Chapter 5: Lost and stranded

[Zetherus]

The closed off hallway started to drive the commando mad as he paced back and forth for the last fifteen minutes. He looked back at the vault door and ran a critical scan over it to know what the warnings meant. "Computer report." He spoke making his V.I beep on, "This entrance leads to the vessel's star drive. Warning: no personal is to access this area when star drive is activated... authorized personnel only." Keilumtol smiled then walked up to the door panel and started entering access codes that he obtained by Ariaka. He continued to do this until he heard a whisper broadcast through his comm. "The light... FAINTED! We need to... FEED! We.. DEVOUR.. your anger... your sorrow, your... PAIN!" Suddenly a rushing force slammed into the commando making him hit the door. In a split second he recovered then ejected his war blade and spun around in a 300º swing and jabbed his blade in the wall on his right. Steam and electricity shot out of the wall as he pulled his blade out and saw nothing behind him. "REPORT..." His V.I beeped once more, "Sustained no damage. No life forms detected. Warning anomalies detected, initializing psychological implants." Keil fell to his knees as sections in his brain, that he never knew of, activated making his vision florescent red and was able to see down the corridor like it were day. He stood up slowly as he noticed something on the other end of the hall lurking, staring at him from the floor. He knew that it got him cornered and was probably the thing that locked the door he came through, so he decided not to go through the star drive core but through a mysterious door on his right.

These implants that were inserted in his head by his ancient doctors were always a mystery why they did so. He remembers that they told him that these implants were artificial crystals inserted into commandos, and himself, because of anomalies destroying their ships on the far out reaches of space. They didn't know what these strange anomalies were doing here but they spoke a legend that they came from the Dark Riffis (Reality) as ghosts from a galaxy that was destroyed long ago from the creator. They always spoke of these legends as if they were seeking revenge of the living.

Keilumtol walked through the door trying to act like he didn't see anything and saw a large room with just a few repair benches laying on their sides and broken glass with two or three bodies scattered in the corners. The silence was weird, even for the giant Anero'nolmi, as he crept through and saw another door buried in chairs and debris from the ceiling. He walked up to the buried door and shoved his hand through the debris and touched the cold metal door. His V.I beeped as a "clink" echoed from his hand touching the door sending out a sonar. He brought his left hand up to look at his monitor and noticed even more bodies on the other side of the door. "No life signs detected. Room oxygen at 0%, carbon dioxide at 45%." BEEP BEEP BEEP, "Anomaly detected five meters..." Keil spun around and saw the form moving toward him very slowly. This freaked him especially from past experiences with the Thrime'Vok sneaking up on him, so he engaged his ballistics helmet and rocket jumped into the hole in the ceiling and blasted through another floor in a dark corridor with one of the crew members standing in front of him.

OCC: I kept rolling fifty fifties so it will either be Lance or Kiruza, you choose!

[Nohiki]

Ariaka quickly decided on a course of action. The stardrive had to be fixed sooner rather than later. Her friend will have to wait. she ran to the nearest phone and picked it up. "I'm sorry guys, we have more pressing matter to take care of, i need to go quickly or this can get really ugly really soon." she made a pause, as if taking on a deep breath, "I might not show up before we jump, and i have no idea where we'll be jumping, but we can always jump back here, so don't worry, just stay put, and if you're seeing things, IT IS NOT REAL! Don't do anything stupid!" she said and hung up before the cries for clarification could come through. She started running in the direction of the Stardrive core.

another apparition halted her. She saw rows of soldiers blocking her way. Not sure if going crazy or if that's the beast, but how do they treat both? Oh right, yeah... she thought and quickly accessed her power core, rewriting some of her self-destruct protocols (she had self destruct protocols? disturbing...) to aid her in this situation. "Get ready for some shock therapy!" she yelled at the apparition and fired the trigger. A rather big jolt of electricity ran right through her body, causing her quite a severe pain and she lost stability, falling to all four again. However, when she looked up, the apparition was gone. "Gotcha... Little bugger!" she managed to say as she was picking herself from the ground, hoping she wouldn't have to do this far too many times before she got to the core.

[Awesomoman]

"It's good to hear you all as well. The jump threw me down an elevator shaft to B10, the powers been knocked out as well." Lance informed the crew. There was a sudden metal clank behind him causing him to turn around. "And I don't think I'm alone down here." Checking the area again he noticed something moving towards him. He immediately pointed his gun at the moving target, only to realize it was the Lalungil. "Lee? How long have you been down here?" Lee seemed shaken up badly, and was talking like a mad man. "I haven't even seen a drop or moisture down here, but after what happened to me, and what seems to be going on with everyone else..." Lance stopped a massive insect like creature slowly rose up behind Lee. "Lee, don't move. There is something behind you." Lance aimed his gun ready to fire.

[Nohiki]

She had to move it. Her time was ticking faster than everyone else's. Not only she had the apparitions to deal with as well, but her 'medicine' cost her valuable minutes out of her battery and she couldn't integrate the suit's power source into herself just yet. She shut down most of her functions, simply controlling the armor to walk her to the core, only taking over when she reached an obstacle. Now she stood in front of something that she didn't think she could go around.

On the other end of the hallway she was currently was the door to the core. The only thing that blocked her way to the place was her crew with weapons aimed at her. And frankly, Ariaka was getting sick of this game. "I am going to fix your food dispenser, now let. Me. Through.!" she growled over her cover, which was getting blasted by imaginary weapon fire. She accessed the ship's security footage and saw nothing there, but somehow, whoever was causing her to see this could do so, and make it feel live as well. Her chest was still pounding from the stab 'Rucha' inflicted on her. Unfortunately, if she tried to shock herself one more time, she would run out of power, and death wasn't something she had planned for today.

She looked around to see what was available to her. And it wasn't much. There was only some piping, and something that looked like a closet. She wondered what would a closet be doing here, and if it was part of the apparition to give her some false hope, because the closet could only be one thing. She ducked behind her cover and removed a panel from a wall, tearing a good measure of cable out of it and tossing one end to the far end. she then used the panel as a shield while moving to the closet, recognizing it for the box that covered one of the main breakers. Halfway there, the firing crew vanished and something she could describe only as 'monster' blocked her way. "Move!" she growled, trying to sound threatening, but having doubts about the emotion eating thing not recognizing her fear. "You... can't... go... through!!!" the low voice growled. "Why! I want to fix the light!" she said. "You... taste... better..." was the answer that made her physically shake. IT wasn't going to stop, until it kills her AND the crew. She needed to kill it first, except she didn't know how. However, she knew how to dispose of it for at least some time. She took a firm stance, staring into the monster's eyes and then took a step forward.

Razor sharp claws went through her chest again. She yelled in pain and started falling forward, right through the apparition, it changed into the gray mist again. Remembering the plan, her hands shot forward, one taking a grip on the breaker's lever, the other sticking the cable she ripped into the wiring. Her now unconscious weight pulled the lever down. With that, power returned to the front of the ship and all lights lit up again, and the cable burned to vapors shortly after, not being thick enough for that kind of power, but not before sending a massive power surge to the hallway's floor. "NOOOOOOO!" she heard the low voice growl as millions of tiny bolts sparked all over the mist and it vanished.

Ariaka crawled towards the door, her system trying to revive from the shock. She stood herself along the door, pushing the open button. A cavernous room opened to her, with a giant black ball in the middle, aqua sparks flying all over it. She stumbled in and found an active console. She pushed few buttons and ran core diagnostics. Power was getting through, and the stardrive was fine, but the computers operating it were fried. Red letters were staring her in the face: OPERATOR INSERTION REQUIRED. She touched the letters on the touchscreen and the black sphere opened, revealing a compartment lit in it's characteristic blue, with a small platform in the middle of it. Ariaka shed her armor, leaving it in a pile at the console and tapped into the ship's communication. "Guys, i think i can fix the stardrive problem, but... I'm sorry." she said, trying to hide a sob. she ended the transmission and limped on the platform. The door close behind her and multiple cables deployed from above. Something resembling a helmet attached itself to her head, similar devices grabbing hold of her hands, pulling her into the air. Shocked, she realized she lost all control of her body. Shortly after, she was flooded with multiple sensory inputs. She was wondering where it was coming from, when she noticed she had more limbs to maneuver. A LOT more. And a realization came to her. They were now one.

She WAS Croatoan.

[Morty]

((Since a previously unaddressed giant hole in the floor of the freeze lab would be kind of weird, I'm just gonna say, it's not Kiruza. XD So you get...))

"Oh! Hello!" exclaimed a fuschia-eyed, white ant-like being, upon coming face to face with the ancient Anero'nolmi. "You're an alien." she remarked, her tiny antennae twitching with excitement. Her voice, though almost perfectly natural-sounding in cadence, came from a small, collar-like device around her neck, with a speaker on the front and wires at the back, attaching themselves to the base of her skull. "Or perhaps you are another hallucination." she continued sadly, and her antennae sagged slightly. "Please don't try to kill me. The whole visions of despair thing is getting pretty tedious to tell the truth!" she huffed, seemingly put off, then clutched her head, sobbing. "Please, if you're real, you have to take me to the doctor's... I don't feel very good... I woke up on the floor and I've seen such awful things, some of which turned out to be real and I--" she closed her eyes and staggered, barely regaining her footing as she was struck by another bout of light-headedness. "Why... Why is this happening..." whispered her faintly metallic voice, collapsing on one knee, two-thumbed hands cradling her tormented cranium.


Gepka froze when the large armored alien leveled what appeared to be a weapon at him. He stopped and chirped, listening to see if there was anything behind him that would have caused the foreign being to point a gun in his direction. He heard nothing, so he slowly raised one bristly forearm and waved.
"Helloo. How aare you?" he enunciated, clicking his teeth to get a closer look at the two. "You're warm." he remarked to the tall one, abandoning his wave to paw the commando's face appreciatively.


Relieved that the bodies she had absurdly suspected of coming back to life were still in their place, the Shis dismissed the eerie voice she had heard as yet another illusion and returned to the phone, which she had left dangling its curious curly wire. She picked it up again and listened. A few moment's attention told her that, predictably, all was not well with the crew. "Are y-you all righttt, Laaance? Do you-you-you need me-e-edical attentiOOOn?" she asked urgently, upon hearing that he had been thrown down an elevator shaft. She trusted the commando to be responsible and report his injuries immediately should he have sustained any, but she still felt the need to verify it. She'd come to observe that these humanoid life-forms did absurd things for the sake of heroism. What was so heroic about suffering needlessly, the Shis would never understand.
Their android companion seemed to be faring decidedly badly, from what Kiruza could gather, but there was little help the Shis could offer to a non-biological entity. "Aria-a-a-ka, pllllease tell us what Is the mAAAtter.. So-o-orry?" the Shis repeated, bewildered. What was the android doing..? Suddenly, the lights came on throughout the ship, and the steady whir of the humidity control filled the room again, filling the room with a cool mist. The Shis flared her fronds in relief, angling the parched membranes skyward in order to collect the revitalizing mist. "Tha-a-ank go-odness. AAAriaka, you did iit. The cryo-o-o-genIIIIcs lab is back onl-l-l-line. Howww about everyyyone-one else?" she wondered, tapping a few commands into the wall console. Still no radio communication... "Hello? Ariaka?" repeated the Shis, a hint of nervousness creeping into her voice.


((Three characters at once. The nightmare begins.))

[Awesomoman]

Lance kept a strong gaze at this...thing, but he lowered his weapon slightly when it waved. The insect struggle speaking.looked as though it was struggling to speak, "Helloo. How aare you?" It didn't appear to be hostile, until it called him warm and reached at him. Basic reflexes caused Lance to grab insects arm, he had to hold back from crushing and breaking it off. "If you want to appear non-hostile, i would suggest you not do that." He released its arm, this creature wasn't a threat. Picking back up the phone he listened to Kiruza, "The gravity outage saved me from any fall damage, but I was shot back when we were escaping that planet. It doesn't seem to be anything-" All the lights in the hallway began to flicker for a moment then die once more. "Serious. Is everything alright up there?"

[Nohiki]

Ariaka's face appeared on the screen in the cryo lab. "Hello? Anyone hear me? Oh my this is so weird!" the android complained, but there was a hint of excitement in her voice. "Hey long story short, i can do everything now, you just have to authorize it. Get somebody on the bridge to allow me to jump the ship, that should take care of a lot of things." she said and went to try and get the radios to work. "I think i know where we are. we were going down a list of possible coordinates for what the friendly ship transmitted before it was destroyed. If we needed to get out, i think i'd just jump us to the next position on the list. does it make sense?" she asked, not sure about it herself. She'd like to think she can keep her cool under the pressure, but the simple fact that her programming included emotions made her doubt that.

[Zetherus]

Keil spun around ejecting his two war blades and almost making the wrong decision. He stopped before ripping the alien to pieces then heard it saying that it needed a doctor. His heavy breath sounded like that of a demonic beast running from what was worse. Not knowing what to do with the alien in distress and his mind hearing voices from the creature lurking, and possibly the others. He walked up then clamped his huge hand around her back then lifted her like a rag doll then placed her on his shoulder. "You will not live in this sector! You must come with me." He growled then asked for coordinates to the med bay. A white arrow projected from his chest pointing to a door down the corridor. "That is where we must go." He said before he charged at the door and went through continuing down the corridors to get to the medical lab.

[Nohiki]

Ariaka was busy. although every major action required an OK from the bridge (which she already flooded with requests), she could perform maintenance and browse through the database. It was the other option that really interested her. First of all she tried to access any information on her companions, though she could only access intel about their species, albeit in great detail. Many of the folders were command-level password protected. She could crack it, sure, if she had five billion years to spare.

Moving on, Ariaka tried diggig up anything on the history of the ship. To her surprise, there was none. Whoever built the Croatoan didn't want it to fall into the hands of the enemy. No blueprints. Not even a manual. And to boot, now disassembled self destruct that could wipe out a continent, a huge overkill for a spaceship. Then she found something interesting. First folder contained personnel files, and the other was...

Suddenly, she was in a room. Why was she seeing it? The charge of the stardrive core should have kept the Beast away from her! she tried moving, but she only kept... sipping her coffee? Then it hit her - another memory. Why now? Did the ship allowed her to reach it somehow? She didn't know. She could only re-live it. This wasn't Earth. She knew, though she couldn't recall the name of the planet - Inamites? Something like that. She was waiting for somebody. She finished her coffee and got up, walking to the house's main door. In the hallway, there was a wardrobe, with mirror as a door. She looked in and recognized herself again as the dead scientist. Why was that?

In the meantime, Ariaka stopped responding to the ship. While she was living through the memory, computers everywhere went haywire. The engines flickered and the ship started to steer off course, power outages randomly occurred on the ship and doors were closing and opening randomly.

She walked outside. There was a beautiful Japanese garden in front of the house. She continued, walking across a wooden bridge towards a steel fence gate. She stopped on the sidewalk and looked to the distance, and she saw him. And she realized. She was waiting for her son? She could see the person she was wave her arm at him.

Suddenly, a car came screaming around the corner. It drove by, and she heard gunfire. Then the car drove around her. She caught only a glimpse, but they were the no good Ceretai. Why were they no good? she turned back, and saw a terrible scene. Her son was lying in a large pool of blood. "Oh dear god... No...." she sobbed, as the memory started to fade. "NOO!" she screamed, unfortunately for her, over the telephone network, with the ship's computers being so smart to put it on speakers. That made her quickly snap into reality. "boy. I swear this wreck is doing that on purpose." she muttered for herself.

[Zetherus]

Tal'set was seriously confused on the current situation until while he stood alone on the bridge. He heard voices coming from everywhere until he heard Ariaka appear on his comm. He stood there listening to Ariaka talking about where they are until moments later he heard her yell out "NOO!" he activated the comm trying to contact the android, "What the (static) is going here... (more static) are showing enemy sings all over (fifteen seconds of static) What do you want me to do here?" A terminal exploded next to Tal'set making him through his arm up to cover his face. Then on top of it the doors leading out of the bridge started opening and closing making him even more frustrated. The Anero'nolmi pulled his riffle out and aimed it at the door after hearing odd noises come from the constant banging of the automatic doors.

[Morty]

((Gepka is the space invader. XD))

Gepka withdrew his hand quietly and flexed it, cowed. Being blind, the Kri-Yakap didn't even notice when the lights began to flicker on and off. He withdrew a few paces to the side, wondering what was going on and when he would be able to ask for answers. He chirped, listening to the echoes bounce off the walls of the corridor and the other two beings therein, to the equipment in the other labs several doors down, processing the sound. Impatient, he once again attempted to address the smaller, lankier of the two life forms, being careful not to move his arms too wildly, or in a way that suggested he was about to facially molest them. "Hello. One who is afraid of water." he said quietly, rubbing his front limbs together as if self-conscious. It was Kri-Yakap convention to address someone whose name you didn't know by their most prominent radio colours, but as the Lalungil wasn't emitting any wavelengths, Gepka used the only other thing he knew about him. "I am Gepka. You aare?"


"Ow!" Setiri yelped as she was hoisted bodily into the air and placed on the large, rather unhinged-sounding alien's shoulder. "When I said take me to the doctor I didn't mean it this literally!" she exclaimed, tutting angrily.

"Shot?" Kiruza exclaimed, her warped, flat voice unable to convey any trace of interest. "You-you must coome to the cry-cry-cry-cryogenics laaaab immediately, or III will come to-o-o you. You maay be under-der-der-estimating the damage, if your suuuit is able to adminnnnn-ister pain kill-kill-kill-ers, whiiich I would assume. And yees, everrrrything appears to be o-o-ok." She said, gathering up the resources she would need to treat a gunshot wound. Suddenly, a pair of extraterrestrials barreled into the cryogenics chamber, one of them carrying the other like a moppet. She had just "WhA-A-At iiis going-ing-ing on? Iiis this one hurt?" she interrogated, slithering briskly over to receive the new patient.
"You can put me down now!" Setiri ordained to her impromptu ambulance, though her translator seemed uncertain, as if the electrical signals that were feeding it had somehow gotten weaker. "I just... have a headache, is all, and my blood feels like it's been turned into molasses. ...How do I know what molasses are?" she wondered incredulously, rubbing her head.
"You muuust have be-e-en awAAkened when the ship l-l-lost power. III knew there must-must be anoth-noth-noth-nother cryogeniiics lab on this ship. Here, let me-e-e get you an IV-V-V..." said the Shis, measuring out a precise mix of various compounds and adding them to a pre-made solution, stirring plentifully. She attached the completed solution to an IV tube and tacked it unceremoniously to the Ikikoyan's armpit, the only place where her carapace was thin enough to allow the needle to pass through. The Ikikoyan tapped her antennae together gratefully. Before she questioned the ant girl, Kiruza decided to attend to the giant Anero'nolmi, though she wasn't sure if she would even be able to tend to a twenty thousand year old life form. "Keilumtol-- aaaare you injured?" she asked apprehensively, still cautious of the ancient being after the damage he had inflicted on Tal'Set.

[Nohiki]

"Oh dear god, is the... Spider... loose too? That would explain why the radios are out." Ariaka noticed as she saw the new arrival. She went back to browsing the files in the ship's database. She was getting frustrated by not having access to the most interesting stuff. She recalled the login screen. Then a realization suddenly came to her. J-I-M-M-Y, she entered the name of the person she just seen die. To her surprise, the files unlocked, with a computer voice greeting her:

"Welcome, Dr. Akani. You have one new message."

Ariaka quickly went back to see if there is any more information on her crew, but to her surprise, the only folder that opened was labeled 'projects'. She curiously opened it, and froze.

Directory index:
/delta/Taurus
/psi/Croatoan
/psi/X-Kuma
/upsilon/Genesis
/omega/Ariaka

She recognized the first words as different levels of classification, and having the highest in front of her name was frightening. She tried opening the folders, but could only access the one classified delta without further password prompts. As the data streamed into her brain, another memory unlocked.

She was where she knew it well, on the Croatoan bridge. There was a planet in front of them, with a single moon. And ships. Lots of them. Some she recognized as her own, some she thought were enemy, but she couldn't recall why. Her ships seemed to be losing the battle, but she kenw that battle was simply a distraction. Her hands pressed few buttons and the shield emitters changed from emitting a null-field that would make the ship invisible to sensors back to shield. We can do that? Good to know, that would have saved a lot of trouble. she thought for herself as the memory continued. Several missiles launched from the planet and a nuke alarm rang on the bridge, but the ship's point-defense weapons quickly dispatched them, while the shield easily blocked plasma and EM-weapons of the ships now attacking her vessel. The ship then took several railgun shots, which were too much for the ship's shields and too fast for the defense to shoot down. "Damage report!" she growled with Asian accent. "Main weapon off-line! Engine 3 leaking fuel, commencing emergency shutdown!" two techs replied. "We can't proceed with Taurus test now! Abort and withdraw! Engage poisoning-the-well protocol!" she said and watched her fleet withdraw. Then several mines deployed from the Croatoan right before it jumped away, littering the planet's orbit with explosions as the mines reached the defending fleet.

As the memory ended, Araika tried to recuperate and get a status update on what is going on in the ship, but another memory quickly followed.

The same planet, only the clock read a week later. She could still see wrecks of the ships the mines disabled and destroyed. This time, they came alone, again the ship cloaked. Patrol fighters have already reported their position, but the drones will take care of them shortly. "Activate Taurus weapon." she said coldly. The planet below her was mountainous with only traces of water present on the surface, and only one city could be seen on the surface, although big enough to be noticed from space. Green letters appeared on her screen and she stood up, walking to the front of the bride where the observation window was. a holographic keyboard appeared in front of her, and she rapidly typed a password. Jackpot. Ariaka thought as she memorized it. what followed however made her nonexistent blood freeze in her veins. More holographic controls appeared, displaying only 4 things highlighted on the ship's profile view. the main weapon, the two beam cannons, and a device on the front of the ship. Her hands were tapping left and right from the firing button. No... No, don't do this... there are over billion lives down there! she thought, but to no avail. Suddenly, her finger hit in the middle, right at the button. Lights on the ship went dark as all power was redirected to the weapons. Three yellow-white beams shot from the main gun and the beam cannons, meeting at the front of the ship and continuing forward as one, much stronger, straight into the city below. Ariaka watched in horror as the weapon stopped firing, leaving only a pierced planet crust where the city stood few seconds ago, the area slowly filling with lava. The planet's atmosphere slowly clouded from the dust raised by the weapon impact, sure to kill any survivors somewhere else on the planet in few days. She blurred back into reality.

[Kauria]

(OOC: Let's just say this post picks up a few moments earlier, for the sake of not having Rucha stand around forever.)

The lights, which had come to life a moment before, flickered wildly, Ariaka's voice pitching to another painful screech over all the ship's noises. Rucha ripped the receiver away from her face and held it at arm's length, but the sound echoed out of unseen speakers all around her. She'd had enough of screaming for one day. It was even more unnerving to realize that most of the screaming had been performed by the one member of their crew who wasn't even alive in the typical sense.
Rucha dropped the receiver back onto the wall unit, and turned, running back towards the bridge. A chain of the heavy emergency doors lit up in warning ahead, and Rucha tucked away her pistol, dove through one shrinking gap, and rolled into a crouch. The doors ahead and behind her closed with a violent clang, and the segment of hallway sank into darkness once more. Rucha stayed perfectly still, the strange feeling of urgency returning to focus her mind into a narrow shaft of motivation. Something brushed against the back of her hand, and she flinched backwards. The lights flared up again, and, squinting, Rucha could just make out Ariaka's cat in front of her.
"You again," she muttered, getting to her feet. Carefully, she reached down to pet it, but the cat ran to the next set of doors and looked back, meowing expectantly.
"I was already heading that way, furball!" Rucha called indignantly, following the cat to the bridge.
She pulled herself into a seat and set to work on the computer. "Authorizing you to jump ship now, Ariaka," she said, uncertain if the android could hear her. "I'll get to the rest of the requests in a moment."

[Nohiki]

"Allright, hold on, things might get a little bumpy on this one." a text message appeared on Rucha's screen as Ariaka's brain was consumed with jump calculations.

This was her plan. The beast seemed to be vulnerable to energy overdose. So she would simply flood the ship with it. "I need everyone to stay where they are right now. Stand by for jump!" she said and closed all the bulkhead doors and disconnected the sectors with the crew from the power grid temporarily. "5, 4..." The ship was filled with a weird buzzing sound, "3..." The ship's shield flickered as it received a massive power boost, "2........." The whole ship started to shake violently, "1!" Ariaka shouted and an orange vortex enveloped the ship. She took a picture of this rare occasion, as this was the only jump they made so far that lasted long enough for it to be visible.

The warp spat them out on the other side with one final shake, power once again returning to the ship and the doors opening. Ariaka quickly performed scans for damage. "We're mostly here. Engines, life support, shield, main structural supports all in green. Stardrive operational, although i till have to remain locked in here for it to work. Oh and yeah, the hallucinations should stop now." she said, only hoping her theory was right. What she kept for herself was that this jump cost them a quarter of their fuel and a whole section of the ship has gone dark again as a power saving countermeasure.

[Zetherus]

After letting go of the insectoid, Keil had his hands cuffed over his head when the snake alien asked if he was injured. The commando let go of his head then slowly looked at Kiruza with blood shot eyes. "Deactivate psychological implants now." He ordered sounding as he was asking her then his V.I alerted, "P.I's deactivating, brain functions returning back to normal." His vision went black then returned back to default. The voices had stopped then Keil remembered the doctor's question. "Im fine just sustained light armor damage! You must be Kiruza the vessel's med bay agent from the data files." said the warrior when he felt a huge power surge pass through him when the ship jumped deactivating all his armor systems and his internal implants making him fall under the weight of his power armor and onto his right knee. "What the dark inferno was that?"

Tal'set nearly shot the Ceretai when she rolled through the door but refrained himself from doing so. He pulled his rifle down then walked to a nearby chair and sat down ignoring the whole fact that the Croatoan had jumped. His systems though seems to be still working after the jump.