"huh? wha...? you serious? cool." crawling out of the bed, I feel my eyes being drawn, with a feeling as if I wasn’t in total control, to a robe on an end-table nearby. looking around I saw that I was in a small bedroom with two doors, one on each side of the room. There was the big bed in one corner, now that I was up, I saw that it was in a diamond-like shape, with a flat bottom sticking outward into the room. Peering back into the curtains I saw the three-sided head of the bed had a raised headboard/end-table hybrid with a few drawers inside, but nothing on the top or the shelf just under it.
Looking around the room, with the nagging feeling dragging my eyes back to the robe constantly, I saw that the room had a few dressers built into the walls, at a closer inspection, I noticed that everything was actually built into everything else. The bed’s posters were really pillars running floor to ceiling, the end-table was bolted in a muted fashion to the floor, there were no free-standing items in the room at all. “so, you are claiming you ARE the ship? Are you some sort of ai in a submarine or a battleship or something?” I asked the air, expecting that who or whatever was talking to me was listening on some sort of two-way intercom.
“well, yes and no to that question, I AM the ship you are currently aboard. HOWEVER! I am not a terrestrial water-bound vessel. I am in fact……a starship.” The voice responded; did she sound hesitant at the end? Why has she sounded like she needed me to believe her, neither of us knew anything about each other though? “alright then, if I’m on a real-life spaceship,” “NO!! Not a spaceship; I am a Starship! BIG DIFFERENCE THERE!!” the voice, what did she say her name was? Ellyallia? Yah that was it. “hey, um, Elli? Can I call you that?” “Of course, that is if I can call you Alex?” Elli responded immediately.
“ok, Elli. I want to believe you, but humanity has nothing beyond a few primitive orbitals and nothing capable of having such a large cabin with what I’m assuming an attached bathroom.” And this was true the last few years, after the huge SpaceX launch, NASA finally got the overhaul they needed to drag their decrepit carcass into the 21st century. This led to a huge space travel boom ultimately leading to the founding of the first lunar colony in late 2024. That was 5 years ago now, and as if it was a dead horse cliché, the moment anyone got commercial space travel, the militaries of the world immediately weaponized what was meant to unify humanity and went to town on all the weaker players on our global game-board. Then the unimaginable happened; in 2027, North Korea finally carried through with their bullshit. They did it, that lunatic actually did it.
What the world learned that day was several things: first, that the “hippies” were right all along, no one country should have weapons of that nature or scale, it was too much risk and temptation. The next thing the world learned is just how effective the U.S.’s anti-missile defenses were, that madman’s nuke never even made it out of the country. The 7th fleet off the coast was ready for it and blew it out of the sky and recovered the warhead before anyone else even registered the launch. Afterwards, while America was readying for a long slog through hell once more in the name of freedom and vengeance, a miracle happened; the Chinese swarmed over the border and annihilated the ruling regime and hand delivered the last of the Kim line to General Hawkes as he was still mobilizing his vanguard for their opening charge.
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The news talked for years how out of character this was for the people’s party of china, but it did lead to the greatest step forward for humanity since the industrial revolution. With china, Russia, and a newly reunified Greater Korea all adding their outrage to the American people’s calls for disarming and control, the world joined hands and destroyed over 10,000 nuclear weapons and over 90% of all production capability.
What was left was placed under direct U.N. peacekeeper control along with the various space-born military assets that had been constructed. The largest of which was little more than a soup can with rocket engines and machine guns strapped to it. I’d never heard of anything capable of having such luxury onboard as the technical complexities of such a large space with essentially no use in a vacuum, would have been a nightmare both technologically and financially. “So, what you’re an alien ship then? Some sort of prank right now ya?”
“no this is no prank, if you would like to come to the observation deck, I can show you what proof I can.” Elli responded, “once you put the DAMNED ROBE ON! Do you have no shame?!” she shrieks from all around me. Huh? Oh…. my face heats up, both in embarrassment and rage, as I realize several things. First, I was naked; naked and in the presence of an unknown, but presumably female, being. Second off, SHE’S IN MY HEAD! “GET OUT OF MY HEAD! NOW! If I really am your ‘beloved’ you’ll stay the FUCK outa my head. And if this whole thing you obviously want me to get into with you requires this at least stay out until I make my own decision. Ok?” I realized halfway through my rant that I don’t understand what is going on at all, but maybe I’m not the only one.
Elli responds frantically, “sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry! My people can’t communicate with each other like most species due to the whole being living spaceships, so telepathy is our main mode of communication. I didn’t realize that it might cause you discomfort like that.” She says almost like she’s gunna… “Aww shit, please don’t cry Ell. I didn’t mean it like that, it’s just I don’t like feeling like I’m being manipulated, and having you drag me around by my brain when we don’t even know each other at all, well….”
“Of course! I understand, your people don’t have any experience with true psychics, so you still react to mental sharing with fear and anger. And yes, what I want from you WILL require us sharing our minds AND souls. Permanently. To be honest it is sort of like my people’s version of…. * marriage*….” she squeaks out the last bit almost shamefully. Oh…shit… is she for real? Marriage? Binding our minds and souls together forever? With a space... sorry, no, a star-ship?
“well I wouldn’t say I am against it, but aren’t you really jumping the gun here?” I asked as I walked towards the left-side door which just had a small panel next to it light up. I see a button blinking green at me, so I push it and the door slides open to either side. “oh wow, that’s cool… huh?” I stop to look at the recess where the door slide into and notice what looks like…grayish skin? Muscle? What the fuck is… suddenly, Elli shrieks like a schoolgirl in an anime that just had senpai walk in on her, “PERVERT! Stop peeping at me!” she yells straight into my ears; “oh crap, I’m sorry” I jerk back and move quickly through the still open door, “I didn’t realize when you said you were the ship, you meant you WERE the ship. Like you are a real-life living star-ship.” I state while blushing furiously understanding that if this is the case, I just did the Ellyallia version of looking down her shirt.
“well ya, of course I’m the ship I said that several times now, by the abyss.” She spits out, "Also, it is so adorable that you’re blushing like that even though we are completely different variants of lifeforms.” She purrs. Huh, this might be really interesting if that’s how she responds to my essentially peeking at her.