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Eyesight Technology wrote:"Guys, we're jumping now," Jake said over the comms. "I don't want to have a sore loser issue" He eyed the station. They jumped to the next beacon, where told all neccisary parties that the treatment for Bren should begin. Once it was under way, Jake took some scans.

Is everyone ready for the nebula to be over? If not, I will revise this post.

"This is the exit beacon," Sarah reported. "Nothing much here, except for a few very thin traces of gas. It's mostly a clear beacon,"

"What's the next sector?" Jake asked

"Abandoned 01"

"There are more than one abandoned sectors?" Jake asked, his voice sounding astonished. But internally, he somewhat expected that.

"Yeah. The Rebels are conducting minimal research and testing in Abandoned 01, but their most major research occurs in Abandoned 03, and beyond."

"What about 02?"

"For some reason, the Rebels pulled everything out of 02, deeming it 'Lost Cause, too dangerous.'"

"That's not good. Can we avoid 02?"

"The only alternative is to go through a complexly Rebel controlled sector, where we'd be ripped to shreds."

"Well, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it."

"So for now it's Abandoned 01, an Abandoned sector with some Rebel activity," Sarah clarified.

"Here goes nothing," Jake said, pressing the jump button.

stylesrj wrote:"An abandoned sector?" Eden asked "I'm still wondering if that's better or worse than a quarantine..."
The Pelican followed after the others as it jumped into the Abandoned sector with them. Lux swore she could hear a very ominous tune as they arrived.

Eyesight Technology wrote:"Allright, let's move! To the next beacon!" Jake shouted cheerily, trying to forget the chill that just washed down his spine.

Upon reaching the next beacon, there was a damaged and destroyed Rebel scout. The black box was transmitting a looping General Report. It was encrypted by high level Rebel codes, but the futuristic Mature could easily decrypt it.

"Black Hole Induction Failure. A Spatial Ripple shock waved from the faulty weapon, knocking all systems offline at 16:00. This message was launched at 16:30, so future Rebel forces could know what happened. Message to all future Rebels: Beware of Black Hole rippling. The weapon in use was a dual-mini Black Hole gun. Repeat. Black Hole Induction Failure..."

"Dual Mini Black Hole Gun," Jake said. "They mine as well said 'bundle of flowers and rainbows'"

Chickengames wrote:As the fleet materialized in the new sector, an abandoned one, Kyrie walked back to the shields station. She was still trying to get over seeing Ruwen's leg being cut off and a mantis head exploding. She had never done well with blood or anything like that. One of the reasons I never became a doctor.

As she entered the shields room, the other door appeared to be just closing. She walked over to the door and looked out of it, but saw no one. Maybe I didn't see anything... Kyrie went back in the room but couldn't help but feel uncomfortable for a while after.

BrenTenkage wrote:(are you sure this is an Abandoned sector...or are we in an Avatar Sector or the begining of one....)

Eyesight Technology wrote:

Chickengames wrote:As the fleet materialized in the new sector, an abandoned one, Kyrie walked back to the shields station. She was still trying to get over seeing Ruwen's leg being cut off and a mantis head exploding. She had never done well with blood or anything like that. One of the reasons I never became a doctor.

As she entered the shields room, the other door appeared to be just closing. She walked over to the door and looked out of it, but saw no one. Maybe I didn't see anything... Kyrie went back in the room but couldn't help but feel uncomfortable for a while after.

Huh.

BrenTenkage wrote:(are you sure this is an Abandoned sector...or are we in an Avatar Sector or the begining of one....)

What makes you say that? BTW AI avatars don't exist in this era yet. At least not self-sufficient ones.