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Chapter 1: Yuris Gold
Our settings start in the solar system, yes, the solar system.
The most populated area of the system is the inner solar system, made up of earth, mars, venus, and pluto. As it is where earth lays.|
Earth is a prospering civilization under the United Nation. Hold up as every nation on earth was a part of this big federation under the Secretary general and his cabinet.
Earth was under 1 banner in 2116 after the end of World War 3 that began in 2110 after the world erupted in an ice age and igniting the European union to invade africa and the middle east, with US intervention and the war front of Southeast asia with naval clashes between the PRC and USN.
The UNs government follows the same system as the United states, with its biggest state in its federation being Luna. Or the moon in terms of territory.
The moon is a hub for space travel, having low gravity and having the ease of logistics and construction. It is the main economic hub to the belt and mars and has a population of 52 million people. Its major exports are silicate composites which make up the basic material of Spacecraft, having radiation absorbing abilities while being as light as Aluminum, it is the current mainstream material used in commercial spacecraft and even Aircraft. While military craft use a different type of Silicate Composite. Luna also imports ice and lithium and varying other resources like uranium.
The UN is a Militaristic power in the solar system, and is 1 of 2 police states and a superpower in Sol.
We then move to…..Mars.
Mars was first landed in 2050, Mars was the forefront of exploration and colonization. It was a thrill to move there said by Astronauts as people began to settle there permanently.
Mars was very dependent on its home nation, relying on food exports and water. That all changed though when people started to do scheduled attacks on UN military bases and ships, as people were striving for independence.
This coordinated rebellion was set after the governor on Mars announced the Garden of Eden project finished. A 4 million square kilometer wide underground facility filled to the brim with crops and reusable soil, extracting water from the ice in mars north pole, this facility was built near the north pole and is the main producer of crops and food of mars, with the national diet of martians being rice, potatoes, beans, bread, vegetables, and fish as hydroponics was present as well.
Mars gained its independence from the calls of the people led by religious leader Peter. And with the proposal of sharing the revolutionary technology an independent martian engineer made, the Torch drive, the first successful fusion drive that uses Water and has a very very very high specific impulse.
Mars gained its independence in 2124. With the UNN 2nd fleet standing down to glass the planet with Nuclear weapons.
Mars was a planet rich in exports of metals, like titanium, steel, and etc. And was a prospering civilization as well, all based around the sign of sharing and state owned properties. You heard me right, they were communist, and the Reformation of the USSR, more knowingly as the MUSSR, for the Martian Union of Soviet socialist republics.
In 2150, with mining and exploitation of their resources and their bliss of engineers and scientists. The Soviet Union managed to gain a status as a superpower and police state over its region and influence, with a military to challenge the UN. With a 1-1.2 military size.
The Martian soviets finally had the power to strike earth and impose a repeat of the Cold-war. With the construction of the Vladimir class Ballistic Missile Spacecraft. A Nuclear spacecraft carrying 30 missiles each having 2 warheads with 30 megatons, it was one of the most advanced spaceships yet and was made in mind of stealth to disguise it as an asteroid, and had optical covering drive plume technology.
It is still in Commission today, but are more easier to spot in UN satellite spotters but is still one of the most dangerous ships in human history. And are placed in Optical strike times.
Today, as of 2205, Both the UN and MUSSR are in a mighty cold war that gets hotter each day. With tensions rising as each other's militaries attempt to one up the other. All operations are centered around the inner solar system, deep space colonies lie between Jupiter or Saturn.
The belt is a place where most mining comes in and is regarded as one of the richest places in the Solar system. Ceres, an independent city state that is dependent on earth and mars is one of the richest celestial bodies with a population of 10 million and is a hub to the outer solar system and all mining ships, it imports crops while exports rare earth materials found in asteroids or water to other space stations.
Now we come to me, a man living by himself living off the salary as an investigator.
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2205
10’00am
A man wakes up in his cozy living space of an apartment building as woke up from his nap after watching a show he watched yesterday after a long day of investigating crime.
“Ra, open the lights” Mike miller says as he stood up from his beds as the lights blissfully opened. Each house had an AI system for voice controls, this was not unusual.
Miller then went to his bathroom as he then reached for his electric toothbrush as he put toothpaste on it. He rinsed his mouth and the toothpaste as he then went away at it.
As he finished, he strips his cozy pajamas as he put them on a laundry basket that then drove away to dump all the clothing into the washer room that was immediately put on as these clothes will be washed and dried in a matter of minutes and prepared to be weared by the automatic system he installed.
As he went in, he configured the temperature of the water as the water came down. As he then felt the water feel through his skin dropping down to the floor.
He then poured himself some shampoo and washed his hair, and then started to wash himself with body soap all over.
He then finished as he came out of the shower, drying his body with a towel as he dried his his hair with a hair dryer.
Miller then gets out as he prepares himself a nice and nutritious breakfast made up of beans, rice, and a slab of bacon and eggs. As he then went away with a nice hot chocolate.
Miller then walks towards the closet as he then dresses himself, and ends with it putting on his investigator fedora. Styled with an old-style mechanical watch, his wallet on his zipper pants, and his smart phone where he browsed the news.
”Okay, more tension between earths and mars…….a recent brawl over the rights of a heritage farm…..a crash sight in siberia? Oh fuck me….”
Miller looks at the news tab as he then reads through the tab. With it, he found out that this object was detected entering Earth's sphere of influence and crash landed in a region of Siberia, killing 20 people.
Siberia was populated with most of all humans as it covered most of the overpopulation of earth with a staggering 31 billion humans.
As he browsed through, he stopped, as he then set it down and finished his food.
He walks out of his apartment as he locks it through digital means.
Miller then gets in the elevator as he then was lifted to the ground floor and walked out. With people greeting him out as he then walks to his workplace. The Central intelligence Agency's facility in the middle of the capital of the American Siberian region.
He enters as he shows his ID to the reception, as he was then guided to the investigating room. As he was then met with his advisor.
He enters as they stare each other down.
“So, is it about th-”
“Yes, it's about the crash site, we want you to join in the investigation as this spacecraft had no call-signs or background. Or how it was not detected till earth's sphere of influence got to it, i swear you should've seen the looks on the engineers when they realized the watch-tower satellites did not detect that thing from the asteroid belt.” Millers advisor, Tam Ulvyanonsk says as he then sits down, sipping his hot coffee.
”So the watchtowers did not detect the object…..weird.” The watchtower satellites are the most advanced observation satellites in the solar system, with its rival being the Martian Nikolayev Observation satellites.
“Sure thing boss, I'll check this thing out.”
“Good, I want a thorough assessment on it and what it contains, you'll be joined with the red cross and a team of scientists so be respectful miller.” Tam says as he then was back to his mobile device to answer messages.
Miller sighed, receiving the notification of the location of the crash-sight and the rendezvous with the team and red cross. He then left the room as the doors slid open to the exit of the facility.
He then went underground to the subway as he then entered it, and shortly reached his destination.
Miller went out and finally saw the science team and 5 people belonging to the red cross.
He then walks over to the rendezhou area as he is then greeted by the team leader.
“Ah, you must be Miller, I'm from NASA, Dr. Kent Jager.”
“Nice to meet you Dr. Kent.” Miller says back as they then shook hands, Kent then introduced his team as they then went underway with the surveying of the crash sight.
The crash sight was in the snowy forest of Siberia, 20 people were killed as they were hiking through it. They then entered the forest as they were then met by the impact crater of the crash site, as the team began to set up their tools.
Miller analyzes the crash sight as he was holding his smart device, typing away as he reviewed what was present.
“The crater is estimated to be around the size of about 20 meters by 20 square meters if it was a square.” As he was typing away, the science team went in with their tools as they then did their usual protocols before doing the special ones.
Miller walked behind the scientist as they then found a sort of debris. As expected, a spacecraft couldn't make much of it but the design was strange.
“This must be a drone, there's no way a spacecraft this small would accommodate a person. Not the compartment size, it's about the radiation shielding” Kent says as he pointed his radiation detector inside and found traces of radiation.
Miller walked around, inspecting all the remaining debris of the spacecraft. Picking one up, and using his limited material science knowledge, the material the spacecraft uses is not anything produced by humanity.
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It was hard, light, and showed almost no sign of damage when re-entry was going on. What is this?
Miller climbed out of the crater, taking a glance of it as the spacecraft was in pieces. He then looks away as he then spots a figure in the distance.
“What, the fuck.” He thought, as this figure in the snowy forest was tall, at least 2 meters in height, and had a bulky build with long arms. And a head that resembled something from the cephalopod genus.
The gigantic figure in the distance, disappeared as it looked like it went out of optical view. Like it ran away after its position was compromised.
Miller kept looking in that direction before he was snapped out of it by Kent.
“Miller? Miller!” Kent yelled as miller looked back.
“You should see this.” Miller slid down to the crater as he walked up beside Kent, and with the rest of the team.
Miller then saw the remnants of something red, looking like some extinct species of fungi growing along the debris of the spacecraft.
Kent looked back as he then shouted, calling the red cross as the red cross team came in with their hazard suits as they then gave everyone one, sanitizing them first.
The team climbed out of the crater as the red cross placed police tape over the crater. Signing that it was hazardous as it carried some sort of biochemical there equipment didn't realize but was extremely radiatropic.
Miller was thinking about this coincidence of events, a big tall figure and an unknown biochemical that does not have the same chemical structures as organisms on earth. Aliens? Maybe…..
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Inner solar system
A freighter was cruising along the busy space of the solar system. It was a huge freighter, at least 450 meters in length, carrying thousands of tons of water to be shipped to ceres.
It was designated with the emblem of an earth company, transporting mineral water to one of the wealthiest places in the solar system.
The freighter was commanded by Shipping captain Asur. A shipping captain who worked for the earth corp Mineral inc.
“Gosh, I'm extremely bored…..What's the ETA to Ceres again?” A worker asks his buddy while dunking down cheap beer from earth.
“Let me see…..ermm….5 hours, 5 hours of deceleration before we arrive at Ceres harbor.” The workers buddy says as he then tabbed out of the information as he then started to view the news.
The freighter was currently decelerating at 1g, showcasing its humongous size as it was carrying its very important payload.
The escorts it was given were decelerating with it, with the mercenary ships being 4 Voldius class Light corvettes. An old decommissioned earth military ship designed nearly 60 years ago and was decommissioned 40 years ago, it is one of the cheapest ships in the mercenary business and was considered luxury as most mercenaries rely on old 21st century gunships.
Each Voldius class was upgraded with the latest Torch drive available in the market, and had a specific impulse of 1.1 million. The Voldius was 50 meters in length and had a crew of 10, equipped with 3 Point defense cannons and 10 torpedoes.
The leading Voldius, MRC-Yuri, with the mercenary team leader checking the current space.
“Are there any pirate ships in the space Babayou?”
“No captain, no signatures except small asteroids within a 10 light second space. And no drive plumes.” Babayou, the captain's right hand man, responded as he was checking the space for drive plumes or radar signatures.
“Gut, once we complete this mission, let's celebrate in ceres!” Captain Turichkov says as his whole crew cheer for it.
As the Corvettes were in front of the freighter, an anonymous ship was lingering in an intercept course. Using its stealth drive plume technology to best hide its drive plume signature as non optical as possible.
The anonymous ship was painted black and was extremely good at hiding itself, it was nearly 230 meters long and didn't have any visible armaments on its surface. And was accelerating at a lingering 1g as well but built up enough velocity to intercept this convoy.
The anonymous ship then is at its closest point of detection as it then releases its drive plume technology. Revealing itself nearly 200 thousand kilometers from the convoy.
The mercenaries were immediately alerted as Turichkov was alerted by the computer immediately. As beepings showed up on the freighter and all ships in the convoy.
“What is it! Pirates?!” Turichkov shouts as the crew goes into hard work to find out what it is. A transmission is received from another mercenary ship as Turcihkov plays it.
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“Battlestations now! Put on your EVA suits!” Turichkov says as he opens the compartment beside him as he puts on his airtight sealed helmet. This was joined with the rest of the crew doing the same as they are put on high alert, as turichkov locks on the ship.
Turichkov opens a channel as he tight-beams the gigantic ship a warning message.
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The transmission was sent as no response was sent back, as Turichkov was getting anxious by the second.
“Captain! There is no available call sign on the ship! Optics show no sign of visible weaponry! And No sign of backing down!” Babayou shouts in the comms as Turichkov goes for it.
Turichkov was hesitant to send the order, but was settled when the ship suddenly opened up as a long gun is revealed as electric like effects are shown as it then fires something with counter thrust-being seen.
The slug was detected to go at a measly 40 kilometers per hour, but was very much a sign of provocation and for a fight.
“Fuck it! Engage that focking ship” Turichkov chants out as he then sends the order. <
As the transmission was sent to the whole mercenary group, there torch drives turn off as there RCS systems blast to the direction the Unknown ship was in as they the Torch drive blasts its plume at the opposite direction at 5gs as the Mercenary convoy zooms past the camera to intercept the large ship.
The unknown ship's crew, filled with creatures not of earth origin receives the transmission. With their advanced detection systems detecting the human mercenary group is set to intercept and destroy this destroyer they inhabit ... .they will not let that happen…….
The unknown ship was then designated with a call-sign with a human name, Victor-5.
Victor-5 acts immediately as its hull retracts and then comes more guns retracting out to reveal themselves to the opponent. 2 Huge railguns turn quickly at the predicted course of the mercenary group as they then fire. With a counter-thruster firing back to counter the recoil.
A 16 inch slug was sent at nearly 1000 kilometers per second.
The Yuri detected the slug incoming, as the computers alerted of this thing coming.
“What the fuck! How is that slug moving that fast!” Turichkov shouted as evasive maneuvers were added, avoiding the slug as it was joined with the entire fleet.
“I don't know captain! Those kinds of speeds should be only achieved by medium sized Casaba howitzers!” Babayou responds as the PDC systems are online.
As they were nearing the ship, Victor-5 launches a spread of Torpedoes. Nearly 40 launched on its frontal torpedo pods as they were then accelerated quickly to fight the Mercenary group.
“Torpedos Incoming!” One crewmember says as the Computer locks on each torp as the mercenary groups PDCs go into action.
The 40mm PDCs aim as they then fire at 2000rpm. Covering a whole area to destroy those torpedoes.
The PDCs were too primitive though, as they dont succeed in hitting all the torpedoes and have only destroyed 12 so far. And with that, some of the alien torpedoes miss, but all it takes is 1 to hit.
MRC-Oiu is hit with 5 torpedoes, and immediately turns into an exploded watermelon as its hull structure is obliterated and with the debris hitting the other ships, causing minor-damages to the hull.
“Ugh!” Turichkov grunts as pieces of shrapnel nearly kill him as the pressure inside the cabin is starting to squeeze out due to a puncture to the hull.
“Fack! Return fire!” Turichkov says as he releases 10 torpedoes at the unknown ship, followed by the remaining ships firing all their torpedoes.
Victor-5 detects and locks on all these missiles through their heat-signatures, as the more openings are revealed as more then 30 PDCs were exposed all around as they then started to blast the whole area with 60mm rounds at 10000rpm.
With that, all the Human torpedoes were shot down, as the mercenary group runs out of munitions to effectively destroy the unknown ship.
“Shit….So…are we really going to engage in CQB with that thing? Not even a UN Battleship would intercept all of that alone…” Bababou says as he then looks at the rest of the crew seem to be dead or unconscious, with them suffering puncture wounds from the debris field caused by the Oius obliteration.
“Nope! We are fucking turning away, the money is not worth it for our lives” Turichkov then accesses into the comms channel as he shouts into it
“All ships! Retreat! We are abandoning this mission!” As this was said, Turichkov pulled a hard burn with the RCS as the thrusters turned off and the Yuri turned hard, with Turichkov and his crew experiencing the tremendous G forces while some crew members who were injured suffered Stroke and died.
The thrusters are activated, as the MCR-Yuri cowardly retreats from the battle on a course with Luna.
Turichkov checks his Lidar panel as he notices the other ships not retreating back with him.
“What the fuck are they doing!”
“Captain! I think their comm systems broke when the Oiu was destroyed! We can’t turn back now captain, we are too far..” Babayou says as he noticeable tears run down on him
Turichkov reaches the same, praying for his comrades into the former orthodox religion he was in as the MRC-Yuri flys off from the battle.
As for the remaining gunships who didn’t receive the order and were left wondering why the Yuri left. They were left to die as the Alien PDCs were in range of them as the hail fire of 60mm rounds pierced through the armor of the Voldius’s like paper.
The freighter on the other hand, was in immense stress and distress as they sended distress signals left and right. It was only stopped when their comms were being jammed by the alien ship.
Victor-5 flips, as they then decelerate themselves to board the freighter. A missile is launched from its rear bays to disable their drive, as the missile accelerated with its kinetic warhead and cutted the link to the nozzle from the reactor. Disabling the freighter's drive as it was then just floating in space with the Alien Destroyer going beside it.
Identifying an Airlock, the destroyer immediately docks with it as alien boarders ready at the notice.
Onboard the freighter, armed guards inside whose jobs are supposed to protect from boardings started arming themselves with body armor and guns from the armory as they evacuated workers to one spot, and setted up tactical positions to oppose the boarding of these pirates.
Alien boarders started racking up from the other side, as these ones had noticeable reptile figures. Including a tail, the lead one shouted in an unknown language, as an explosive breacher implodes as it blasts the doors away.
Gunfire erupted from the Freighter as guards with their assault rifles, AKs, and side-arms started to continuously fire upon the aliens. But to no avail as the tall 7 foot aliens with their armor were not affected as they walked through the corridor with their arm shouldered weapon as they proceeded to blast the zone with it, killing multiple of the boarding guards as surviving ones were killed instantly with a tail swipe to the neck.
Dozens of alien shocktroopers swarmed the freighter as their immediate target was cargo. Aka, the water tanks as they secured their position in the cargo bay area as they signal the destroyer they got the payload.
The captain's room was breached at this time, as all remnants of human life were eradicated from the freighter. And as such, with a real quick fixing between the connection of the reactor and engine. The freighter was now under control of the aliens as it changed course to the outer solar system around Neptune as a quick plundering of these primitives water.
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Siberia
We are back with Miller as he was studying the salvage of the alien material in a hazard suit. While he was doing this, he was trying to solve the mystery of this coincidence….
An unknown ship that should've been detected earlier, bio-hazardous material onboard. And a strange figure in the distance he spotted. Something was wrong, he could tell.
With that, he had printed out the pictures from his smart lenses as he pasted them with super-glue on a frame as he pointed out the coincidences. A crash sight, biohazardous materials, and etc. He takes off his hazmat suit as he putted the alien material inside air tight glass.
Especially that figure he saw, the lenses have measured the figure to be nearly 60 meters away while staying hidden with no sense of Thermal radiation radiating from it.
A cephalopod shaped head with a body like a UFC fighter, as tall as a basketball player and has arms that can crush a lion's skull.
With that, since this figure has shown to identify him, he needs to stay anonymous and arm himself. As he then opens his drawer to reveal an M1911, the latest version upgraded with steell composites to allow better cooling.
He grabs the gun and loads a magazine on it as he holsters it. Grabbing 9 extra magazines to dig into his pockets if he needs more.
With that, he puts his hands on his jacket pockets as he then looks outside his apartment. Standing at room 45 on the 12th floor. With snow coming down as he then glances on an armor stand, which stood a bullet proof vest and armored shoulder pads.
He gets a notification on his Smartphone as he opens his phone. The notification showed a picture of a Heri class water freighter ship as the captions read.
“A freighter has been missing, supposedly hauling a total of 40,954,594 million tons of water to Ceres. Its signature was last detected 20 million kilometers away from Ceres; the designated area around the signature shows a cloud of debris with the UN setting up a no fly zone in this area to not collide with this debris while in transit.”
“This recent case of the sudden vanishing of ships has caused Ceres officials to worry as water hauls have decreased in arrival by 40%. In this case, Ceres might suffer a drought if the 2 superpowers don't intend to find out what's happening.”
“The recent trend started many days ago, but this is the most major one as pirates wont dare to target Heri class water freighters who are usually in a heavily armed convoy with different mercenary groups as its parent company has the money to do so.”
“This is BBC news-”
Miller looks onto the phone as he then looks out, the light delay of this news message was mentioned being 24 minutes.
Miller swipes the notification away to his saves, as he then packs his phone into his zipper pockets as he then leaves the viewing frame to browse through his computer.
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