Flight of the Kestrel

A FTL: Faster than Light fan-fiction novel, written by PigAteMyPie (/u/PigAteMyPie for reddit)

Started at 7:13AM, 3rd of Dec 2013

Information: This story will come in parts, and be rather long at that. I don't have very good sense in advanced grammar, so I may have to edit this quite a lot. On the topic of grammar, you may see that it is different from US-English:It is because I live in New Zealand, so I will be using NZ-English (Or not, depends). Remember also that this story isn't 100% FTL lore based, and only a story. Enough of this information crap, lets read the story, shall we?

Part zero: An Explanation for our Troubles

The Galactic Federation is in trouble; It may have respected basically everyone's beliefs and non-beliefs, some people were just not happy. Most of these unhappy people were apart of the rebellion, the Nazi-party of the galaxy. Their belief was a bit extreme; they believed that Humans (Born on the planets Korvak, Densi and John) were the master-race of the galaxy, and that every other race in the galaxy should be put into slavery, as they are "dirty animals". This was one belief that the Federation would not, could not respect or even tolerate, and went onto ignore these people all together.

After a period of 7 years of not being heard out, the rebellion suddenly declared war against the Federation, and immediately attacked. This took a large blow to the Federation (and some of the galaxy), as they wiped out half the of the Federation and enslaved 15 different planets within 3 days of the attack. There was something that they should not have done, however; Invade the planet Caback, a Federation shield world. This was one of the 50 shield worlds in the galaxy, all of which could transmit information across any Federation fleet.

One of the cartographers on Caback had found something in the Rebel AI battle-system; a shut-down code. There was two problems with the code however: It only had a temporary shut-down ability, but it would give enough time to evacuate most colonies from the next galaxy away, saving possibly trillions of lives. The second problem with this code is that its not 100% digitally formatted, rendering it impossible to transmit directly to the evacuation point at sector 50 (8 sectors away from the main Federation ship world).

But this is not where our story starts, but merely an explanation for our troubles. The fate of the galaxy, however, is in the hands of one crew; The crew of the Kestrel Mk 1808P; a refurnished version of the 2505 Kestrel battle-ship (Mark 1789B). This crew is about to embark upon an adventure, that could save the Federation, the galaxy, and even the Universe. Our story starts now, on the Flight of the Kestrel.

Part one: Launch

The crew operating the Kestrel consisted of 4 members:

Human: Cameron Kennys, the captain

Engi: Todd, Cameron's friend of 4 years and co-pilot

Human: Liz Upa, Shield manager

Human: Josh Texa, Engine manager

Our story begins now:

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The scene is set 30 minutes until launch, the captain is sitting in the cockpit checking to see if he has everything ready.

*Todd walks in and sits down at his seat*

Cameron: Are the others ready?

Todd: Liz is ready to go, and Josh didn't want me to come into the engine room, but said that he was ready. What are our first plans after launch?

Cameron: We will be heading to Suddinfal refuelling station, where we are expected to meet up with two of my friends who are willing to help us, and then we'll carry onward from there

Todd: That's nice of them to join us. Is there anything else you need me to do?

Cameron: No, not right now.

*5 minutes pass, the captain finishes checking his inventory and turns on the intercom system*

Cameron: Is everyone ready?

Josh and Liz: Ready

Cameron: Alright then, let's get this show on the road.

Todd: Well, sir, it generally wouldn't be a road, since we'll be floating around in space

Cameron: Don't be a smart-ass, you know what I meant by that.

*the Captain signals command for early launch, which is granted*

Announcement AI BETTY: SILO DOORS ARE OPENING, PLEASE STAND AWAY FROM PLATFORM D-760

*a minute passes, the platform from which the Kestrel is locked into place*

Todd: Sir, do you think this plan of yours will work?

Cameron: I'm not sure Todd, but I guess we'll have to see how it goes

*The FTL drive has finished loading, making the ship fall into slip-space, with a sonic boom behind them*

The scene is set 2 minutes later; the Kestrel exits slip-space. The ships AI pin-points them to their location; Sector 42, or in their case, sector 1.

*Cameron opens up the transmitter, and connects to FED98HQ*

Cameron: Command, this is Captain Cameron Kellys of the Kestrel 1808P, we have exited slip-space and entered sector 42. Please respond

*5 minutes pass, command finally replies, but with a disturbing message*

Command: Captain Cameron? Dear god, let that be you. The rebellion has already hit the planet. That's some good fucking luck you have their, managing to get out before they get you. Listen, we'll try and destroy all data about you ever existing, and you get out of there. Ban this transmission and delete the recording off of the data-logs. You are our only h--

*Command cuts out at their last word. It seems the cut-out may have been from a closer source, however*

Cameron: Two minutes. They had already invaded within two fucking minutes of us leaving. I'm not even sure what kind of god is that nice that they'd save us within that time

Todd: Sir, please calm down. We have to get this information to the evacuation point at sector 8

Cameron: Okay, okay. Just give me a minute. Or two.

*3 minutes pass, the FTL drive finishes loading, and Josh comes onto the intercom*

Josh: Captain, the FTL drive has finished loading. Should we go now?

Cameron: I know when the drive is ready to go, it comes up my dash-board. There is no need to inform me every-time, god-damn it.

Josh: Sorry sir

*Josh cuts out, Todd seems annoyed*

Todd: Why did you hire him? He seems kind of dodgy, you know?

Cameron: We'll deal with him soon, just not right now. Go and operate the weapons system, and then we'll go.

*Todd leaves the cockpit and connects to the intercom when he reaches the weapons system*

Cameron: Okay, everyone ready to jump?

Todd, Liz and Josh: we're all ready captain

The scene ends with the Kestrel making a jump to the next location

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