Kale Reclined in the bucket chair of the corvettes bridge and talked idly with his second in command “You do know if this works, we will all be famous, imagine all of the planets out there that we can discover, all of the new life and new civilisations”
The commander smiled back, and Kale thought Im gonna have to ask her out when this is over Seeming to read his thoughts the young otter said “If this works, im paying for dinner at the mess tonight”
Kale smiled, and turned towards the cockpit window again, taking what might be his last ever look at his home world, the green and blue hues of the huge forests and the great brown smudge of the sallek wastelands. The clearance tower flashed green and the radio blared out “Commander Brennan, You are good to go, activate the hyperspace drives at your discretion.
Now was his time to shine, the very reason why he had been picked for this mission. Concentrating, he slipped into the ships computer, becoming it, seeing the universe through the multi layered imaging of the sensors, feeling the quiet burn of his engines as he began to charge the drive unit. He felt the build up of energy through his metal body as the charge completed. He focused and released, coming back to the normal level of reality, watching the space around them dissolve as they were pushed out of normal space, and forced through sub space.
He was roused from his thoughts by a loud and sudden Clacton sounding, the drive malfunction lights lit up as fires broke out, the hyperspace core overloading, the ship span wildly as space returned, another planet now in view as the noise died down…
That had been almost a year ago kale thought, the accident that had killed his crew and crippled the Espirit’s hyperspace core. He reflected on this as he laid back in the ships communal pool, also reflecting on how far he had been flung by the core… according to his hazy calculation, he had been flung across half of the galaxy, but he had survived, and so had the ship. In the circumstances it was all he could do was try to make some money and repair the drive, in the hope that he could somehow make the drive functional again. Currently, circumstances had him grounded him on an unknown world (OOC: wasn’t sure about this so can someone pm me so I can edit this so its right) and once again strange things had happened, he had ended up outside a local bar, there appeared to have been a fight, and someone had been shot, by a kid, the kid had been looking for someone to help, and they had turned him away almost violently, after he had left the bar, he finished my drink and decided to help them, after all, I really didn’t have anything better to do so he walked off in the direction of the kid… what he saw surprised him… a human? On his planet they had been a myth, something that the parents would tell their cubs about at night to help them sleep. He fondly remembered stories like man in boots. “Hello there” He said “Is there anything I can help with?