Chapter 2: First Contacts
Aboard the FSS Perception, Captain Evergreen watches the recording of their recent encounters
"Just what were those things?, and why there were humans riding them?" he mumbles.
"It seems to be some sort of pterodactyl-like creature, Captain" Science Officer Lee Wong responses to his question
"We made contact with a more advanced civilization too. They have what seems to be biplanes of the Industrial Age."
The ship was conducting standard surveying protocols when suddenly they encountered the "anomalies". Recent scans has also shown primitive structures on the surface that seems to be in the Iron Age or Early Medieval. Another is when the of "anomaly" attempted catching up to them but to no avail.
The biplane seen before was doing a maneuver but started to approach the ship. The Perception immediately executed a brief high impulse jump before vanishing into space.
It is clear that there are intelligent creatures and humans too, indicating this is amother different dimension like the 3rd, 6th and 7th galaxies.
The ship continues its re-entry through the atmosphere to venture to the location with strong energy readings of Psion particles which could mean there is a presence of primitive psion civilization.
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Maihark, Qua-Toyne Principality
The Qua-Toyne Principality has a stunning environmental beauty while being blessed by the gods gives them a thriving biodiversity. A perfect landscape provides them maximum efficiency in farming and raising livestock. This has lead to a economic boom for them in the recent decades on trade.
On the city of Maihark, a busy hub of trade. Thousands of merchants and opportunists roam around on their land birds and horses.
In a comms building somewhere. People were rushing around and passing reports of unidentified sightings of a large object flying around the edge of the Principality's airspace. It was too fast to see what nation it belonged to. No other nation is capable of such a feet.
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Central Calendar
1639-Month 1-Day 27
Qua-Toyne Principality. A Port North of Trade City Maihark.
The port that was located north from the Trade City Maihark was somewhat apart from the city, but since it was affiliated with Maihark, it was called Port Maihark.
At that Port Maihark, there was a base where the 2nd Fleet of Qua-Toyne Principality Navy was wrapped with a tension that was above the usual.
Panic is rampant as the mysterious threat is circling around Maihark. The large unidentified object had easily passed by the patrols and hovered unopposed above Maihark. Since it didn't perform any hostile action, it was concluded that it is conducting reconnaissance, but the problem was, the unit was clearly not something from Louria Kingdom. Moreover there was no report of the existence such thing in the three civilised areas. Even the Holy Milishial doesn't have flying ships.
Even so, it was a fact that the Principality had been scouted out by an unidentified existence, which doubled the military's air of tension.
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Because the Qua-Toyne Principality's Military was in a state of high alert, every warship were all out for offshore patrol duty. The 6th Flying Wyvern Squadron doubled their performance in attempting to intercept the target.
Patrol situation from every direction was routinely reported to Maihark Defense Control Room.
There was no any particular abnormality and they didn't detect anything.
"What do you think it is?"The young officer asked the Commander.
"Since I didn't see it, I can't say. It's just, if it was only seen by a few Wyvern Knights, then that will end no more than an idle gossip. Multiple squadrons also reported it. There were eyewitness reports from the Maihark citizen and the Knight Corps. At the very least, the unidentified object surely exists at the least." Nouka pondered.
"There is no country in the east, and in the northeast, there are a group of islands with minor island states.
"Commander‼. We have an urgent report!!"
The commander and the young officer's expression was dyed with tension and looked together at the communication operator.
"Report from warship Pima!, Detected unidentified large ship. Current location, 60km north from Port Maihark. Will approach the ship and perform on-ship inspection."
"Large ship......?"
What they discovered was not the unidentified object, so the commander made a doubtful expression. However, it's a safe bet to say that this party had a connection to the aforementioned matter.
"If they only detected it, then it still isn't clear what kind of ship it is...... Warship Pima is the ship of Captain Midori, correct? Instruct them to report as soon as they distinguished the ship, put plenty attention when inspecting the ship without any incident, any suspicious point must be thoroughly investigated."
"Yes, Sir!"
The order was then properly delivered to the warship Pima by the communication operator.
Qua-Toyne Principality. 60 km North from Port Maihark.
The warship Pima that belonged to Qua-Toyne Principality Navy's 2nd Fleet, was currently heading towards the strange large hovering ship.
The sailors hastily raise the sails and utilise the paddles with the rhythm of the drummer at the front.
The warship readied itself for battle. All crew was wearing leather armor. The swordsmen already standing by on the upper deck and the archers charged their bows. Wooden shields to block arrow were lining up at the upper deck, and the large ballista was installed at its side. There were also several oil jars placed nearby for fire arrow attacks. They were ready to engage the unknown threat.
While keeping this readiness, the ship's captain Midori turned pale at the unidentified large ship as they drew closer. Perhaps he realized the reason why they hadn't yet arrived even after they had been approaching it for quite some time.
"Captain, perhaps the unidentified ship noticed that we are approaching so it seemed that they suddenly decreased their speed."
Midori began to address the Vice Captain who haven't realized the situation yet.
"That's true...... Vice Captain, I will lead the inspection party to sail around it if achievable. If something happened, I leave the command to you."
"Yes, Captain......is there something you worried about?"
Since Midori's stared at the large ship with unchanged expression, the Vice Captain also stared at the large ship.
Before long, finally he too realized the truth why they haven't arrived at the ship even though they had been approaching since some time ago. Only the ship's silhouette that gradually became bigger and bigger. Because of it was so big, they had miscalculated the distance between the ships.
"Vice Captain, doesn't its size has overwhelmingly larger than any ship possible?"
"Yes, I also couldn't see it other than a floating small island."
"And how can this ship be able to fly?, maybe it consumes a gargantuan amount of mana"
Midori snapped from the general confusion.
"It seems that there is an emblem of a blue star ona yellow shield while on a plain light grey background at the side of the ship. Do you recognize that kind of flag?"
"No, I never saw or heard of such a flag before."
"Then, do you know any country that possesses a ship that big and let alone that can even fly?"
" I had went to Papardia for training before, even compared to the Empire's 100 Cannons-Class Ship-of-the-Line which can be called as a superweapon, that unidentified ship is clearly superior."
All crew of warship Pima was overwhelmed by the gigantic size of that flying large ship as it drew closer.
Then, from the inside of the large ship, dozens of people were seen running around while the ship sends blinking lights towards Pima. The crew was putting their guard thinking that it was some kind of attack, but they looked that the people were waving their hand to communicate that they don't have any hostile intention.
Captain Midori turned his back to the bow and then address the crew without removing his stern expression.
"Never attack the unknown ship. The affiliation of the other ship is still unknown, perhaps it belongs to a new civilized nation. I will not allow any arrogant behaviour, do you understand!? "
"Yes sir!"
Captain Midori then saw a smaller flying ship exit the larger ship's behind and slowly hovered to them.
To be continued......
Update: Chapter Revised