Flight Of Prometheus

Chapter 11 Arrival

After a week of traveling the Prometheus finally entered the Ondurus system and makes its way to the fourth planet. Unfortunately they have arrived during the time the King Rose's side is facing away from its star. So General Baker gave everyone an extended rest period, to wait and be polite to King Rose, as well as let his people start the "day" fresh. While the rest of the crew sleeps the night watch detects something odd.

"What is that?" asks Commander Higgins

"It looks like the remains of a huge space battle," replies Fuller the radar operator. "I've got a lot of ship beacons being recognized out there. Violet can you help identify those ships."

"Yes lieutenant fuller." Says Violet

"How far away is that area?" Higgins asks.

"It's about 250,000,000 miles away. It's almost on the direct other side of the sun from here."

"Humm. Maybe we can have Alana take a small crew and one of the frigates over there to take a look. Maybe come back with some things we can use."

"You really don't like her, do you, Sir."

Higgins glares at her,"Not in the slightest. She is an arrogant, insufferable woman who pushes my buttons every time she gets the chance."

"Ok" she giggles.

"Send an e-mail to Baker letting him know of this find. I don't want to wake him so make sure it's quiet."

"Yes, Sir." A few hours later Fuller speaks up again "Sir you need to see this. I've compiled a list of most of the ships I can identify. So far I've identified 2 cruiser carriers, 25 fighter carriers, over 150 battleships, and over 350 destroyers, cruisers, and Frigates. There is one item out there that I still can't identify. The object is 2 miles wide and over 20 miles in length, and is made of a material not on our periodic table."

"Can I get a visual?" As he says this a small holographic display turns on and shows a cylindrical object with what looks like wings covering one end, making it look like a huge missle. Sticking out, two of the sides near the rear end are larger wings with rectangles on the ends. At what can be figured for the front section, 8 serrated wings cover the nose to form the point of an arrow. Covering the skin of this ship are large dome like structures. "Send this image to Baker as well."

"No need," Baker says as he steps out of the elevator.  Violet has been keeping me updated. He walks over and takes a seat next to Higgins to look at the hologram. "Can you display measurements?" As he says this a long line of numbers rolls across the ship showing it enormous size. "Dam, what ever that is its about 20 times the size of any capital ship. Are we getting any signals from it? Can we tell if it's from the Royal Guard or some other faction?"

"I'm not picking up anything from it," replies Fuller. "I'm not sure it's even a machine. All I can tell is that it's made from something we have never seen before, and from this far away I can't scan inside it."

"Very well. I'll send over a frigate with a team to check it out."

As the crew starts to report to their posts, Alana comes up to the bridge. "So have you sent anybody to this object yet?"

"No not yet." Baker replies.

"Well I want to lead the team to go check it out. I'll take one of the frigates and a research team."

"Only on two conditions. 1 you take a fighter escort out with you. 2 if you decide to go onto that object you bring a team of Marines."

She agrees and quickly gathers a scientific team together and launches in one of the frigates to go study something new. If she was not so head strong about running these type of missions, she might have lived to see the end of this war.