And here we go...
Oh, I am looking for a suggestion who will be sent by Space Patrol to Jenga. I had thought about sending Shepard with the Normandy, unfortunately the Normandy is still under construction during this story. *G*
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Somewhere in the darkness, many light seconds away from the huge ringed planet called Saturn was a pitch black platform, placed there by an unremarkable waved truck half a day ago. After hours of calibrating its orientation through analysis of incoming light from stars and planets, the computer on the platform finished its preparation phase.
The platform suddenly became alive in a bright green life. A crackling sphere of lightning appeared around the weapon, expanding to a diameter of more than 40 meters and then collapsing back onto the weapon. Within the blink of an eye, the metallic projectile was accelerated to an incredible speed.
For hours its flight wasn’t noticed by anyone.
Seconds before the projectile hit its target, a group of Exocomps finally noticed it. They had chased a small block of ring ice a few hundred kilometers away from Jenga and one of them recognized the moving dot on its infrared camera.
‘TOY! Lets catch it!’, the small drone thought and its companions quickly turned around to look for their new prey. They quickly estimated the distance, only to be disappointed.
‘Oh, too far away’ they thought saddened, ‘maybe a friend can catch it?’
Then they all flinched in unison.
Whatever it was, it was fast... very fast. And it was going to hit home!
Their shock hit Serina’s consciousness a few milliseconds later. While her mind ran distributed on all the Exocomps, she normally did not payed that much attention to most of her little children.
The majority of the Exocomps left behind on Jenga froze in unison as a priority alert raced through Serinas mind, she could feel the world around her slowing down. She looked out through all her Exocomps eyes searching for the incoming threat.
“There... damned, not much time!”
She ignored a curious word from Cortana. Jenga’s second AI was still working in normal time.
Jengas radar emitter began to charge up, but it would take a few moments until the first pulse.
“Great, our defense guns just take too long to startup!!” she cursed, waking up Jengas defenses as fast as she could.
“What the hell is going on” Cortana asked, finally getting in sync with Serina just as the first radar pulses reflected back from the incoming projectile.
“Kinetic impactor. 0.7 seconds to impact. It’ll hit the construction site.” she replied focused on her task.
The eyes of Cortana's Grid avatar widened in shock. “Interception?”
“A single laser shot in a few moments, everything else takes too long. And not enough time to warn anyone on the moon!”
“You try to rescue the survivors, I will organizing the cats.” Cortana said and activated a station wide alert signal. “Damned, I would give half of my servers for catgirls who can overclock.”
“Time is over... fire” Serina murmured and a blue pulse of light raced outwards and hit the incoming projectile, vaporizing most of it instantly.
Normally that would have neutralized any projectile easily.
But the projectile was only a fraction of a seconds away from hitting its target, and a whole section of Pan’s surface flashed bright white as the icy surface was vaporized by the metal vapor.
Both AIs slowed down to ‘real time’ again, they needed the help of catgirls. Cortana instantly activated a holographic Avatar in Jengas Control room.
“Everyone listen to me, this is an emergency” she shouted, “we just had an attack on the construction site by a large scale kinetic impactor! We partly managed to deflect it but some of it still hit the target. Get out our medical supplies and prepare for injured people, Serina is just getting them all back to the station.”
Most catgirls just stared at her in shock, but a few of them began moving. Cortana pointed to the catgirl standing at Sensor Control.
“Organize a secure perimeter as large as you can make it around this moon, we might have more of these things incoming.”
The whole room stayed frozen for another moment and then suddenly everyone exploded into action.
“Samantha, we are activating the stations drives, I want to move it exactly over the construction site.”
“Get out as many recon drones as we have in the launchers, I want to have a sensor perimeter as soon as possible. Luci, ask the labs if they have drones for repair, I want them out in space two minutes ago!”
“This is Jenga to all spacecrafts in the Saturn subsystem. We are declaring an emergency and a perimeter zone of 10000 km around the Saturn Moon Pan. All ships in the area please contact us and watch your sensors for enemy fire.”
“Tasha, call Coruscant and tell them... I will see that I get a line to the White Tower to get an okay for our security zone.”
One of the catgirls turned to Cortana. “Do you have data from Pan? What is about the astronauts, are they okay?”
Oh, I am looking for a suggestion who will be sent by Space Patrol to Jenga. I had thought about sending Shepard with the Normandy, unfortunately the Normandy is still under construction during this story. *G*
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Somewhere in the darkness, many light seconds away from the huge ringed planet called Saturn was a pitch black platform, placed there by an unremarkable waved truck half a day ago. After hours of calibrating its orientation through analysis of incoming light from stars and planets, the computer on the platform finished its preparation phase.
The platform suddenly became alive in a bright green life. A crackling sphere of lightning appeared around the weapon, expanding to a diameter of more than 40 meters and then collapsing back onto the weapon. Within the blink of an eye, the metallic projectile was accelerated to an incredible speed.
For hours its flight wasn’t noticed by anyone.
Seconds before the projectile hit its target, a group of Exocomps finally noticed it. They had chased a small block of ring ice a few hundred kilometers away from Jenga and one of them recognized the moving dot on its infrared camera.
‘TOY! Lets catch it!’, the small drone thought and its companions quickly turned around to look for their new prey. They quickly estimated the distance, only to be disappointed.
‘Oh, too far away’ they thought saddened, ‘maybe a friend can catch it?’
Then they all flinched in unison.
Whatever it was, it was fast... very fast. And it was going to hit home!
Their shock hit Serina’s consciousness a few milliseconds later. While her mind ran distributed on all the Exocomps, she normally did not payed that much attention to most of her little children.
The majority of the Exocomps left behind on Jenga froze in unison as a priority alert raced through Serinas mind, she could feel the world around her slowing down. She looked out through all her Exocomps eyes searching for the incoming threat.
“There... damned, not much time!”
She ignored a curious word from Cortana. Jenga’s second AI was still working in normal time.
Jengas radar emitter began to charge up, but it would take a few moments until the first pulse.
“Great, our defense guns just take too long to startup!!” she cursed, waking up Jengas defenses as fast as she could.
“What the hell is going on” Cortana asked, finally getting in sync with Serina just as the first radar pulses reflected back from the incoming projectile.
“Kinetic impactor. 0.7 seconds to impact. It’ll hit the construction site.” she replied focused on her task.
The eyes of Cortana's Grid avatar widened in shock. “Interception?”
“A single laser shot in a few moments, everything else takes too long. And not enough time to warn anyone on the moon!”
“You try to rescue the survivors, I will organizing the cats.” Cortana said and activated a station wide alert signal. “Damned, I would give half of my servers for catgirls who can overclock.”
“Time is over... fire” Serina murmured and a blue pulse of light raced outwards and hit the incoming projectile, vaporizing most of it instantly.
Normally that would have neutralized any projectile easily.
But the projectile was only a fraction of a seconds away from hitting its target, and a whole section of Pan’s surface flashed bright white as the icy surface was vaporized by the metal vapor.
Both AIs slowed down to ‘real time’ again, they needed the help of catgirls. Cortana instantly activated a holographic Avatar in Jengas Control room.
“Everyone listen to me, this is an emergency” she shouted, “we just had an attack on the construction site by a large scale kinetic impactor! We partly managed to deflect it but some of it still hit the target. Get out our medical supplies and prepare for injured people, Serina is just getting them all back to the station.”
Most catgirls just stared at her in shock, but a few of them began moving. Cortana pointed to the catgirl standing at Sensor Control.
“Organize a secure perimeter as large as you can make it around this moon, we might have more of these things incoming.”
The whole room stayed frozen for another moment and then suddenly everyone exploded into action.
“Samantha, we are activating the stations drives, I want to move it exactly over the construction site.”
“Get out as many recon drones as we have in the launchers, I want to have a sensor perimeter as soon as possible. Luci, ask the labs if they have drones for repair, I want them out in space two minutes ago!”
“This is Jenga to all spacecrafts in the Saturn subsystem. We are declaring an emergency and a perimeter zone of 10000 km around the Saturn Moon Pan. All ships in the area please contact us and watch your sensors for enemy fire.”
“Tasha, call Coruscant and tell them... I will see that I get a line to the White Tower to get an okay for our security zone.”
One of the catgirls turned to Cortana. “Do you have data from Pan? What is about the astronauts, are they okay?”