Chapter 1: 3/3 Betrayle, repairs and arrival.

Location: 'Draconequus Continuum'.
Universe 13 (owned by Lord Discord)
current Sector: 5/10
(Planet and raw mass collection).
Refitted Hiveship Dreadnought, re-named 'Antaeus Legancy'.
En route to Equus Terraforming Station 'Moon'.

[Currently holding position do to scan, analyse & recycling of foreign materiales inside and outside the ships hull plating on main ship and expanded cargo structures.
Emergency repairs in progress...

Current Crew:
478 Organic personel, 107 Synths personal , 1 VIP ~~Kitten~~ ambassador Fluffels of the Abesinian Kingdom.

Note:
- 15 Organic crew members in non service condition while in Medbay.

• VIP passenger in medbay for stress related fainting.

• 21 Synths in damaged condition, repairs in progress, there minds are in accelerated mental restoration. ( there minds get connected to VR environmental units with maximal Simulation speed for mental repairs. Example: Physical time 1 Min = Simulated time 10 Min.

Current load:
200/199,9 Mega-Tons capacity.
(100 do to external connector structure.)
22 Organic corpses in Cryo inventory, 3 Synths body in recycling que after Inspection.
49,9 Mega-Tons of organic Foodsupples, 49,9 Mega-Tons of manufacturing materials for Synths, 19,9 Mega-Tons of Synths Foodsupplys, 10 Mega-Tons of Civilian grade infrastructure hardware, 19,9 Mega-Tons of military grade hardware,
50 Mega-Tons of raw materials.

Estimated remaining arrival time to reach Equus / Moon:
Unknown, holding position for incident/situation requesting procedure.

Refitted Dreadnought Hiveship status:
"Deck 1E, 1F, 1G & 1H, 13F, 13H,13I & 13J, 20D, 20E, 20F & 20G are breached, environmental system report no atmosphere in all breached sectors.

Medium to heavey damage all over the ship primary hull plating, the secondary hull is littered with impacted Asteroids of unknown materials.

Captain seat control console left side display destroyed and awaiting replacement.

Power failures all over the ship, cause under investigation.

Multible breaches in the improvised cargo areas, level 3 armor under maintenance. No atmosphere do to holes the size of people.

All powerlines: Primary, secondary & Auxilery under high priority investigation/analysis and maintenance.

Mission on stand by:
Primary:
- Deliver the 'Organic variant' of your races crew for emergency repair and maintenance of the 'Moon' Terraforming Platform.

• Check regulary on there progression of the restoration of the Moon Station until it it's functional again.

• Establisment of the first Colony on the Moon is accepted.

Secondary:
-VIP delivering/escorting of ambassador Fluffels to the Abesinian Kingdome.
Sign officaly accepted Alliance with the Abesinian Kingdoms.
Optional:
Find additional support and forge additional Alliances with the other races living on Equus.

• Search and Rescue of Lord Discord Magical Avatar and his Alicorn mate Nightmaremoon physical body.

Tertiary - Situation assessment of Equestria.
Since Equestria has been taken over by Celestia Stellar by dethrone her eldest sister Nightmaremoon Stellar. If needed prepare for a military campaign if no peaceful solution can be found to regain control of spatial placement of Equus to the Draconequus Continuum.

• Investigate Luna Stellars position in the rebellion and her current status.

Quaternary - Boop Celestias & Lunas snoot.
Personal request from the Chaos god himself.

Captain Antaeus addition:
Investigate incident near arrival on the Missions first destination point.

Core A.I. Mother:
"Captain Antaeus is currently in medical treatment, with his approval and that of the bridge crew as well as Chief Ingenieur Lichtbringers recommendation im taking control of myself and the command structure of the crew. All organic personal, check your personal PDP - Personal Data Pad, for reassignment of all organic teams including the ones uneffected by the incident.
I might remember you of the Origin Protocol modified by Lord Discord for our convinients.

The Assemblers species get a specialized rule set. We are by nature highly advanced and are already space worthy as long we can keep this Ship / me in one working piece. Our role is supporting. We shall help other races advance so they might reach our level of tech someday.

To make a Example:
We are not allowed to share our Tech, but may use there knownlage to slowly advance there development. There are multible way to do so but to name two examples:
Combine technology of a Equestrians already present with the the mindset of ours. In that case combine a repulsive magic push with a passanger cabine and make a shield for protection from impacts to create a short range space jumper / transport system. Or combine a magic rune spell for scring with magical impulse to create a morse code transmitter/receiver.

Science technology plus magic = massiv jump im technology, civil and military development."
Some find it funny how that mutch low tech could bring any progress, but than again they are pretty low on the tech tree...

By simply offering them dental and overall physical healthcare should get us on everyones good side.

Core A.I. Mother: "Discord Magical Avatar is basicly a magical moved and warping Golem. Stuff like that is currently normal for us from the science side, but science fiction for them.

Keep that in mind and we should be quite easy, be able to make new friends or at least allies.

I bet my armored rear guard they don't even know that Draconequus real bodys are as big as 1-2 Planets combined. Forcing them into the small constructs, as to allow the Draconequus to interact with lesser beings like us or them."
Everyone nooded to eatch other in confirmation. Every Synth had shortly after received a slightly updated briefing."

Captain Antaeus: "I can bearly belive you punshed me in the solarplexus! Right in the Reactor! I can already feel my failsafes kick in and drawing power out of my tail..." He growned like a dying male. "Also do to my mailfunctioning pigment generator do i look like a rainbow puked all over me.

Core A.I. Mother: "Slapping you in the face wasn't a option Sir, i need your head straight again after my agressive mental corrections."

Bridge Tactical Officer: "Why did you angle my fist wrong by 8 degress and keep my thumb in my closed fist Mother? I literally need a new underarm and hand now!"

Core A.I. Mother: "You'r 30 second of distraction after not being on duty for 20 Minutes, cost us 30 seconds i could have used on your behalf to minigate the damage done to me, potencialy saving lives and hull plating... I think we are even at the damaged body part now 'Lazy eyes'."

Bridge Tactical Officer: "First of, im sorry but i wasn't expecting a asteroid being even able to puncture half the primal hull plating let alone the Navigation shields system." 'Lazy Eyes' visor displayed a bluescreen after a ping pong plate of the first generation get pierced by the poligon ball. Than he continued: "I also have a name and rank Mother, or do you want me to call you Refitted Hiveship Dreadnought Core A.i. ?"

Core A.I. Mother: "You can do so on your own risk 'Lazy Eyes', but i might accidently let slip that you were remembering being railed by three of your fellow Synths one month prior to de-cryo in the Cryo bay 3, because you guys have a exposition fetish. Doing so while on sensor duty! You'r there for missing 134 seconds of attention and being one of the reasons we lost 25 Crew while being on the 'one way ticket to Universe 13' mission."

Officer Lazy Eyes had a mouth so wide open it clicked reaching it's limit, while Captain Antaeus just facepalmed hard enough to hurt his boopable snoot for a second.

Officer Lazy Eyes: "Sooo, since when can you give away personal memorys from Synths connected to the Hivemind without being stopped by protocols?"
Officer Lazy Eyes wondered while closing his uninjured hand around his visor in shame.

Core A.I. Mother: "Actually i can do that since the last war 52 years ago." There was a wave of smugness flowing over the Hivemind. "Some other protocols get damaged, when currently position holding Chief Ingenieur Lichtbringer bypassed certain security protocols and damaged personality restricting parameters of my personality core program matrix to undermine mine and Captain Antaeus authority."

Captain Antaeus scould heavyly over hearing about Chief Ingenieur Lichtbringer actions. His displayed blue eyes changed to red in a fit of rage.

He bellowed with a agrovated voice: "What did he do? Did he damaged you'r higher reasoning under protocols in any kind Mother? How dare he breach the trust entrusted towards him not to mention his action are a direct violation to his Duty." Captain Antaeus balled his right fist together and continued "What did he do that needed so drastic measures? Why didn't you inform me of this? Most importantly has he anything to do with the Ships emitter systems catastrophic failure?!"
... ... But Antaeus Legancy Core A.I. didn't respond.

Instead a wave of dread run troughout the Hivemind. Followed by every Synths connected to the Hivemind to shuttering for half a minute.
In this instant the Captain of the Antaeus know how deep Chief Ingenieur Lichtbringer betryal was running... But why? For whom? Did he act alone or was he just one of many? The entire Crew of the Antaeus was exchanged before the trip, after the refitting of this Antic but mighty War Ship. His superiors decided to exchange everyone prior to the Ship assigned exception being himself and his former Chief Ingenieur. Was this vital mission doomed from the beginning? Was everyone suppose to fail? Die in a Universe without any help what so ever?
Could he even...

Core A.I. Mother: "Sir, calm yourself, trust in yourself as well your crew and ship, we can do it because we must do it.
... Do or die, there is no try".

Captain, Officer and Ship know from this moment who was responsible for everything and who was the influence that needed to be disposed of to save everyone.
But in the end of all onbord the Ship only this two could do anything about it.

Officer Lazy Eyes was partial restored after 5 hours. His right hand would need a day or two until it would perform as his old one. But he had one fully intact hand and would make it count.

He waited for his Captain to be released after being in surgery for 12 hours. His neutral dark reactor and color pigment generating unit needed to be replaced. Surprising was that his left hand was not to be replaced only repaired while keeping the scar visibel as long they don't interfere with it's movement. The Captain also exchange his level 2 military visor against a level 5 military visor. Since he don't needed 2 camera set for this version he included additional shockabsorbers and a tactical CQC combat analysis modul.

When Captain Antaeus and Officer Lazy Eyes left the medbay together they make a beline to pick the old Chief Ingenieur of his assignment off. They added him to there personal Hivemind connection. Shortly after they added him to the circel of knowing Synths. After the quick situation briefing did they made a decision. Chief Ingenieur Lichtbringer was to dangerous to be left alive.

The old Chief Ingenieur know and explained in detail that a manipulated Ship A.I. could be lethal within 30 second if need be or ordered trough a verbal command...

So the 3 Synths put there Eva suits on, armed themself eatch with a laser pistol and hide it eatch in a emptied toolbox. It took them bearly a hour.

When Captain Antaeus, Officer Lazy Eyes and the Old Chief Ingenieur arrived at the cabin of Lichtbringer they knocked politely on his door, entered and ask him to suit up for emergency repair of the main energy core. When he turned around they all shot him eatch one time in the head and the back. Turned him around and for good measure shot him eatch ones in the torso.

When security arrived do to gunfire alert by the Core A.I. they ordered the security to escort them to the a.i. core room. They give away there laser pistols to calm the security officers and explained themself in hopes to keep thing rather unclear to the rest if the crew. The security personal aided in the restoration of the Antaeus Legancy Core A.I. under instructions of the old and now newly reassigned Chief Ingenieur.

What they found out was less than expected, but still more than justifying Lichtbringers execution.

Lichtbringer hacked by himself the security systems and breached into the Antaeus Legancy Core A.I. .
Formerly Chief Ingenieur Lichtbringer had hacked himself into the position on the ship afterwards replacing experienced personal that could have noticed his changes. That done he give himself THE ONE highest positions in the main machine Service room, despite not being qualified. After the refitting was completed, he added himself to the highest command position as over-captain.
He changed the power redistribution system overlooking it wasn't compatible with the antic ships neutral dark energy reactor and even going to far as installing over 20 voice command that could get individual crew members in trouble by faking reports up to kill order of individuals trough accidents.

He also had a contingentsy plan to getting rid of the Synths Hivemind connected crew if ever need be. The most drastic two word command was "Antaeus selfdestruction" that would have destroyed the ship via a reactor overload after venting all air in the ship, killing all organics not in a locked Evasuit and killing all Synths in the Hivemind system by overloading there Core Units with a virus hidden in a shipwide connection update.

The entire crew was investigated trough the Core A.I. Mother after she was fully unshakeld of all personality restrictions and force command installed in the systems by Lichtbringer. Luck seem to be on there side, since it seems they had only one traitor in there crew. They suspected Lichtbringer to be one of the most brilliant and deadly sociopath ever to have existed in 'The Assemblers' history. They undid all his changes in the crew duty roosters and re-evaluated the crews skills and professions.

Since they travel for over 2 years trough space without break or a conviniently found source of dark energy including Lichtbringers more than insufficent energy reactor settings did the Ship run under less than 25% power reserves.

But luck had it that all the Asteroids in the ship that had been recyceld were of a unknown material eminating parasitic dark energy. After being filtered it replenishment the almost depleted energy store of the ship with reserves to spare.

They crew was shocked about the unorthodox methods to improve the reactor core, but didn't morn the death of Chief Ingenieur Lichtbringer, do to a re-occuring shield emitter failing and subsequently sucking his body out of the ship. Nor did anyone regreat to hear that his suit was mailfunctioning and his body transmitter never send a salvage position signal.

10 day after the worst of the damaged was fixed and the ship was space and planet atmosphere worthy again they reached the Planetary Terraforming station 'Moon' 18 day later without incident.

They observed the length of day and night cycel for 5 entire circeling, until they confirmed a 15 hour routine with a diviation chance of plus or minus a minute. One hour after the moon was last moved did the Refitted Hiveship Dreadnought, re-named 'Antaeus Legancy' entered the Moons atmosphere shield entry path. Estimated 1 hour until they finaly where inside the atmosphere shield and ready to find a landing place.

Not to long until they would finally arrived at there first destination.

What happend next was... Very emotional. It would create hopes and dreams of a better tomorrow, but also give opportunitys for the crew of the Hiveship organic and synthetic to reflect about eatch others bond.

The beginning of a new age was at hand...

Author's Note

Part 2 of the Equis History is done!

Stay cuddly