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Chapter 1: Prologue

"Congratulations Class of Beta Gamma Iota. All of the 300 ensigns will be assigned to their starship based on their performance, the people who have the least performance will have to be placed on standby, the most performance will work on the battleship" - Commander Roberts Exclaimed.

After 6 weeks of awful training. We finally get to our ships, I'm very excited to see my starship. I'm feeling ready...
"Ensign Gibbs, you are to be assigned on the SS Starscaper"

Yes! I got the best ship of the class! 200,000 GRT of Pure Titanium. It's basically a floating fort and a city. Equipped with 16 A-Class Napalm Cannons. An sole engine powered by lucrativatanium. One Crystal of Lucrativatanium gives a range of 5 Universes. And Lucrativatanium is very rare. This is why Planet Z9-OK8-231. The planet with the only large Lucrativatanium Reservoirs. Must be kept by the Empire.

""6 months Later""

The Starscaper has been introduced. And I'm feeling ready.
"Congratulations all officers, you worked very hard enough to work on the Starscaper, all of you deserved it and we wish you good luck" It Seemed so surreal.

Everyone Crowded through the doors. Every Ensigns and Officers were squished around the air locks. It was like a stampede. Some of the Ensigns even died. I did reach the door,
I was to work on the Communications Sector. I find frequencies in space. But since some ensigns died. I was also to relay orders from The Captain to Homebase. Everyone watched as the Starscaper was lifted by platforms into space. The countdown started

"10... 9... 8..." The Main Platforms were brought down, keeping the auxiliary platforms holding the ship "7... 6... 5... 4..." The first few Aux Platforms release. And the Engines Power up "3.. 2... 1... Liftoff" All the other arms release the ship and we are off. My first message to relay is "This Is Captain Louis. We have lifted off Home Base. All Systems are Operational. Navigations and Communications are working, and core is well at 1,000 Degrees Celsius" It was sucesssful. We finally left home base.

"Capt. Louis... Please Tell the Navigators to Navigate towards Pavo..." Relayed to captain for the navigators. We were turning very sharply towards Pavo. Since Hyperjump wasn't ready at the moment, we were to move at a normal pace. I was given a break... and I went to the Main Hall.

It was gigantic. It was like a shopping mall.. I immediately got myself some food, it was mushy and liquidy like soup. But it was delicious.
10 Hours into the trip. I was on frequency. We were in an field where enemy starships destroyed a few Light Cruisers a few days ago. So we were to look for enemy antennas.

I was on looking out for frequencies, then suddenly, a small ship just like an escape pod of our starship. "Help us..." Said the Figure in the pod. I know this is an alien, and he might cause ruckus...