User blog:Knight of Londor/From the Stars- Chapter 1

Chapter 1- Duty calls
Silence covers the dimly lit room, dust particles float freely and undisturbed, a single ray of light peaks through the curtain illuminating a still solitary body underneath bed covers, the digital clock on the nightstand slowly ticks and tochs, 8:57 am, 8:58 am, 8:59 am....

!BEEP!BEEP!BEEP!BEEP!

The body under the covers slowly begins to come to, a hand reaching out and patting the nightstand in an attempt to cease the piercing sound knocking over an empty gin bottle in the process. After a while the hand finally finds it's mark and switched off the beeping, the man pushed the covers off his face and shielded his artificial eyes as the lenses adjusted to the light being let in by the automatic opening curtains. The man growns as he sits up resting his feet on the soft bedroom carpet. "Urrgh, what's that point of having parts of your brain be cybernetic when you're still gunna get a fucking hangover, grrr why'd I even set an alarm! stupid drunk me" he moans rubbing his temples. The man gets up and proceeds to walk to the bathroom to begin his morning ritual.

After relieveing himself and taking some painkillers the man then sits down to watch t.v. while eating breakfast however this peace wouldn't last long. "Commander Hawkins you are receiving a communications request from Admiral Royce" informed a synthetic voice. "Ah shit, errr, umm, ah fuck" Hawkins panics as he sets down his ceral bowl, clears his throat and taps the communicator on his wrist. "Admiral Royce, I guess you didn't call to ask about my health, what can I do for you"? Inquried Hawkins as he awaits a responce. "Commander I'm calling about bringing you back to active duty, a new mission has come up and I was told as an exploration ship Commander you'd be up for it" It seems the good Admiral was giving Hawkins an offer. "A mission eh? give me details" said Hawkins sounding somewhat interested in the offer. "Well Commander are you familiar with the Kathari"? asked Royce. Hawkins answers with "Lets see slavers, genocide enthusiasts, tyrants and all around unpleasant to be in close proximity"? The Admiral continues "yes more or less, our surveillance networks have discovered and confirmed a new habitable planet between our space and theirs, problem is the Kathari have also found this planet and are preparing a fleet to conquer it". "So? we can just send one of our fleet to counter them it's not like the Katharis' tech is very advance and besides what's so special about this particular planet"? asked a confused Hawkins. "Whats special about this planet Commander it that is has life on it... sentient life that very closely resemble humans to a disturbing degree" responded Royce. "Were there previous attempts to colonise the planet, private or otherwise"? asked Hawkins. "No, if there were high command would know about it, but  they don't so they're blind and need our help to shed light on the situation" replied Royce. "So you want me to find out about a potential rogue human population on a planet we know barely anything about while also under the risk of a Kathari invasion"? Inquired Hawkins in a slightly sarcastic tone. "We also want you to gather tactical planetary data for the fleet incase the conflict goes planetside and we need every advantage we can get againts Kathari ground forces" added Royce. Hawkins stayed silent for a moment while he was making a decision. "Well Commander, can you do this"? Interrupted Royce. "Yeah I can do that" answered Hawkins. "Excellent, I'll prepare a briefing for you on your ship, start packing you leave in one week, the Chancellor gave you high praise Commander that's one of the reasons why I called you, please be sure to live up to it" said Royce in a jovial tone before ending the call.

"Its not everyday you get praise from the big man himself you must've done something right Qinn ol' boy" Hawkins said to himself as he began to prepare for his next adventure. "Lets hope this goes better then the last couple of times" Hawkins thought to himself as he gave his cybernetic arms and legs the once over before getting cleaned and dressed in his officer uniform and heading out to the space elevator.

One week later.

After attending the mission briefing on the station Hawkins boards his ship and travels to the bridge greeting his crew as he went along. As he walked on to the bridge Hawkins adjusted his leather gloves and brushed the dust off his shoulder pads, he scans the bridge and sees a flight crewman at the front of the ship and goes to greet them. the flight crew see Hawkins and stands up to salutes him to which Hawkins responds in kind. "Commander Hawkins It's good to meet you I'm..." he didn't get to finish his sentence before being cut off. "Scott Harrington I know, you're the new pilot I saw the briefing, where's Navigator Phillips"? Hawkins inturrupted while looking around the bridge. Just before Scott could answer the door to the bridge opens up and a small nervous looking woman rushes through looking at star charts and not paying attention to her surroundings. In her rush she almost bumped into the Commander but before that could happens Hawkins grabs her shoulders and stops her dead in her tracks and startling her in the process. It also did't help her panic when she looks up to see who she almost ran in to. "O-oh my god! I'm so sorry Commander I didn't see you as I was walking in and I-I-I errr" The poor woman was about to have a heart attack. "Navigator Phillips I presume"? Asked Hawkins, stopping her mental breakdown. "Err y-yes sir! Navigator Jessica Phillips reporting for duty"! Exclaimed Jess as she stood up straight and saluted. Trying to calm her down Hawkins place a hand her shoulder, "Take a breather Jess you'll be fine, now both of you report to your stations we'll lauching soon" Ordered Hawkins as he made his way to the Captains chair. "Aye aye Commander"! the two flight crewman said unison before heading to their stations and preparing for launch. Sitting in his chair Hawkins taps a few buttons to opens communications with flight control. "Terra Nova high orbit flight control this is Commander Quinlann Hawkins of the Commonwealth Exploratory Vessel "Odyssey" requesting launch permission over" said Hawkins awating a responce. "Commander Hawkins this is flight control you are cleared for launch, have a nice trip over" replied flight control. A grin grew across Hawkins's face as he looked around the bridge one more time. "you've been mothballed for far too long old girl, lets get you some exercise" said Hawkins seemingly talking to the ship itself after which he begins to give the orders. "Harrington release docking clamps and get some distance between us and the station, Phillips plot a course to the planet marked "Enigma" using the coordinates I'm about to provide you" ordered Hawkins as he opens up a holographic datapad on his wrist and sends the data.

As soon as the docking clamps were released the r.t.s. thusters push the ship away from the docking port and the ships engines lit up propelling the Odyssey far enough away from the station to safely jump. "Coordinates locked Commander awaiting the go signal" Informed Jess. "Jump status 95% and charging Commander ready on your go" added Scott. Hawkins could barely contain his excitment as he pressed his finger down on the announcement button. "Now hear this, all hands prepare for jump I repeat all hand prepare for jump". Taking his finger off the button Hawkins said one more thing before giving the jump order. "Scott, Jess, are you ready to save a planet of primitives"? asked Hawkins. "YES SIR"! they both yelled together. "Excellent, well then jump on my mark" ordered Hawkins looking at the seconds hand of his watch.

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End of chapter one

sorry that this one had almost nothing to do with mge but I needed to get everything set up first, know what I mean?

This took me four hours to write holy shit my wrists hurt.

Sometimes I would snap back to reality and think to myself "I'm writing monster girl fanfiction what the fuck am I doing"? then sweet madness would set back in and I would get straight back to work

Writing is fun.