Void Chaser - Mission Record
The Starship Void Chaser has a history spanning over two centuries. The Captain of that ship, a Maorian named Uul Se'Corvil, has completed hundreds of different mercenary contracts for various space factions. This article lists the most notable missions Uul and his crew have completed. It also expands on the three history entries from the ship article slightly. There is alot of history with this ship and this article will slowly grow over time, but for now, there are five entries.
Construction
150-154 A.E.
Uul Se'Corvil stepped down from his position as advisor to the Bevarian Royal Navy, now the Regalti Allied Navy or RAN, after around 400 years of helping the Regalti build up a military presence in space. He once again became a mercenary, doing contracts for whoever could afford him. He flew for a time in various older Regalti craft but had comissioned the construction of a new ship.
The Void Chaser was constructed in the Lanthium Launch Alliance Ship Yards and took about six months to build. Along with other ships of its class, they were the fastest ships the Regalti ever built at the time. Uul needed a crew so he made contact with several old friends, including a Vusinor Researcher named Zilda Marn, and a Sseterri Mechanic named Toring Kerang. While few of them are here today, they made up the first crew of the Void Chaser.
Original Void Chaser Crew
(as of 354 A.E.)
Uul Se'Corvil: Captain
Shanor Areth: Lieutenant
Zilda Marn: Medical Officer
Toring Kerang: Mechanic
Gorin Varka: Communications
Norya Laikor: Pilot
Kori Laikor: Pilot
Karlo Foreth: Weapons Operator
Saving the Tree of Life
170 A.E.
The trees of the Nor Li Valla valley on the planet Collena was hit by an invasive fungus that was killing a sacred groves of trees. The Vusinor had to deal with this on other systems in the past and already had a fungicide made, freely offering it to the Regalti if they could acquire it in time. The problem was that this material was in another star system. Due to the positionings of the Black Gate and the planets at the time, it would have taken most ships a month to get there and back, which would have meant certain doom for the Tree of Life.
As the Void Chaser was still newly built it was one of the faster ships in the system and was essential to the completion of this mission. Uul loaded as much Helium-4 on the Void Chaser as he could and had the crew run the engines at maximum power for as long as they would hold out. The Void Chaser accomplished the mission in a week. It also completely destroyed its Ion engines to do so.
The ship spent six months having the engines rebuilt and replaced. During this rebuild, the Vusinor allowed Uul to installed Antimatter-Fusion Pulse Engines in the ship, which would allow the ship to approach fractional light-speeds.
Pirates of the Revael System
201 A.E.
Due to how the black gates work, a lot of space pirates have been able to hide in uninhabited systems away from civilization inbetween raids. When it was discovered that they had a massive force holed up in the Revael system, it was determined that it would be best to bomb the black gate from their side and cut them off from the rest of the Galaxy forever, and the Void Chaser was contracted to deliver that bomb.
There was some complications in this mission. On reaching the other side of the gate, dozens of pirate ships were aimed on the Void Chaser. They knew the ship was there to bomb the gate and they wanted it to turn back and leave. Uul ordered the bomb be jettisoned into the gate anyways, and using the ship's new engines, was able to outrun the explosion. Most of the pirates were obliterated in the explosion, which also destroyed a nearby ice planet.
This started a month's long game of cat and mouse between the Void Chaser and the Pirates. the Void Chaser hid in the atmospheres of the system's gas giants to refuel, then would jet to another location after it was discovered. This whole time the ship was sending out a signal looking for another black gate, as most systems have two or more, but often only one is actually found.
The ship then picked up the signal and flew straight there, being followed by several pirate ships. The ships went through the gate and ended up in RAN space, which maintains battleships around its gates. The Revael space pirates weren't completely cut off from the galaxy, but their forces were decimated and they had one fewer exit from the system.
The Icy World of Ablabok
378 A.E.
The Void Chaser was contracted to go a remote water world and check on a Vusinor Crew of the ship Water Splicer. They disappeared researching a primitive race called the Maenor. It was the Siltauxen system. The world there was called Ablabok by the local species that lived entirely under water.
Zilda Marn was retired for the last 15 years but was recruited for this mission as she has been to the planet in the past and is known by the species living there. Zilda had the Void Chaser take a mini submarine and aquatic gear for this mission. On landing on the planet, they had to reach the alien civilization to make contact, which was usually under several hundred meters of water.
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After making contact, Zilda was told that the "monsters" are back. They always come back when the ice melts. The Vusinor crew was devoured by them. The Maenor asked Zilda and her crew to leave. The Void Chaser wasn't leaving though, not until they found answers.
Further exploration revealed the truth about these monsters. The Maenor spoke of them the last time Zilda was on the world, saying they were trapped by the ice and always come back to devour life that tries to crawl on land.
The Crew already knew where these monsters were coming from. There was a gigantic crystal tower breaking above the ice and past the clouds far into the sky. This was actually a space ship. These monsters were a wayward Areakeyuk legion. Without their connection to their hive mind 75,000 light-years on the other side of the galaxy, the Areakeyuk revert to the base programming, which is to devour all life, grow their legion and go back to their hive.
Areakeyuk without a hive connection are extremely dangerous. The Crew voted on what to do next and it was determined that destroying the legion ship was the best option. They rigged one of their fighter craft with a large tank of kerosene to drop on the ship's entrance. The fuel would weaken the armor and allow a direct shot with the ship's main cannon. Kaline and Zilda were flying the fighter craft.
As they got closer, the release switch for the tank was malfunctioning. The Areakeyuk were becoming aware of the Void Chaser's presence and started swarming. Zilda got out of the fighter mid flight and was working on the release, but was getting swarmed by Areakeyuk drones. Zilda took out a pistol and destroyed the release and fell with the tank. About a minute after the tank made contact with the legion ship, the Void Chaser fired its main gun, piercing the ship's armor and completely destroying the ship.
While they saved an entire species and their world, Uul lost one of his oldest friends and one of the last of the original crew members of the Void Chaser. He went to the planet Collena to deliver the news of Zilda's passing to the family. He didn't return to the Void Chaser. He took another ship from his collection, and blasted into space. It would be over a year before anyone heard from him again.
The Vusinor back up their minds into a small 'memory chip' that can be inserted into a clone body in case of death. Zilda's memory chip was destroyed and she is survived her clone-daughter Sharli Marn.
A Mission to Earth
384 A.E. (About 2015 A.D. on Earth)
Almost a thousand years ago, was a mercenary working for a Vusinor exploration group, and has visited Earth in the past, his last visit was around 500 years ago. He used his rocky ash colored skin to pass as a god from an equatorial land and interacted with a good many humans over several centuries. It was for this reason that he and his crew were chosen to go to Earth and gather humans and take them to the Galactic Council.
The Vusinor decided it was long past time for Humans to join the Galactic community. Really though, the Vusinor just wanted access to the Sol System's Ice Giants to expand their Quantum Switchboard Network (the galactic equivalent of a cell phone tower).
Blue Marble by NASA (Various)
They had to deal with rival alien civilizations who have also been on Earth in the past and had their own reasons for wanting to access the Sol System. The Sseterri for example were performing genetic experiments on the humans, and were actively trying to disprove the existence of an intelligent species so they could continue their research without interruption.
Four humans were already contacted a few decades earlier and had instructions to meet the Void Chaser at a specific location. There was a complication in this part because the flight data loaded into the Void chaser was wrong, causing it to crash into a house somewhere in central Florida, completely destroying it (because the preloaded flight data they had was decades out of date). Several unconscious humans were found at the scene, who were quickly taken aboard the ship. The Void Chaser then quckly left Earth.
The humans Uul got from Earth weren't politicians or great scientists or anyone who was prepared to meet aliens in their lifetimes. They were four young college students that were hanging out and playing video games at the time.
The Void Chaser kind of messed up its chance to get more humans and since the humans are only needed to prove they exist, literally any humans would do. Uul decided that he should try to convince the humans he had to go with him. This was actually incredibly easy to do with some of the humans because of offers of alien alcohol and video games, but others were rather reluctant to go along. In reality they didn't have much of a choice. The Void Chaser was already on the way to another Star System.
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