>SYSTEM WARNING: Ship Damage: ~78% Systems Damaged  46% Hull Damage<

>Life Support: Destroyed

>Weapons: Destroyed

>Engines: Minimal

>Navigation: Damaged

>Shields: 3.9% Remaining

>Recommend Retreat/ Withdrawn from Battle

“Shut Up!!! I know!!!” the Commander of the ship roared. He was a tall dark man, with a tattered up uniform.

“Sir! Our Mass Fusion engines are inoperable! Our Shields will be down soon but the fleet has made it through, The Vikaldi won’t be able to follow. Our species has survived, sir.” The first officer said with a sad smile.

For the last thousand years, ever since they encountered that god forsaken race of insects all they’ve done was kill each other.

“Well looks like our job is done, tell all crew to –“

The A.I warnings flared again

>Warning: Temporal Distortions detected.

>Recommend immediate Evacuation.

>Engines Status: Unresponsive

>Shield Status: Unresponsive

>Time until Temporal Distortion reached Ship: 132s

>Escape unavailable switching to Safety Protocol B-4421

>Cryostasis status: VIP Secured, Prescious Cargo Secured, Crew Stations compromised.

>Cryostation Deck lockdown complete. Cargo Deck Secured. Other Stations unresponsive.

>Cryostation and Cargo Compartment prepped for release.

>Released in 110s

>ALL OTHER PERSONAL SEARCH FOR ESCAPE PODS

“What the hell? First what’s the reading on that distortion?”

“No idea sir, but the cryo and cargo decks have been bolted together now sir, the survivors will make it through to the other side in one piece, I hope.”

“Good then no matter what the survival of our species is assured.” The captain prayed.

Turning to face the captain as the other crew ran off the corridor to escape. The first officer placed his fist over his chest and saluted, “Sir, I have to say it’s been a ho-“

Silence, the hull protecting the bridge gave way and the air was sucked into the vacuum of space.

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From outside the ship that was manned by over 150 souls was crumbling like a house of cards. The spacefaring insectoids had been attacking with bio-plasma which was shredding them like paper. Shot after shot landing on escape pods until none were left until finally they stopped shooting. With one final explosion the ship exploded leaving only a small shell of a compartment with another compartment attached onto the back.

The insectoids seeing the last compartment began to target the last compartments for extermination. As they attacked the two compartments suddenly disappeared. Unsure of what had happened but no longer detecting the compartments they gave up and returned to the hive. That was the last thing anyone ever saw of the Starship Hope and of the Madol civilization.

EARTH –ALASKA

No stars to be seen as the clouds blocked the illuminating moon. Dulling the moon in her guiding light to pure darkness, where few people could appreciate the darkness for what it was. Peace. In the darkness was a place that nothing or no one could be remembered, because the darkness swallows up everything, even sin. This pure silk of darkness was interrupted by a falling star, which fell with a blaze of light and fire.

The descent of this star was just one of the many stars that crossed the sky and was only one of many to make it to safety. Although these stars were not actually stars they did bring the power of stars with them, from the compartment bulkhead the doors slid open as some stumbled out. There were thirteen of them, all children trying to catch their legs. Around them they heard sounds, a foreign language to their ears. Noises of loud and strange things, primitive they thought,

Slowly they fell to darkness, one by one. Until they came to sometime later, alive but in pain, cold, and alone. Isolated from each other.  On the walls they could see a symbol, of a bird holding a set of arrows in one talon and some leaves in the other colored in red, white and blue. They didn’t know where they were but they knew one thing. They were prisoners and they were not alone.

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