Legancy Core A.I. Mother: "Hull breach on deck 1, 13 & 20! Environment shield not responding Sir! We have crew in the breached area's!"

Trough the ships comm system came a emergency call from a female crew member:
"Captain! Mother!! We have a breach on NNNGHHH, Deck 20, AAArrrGGG , enviro...-Shield not responding! I...". The communication attempt was interrupted by a scream of the female crewmember getting sucked out of the interior into the void of space.

Antaeus Legancy Core A.I. Mother: "SIR, Navigation shields offline, environment Shield system is responsive, but we have a glitch in the shield emitter network! Also...
We lost 12 Crewmembers, 10 flatlines, SIR!"

Another systemwide communication came in, this time from the Main Engine room: "Chief Ingenieur Lichtbringer reporting Sir, all shield emitters in the ship interior and outside are glitched and non responsive! It makes no sence! There are not even connected with the same powerline!".

Captain: "Get my fucking ship in working order Chief! Were losing Crew left and right!".

Chief Ingenieur: "But Sir i can't...".

Captain: "Do or die! There is no try!
GET - SHIT - DONE - SON!"

Chief Ingenieur: "ON IT SIR!"

Captain: "Good boy! ... Mother status?"

Core A.I. Mother: "Were still getting hit, all shields offline, extension connector 3 is damaged, getting damage reports from the cargo environmental system, i estimate 100% chance of a hull breach, i'm already remotly hacking into the cargo firedoor system... Done! Closing to avoid cargo damage and or losing of there inventory."

The Officer from the Tactical station: "Sir, we should spin the ship to spread the damage out, i guess that the best we can do without Shields!"

Mother continued: "Engaging emergency rolling manover... In progress, internal dampeners on 125% capacity, hold tight!"

The ship rolling could be noticed with the continued bombardment of the Asteroids that hit with enough force to breach Navigation shield and three decks under the primary and secondary hull plating on first contact.
By the time the manover was complet the Asteroid shower had ended leaving the mighty Dreadnought hull littered with stuck Asteroids in the secondary Hull plating.

Captain: "Mother full report!"

Mother: "Deck 1E, 1F, 1G & 1H, 13F, 13H,13I & 13J, 20D, 20E, 20F & 20G have a breach, environmental system report no atmosphere in all breached sectors, we have medium to heavy damage all over the ship, the secondary hull is littered with impacts but are holding. What ever hit us had the equivalent of 3 salvos worth of armor piercing Vulture missles and cluster mines with Nano explosives all around Sir, we have multible power failures all over the ship, even as far as the engine room.

We have definitivly multible breaches in the improvised cargo areas Sir, they only had level 3 armor while the asteroids got trough our Dreadnought ships level 5 armor."

The Captain of the Antaeus Legancy hit the left captain seat control console so hard that its display cracked and the interior sparked.

Antaeus Legancy Core A.I. nickname 'Mother' resumed the report: "We are still assessing the situation, but we will need to stop our momentum and make repairs on the stop, while rescue operations recover lost crew Sir.

The Captain: "O light my tail on fire... How many Mother... How many did we lose?"

Core A.I.: "Sir, focus! We need to get the situation under control! Do or die, there is no try!"

The Bridge Crew echod mothers call of duty with everything there voice boxes could manage.

The Captain: "Yeah you'r right, ok - ok, we got this... Stop the ship, 'dead momentum'! Crew situation?!"

Mother: "Unclear, current count is 26 dead or missing Crewmembers, 20 confirmed flatlines, Sir.

Unfortunately i have to report that for some reason almost the entire organic lead stuff shows Flatlines.

Captain: "What?!" The Captain might just have wispered in disbelive, but Mother confirmed non the less.

Mother: "Sorry Sir, the organic leader of the Medical, science, terraforming, marines, security, cargo inventory & repair crews are dead."

The Captain of the Ship had to bite down on his left hand not to scream out in disbelive. His teeth dig deep into his hand. A minute later he stopped biting down, stopped the bleeding with sealing gel from the captain seats Nano-Kit and was back on focus.

Captain: "Get our familie back home, Mother, alive or dead, noone gets left behind..."
Mother the Antaeus Legancy Core A.I. responded: "Yes Sir".

5 Hours later...

Antaeus Legancy Core A.I. nickname 'Mother': " I have my full report ready Sir."

While the A.i. of the ship always had a professional neutral toned voice on her, outside combat situations, everyone in the Bridge could feel her pain troughout the Hivemind.

Captain of the Antaeus Legancy : "Mother... Mother patch the report and our coming conversation troughout the ship."

Captain Antaeus braced himself for the report.
A shipwide attention signal was issued.

Mother started her report: " 25 dead crew members, 22 organic, 3 Synths, 21 organic crew members died do to shield emitter network failure trough unknown cause that vented the crew into space, when both hull plating failed, 1 died do to being crushed under one of the hull piercing Asteroids."

Mother paused for a few seconds and continued: "The 3 Synths died to individual death causes, 1 died by being hit as well by Asteroid impact, 1 died by getting stuck to the ripped open hull and sliced his head open, instant Brain death, the last died do to shock witnessing the void killed remains of the crewmembers recovered, reason probably old age, he was 260 Years of Age."

The Captain had to hold down tears despite being a Synth, his actions or rather inaction had cost his Familie 25 members. While the Captain had to bite down tears Mother continued despite noticing the Captains distress. The entire Crew was listening and they needed a strong, unbending voice of direction after the report would end.

So Mother keep on going:
"15 wounded crewmembers, non critical as of this moment" , The Captain noted that Mother was trying to pull his tail out of the blaze of this situation by down playing how they almost lost even more.

"We recovered all Crewmembers bodys from space. The 21 Synths that got sucked out the Ship are mostly fine despite the shocking experience."

The crew breath of releave was audible.

"Navigation shields are back but at 10,2% performance , environmental system report no atmosphere do to unresponsive shield emitters on the ships hull..." Mother trailed of for a second, that was very untypical of her, she continued on as if nothing happend: "Cargo extension had all suffered hull breaches. Extension connector 3 bearly holding together.

The cargo is still under investigation but the food organic and non organic seem fine." The Captain accidently interrupted Mother for a moment: "Thank the maker, we need that stuff the most...".

Mother than followed with the rest of the damage report. What seem to be strange was the power failiure, since nothing seem to have caused all powerlines (primary, secondary & Auxilery) to be physicaly cut. When Mother concluded the report, did the crew of the Antaeus and it's Captain hold a 2 Minutes silent watch to honor there fallen crews memories.

2 Minuted and 12 Seconds later did the current Captain ordered: "All Synths personal, suit up for Eva, get your fellow crewmates there Eva Suits, doublecheck on the seals! No more casualties."

The Captain has a ice cold voice that everyone could feel running trough the ship. "Find out what happend, repair the Cargo areas first, relocate all personal from the outher hull quarters and stay on alert, until we reach the 'Moon' station we stand on code red, that is all in the matters of orders but i have a announced to make...

I shit the floor, i really got our tails burned, 25 of us died because i didn't had the head in the game." He took deep audible breats despite being a Synths and continued: "We are literally in another Universe and i could have never imagen that me not being on alert would have cost us so dearly. No matter what comes i get everyone else to our destination. When we landed the ship you will investigate how this desaster came to be but you should know that i will start 'a vote of doubt' on me for my lack of judgement."

The communications system had a moment of static, before it returned to normal. Everyone in the crew started to murmer no matter if on the bridge or the farthest conor of the extension of the Cargo storage. "That is all."

With this three words would have hell broken free if not for...

"BY THE MAKER, GET A GRIP ON YOURSELF'sss". The voice in the Communication system echod trough the halls like gunshots with a hiss of a Viper on the offensive.

Antaeus Legancy Core A.I. nickname 'Mother' the neutral voice of reason that only got heated when the fire was raining down on her Children and the void was thick with weaponfire just had her first emotional agressive outburst in 402 Years of service outside combat. That shut everyone up and caused the occational Synths to hold there simulated breath.

Mother: "So shit hit the floor, FINE! We all got our tail burn, FINE! But get your warfaces out everyone, because im done letting anyone doubt that we can't pull trough with this Buckethead as Captain!" Now do hydrospanners and powertools drop to the floor. "Everyone, you have you'r orders get to it, i have to beat some sence into this fool!

Medical station, prepare for one beat up scaly Buckethead! Do me the favor and check if his tail is in one piece afterwards. Because when i ended his pitty party...

He - is - going - to - lead - us - all - HOME!"

Author's Note

It's funny how one can stand ready for everything for Hours, days or years and in a few minutes of lack in attention everything can run south...

Hope you enjoyed the Chaos. There is a lot to come...

Stay Cuddly