I had some spare time so thought I would quickly type up chapter one I don’t think it is as good as it could have been had I had more time but any hope it is liked all comments welcome
P.S. as I have said many times I am not good with punctuation
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The Lizarians and humans make a great discovery, and attempt to take it back with them but the "great discovery" has other ideas.
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I walked slowly with Professor Matson into the meeting room. Matson was fifty-two had short white hair, and for some bizarre reason always wore black trousers a shirt, and white lab coat. The room was dark there was a black hose shoe shaped table in the middle of the room. The room was empty apart from that was painted a dull grey and had a screen in the wall opposite the head of the table. Seven people were already there we were late again. Four of them were Lizarian and the rest were human. Lizarians were the ones who had helped us develop space travel, and what were commonly known as warp rift generator drives; more commonly known as warp or rift drives. They were reptilian creatures that stood on two feet and looked like lizards from back on Earth. Lizarians had four clawed fingers and a thumb. Each of their feet had three toes each with large claws. Their scales were a brilliant emerald green had orange eyes with slit pupils. I didn’t pay attention to anyone and just sat down in my seat next to the professor.
“Now that we are all here I believe the professor has something to begin with,” a female Lizarian said at the top of the table. She was the Lizarian leader, they referred to her as the princess. She was slender and looked much weaker than many; but I knew not to underestimate someone.
“The Samaro graveyard has stalled all attempts to explore it by disrupting sensor equipment. We have developed a working prototype model, that we believe will allow us to push deep into the graveyard,” the professor began. The Samaro graveyard was an entire system blanketed in a thick dust cloud, no one knows much for sure appart from the rough size; that is about twice the distance form the sun to Jupiter. The reason we wanted to explore it was to locate Ancestor relics. The Ancestors were believed to be the Lizarians forefathers who had a massive empire, and were highly advanced. However they simply disappeared leaving behind relics in remote areas of the galaxy.
“When will we be able to test it?” asked a well-built lizarian opposite me. He was Commander Soraka a well-respected member of the Lizarian AEF (Assault and Exploration Fleet).
“As soon as tomorrow morning, the prototype is being transported here as we speak.” the professor replied happily. Soraka nodded.
“Presuming this works and we find Ancestor relics I want you commander to ignore protocol and bring them directly to Lizaria for examination.” the princess ordered calmly.
“As you wish my princess.” Soraka replied.
Twenty-six hours later
I was standing on the bridge of a Lizarian battleship. The room was circular. The rear walls were full of screens and control panels with Lizarians operating them. The front wall was a huge reinforced viewing window. Everything in front of us was a brown and orange smudge. The professor was next to me he was holding a laptop, that was linked to the prototype he nodded to Soraka.
“Take us in,” he ordered. The ship powered forward into the cloud. Through the thick dust I could make out black shapes. When we got closer they turned out to be bits of ships ranging from wings to engines. We went on for two hours stopping regularly to check the prototype. Eventually we came to a clearing in the cloud. The clearing was massive, there was a small dying red dwarf star at the centre with huge amounts of debris orbiting it.
“Sir we have reached the centre of the cloud,” a female voice from behind me said.
“Prototype is functioning normally,” the professor added. I was looking at the wrecks when my eye stopped on one that was much bigger than the rest.
“What’s that?” I asked pointing at the wreck.
“Zoom in.” Soraka ordered a square appeared around the object then stretched to the length of the window. The wreck was neatly curved at the sides and back but the front was frayed to the point of disintegration, like it had been ripped off by shear force. In the heart of the wreck was a ship. It was a perfect cylinder shape with a right-angled triangle tail fin and two more I could just about make out through the gaps in the decaying metal. There was a small domed bridge section not far from the base of the top fin. Also atop every fin was a box shape with a single huge barrel stretching out from it. The front of the ship was hollowed in like a cone, its sides were ridged however like a flight of stairs leading inwards. Also there was a small slit on the left side of the ship. The light from the dying sun of the graveyard resembled the light of a slowly setting sun on earth. The light glinted and danced on the wreck, and its perfectly preserved prize. The dying light made it look almost too amazing to be real.
“Move in,” Soraka ordered a moment later the ship was heading towards the wreck. We reached it a few moments later. Soraka stood up and gazed upon it he opened his mouth to speak but just couldn’t find the words. I don’t think anyone could. A concerned deep voiced male Lizarian who was sitting at the sensor terminal abruptly and unpleasantly broke the silence.
“Sir massive power spike coming from the object!” he shouted.
“Could it be the prototype failing?” Soraka asked bewildered.
“No…Its not the prototype its coming from the ship,” replied the professor.
“It’s hailing us,” the female said.
“Accept it's request. It properly an automated message,” Soraka ordered. The sound of static and a scrambled, unidentifiable voice spoke out then the channel closed.
“Move in with boarding frigates,” Soraka ordered. Moments later two oblong ships moved in. They had a small square bridge coming out of the top and three engines on the back. The ships were unarmed and had no windows or identifying marks. The ships reached the wreck.
“Docking port detected moving in,” a lizarian from the lead frigate said as they moved inside the slit. There was silence for about five minuets then suddenly the ship lit up.
“Sir power restored warp drive and engines online,” the leader said clearly over the communication channel. The ship slowly lifted from the ship and moved over to us.
“Good let’s go home activate warp drive and head for Lizaria,” Soraka ordered. A large blue and white scar shape opened in front of us both sips went through it.
“Sir drive multifunction detected I’m locked out of the system,” a male said behind me. My vision went white.
I woke up some time later and looked around. Everyone had ether fallen asleep at their posts or had flopped to the ground. Soraka was in front of me he twitched, opened his eyes and got up. Within a minute everyone was awake. I looked out the window in front of us was a brown half sphere; it was full of lights and windows. Underneath it was a stretched circular portion of the object that had a large slit in it. I looked inside and saw some ships, but there were too far to get a decent look at them.
“Sir the main cannon weapon is charging we can’t stop it!” shouted the leader on the other ship; that was slightly in front to our left. Seconds later there was a blinding white beam coming from the ship. The beam hit the station causing several explosions. When the attack ceased half the station was breaking apart. The cannon fired again and the station exploded in a fiery display.
“The dive is back under control,” the female Lizarian said.
“Take us home…” Soraka said slowly and cautiously. We opened another scar shaped rift and headed through.
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Battleship Zakoro black box recording
01:59
Zilik station ruins
Six hours after the attack
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“Evidence of Ancestor weapons detected,” a gruff voice said.
“Impossible the Ancestors are long gone.” said another contradicting the first.
“Lizarian rift drive use detected,” added a third
“Lizarians wouldn’t know we are here,” replied the first
“Enough!” boomed a considerably more aggressive voice “The station has been destroyed. The Lizarians must be annihilated just liked their Ancestors prepare a full invasion force,”
“Yes General Rovok,” many other voices said in union.
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What the heck does 'power forward' mean? I've never heard that phrase ever before, so just wondering.
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