snowkitten
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OOC... the thread for OOC discussions and requests for joining this thread etc. etc. is over here >>> Sex-Crazed Alien Cat-Girl OOC!
Just beyond the orbit of Saturn, there is a brief flash of light in the void. Where once was just the cold empty vacuum of space and a few stray particles of ice and dust, now a slender conical object slowly turns. Its silvery-blue hull is nearly black, reflecting little of the light from the sun that strikes it. The vessel from outside looks silent... almost eeriely serene, against the backdrop of stars, but within... things are much different.
[ Emergency --- Spatial jump malfunction --- Powercore overload in progress --- Emergency ] came the voice of the ships AI computer, its calm masculine tone seeming a ludicrous parody to the actual urgency of the situation onboard the spaceship.
The pilot of the ship moved her hands in a flurry over the command control gems - multifaceted glowing crystalline sensors that read her movements and translated them into ship instructions. "Spatial jump malfunction?" she queried, her ears twitching nervously. The jumpdrive was a tried and tested device, and such and error in spatial jumping was virtually unheard of, relegated to whispered spacefarer bar tales.
[ Current Location: Unknown --- Powercore overload in progress --- Emergency ]
"Location unknown?" she murmured in disbelief, though the current overload was a far more immediate concern, as she continued to fight to shut down the drive core. The Katari Empire had charted the whole of their galaxy, and the jump drive didn't have the range to carry the ship more than a tenth of the distance across it. "How is that possible?" she asked, still working feverishly in an attempt to contain the mounting powercore problem, which she began to sense was a losing battle.
[ Theorise: Spatial jump malfunction resulted in dimensional rift ] the computer replied in answer to Taysha's query. [ Powercore overload reaching critical --- Estimated three minutes to critical mass --- No stellar bodies in fifty light year range match with galactic map --- Emerg- ]
"Any habitable planets in rrrange of escape pod?" she interrupted desperately, adding please in her mind. Several of the command control gems had now gone dark, the glow that indicated their functioning status fading as the systems they controlled went offline.
[ Scanning --- Acknowledged: habitable planet in range of escape pod confirmed --- 20 seconds to critical mass ]
"Launch escape pod!" Taysha cried urgently. She felt the shudder of the command cabin, which doubled as the escape capsule unit, unlocked from the rest of the ship. There was a second, fiercer shudder as the escape pods thrusters kicked in for a substained burn, the computers voice acknowledging a successful launch. Please let me get out of range before the drive core blows she prayed to whatever cosmic forces that might be listening.
[ 10 seconds to critical mass ]
Taysha brought up what limited shielding there was available without the primary power core available, biting her lower lip nervously, and watched the sensor readout as the escape pod accelerated away from the impending explosion. Had she left it too late?
[ 5 seconds to critical mass ]
Please she silently mewled again.
[ Powercore critical mass reached ]
Closing her layered eyelids over her golden-green slitted pupils, she awaited the shockwave from the powercore's explosion that would shortly follow.
Nearby, in the galactic scale of things at least, upon the third world of the planatery system, whose inhabitants were unaware of the crisis occuring beyond the ringed planet... in a family home, on the midwestern coast of America...
Just beyond the orbit of Saturn, there is a brief flash of light in the void. Where once was just the cold empty vacuum of space and a few stray particles of ice and dust, now a slender conical object slowly turns. Its silvery-blue hull is nearly black, reflecting little of the light from the sun that strikes it. The vessel from outside looks silent... almost eeriely serene, against the backdrop of stars, but within... things are much different.
[ Emergency --- Spatial jump malfunction --- Powercore overload in progress --- Emergency ] came the voice of the ships AI computer, its calm masculine tone seeming a ludicrous parody to the actual urgency of the situation onboard the spaceship.
The pilot of the ship moved her hands in a flurry over the command control gems - multifaceted glowing crystalline sensors that read her movements and translated them into ship instructions. "Spatial jump malfunction?" she queried, her ears twitching nervously. The jumpdrive was a tried and tested device, and such and error in spatial jumping was virtually unheard of, relegated to whispered spacefarer bar tales.
[ Current Location: Unknown --- Powercore overload in progress --- Emergency ]
"Location unknown?" she murmured in disbelief, though the current overload was a far more immediate concern, as she continued to fight to shut down the drive core. The Katari Empire had charted the whole of their galaxy, and the jump drive didn't have the range to carry the ship more than a tenth of the distance across it. "How is that possible?" she asked, still working feverishly in an attempt to contain the mounting powercore problem, which she began to sense was a losing battle.
[ Theorise: Spatial jump malfunction resulted in dimensional rift ] the computer replied in answer to Taysha's query. [ Powercore overload reaching critical --- Estimated three minutes to critical mass --- No stellar bodies in fifty light year range match with galactic map --- Emerg- ]
"Any habitable planets in rrrange of escape pod?" she interrupted desperately, adding please in her mind. Several of the command control gems had now gone dark, the glow that indicated their functioning status fading as the systems they controlled went offline.
[ Scanning --- Acknowledged: habitable planet in range of escape pod confirmed --- 20 seconds to critical mass ]
"Launch escape pod!" Taysha cried urgently. She felt the shudder of the command cabin, which doubled as the escape capsule unit, unlocked from the rest of the ship. There was a second, fiercer shudder as the escape pods thrusters kicked in for a substained burn, the computers voice acknowledging a successful launch. Please let me get out of range before the drive core blows she prayed to whatever cosmic forces that might be listening.
[ 10 seconds to critical mass ]
Taysha brought up what limited shielding there was available without the primary power core available, biting her lower lip nervously, and watched the sensor readout as the escape pod accelerated away from the impending explosion. Had she left it too late?
[ 5 seconds to critical mass ]
Please she silently mewled again.
[ Powercore critical mass reached ]
Closing her layered eyelids over her golden-green slitted pupils, she awaited the shockwave from the powercore's explosion that would shortly follow.
Nearby, in the galactic scale of things at least, upon the third world of the planatery system, whose inhabitants were unaware of the crisis occuring beyond the ringed planet... in a family home, on the midwestern coast of America...
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