Seizing The Stars (phase one)

by keithsterling

Chapter 5

It 730 Space Cycles since the strange Alien vessel penetrated Imperator Alicorn spaces after vaporizing an abandoned habitat in the sector the Empress calls up the whole Royal Battle Fleet to secure and police the area of the alien vessel to keep the rest of the Imperator Alicorn Space safe. During that time, numerous small Imperator Alicorn space stations have pop-up to houses the Pillars of Creation institute personnel sent to study the Alien vessel and the artifacts contained within the belly, as well as the needs of the working population at this site.

To free-up the 'IAS Limitless' the command class warship of the Royal Battle Fleet Empress Galaxy Cosmos handed over command of the site to 'IAS Spiral Nebulas' the largest Imperator Alicorn Science Class space ship in the Imperator Alicorn space fleet under the command of Galactic Technician Administrator Sylvie Solstice the new head of the Pillars of Creation institute. To keep from taking military ships and personnel away from the Royal Battle fleet protection detail, the commander of the military aspect of this site falls to Warlord Ophelia Silverlight. Galactic Technician Sylvie Solstice worked under Imperial Princess Ophelia Silverlight on Sol and is friends.

In the observation deck conference room of the 'IAS Spiral Nebulas' entering data into the archives on main Crystal data cube was an angelic-looking chocolate brown Celestial Alicorn mare with copper-colored mane and tail. Her shapely 6ft 10in equine figure was attired in Forest green spacesuit with brown trim. On her bare chocolate, brown feet were knee-high boots. Why folded on her back were her silver metal wings. This Celestial Alicorn Mare was Galactic Technician Administrator Sylvie Solstice. A moment later, Warlord Ophelia Silverlight arrives at the conference room.

"Greetings Sylvie, you wanted to talk to me?" Ophelia asked as she stopped and looked toward Ophelia.

"Yes, your imperial majesty. I am hoping you can send a large Aerospace escort detail with this shipment to the main laboratory at the pillars of Creation Institute in Omega Nebula Star Sector." Sylvie explains as Ophelia rests her chin in her opened gloved hand.

"Sure I can, may I ask why, Sylvie?" Ophelia inquiry as Sylvie shook her head.

"We retrieved this artifact from a heavily secured area of the ship. We believe it might be a memory core for its main computer. So I am sent it to the main laboratory at the Pillars of Creation Institute. To let those Galactic Technicians go through it with a fine-tooth comb." Sylvie explains as Ophelia gasps.

"Is there any particular pilot you want me to send with the escort detail?" Ophelia inquiry as she chuckles softly.

"Now, why would I tell you how to do your job, Ophelia?" Sylvie said joking as Ophelia laughed.

"But anyway, I think I'll send a new pilot for this assignment," Ophelia comments as Sylvie gasps.

"A new pilot?" Sylvie exclaims as Ophelia begins to chuckles.

"You might remember the name of the pilot that I am going to assign to the mission. Brigadier General Luna Silverlight." Ophelia comments as Sylvie gasps with the name.

"Luna Silverlight, the younger sister to Celestia Silverlight and your grandson sister-in-law. She a pilot!" Sylvie said as she blinks with surprise.

"Yep! She scored the highest in aerospace piloting and combat. She didn't score high in leadership like her sister Celestia. But put her with the right pilots she can command them." Ophelia explains as she walks out of the observation deck conference room.

It a few hours later on the flight deck of 'IAS Stellar Eclipse,' a heavenly looking dark blue Terran Alicorn mare with midnight blue mane and tail inspects an NF 6C Combat nova fighter. Her elegant 6ft 3in equine figure was attired in Malibu blue spacesuit with white trim. On her bare dark blue feet were knee-high boots. Her dark blue feathered bird wings were folded on her back. This Alicorn mare was Brigadier General Luna Silverlight.

Once she is finished with the inspection, she flaps her wings once and lands in the cockpit of the fighter. Slowly the tough transparent bubble of canopy closes with a low whoosh makes it airtight. In the cockpit, Luna places her helmet on top of her head and begins to sequentially flip switches and press buttons on the control panel.

Once she grabs holds of the two yokes on the arms of the pilot seat. A giant claw from the ceiling of the flight deck lowers grabs her fighter around the fuselage. The claw lifts her fighter three feet in the air and deposits her plane on one of three launching catapults. As the visor lower on the helmet in front of her eyes, the tinted glass begins running through the diagnostics of the Aerospace fighter.

Soon the outline of the fighter appears on one side of the visor; it says all armor is 100% across the fighter. On the other side, it shows all armaments are ready. She activates her pilot body armor as the four-point harnesses hold her to the seat. Luna gives the thumb-up to the shooter the Imperator Alicorn mare ducks and signals to launch. With that, Luna is thrown back into her seat with force as the fighter accelerates down a glowing tube as it reaches the end of the tube, it shot into the darkness of space.

"Moon one, clear of the carrier. All reading optimal. Engaging the pilot control system. The pilot has control. Inputting rendezvous coordinates for detail." Luna report as the fighter banks and takes the leading position.

As Luna's fighter takes the leading position in the formation, the visor rises back into her helmet as several small holo screens appear on canopy each screen has a face of one of the other pilots in the formation with the pilot call name and type of Aerospace fighter. Soon the holo screen with the face of the transport driver appears.

"All right ponies, we have to protect this transport all the way to the Pillars of Creation Institute in Omega Nebula Star Sector. This artifact could be the most important thing found on the ship or not. But anyway it our job to guard it. Move out." Luna orders as her visor lower back into place, and formation begins to move forward.

It has been 517 days since the 'UAC Beast Lord,' the prototype Jumpship launched from Star wolf one naval base in stable orbit over the Planet of ARK with well-timed jumps. This has allowed the vessel to cover several light-years in a moment inching them closer and closer to the alien signal.

Along the way, the 'UAC Beast Lord' has come under attack by Buzzers the echoes unmanned assault crafts (look like typical UFO disc-shaped) trying to stop the Jumpship from reaching the alien signal. The UAC thoughts of that and armed the Jumpship with rapid-fire small pulse beam turrets that can take down a Buzzers quickly. After the latest attack by Buzzers, Captain Keith Sterling sits in the captain's quarters at his desk, writing in the captain's log.

A moment later, the door into the captain's quarters whooshes open and in entering an exquisite looking smokey topaz brown female mink morph with shoulder-length smokey topaz colored hair. Her 5ft 8in striking mustelid figure was attired in Spanish blue colored spacesuit with white trim. On her bare four-toed smokey topaz brown feet were knee-high boots. Her long bushy tail moved back and forth behind her. This female mink morph was Supreme High Archangel Joanne Archer and commander of the only all-female unit in the UAC military and ships counselor aboard 'UAC Beast Lord.'

"Greeting captain, would you like to talk?" Joanne asked in her soothing voice.

"Did Krystal ask you to do this, Joanne?" Keith inquiry as he closed the captain's log and set his pen down on his desk.

"No, she didn't. Don't forget, captain. I sit next to you on the bridge along with Krystal as the command crew." Joanne comment sitting on the armrest of the nearby sofa as Keith whimpered under his breath.

"Before we were transported to Star Wolf one naval base to board the 'UAC Beast lord.' At my office at New Sirius Base, Krystal brought up the subject of us not being able to have puppies, if the memory core aboard the ship says it so. At the time, I thought nothing of it, but after the attack of echoes buzzers, I started to think about it." Keith explains as Joanne starts to rud her chin with her gloved hand.

"First off Keith, stop thinking like that went we don't know what the memory core contains. Next, you and Krystal are top predators; you control your environment. If you can't have puppies because of your species. You both will find another way to have puppies." Joanne said, reassuring as all the alarms aboard the ship go off at once.

The turbo lift deposits Keith and Joanne on the bridge of 'UAC Beast Lord' quickly they take their seats on the bridge. The main view screen shows a huge battle several light-years in front of the Jumpship.

"Maximum Magnification on the main view screen, tech!" Keith orders as the picture get bigger and bigger till through the special filters on the main view screen reveal cloaked buzzers attacking some kind of formation.

"Those are echoes buzzers! Are they attacking something out here?" Krystal comments, puzzled.

"You know captain those things that the buzzers are attacking look like fighters." Joanne comments.

"Tech! Scan those small ships in formation." Keith orders as the tech scan the small ships. Suddenly on the main view screen, the technical readout for NF 6C combat nova fighter appears.

"They are Nova fighter. but this schematic doesn't match any of the UAC Aerospace fighters being produced." Keith said, shocked as he snaps out of it.

"Krystal! Joanne! Gather your pilots we have four WF 1MP Wasp-class fighters in storage in cargo bay two. It will take too long to load up the multi-missile systems. So make do with the triple-barreled auto cannon on the fighters to shoot down those buzzers. Plus, get eyes on the pilots of those Nova fighters." Keith orders as the Vixen and mink morph quickly head down to cargo bay two.

Meanwhile, Luna and her small flight of NF 6C Combat Nova fighters are hard-pressed to try to defend themselves from an invisible foe that attacking them from every direction. However, still, the special armor plate of the imperator alicorn has allowed them to endure the unrelenting attack on the flight. Suddenly four blips appear on the head-up display of Luna's fighter coming in hot. As the four fighters speed overhead, they release a tachyon curtain that reveals the invisible foe.

"Attack them! They are unmanned! We will take out the cloaking device and the main ship!" A female voice said in Luna's helmet radio.

"Krystal, are you nuts! We have no bombs on this fighter!" Joanne exclaims angrily as the unmanned mother ship is revealed by the tachyon curtain.

"I might be Joanne! But you better hope that equine pilot is part of a herd!" Krystal comments as Joanne gasped.

"She is what?" Joanne exclaims

"An equine Joanne. One difference between the lost horse tribe from ARK is that this equine had a horn in the center of her helmet and what looks like wings on her back." Krystal explains as the four fighter's line up to take out cloaking device on the mother ship.

As the four fighters fire simultaneously onto the cloaking device on the mother ship blowing it up, the fighters pull up and away. Just as heavy pulse fire starts to hit the unmanned mother ship from a cruiser and a frigate coming into view. Soon the mother ship is swarmed by several aerospace fighters from a carrier. Unable to take on so many targets at the same time, the mother ship goes dark and explodes.

Sometime later, Wolf Knight Lady Krystal Sterling sits in an interrogation room of the 'IAS Stellar Eclipse,' the super carrier-class warship. After the four Aerospace fighters were escorted aboard the 'IAS Stellar Eclipse,' Krystal quickly steps forward to allow them to do what every examination they want to do on her. As long as other pilots were left alone and looked after. The tall, dark blue stallion agreed to it, and to show sincerity, he took the other pilots to empty crew's quarters to hold them.

"So your name is Krystal Sterling from these medical report you are some kind of red fox or a vixen to be more precise." The stallion comment looking at the report on his MCV.

"That is correct stallion, and you are Equine. But some kind of weird equine. All the equine I have seen in books don't have a horn and wings. What are you?" Krystal inquiry looking at the stallion a bit puzzled.

"I am Alicorn, and my name is Justice Silverlight. Not stallion." Justice comments as the door burst open and in enter a wolf morph follow carefully by a white alicorn mare that stands next to Justice.

"What in the goddess name! Are you doing? I just barely open dialogue between Justice and me here, Keith." Krystal said sourly.

"Please forgive my husband here, Mr. Justice. I can only guess he was worried about me." Krystal comments as she's noticed the mare chuckling into the back of her hand.

"I can certainly understand, Miss Krystal. You see, this mare that came in with your husband is my wife. I to would be worried about her." Justice explains as the two married couples sit down to talk to each other.

~Back in the collective the home system of the echoes~

"Well, what we feared. The experiment has made contact with the Imperator Alicorns." A male voice said in the energy cloud.

"Do you know how much it going to cost to rebuild unmanned mother ship and how much resources it going to take!" An angry male voice said in the energy cloud.

"Those experiments were a huge mistake!" the same angry male voice said in the energy cloud.

"Those experiments were not a huge mistake! We never dreamed that the experiments would evolve so fast. Within four generations, the experiments defeated the kill switch in their cells and build a viable civilization on ARK." An excited female voice said in the energy cloud.

"Only a scientist echo like you would thing an experiment was a success. Think of all the wasted funds poured into the ARK project." The angry male voice said again in the energy cloud.

"Silence all of you! We have more pressing manners. That dark blue Terran Alicorn duped us. The shipment she was protecting was a fake; all that was in the crate was a heavy metal ball the same size as the memory core. The real memory core arrives at the Pillars of Creation institute two hours ago. It only manner of time before they translate it. The memory core is too deep in Imperator Alicorn space to send a ship to get. Plus, with the information our experiments gave them. Tachyon curtains are going up across Imperator Alicorn space." A forceful male voice said in the energy cloud.

Comments

[daba zaba]

A very action packed chapter.
Loving the beasties and the confrontation with the ponies.