Pardus Stories - First Volume

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PARDUS STORIES

BY LAURA DUMITRESCU

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Table of contents:

In the Orbit ... page 3

Whos orbiting who ? ............... page 5

The life of a slave: Unerasable Sin ... page 7

Do Skaaris celebrate Christmas? . page 13

Flying a Viper in the Pardus Cluster . page 15Zeaex Stories page 17

- A Thunderbird in Zeaex page 18

- No fuel on board in a stripmined sector page 26

Mental Delusion page 34

A noobs tale page 40

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In the Orbit

She is sweating. Large drops of water are flowing on her forehead. The lights on thecontrol panel are all green. The chair is broken... Nobody will ever use it again. The

Barbie & Ken 2050 Special Edition is there, as if it was manufactured three hours ago.But what happened on the ship... her ship... had nothing childish in it.

The clothes are there, on the table. I go there and take my pants on.

She is satisfied. I've done what she asked me to do. That Barbie Antiquity has suffered a

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professional restauration. Since one pirate can destroy all my plans as a pilot, why

shouldn't I return to my first occupation - I used to be a manufacturer and Art & Craft

artist and restorer before I graduated flight school. If I hadn't had this occupation before,maybe I wouldn't have become a pilot and meet this beautiful woman sweating in her

ship... Will she repair the climatisation system or she wants to hide all the signs of her

visitors with a self-sustained micro-environment based on a flaw in the life-support-system?

Now I am going to leave her ship.

Will I ever see her again? I don't know.

My little escape pod is now being transferred to the insurance's company ship. Myinsurance officer greets me through the speaker and complains about my behaviour: why

didn't I expect the company's ship and quietly stay in the escape pod... Blah blah blah!

Give me a break! I destroy the speaker with a brutal move.

The Insurance Officer opens the door and hugs me... But then she retires... She felt the

smell, the perfume of the other woman. A tear appears in her left eye... She runs on thehalls of the ship... I am astonished.

And then I realise... The look on this blond woman face... I never looked at her as a manlooks at a woman. She was always my insurance officer.

All these pod-rides... Everytime she came after me. And she expected from me something

I gave to another woman in one glimpse of the eye...

I shudder. I must do something. I must catch her, point her to the wall and... No, no, I

cannot do that, I must respect her! She is an insurance officer!

But why hasn't she said anything so far? Was that too low for her? Yes, of course, what

kind of woman would jump on a man and bother him with silly things? I was the onesupposed to take the first step...

I hear a loud noise... I jump into the ventilation system. I go to the engine room - there

she is, drowning into an oil pool! I jump from a ladder into the pool, grab her and take usboth from the oil vessel.

And now I'm on top of her... Looking one to each other's eyes...

***

Here I am... in my insurance officer's room... restaurating her Barbie Ancient Set. Planet

Tivea appears to be more shiny today... Perhaps some solar explosions... And a lot of

sweating...

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Who's orbiting who?

Pirate Hawk

Brave NighthawkPirate Scorp

Brave MC.

Preywinder

Ambushes

Sabre hides

In the bushes.

Shadow Stealth

Craft is sureSmaller than

Phantom - drink liquor.

NHD cloaks

War Nova

Approaches

The Onion dies.

MC is for

MooncrusherNHD is for

Nighthawk Deluxe

SSC is more

Shadow Stealth Craft

and PW is forPreywinder - Shaft.

Pirate Hawk

Brave MC

Harrier diesLong live the Queen!

Stupid Fed

Gay in fact

Go to bedBabel bag!

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Ska'ari Fed

Former Onion

Traitor in BabelTo the Emperor

Orbit the HawkAnd kill the Harrier

Die you Lanner

Eat this Hawk.

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This beautiful poemIf you don't

Understand

You're not in a DS

Nor a War Nova

Nor MC, nor ScorpOr Boa Ultimate Carrier -

You're in a Harrier!

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The Life of a Slave: Unerasable Sin


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express my gratitude to her afer she is released from this slave camp.

I never told her I'm also for Nionquat. She will hear this when you'll read this tattoo.

When we were transported to the slave camp, on the ship I saw one tall human female,and on her chest I saw horrified the tattoo of the Empire. She fought and she was knocked

down. I was amazed. She wanted to take control over the ship.

Time after time, when I saw that human female, her muscles, her powerful body, I alwayshad a weird feeling.

The food and water were of high quality. She was the only female sent to hard -work.

The other females were sent to the smelting facilities where they only had to push walletswith ore and metal. In fact the life of a slave there was amazing. It was even better than

the one I had on Nionquat. Except the freedom.

One day, a rock cracked and severely wounded her left arm. The soldiers laughed at her:

"Stupid woman". But she jumped in front of them and took the gun of one of them. It wasa fast and bloody fight.

I was amazed, she knocked down dead two guards with one arm.

The other slaves were horrified. I was the only one who tracked her. She went to theSlave Camp's dock. There was a Ficon with the symbol of Empire on it.

"Have you betrayed us ?" She looked at me with big eyes. "Who us ?"

"I know you, Rashkirian, you were my husband's subordinate".

"What?""We were both Empire spies"

I felt that moment that my head would explode. My heart-beats were knocking me down.

My eyes were trembling.

"Haven't you ever asked why you, the crew and the captain did not make showertogether?"

"No, because he had homofobia".

"No that was not the reason. It was because he had the exact tattoo as I have. I was alsocaptain of a War Nova". My teeth crushed. Two of four War Novas were under Empire

influence in war. No doubt why Sargas was lost.

"Does it really matter ? What's done is done. Nothing can be changed"In that moment I wanted to kill that human woman.

But it all made sense. In fact, the captain wanted to get rid of us. But the Empire wanted

to get rid of the captain too. But they still needed lots of slaves.That's hy they sent the

former. Please, son, take care who do you trust. You'll never know when you meet anUnion or an Empire spy. Don't die, and don't become a slave, even if they promise you a

better life.

She was entering the Ficon when I finally realised how much damage that woman madeto my life. So I jumped after her. The space ship door closed. We fought inside the ship.

She hit me strong in the head and knocked me down unconscious.

I managed to wake up in time and send an SOS to the Empire starbase near the SlaveCamp. That's how she was caught.

I was tortured. 20 days in a row. Then they made a pause. And they tortured me again for

20 days.

They brought me a piece of human skin. Horrified, I realised it was the Empire tattoo.

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(Be aware of what the Empire is doing to their own spy). They said: "That's a souvenir

from your friend." And I said "She was not my friend. She was my greatest enemy". And

they tortured me.Those are probably the last words you will receive from me, my son. The end is near. My

legs hurt when I move, I cannot do other work than wash the Ska'ari's backs. What an

irony. This job offered me the opportunity to know many Ska'aris and I even begun tounderstand them now and even approve them, despite the fact I was raised to hate and kill

Ska'ari on Nionquat.

And what i'm mostly ashamed is that I feel no shame. No shame for approving theSka'aris, who have tortured me, who hae taken away all the good things life has given to

me...

This is what I have tattoed myself on my friend's body. She loved me so much that she

sacrificed her entire body to allow me send you my last message. Please take care of heras if she would be your second mother. In another situation maybe we would have been a

greater family.">>

"The signature is not visible"."He didn't have time to complete it. The Ska'ari soldiers just took me out the slave camp

and I was naked in my room and I had fear the tattoo will become unclear because of thecosmic radiations. I'm just happy that I could send you this last message from your father.

Now please let me go... I want to see my planet

You're a beautiful Rashkirian woman"."Oh thank you, but that's more because of the spirit I have been grown up, the Rashkir's

spirit, that I also see in your eyes".

"That's all I could do for him."

After she said that she left.She went to the hotel. There was only a little piece of sun that wa still visible on the sky.

Than a great noise... Millions of Marauders on the sky. Millions.

BURN ! BURN ! IT HURTS !Then a brutal hit over the face. She felt blood dropping from her nose. She looked into a

Guardians' eyes. They were Unionites. And then she saw into a reflection her body. She

realised why she felt her skin burning. She had a new tattoo: the symbol of the Union.

The Behemoth was entering the slave camp. All the slaves were teleported in the huge

yard. All the slave camps have huge yards. But one slave was still on the Behemoth.

"We will whip you until there will be nothing visible on your body." And they whippedher body fro thousands of times. Blood was flowing over her body as if it was a cloth.

The pain was incredible, but she didn't yell or scream. Only mourned slowly.

Finally, she fell on the floor, which now wasa lake of blood. Then the chief of theguardians came to her. He pointed to her chest.

"Do you know why you have this tattoo and the other slaves don't ?"

"No, and I don't want to"."Because I read the story tattooed on your body. And I thought you looked "pretty" with

this. That's why I'd put them to "erase" it. From now on, no one can longer trust you. Just

as in the story, the spies have tattoed the symbol of the faction as when they are no longer

needed, they can be easily killed by factions' assassins. And now, you are just a pitiful ex-

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" Today, at dawn, you'll be executed. We don't need slaves that cannot move."

She remained shocked. Usually slave camps used to free women, because only men were

used to build secret military buildings. But now, they were going to execute her.But an idea reached her mind. "If the Union tattoo on my chest was because of the first

letter tattoed on my skin, then I'll do what it's written in my first tattoo about the human

woman spy of the Empire. I'll escape like she did it !"Suddenly, she realised her only problem was her tattoo. But she will do anything to

protect the message.

At the execution time, he knocked down two guardians with her arms. Than shot threeguardians with the guns she took from the other two down.

The other slaves began to fight too, even if they were outnumbered.

She went to the dock. On the way, he met Iwanto. He had a mortal wound. With his last

powers, he told her:"Please go and send my last words to my son."

The chief of the slave camp remained shocked:

"She has stolen a Marauder !"

After a peaceful year on Nionquat, a Marauder penetrated the Federation defense without

making any casualties.Two women were meeting in the Nionquat deserted land.

"Are you Iwanto's wife ?"

"Yes I am.""Where is his son ?"

"I'm sorry. He died."

The Rashkir woman fell. She, the one who resisted to electrical chokes, to hundreds of

whippings, could not resist the choke of that news.Later, she woke up on a soft bed. She realised she was naked.

"Sorry. Those were the last words from my husband. I really needed to see them."

"Don't say anything. Afterall, someone should have read it.""What are you doing ?"

"I'm a Union slave now. I've lived mostly in slave camps. If I could escape once from an

Empre slave camp, and then the second time run away from a Union slave camp, I willsucceed over and over again.

Perhaps other will need my skin. So I could bring the messages of the slaves to the free

people, as no one to forget slavery does exist in this Universe. And the free ones must be

fought against it by any possible means."The woman turned her back and went to the Marauder. Now she did know what her

mission was. As long as her skin still existed, as long as those tattoos still could be made,

there was no reason to retire.

The person who inspired this story used to be one the few slaves who did escape from

several neutral and faction slave camps. Unlike other who did it, she always tried to

return to the slave camps because she always carried a message tattoed on her skin,

sometimes from head to feet and even with piercing jewelry inside she used to hide paper

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messages. Sometimes she was carrying them into her stomache and had to to many

operations because only doctors managed to clean her stomache.

She did this even when her skin begun to fall of the body, even when muscles begun tocollapse. She did always find a way to get through the security, inside the slave camps.

She did not give up even when she could no longer use her right arm.

She died in great pain due to multiple infections at her muscles. She was happy that

voices of millions of slaves had found a way to express the pain, the suffering and the

love to the dear ones.

THE END

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Do Ska'aris celebrate Christmas?

"Crab crab crabCome with your bag

And give me candiesYou naughty Clawies"

I once heard this song on the city Zelada Zel 4 on the planet Zelada in the space clusterLane. It's called Mr Clawies. Who sang it? A group of playful little Keldons. I ran them

with my motorcycle. I hate happy cheerful children, no matter the race. I also hate

holidays and especially Christmas...

It seems Santa Claus for Keldons is an old Ska'ari. Keldon chicks call him Mr. Clawies.

That year, Mr Clawies had 4 or 5 less Keldy to bring presents to. He should have been

grateful to me.

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Yup. It's Christmas time. And I'm stuck here in prison. I have a new Christmas tattoo - a

tramp stamp with a reindeer surrounded by fir-tree branches - and it fits pretty well with

the green grenade tattoo I have on my left arm, the machine gun initiation tattoo of the

Blue Squirrels Sisterhood I have on my abs and the Nighthawk Deluxe tattoed on myright leg.

I am the main striptease girl here for the Keldon males. I hate mixed-gendered-prisons.Rapes every day unless you gain protection from the mob of the prison. That's why I

accepted to be the main attraction of the male population of the prison. I give one daily

performance at the vertical bar of the pub.

This time I killed 10 Rashkir kids. Their crime: they were wearing Santa's clothes.

Rashkirs should never ever celebrate Christmas!!!

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However, I am grateful to this prison that I don't have to deal with the Rashkir parents.

Performing striptease shows for Keldon males is better than fight ten to twenty angry

Rashkirs and/or Rashkiras. But both better than having to endure the full length of aChristmas show, performed by actors from any of the four intelligent races of the

universe.

So far, I know Humans, Rashkirs and Keldons celebrate Christmas. Most of them.

Diseased beings!

Are the Ska'aris the only remaining race that hasn't been touched by the Christmas

Disease? That Keldon Christmas Carol sounds suspicious... Maybe time to kill crab-kids!

But first, I must escape this prison!

The prisoners started to shout:

- Laura... sing us a Christmas Carol...

- CHRISTMAS CAROL! CHRISTMAS CAROL! CHRISTMAS CAROL!

A saw appeared among the bar and started to make a noise... I started to sing out loud:

Crab crab crabCome with your bag

And give me candies

You naughty Clawies...

For the first time, I began to like a Christmas Carol... even if it was a Keldon one! The

saw continued to perform the action until three bars were broken... I continue to sing

while the gap grew larger and larger...

Crab crab crab

Come with your bagAnd give me candies


Do Ska'aris celebrate Christmas? Guess I'm gonna find out soon...

Crab crab crab

Come with your bagAnd give me candies


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Flying a Viper in the Pardus Cluster

Once upon a time, when I was still had money to explore the universe, I ventured myselfin a new Viper Defence Craft I've bought on Earth to the most dangerouse cluster of the

universe, just to see how it feels like. I was donated some Anti-Lucidi Cloakers and

rumbled across the universe to PFC, the only gateway available for a pilot whosehomeworld was Earth.

And the first things I saw were wrecks. Lots and lots of wrecks. Besides the glamorousbrightly-shining Lucidi Military Outposts.

And also Lucidi squads... The fearsome Lucidi squads!

So, I went to Enif and luckily for me, the wormhole to the Pardus sector was opened.

An Energy well and a wreck of an energy well were saluting my ship, besides theomnipresent space maggot of the universe. Also, some Doomstar wrecks or something, I

don't really know them that well to identify their wrecks.

So, I made my first moves in the Pardus sector and I saw a Cyborg Manta.

I moved along and discovered something new:

- I saw the first viral cloud in my life and - wow - three starbase wrecks!!!

3 ? In just one place, how could that be possible?

I checked the coordinates and those were Pardus [4,37].

- Wow - I thought to myself - this sector is HUUUUUGE!

I advanced to Pardus [2,76] and saw something awesome:

A group of Euryale Swarmlings sitting in open space next to their mother! How cute!

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Then I entered a huge viral cloud and saw a large group of Asp Hatchlings...

Truly amazing creatures!

But then, I noticed an alert message on the screen and realised that the armor of my ship

had been corroded while flying in the Viral Cloud.

Also, the radiation affected the hull and I began losing atmosphere. And when you know

how small a VDC is, you know how bad that is!

I decided to go and search for a Pardus Repair-Protection Station and I entered into a

nook:

It looked like an Ice Beast Den - there were so many that I zoomed on the camera's

display to see them better, if those were true Ice Beasts or manifestations of my

imagination.

When I returned to the Pardus Wormhole, my hull degraded so much that I had to breath

with a mask connected to an oxygen tank.

I flew back to the PFC and repaired my ship in the nearest starbase.

The repair bills were so high that I've decided never ever to return to the Pardus sector!

Too poor for that kind of stuff... and a bad ship for that kind of enterprise...

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ZEAEX STORIES

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A Thunderbird in ZeaexThis is the story of a young Rashkira pilot who graduated flight school a month before thebeginning of this story.

She bought her new ship, a Thunderbird, and she is ready to restart ranking, because her goalis a Babel Transporter.

On the bulletin board of Rashkan she finds 6 missions to the western side of FRC, twomissions to Nionquat, one to Astropolis (the starbase in Nebul that has unrestricted access),two to Capella and one to the starbase Zaex in sector Zeaex, a place far in the cluster whereshe had never been. The surprises waiting for her there will change her view on the dangers apilot encounters in the Universe.

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Chapter 1: A little Thunderbird

I was so happy when I bought my first Thunderbird! It was so cute, or that's how I saw it as ayoung Rashkira!

My new ship had Tritanium Armor, a cargo capacity of 125 tons, 22 tons being occupied by the

Nuclear Drive, 2 tons by the Auto-Refueler, 5 tons by the Escape Pod and 1 ton by the Fuel

Scoop, remaining 95 tons free for packages. That was very cool!

The previous ship I had was an Adder, and you know the Adder, it is a little ugly. It also

doesn't have a big cargo capacity.

I used to take missions from four guys I trusted to be honest and I knew they were reliable

and paid on time: Apoteu Uvoujo, Iwu Jutofo, Qipilag Hoah and Alex Sanon.

That's why when I checked the Rashkan's bulletin board for missions, I accepted the following:

QUOTEApoteu Uvoujo: "I have 8 packages of secret content which need to be transported to Nionquatin sector Nionquat at the coordinates [10,8]. If you manage to deliver them within the next 28

hours I'll gladly pay you 4,950 credits."

Deposit, which will be paid back once the mission is successfully completed: 1,850 credits

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QUOTE

Alex Sanon: "I have 30 packages of secret content which need to be transported to Nionquat in

sector Nionquat at the coordinates [10,8]. If you manage to deliver them within the next 30hours I'll gladly pay you 4,820 credits."


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Iwu Jutofo: "I have 10 packages of secret content which need to be transported to Astropolis in

sector Nebul at the coordinates [6,17]. If you manage to deliver them within the next 3 days I'llgladly pay you 1,690 credits."

Deposit, which will be paid back once the mission is successfully completed: 630 credits

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Apoteu Uvoujo: "I have 4 packages of secret content which need to be transported to Capella insector Capella at the coordinates [11,7]. If you manage to deliver them within the next 28



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Qipilag Hoah: "I have 4 packages of secret content which need to be transported to Capella insector Capella at the coordinates [11,7]. If you manage to deliver them within the next 28



and

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Qipilag Hoah: "I have 11 packages of secret content which need to be transported to Zaex in

sector Zeaex at the coordinates [5,9]. If you manage to deliver them within the next 5 days I'llgladly pay you 2,560 credits."

Deposit, which will be paid back once the mission is successfully completed: 960 credits

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I finally got out of the orbit of Rashkan with 67 tons of Federal packages on board.

Just as I was heading to the northern wormhole of Rashkan, an Extender passed nearby... It

was so huge, like a whale in the ocean... I thought to myself: "I will never ever be able to fly

such a ship. I will be happy enough to rank to Major and buy myself a Babel Transporter! Thatwould be awesome!"

Chapter 2: The path to Zeaex

I arrived on Nionquat 14 hours after I left Rashkan. I looked there for missions; I foundthis one:

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Usliubuh Boobapac: "I have 7 packages of secret content which need to be transported toCapella in sector Capella at the coordinates [11,7]. If you manage to deliver them within the

next 28 hours I'll gladly pay you 4,950 credits."


and I accepted it.

Seven hours later, I arrived on Astropolis, where I delivered Iwu Jutofo's packages.

I had seven hours to arrive on Capella, otherwise I would have failed 2 missions. This meant a

serious drop-down on my reputation level.

But I did it in 5 hours; I was on Capella and delivered 15 tons of packages! And still I had 3

days and twenty hours to arrive to Zaex starbase and deliver the last package I took from

Rashkan.

I went to Bedaho and tried to advance to Zeaex, hoping that I will end this in ten hours, but I

was blocked by a Space Crystal! That's why I returned to Capella and took a long nap.

I did not knew at that time that I could take a detour via Micanex-Maia to Zeaex and avoid the

Space Crystal barrier. I hate to use maps and I always follow my instinct in my space travels.

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That's why I waited two days until a Doomstar-pilot finally defeated that Space Crystal. It was

a huge celebration on Capella! Everybody was happy for that famous space-hunter who was

also a war-hero of the Federation.

I was also happy because I could finally go to Zeaex! That's why I immediately left Capella,crossed the Bedaho sector (I encountered there a huge energy storm, but it didn't affect my

radar) and I jumped through the wormhole to Zeaex, hoping for a safe return home.

Chapter 3: The Inexperienced Pirate

The wormhole finally ejected my Thunderbird into a huge energy cloud. The radar was

jammed, I had no image of the surroundings. I couldn't see any big star around, or a planet to

make me feel more comfortable.

I wondered myself: "Is this Zeaex? Or I just suffered a wormhole accident and I am

somewhere in No Man's Space where noone arrives and no one can save me from the absolute

oblivion?"

But no, it was Zeaex. And several eyes were watching me from the haze of the energy clouds.

I turned my Thunderbird to a place where I thought there was an opening.

I re-booted the radar system and checked the outside cameras of my ship. I saw one point in

the depth of one cloud; I came closer to that point: it had a metallic colour... But it wasn't

shining. It was a very used ship. My first impression was that I discovered a space wreck, but

then I witnessed how all the lights from the front to the back of the ship were turned on, as if

the ship came back to life.

"I should take a better look at this ship, I never saw this model before", I said to myself.

One flame appeared from the bottom part of that ship. That flame became bigger and passed

near the upper part of my Thunderbird.

A series of lasers passed near my ship, but another series of lasers hit the armor of my ship.

A second flame crossed the space between my ship and the grey one and blew off the armor.

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I looked better at the grey ship and recognised the shape of a Mercury.

And then I realised: I was a sitting duck in front of a combat-equipped specially modified

Mercury, the type of ship used by the novices in piratery.

My Thunderbird had no lasers - I sold the weapon that came with the ship from the production

bench because I needed more space for faction packages. Also, I didn't have missiles because

I considered them a waste of money.

I had no solution in my mind... The computer of the ship began to defragment his disks... The

maneuver commands were blocked! But then I had an idea: I took the communication device

and requested a ping to and from the pirate's ship.

The communication channel was opened:

- Hello! Who are you?

- Who am I has no importance. The most important thing is for you to accept the surrender.

- Who are you? I repeated. I had to stall.

- We can see with our cameras that you have no guns installed on your ship, and clearly if you

had missiles on board, your ship would have responded automatically. YOU ARE A SITTING

DUCK!

- No, I am not!

The ship's computer finished the defragmentation process. I quickly made the retreat

maneuver. The ship of the pirate advanced and continued to fire on my ship; my hull was

affected, but I still didn't have pressure loss.

Fortunately, I my attempt to gain full speed was succesful and I disappeared into an energy

cloud before the pirate fired another missile.

I carefully retreated myself to the opening of the wormhole of Bedaho and jumped backwards.

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Chapter 4: Orbital Relay Station

I docked at Orbital Relay Station, the starbase of Bedaho.

I ordered full repairs for all the components of my ship and bought a new set of Tritanium

Armor.

I decided to equip my Thunderbird with one gun: 5MW Impulse Laser, that costed me 28,000

credits. I thought that would do it. I also bought a Standard Shield Generator.

I had less than one day and a half time to transport the package from Qipilag Hoah to the

starbase Zaex. The confrontation with the pirate had to be resolved as fast as possible.

I went again to the wormhole to Zeaex and I considered myself prepared to defeat the

Inexperienced Pirate.

Chapter 5: First Pod Ride

I exited the wormhole and navigated to the energy cloud where I spotted his ship first time.

I checked out for him on the radar, but I couldn't find a thing.

That's why I entered further in the cloud, where he was waiting for me.

Without having any clue, I almost collided with his ship. He began to fire lasers and disabled

my shield in 30 seconds.

I yelled in my cockpit:

- What on Rashkan? This was supposed to be a Standard Shield, not a Small one.

I fired with my 5MW Impulse Laser and his shield was down also.

- Yes! Yes! You'll get beaten, mister pirate of Zeaex!

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But he fired a missile and half of my armor was blown away. I moved my ship a little further

to avoid direct hits and force him to be more precise when he targeted my ship. But his

precision improved, laser after laser, missile after missile.

The next two missiles he launched missed me. I managed to damage his armor, but notenough. That armor was resisting much better than mine. If I had been more experienced at

that time, I would have simply disengaged from the battle and return later after I had repaired

my ship. "But no! I am going to destroy this pie-rat today and here!" I thought to myself.

We were continuously firing lasers one to each other, and I didn't realise that my hull was in

critical condition. Suddenly, all the alerts on my ship turned red and the computer assistant

recommended me to abandon the ship in my escape pod.

I ran to my escape pod and flew away from the battlescene. While my escape pod was

heading towards the wormhole to Bedaho with a speed similar to one of a comet, my

Thunderbird exploded in the energy cloud. The Inexperienced Pirate won another duel.

I had to remain in my escape pod which consumed all his fuel and stopped pretty close to the

wormhole to Bedaho. It should have been the best place to be spotted, but few pilots head to

Zeaex because it isn't an attractive zone of the Federation Rashkir Core. That's why I got

extremely bored and extremely hungry and thirsty in that little cilinder with even smaller

engine. I decided that if I get away from Zeaex alive, I will buy another type of escape pod

that looks cooler and it has even much space inside. Unfortunately, that model is the only

model of escape pods available in the Universe. Hunger and thirst were making fun of my

mind.

Finally, after two days of waiting, a Babel Transporter spotted my escape pod's signal and I

was brought back to Rashkan, where the insurance company rebuilt my Thunderbird from

spare-parts.

That was the first and last time in that year I've been to Zeaex. Not only one failed mission,

but also a pitiful defeat made me rethink my possibilities and my goals.

The end

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No fuel on board in a stripmined

sector

One Rashkira flying a nice blue Babel Transporter has set a new list of goals for her career:

To be promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander;

To buy a Mantis and trade in the Neutral Zone.

To achieve those goals, she needs to accomplish hundreds of missions. And one day, the most

profitable and accesible missions lead to Zaex Starbase, in the sector where she has received

her first pod ride.

Will she do better this time?

Read this story to find out!

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Chapter 1: My Babel Transporter

Long, long days of hard work: I remember them well.

Delivering packages everywhere in the Federation Rashkir Core; from Astropolis to The

Lighthouse; from the Dragons Inn to Famiay Station; from Orbis Tower to Alioth

Station; from the Opera House to WTX Vanguard... so many places, so many tons and

tons of packages...

When one day I receive a message: You have been promoted to the rank of Major!

And another message right after this one: You may now buy a Babel Transporter, since

you have the rank of Major.

I felt like: "Unbelievable... Finally in a Babel? Yuppyy!!!"

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I went to Rashkan and bought myself a new blue Babel Transporter. I looked at it, his

huge and impressive body was making me feel like: "How on Nionquat will I be able to

fly such an immense ship?" His engines, his cargo-hold, his cockpit were nothing like

anything else I've seen or used.

Babel Transporter is much more than a Sabre, a Wasp, a Rustclaw, an Adder or even a

Thunderbird might ever hope to become. Some say it's like a flying box, but no, that's not

right; its wings, its armor and its gun mountings and missile launchers integrate in a

sweet way in his regular prismatic hull.

"I love this Babel!" I said to myself.

Chapter 2: Raided and stuck

One day, I noticed on Waayan's bulletin board 3 package missions to Maia, 2 missions to

Zaex Starbase and 2 missions to Orbital Relay Station. That meant 7 missions in two

days! Maximum efficiency in the shortest possible time! I thought to myself: "Last time

I've tried to reach Zaex Starbase, I came from Bedaho and met that Inexperienced Pirate

that podded me. But this time I am in a Babel Transporter... It will withstand the pirates'

attacks with the 2 Impulse Laser of 5 MW power and the Neutronium Armor it has!"

So, I signed up for those missions! My Babel's cargohold was full, so I could start a new

journey to Bedaho (crossing Zeaex this time)!

With the speed of the Anti-Matter drive I had, I managed to get to Maia in less than 23

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hours (using the Micanex route, Alioth is extremely dangerouse for traders, a lot of Feral

Serpents appear there).

Twenty-five hours after I left Waayan, I got out the wormhole from Maia to Zeaex and

found myself into a dark corner of the Universe. I could barely see the distant light of the

nearest stars to Zeaex. Or was it an energy storm that gave me that sensation? But as I

could recall, I had the same sensation first time I got there, it could hardly be a

coincidence...

I went to the starbase, the famous Zaex and delivered the packages from Waayan. All that

was left was to go to Bedaho.

So, I ventured into the mist of the energy clouds. I was thinking to myself: "Will I meet

another Inexperienced Pirate now?"

Suddenly, I saw lasers on the Navigation Screen. It was an Inexperienced Pirate! I fired

my lasers and we fought for about 2 hours. At the end, my armor was blown away, but

the Inexperienced Pirate's ship was blown away and I had an immense satisfaction when Isaw the pirate's escape pod flying to his hidden secret infamous base.

So, I moved away, having a lot of trust into my ship, even if it no longer had armor. I was

confident that I spread the fear of my Babel among all the pirates in Zeaex... But I was

wrong.

I only navigated for twenty minutes and a missile hit my ship; I stopped the movement

and received a series of laser hits that penetrated my hull.

I was raided... My cargohold was half emptied.

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- Oh, no! The missions to Orbital Relay Station will be failed!

With the emergency drive, I managed to retreat and hide into a cloud.

The drive was burst! Malfunction after malfunction, I couldn't make it work no matter

how hard I tried to restart it.

I was stuck.

Raided and stuck!

Chapter 3: Zaex Starbase

I had nothing else to do other than waiting for the drive to cool down.

I've read a lot of books about Anti-Matter Drives, from early pioneer researches about

radiation to the most recent test-drive articles from the Federal shipyards' newspapers,

magasines and reviews. My impression after those long reads was that the Anti-Matter

could have been restarted after 12 hours of pause; it was something about the

regeneration of particles, making the use of the drive possible at a lower rate. But still a

better rate than the emergency drive's rate.

I failed the missions to Orbital Relay Station. There was no ship in the area to tow

anywhere, and the fuel tankers did not exist at that time; that was however irrelevant as

long as the Anti-Matter drive was ready to be scrapped.

But I couldn't scrap the Anti-Matter drive if I was not docked in a shipbay of the starbase

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Zaex of the sector Zeaex in Federation Rashkir Core cluster.

So I made real slow moves. After one day, I moved on a distance I usually made in less

than an hour with a Nuclear Drive. I realised this will take a long time, possibly weeks or

even a month. I had no other option than to send distress calls, but there wasn't any ship

around to help me. Perhaps the Inexperienced Pirates and the Experienced Pirate that

attacked me received that message and possibly could pod me, but they did not have the

courage to do anything in open space where bounty hunters and federal police officers

could reach them.

So I endured an ordeal of seven days (a week of boredom-space-torture) until I came toperceive on the Navigation Screen the brightness of the starbase Zaex.

I sent another series of distress calls, but none of the ships on the starbase checked out on

me. That's why I had to wait three days until I finally managed to get close enough to the

starbase and the Zaexian Traffic Controllers observed me.

That's why I felt relieved when a Behemoth came and towed me inside the ZaexianShipyard, where I bought a new drive, this time an Enhanced Fusion Drive, because I had

less money, and then I parked into the shipbay.

Next day, I studied the history of confrontations between traders and pirates in Zeaex;

that was a glossary of 10 volumes which had records from the time when there was no

starbase in Zaex; I noticed the first two volumes were published on Maia and at the end

of the tenth volume was a mention that there will appear an eleventh volume as soon as

there will be enough material. I wrote a report about my two battles with the pirates and

send it to the publishing house.

After a week of relaxation, a week I used to visit all the pubs, clubs and theatres of the

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Zaex Starbase, I prepared my ship for battle, buying Adamantium Armor and a Large

Shield Generator, along with two 20 MW light-weight Particle Lasers.

I was ready to take my revenge over that Experienced Pirate!

So, I left the starbase and entered again into the mist.

Chapter 4: Pointless battle

I scanned the area with my radar and looked on the Navigation Screen for strange shapes

that might have been ships belonging to the pirates.

I navigated for about two hours in the hunt; that black ship did not appear anywhere.

Suddenly, I saw 2 lasers coming from the bottom part of my ship. I switched the ship's

position to have the attacker in my sight. Unfortunately, it was an Inexperienced Pirate; I

fired with my particle lasers and destroyed his ship.

Now, I waited for my shield to recover to his full strength and restarted the hunt.

One hour later, a missile lowered my shields capacity to 75%. Now I was definitely sure

it was the Experienced Pirate, so I engaged totally in the battle.

His shield was down before mine. At that point, the battle seemed to proceed into my

favour; but those were lucky hits, and the luck switched sides and the Experienced Pirate

had a series of good shots at my armor.

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The battle continued for three long hours; weapon malfunctions appeared, missiles were

avoided at unbelievably small distance, both the fighters changed their positions in the

energy clouds. I imitated his strategy to hide behind small energy clouds, but he was

better at that. One moment I even had the sensation he had disappeared, but I saw lasers

coming from the back of my ship; luckily, I managed to execute a looping and took a

better position to fight.

After three hours, both our ships were in bad shape.

One hit or another was enough to blow away one of those. It was a matter of skills. I

decided I don't want to risk a new pod ride so I retreated.

I did not manage to take my revenge and also I wasted more than a week for fighting

preparations. The Babel is not a good battleship; it is a trade-ship. I decided to go to Maia

and forget this second Zeaexian episode of my career.

It was a pointless battle.

THE END

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Mental Delusion

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CHAPTER ONE

Space Flux in a Babel Transporter.

Yes.

I hate this. It takes me one week to get from Rashkan to Waayan on the shortcut.

Where is the shortcut?

Yeah, it's the shortcut.

What shortcut?

Just go to Nionquat and take the shortcut to Phekda.

You don't even need to jump to Nebul.

Just jump to Phekda.

Then to Bedaho. Then to Zeaex. Then to Maia. Then to Micanex.

No, jump to Inena.

Shut up Laurette!

You're dumb.

Yes, you're dumb.

Eat your biscuits and jump to your escape pod.

Hopefully no one will spot you and you will die alone in the cold space as you deserve.

Shut up Michelle!

I don't want to hear your voice!

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Go back to your freaking childhood!

Go have *** with a Ska'ari or whatever...

..........................................

Yay!

Space Flux is done!

Wait!

Pulsar Flares in Federation Raskir Core.

Federation Raskir Core? or Federation Rashkir Core?

Where am I?

Am I on Capella? Am I orbiting Capella in a Mantis?

Am I in fact a 19 year old female human virgin on Earth in the year 2012?

Am I a Queen of the Medieval Tribal Wars?

Am I a female president of a Football Club in the Premier League?

Am I a female president of a Railroad Transport Company? And having lots of debts?

Shut up Veronica!

Sh' sh' shut up! SHUT UP! SHUT UP... SHUDDUP! I WILL KILL you INNA WITHYOUR INNDIA!

Ho...

My Mantis has problems...

My Mantis has no armor...

SCRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

AAAAAAAP!

Obama versus Romney... Tatsu versus Tick... Pee-Wee versus Cinderella...

Johnny Depp in Lone Ranger... Who is Johnny Depp?

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No Silver Mantis possible? NO SILVER MANTIS POSSIBLE!

I will buy a Babel Transporter and turn it to SILVER, because I like SILVER!

Yeah, I am the Silver Babel, not the crappy Whale-Blue Mantis...

What the...

DOWNGRADE IMPOSSIBLE! DOWNGRADE IMPOSSIBLE!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

O...

I am stuck in the Mantis...

WHALE-BLUE-MANTIS!MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS!

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CHAPTER TWO

Is this chapter two ???

Where is my Mantis ???

"Hello! Welcome to Waayan!"

Shut up Michelle! We are on Waolex!

Don't mock me ! I am serious !

Jump through the window !

Smash the window !

Where is Veronica ?

Who is Veronica ?

Aaaargh !

My head hurts...

I need a grape...

Don't give me the keys to the Extender, I need a grape !!!

I must eat a grape, don't you understand !!!

Aaaaargh... Mwhahahahaha !

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I have an Extender and you don't have an Extender...

I will cross the Universe with this Extender and land him on your house...

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha...

What do I hear ???

[Radio:] My body is a cage...

What ? My body is a cage ?! Where did that come from?

Die! Die! Die! [Smashes the radio with a baseball bat.]

Call Laurette! I need to cut her hair and eat it...

Or maybe eat her hair and than cut it ?!?

Better, just suck all the blood out of her and stay young as I am...

I am pretty Rashkira... eating Keldon brains and having nice time with Laurette, Veronicaand Michelle...

Yoy, Veronica, I don't like your left leg, we should chop it!

[to be continued]

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A noobs tale

Long time ago on Skara's land,In the Fourth Age of the Universe

There was a story of a young crab

Who didn't know to walk reverse

But people all were laughing,

Looking at him, no mercy showing,But in the water while he was sleeping,

A Rusty ship with laser he was dreaming.

The days had passed and Ska'ari fleetFull of Mooncrushers and Phantoms,

But also Boa traders many, a bit

Had been increased, just for the records,

With a Rustclaw.

"What a claw" the noob was sayingWhile the ship flew off the orbit.

The claw began to move but ringing

The alarm in the cockpit.

He jumped through the wormholes as if

No fuel tiles were stripmined or pirates exist.

He arrived at Olbea and suddenly in the fieldsOf impenetrable enegy that created the myst,

A Hidden Drug Stash without lasers to fireAnd the noob in the Rusty with lasers to fire

Goes to the planet to buy missiles and armor

He lands, repairs the hull, buys the missiles and armor.

But the Hidden Drug Stash prepares its missiles to fire.

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And at Olbea seven-seventeenIn the day of twenty-eight of February

Poor Ska'ari with mark two thousand nine

Was defeated for the first time - how mean !

The missiles that Stash had, Rusty's armor

Penetrated, blew off his hull and cargoAnd made the Ska'ari wake up again

On a field of Skara, because the pain

Was not covered in the insurance.But the second Rustclaw flew away

And build a Brewery with chance

In Ska at twenty one with eight.

Yes, he had his own brewery, but no chemicals.

The brewery did not produce anything, even if

The hunting of space maggots was really cheap

And doing some profits with package missions, cheapMetal he found on smelting facility - what a relief !

So with three-three-two-thousands-nine markedTon of metal, two days after he built the brewery,

On thirteen with eight tile the Chemical lab was parked,

And the production started at the brewery !

And funny thing - he sold the liquor,

Twelve tons per day made a small fortune !

And on Twenty-eight of Three showroomHe saw and purchased a Tyrant, with small tune.

And the Tyrant flew away !

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What a noob the Ska'ari was

Flying Tyrant with no armorYoung Space Dragons flew in gas

Because Maggots spread the rumour

Of this beauty rusty-beast

Flying with liquor on board

Blocked by every Maggot hordAnd it didn't come to feast

Whenever celebrations needed drinks.

That's why liquor on Ska stopped beingWanted stuff. Ton of liquor sold with six

Hundred credits golden ring.

What a liquor-sucking beast !

Oh, but do not depart, another nooby fact

Even with the software class-two map

Poor Ska'ari having problems walking reverseHad bigger problems flying in the Universe !

And the funniest fact, he lost no more, no lessThan one day trying to pass the wall

Of military outposts in Adaa, what a mess !

And when he finally did that

Jumped on the same tile with and Inexperienced Pirate !

Lucky Ska'ari was this time, the retreat did not fail

But of course it was so funny, pirate's failTo raid somebody, because the pilot flew with that

Slow Emergency Drive - standard pack !

Hundreds of missions he accepted, lots of them he has failed,

Because he couldn't come in time to Iceo, Quana or An Dzeve.

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Space worms he had started to kill

In the Nebula cloud near Ska

But skills didn't improve because he was firing

Missiles at the purple ones

But a Gorefang indeed,Later he killed.

But to tell about that,I must end to talk about

His second ship, Tyrant,

Another rusty creepy brand.

Rustclaw and Tyrant - a rusty creepy band !

Skara was the planet where our Ska'ari

Bought his first and second ships - indeed

But the Tyrant seen in space just three days - "Get rid

Of it and buy an Interceptor !", said the other Ska'ari.

And then he went to Utopia Planitia in Adaa

And purchased an Interceptor with three gunsOn the last day of March, as soon as you spell Mahabharata

Knowing he won't do no longer food-water-energy runs.

With his Inty in charge he took care of the inhabitants

From his homeworld, dear Skara, where a virus, really bad,

Was the cause for an epidemics, as the great Ska'ari doctor grants

Carrying hundreds of tons of medicines from Quana, Adaa and Urandack.

The whole Empire, released from epidemics threat, congratulated for his help !

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And on 1st of April as we know

The first ribbon awarded to him

When the last Space Maggot flowMega-keldon was in East Pardus Rim.

On 28th of April when he was still in SkaHe created his first alliance - bla bla bla -*

A harsh name to read

But what his pride did need.

Mega-keldon left the Union affiliated

ERA alliance** - and from the Union resigned -

Alliance that ruled Nex 0004 at that timeHe had the starbase, two space farms, and enough recycle time !

Mega-keldon had enough recycle time !

He sent his application to the leader of the new formed allianceClaiming his Maelstrom starbase needed more buildings

So the crab who had a smelting facility in Ska like other siblings

Destroyed it and built a recyclotron in Nex 0004 and fell into a trance

On the starbase Maelstrom.

And after the trance he went to Zaniah, a sector

Where in the nooked dragon den was The Dark DomeBut he was not aware the name of Harrier is an universal rejector

And without reading the quote at the entrance"Buy a Harrier here but do not expect to survive

Long enough to buy another ship in this life !"

Bought a Harrier and fell again into a trance.

What's going to happen is studied history in East Pardus Rim !

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While leaving the shipyard, he felt ill at ease

It was the Harrier-disease !

He went straight to the den, where he chased his second ribbonFor the kill of his 100th young space dragon !

He didn't remain in the den but went back to Ska mandatoryBecause he destroyed the brewery and the chemical laboratory

To build a radiation collector in Nex 0004 on eighteen and twenty-three

Coordinates that showed the proximity of Maelstrom starbase, date seven-three !

But seven-five, cosmic rim-time on the data screen

He saw two days after that and built

A level-three-production space farm on seventeenAnd twenty-three, coordinates of Nex 0004 - East Pardus Rim

Now he had a recyclotron, a space farm and a radiation collector.

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END AND NOT REALLY END !!!

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