It was simple to get back to Earth on the Rim-Runner. The Rim-Runner was a ship, designed by some Technicians back on Earth; it was supposed to be a secret. I found it in my search. The Rim-Runner is a one of a kind ship.
Its whole purpose is to explore new worlds. It’s very tiny too. It normally can only hold three people. Anymore and it would slow it down and with the imbalance of fuel would inevitably cause it to crash or fall short.
We were exploring new ideas in space travel. The Rimrunner’s thrusters make it go faster then what we dubbed Hyperspeed after the old Sci-Fi shows on Earth. The only way it can do this is because it took the photon avoiding technology to a whole new level and designed it to use the photons to make it increase speed.
Normally this would be exponential, but the engines have a limit, that allow it to seemingly travel between the already ill defined vacuum of space. This makes the Rim-Runner possibly the fastest thing we have ever seen.
Traveling through our Solar System, we saw several swarms. Flying, but we also saw something we hadn’t previously. A larger one. It looked like a large Manta Ray.
We had wondered how they traveled through space, and now it was clear. It was this Manta Ray, She would open her mouth, and this burst of heat came from it, sending the little cicada bug xarax further into space. When she needed to recharged this, burst of heat, she used her giant wings to reflect the heat of the sun.
Riding alone and seeing this, I took pictures, and I documented the movements. Each swarm had one of these with it, and I dubbed her, Xarax Queen.
As the Rim-Runner came to a stop over Earth, I realized how thoroughly they had destroyed our meager holdings in the Galaxy. It made me wonder, if these Xarax existed, then wouldn’t there be other species out there?
Could they have destroyed us?
As I set course for London, England, the capital of the alliance. I felt very small and meek. I would be the only human on Earth. And in the Universe there were now only thousands of us.
How meager and small were we? Mice scraping for survival.
Now, I would avenge my fellows, by protecting them from their attackers.
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19.9.07
Entry 11: Concerning Vengeance
It was out of pure goodness of her heart that one of the nurses who operated on me, Major Kamra, gave me a veil. She explained that a long time ago, the women of her culture had to wear them. She gave it to me, and taught me how to use it. Strapping it around my face, I was not yet done.
I checked myself out of the hospital, and I found out where I was. We were out of our Solar system. One an instillation in the next solar system over. They called it, “La Mancha.”
Using my new rank, I gained access to the computers. I activated them, and started doing my research. That’s where the true work of revenge is done. I found we had six outlying stations, and each one was building another.
That meant soon we would have twelve. But I needed to know where the Xarax swarms were. There was still one over Earth, the moon, and there was still one over Mars. Almost like they were multiplying before they would move on. We were too far away from Mars to launch a counterattack.
But we needed to defend the instillations. From the reports, these Xarax climbed into the cracks in the hull, and entered however they had to. This meant we needed a shield.
If I couldn’t attack these things, then I could propose something that could stop them from killing us.
I immediately headed for the Major-Commander of this vessel. I was taken without an appointment. His name was Major-Commander Xin-Yu Fay. I entered and I bowed to him, he smiled at me and clapped, “Sergeant Amelia Cartwright, I see you’re doing well, all things considered.”
I responded, “Not really, Major Commander. I am here to request a shielding system for our vessels.”
“We do not have that technology,” He responded.
“Yes we do. I was reading that on Earth there was a man who was working on making a system to shield earth from the meteor showers that were happening years ago. He was a civilian, but he never got too far: only able to make small scale shields.” He paused for a second before saying, “What are you suggesting?”
“That I take a ship back to Earth, find these plans, and come back.”
“What ship?”
“A Rim-Runner. Or, The Rim-Runner, I know its on this instillation.”
I checked myself out of the hospital, and I found out where I was. We were out of our Solar system. One an instillation in the next solar system over. They called it, “La Mancha.”
Using my new rank, I gained access to the computers. I activated them, and started doing my research. That’s where the true work of revenge is done. I found we had six outlying stations, and each one was building another.
That meant soon we would have twelve. But I needed to know where the Xarax swarms were. There was still one over Earth, the moon, and there was still one over Mars. Almost like they were multiplying before they would move on. We were too far away from Mars to launch a counterattack.
But we needed to defend the instillations. From the reports, these Xarax climbed into the cracks in the hull, and entered however they had to. This meant we needed a shield.
If I couldn’t attack these things, then I could propose something that could stop them from killing us.
I immediately headed for the Major-Commander of this vessel. I was taken without an appointment. His name was Major-Commander Xin-Yu Fay. I entered and I bowed to him, he smiled at me and clapped, “Sergeant Amelia Cartwright, I see you’re doing well, all things considered.”
I responded, “Not really, Major Commander. I am here to request a shielding system for our vessels.”
“We do not have that technology,” He responded.
“Yes we do. I was reading that on Earth there was a man who was working on making a system to shield earth from the meteor showers that were happening years ago. He was a civilian, but he never got too far: only able to make small scale shields.” He paused for a second before saying, “What are you suggesting?”
“That I take a ship back to Earth, find these plans, and come back.”
“What ship?”
“A Rim-Runner. Or, The Rim-Runner, I know its on this instillation.”
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