Locations:
Invictus
Planetoid - located in the void
People:
Tyrone Wrathbone - Lifeform evolved from Tybar's pet rat
Amelia Rose Seraphine - Ash's mom
Sapien Gabriel Seraphine - Ash's dad
Action:
The crew of the Invictus was still immersed in an attack by Space Pirates, all the while trying to maintain the correct course and speed to enter the Maelstrom.
Vicky relays to Ash that she has been working on some new hobbies and asks if Ash wants to hear her latest rap. Ash politely declines and asks for a status update. Vicky recalibrates
and proceeds to rap the status report.
Here’s a status update, and a damage report.
We got another vessel on an intercept course.
There are gravimetric waves and dimensional rifts.
We got a matter-antimatter integrator to fix.
I found Zeta Radiation during an internal sweep,
plus tachyon emissions in cargo bay 3.
The EMS conduits are smoky as hell,
and we are venting plasma through the port nacelle.
That last gravity flux knocked some manifolds loose.
Also, there’s an intruder in the Jeffries tube.
I need a cryosensor, hyperspanner, neutrieno probe,
and a phase compensator for the Drift manifolds.
But we have to find the source of the plasma leak
Or we are looking at a possible power core breach.
Vicky out…
As we progress through the Maelstrom, the battle raged on. N.I.K.K. pours petrol over everything. Zen causes fear among the pirates. Chantey detects radiation and goes to contain it. Tybar throws grenades, which in turns sets the petrol on fire. During all this, things around us start to age. We start to age. The speed we are going has caused a time riff. Soon we are geriatrics fighting each other. People are dying left and right, not from wounds, but old age. Chantey was a decaying massive heap at one point. Then, to everyone's surprise and delight, Tyrone, the pet rat of Tybar jumps up on the crates and calls out to his father. "I will save you!" "My boy!" T-bone exclaims. The pet rat had evolved into a higher functioning life form.
Then, silence and everything is as it was before we were attacked. We had punched through the Maelstrom. The pirates attacking us were not at the correct angle of attack make it, and therefore were lost forever. As we take a collective sigh of relief, Vicky lets us know we are approaching a planetoid. We land and are greeted by a woman who turns out to be Amelia Seraphine, Ash's mom. The reunion wasn't so sweet. Amelia and Vicky get into a row, and Amelia shuts down Vicky. Several of the crew are very upset by this. Amelia also resets N.I.K.K. to his factory settings. Not as many of the crew were upset by that. Chanterelle is now N.I.K.K.'s primary user. Ash demands to see her father, but her mother wouldn't acquiesce and kept trying to get us to focus on other aspects of her planetoid.
Join us next time as we learn the depths of Amelia Seraphine, and if we will regret coming here to find her.
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