Turn 13 - Sphere
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 12:42 pm
Unidentified Asteroid, near space trade lane, In vicinity of communications relay
Mission timer: 01.39.22
Lt Ericson neared the orange glow, whisks of mist swirling around her legs as she moved closer. The door was square in shape and the light beyond it sent a shaft out through the mist. Lt Ericson waited for the marines to catch up and then she nodded towards the nearest one, and waited until the marine entered the room until she followed suit.
There was a small corridor until the emerged in what one of the marines described as an engine room. Lt Ericson didn't know what to think, she was simply amazed. The room was spherical, perfectly spherical, with two entrances. Around the room a circular pathway was cut right into the walls. Spinning in the middle was a glowing ball of bright yellow light. The pebbles were seeming fed into it by some gravity force of the ball. A constant stream of pebbles floated in towards the ball in a discshaped pattern as it rotated around the room. Shooting from the poles of the ball were two bright rays of pure energy - These disappeared into shafts in both directions.
Lt Ericson looked in pure awe for a few seconds before she jerked her gieger meter up in panic, they were next to a free floating reactor core plasma ball the radiation should be lethal. The geiger meter showed zero. The ball rumbled deeply and the whole room shuddered slightly from the raw energy being produced.
"The whole asteroid must be a spaceship..." Lt Ericson said. "We will head around this and see were the other pathway leads. Lt Ericson started to move around the room, the shadows cast from her and the rest of the marines were knife sharp.
Then she halted mid step. From the side they came from a spindly shape reared its head in the door. "We got company...keep them at distance and conserve ammunition!" Lt Ericson said shifting grip on her pistol.
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Mission timer: 01.39.22
Lt Ericson neared the orange glow, whisks of mist swirling around her legs as she moved closer. The door was square in shape and the light beyond it sent a shaft out through the mist. Lt Ericson waited for the marines to catch up and then she nodded towards the nearest one, and waited until the marine entered the room until she followed suit.
There was a small corridor until the emerged in what one of the marines described as an engine room. Lt Ericson didn't know what to think, she was simply amazed. The room was spherical, perfectly spherical, with two entrances. Around the room a circular pathway was cut right into the walls. Spinning in the middle was a glowing ball of bright yellow light. The pebbles were seeming fed into it by some gravity force of the ball. A constant stream of pebbles floated in towards the ball in a discshaped pattern as it rotated around the room. Shooting from the poles of the ball were two bright rays of pure energy - These disappeared into shafts in both directions.
Lt Ericson looked in pure awe for a few seconds before she jerked her gieger meter up in panic, they were next to a free floating reactor core plasma ball the radiation should be lethal. The geiger meter showed zero. The ball rumbled deeply and the whole room shuddered slightly from the raw energy being produced.
"The whole asteroid must be a spaceship..." Lt Ericson said. "We will head around this and see were the other pathway leads. Lt Ericson started to move around the room, the shadows cast from her and the rest of the marines were knife sharp.
Then she halted mid step. From the side they came from a spindly shape reared its head in the door. "We got company...keep them at distance and conserve ammunition!" Lt Ericson said shifting grip on her pistol.
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