Chapter 25, Arc of Evolution
Part 1
"Sir, We finished the ship." said an engineer. "Good work John." "So the antimatter core we stole from the Krygar Caste Imperials works?" "Yes sir, we managed to find out how it works and it sure is ten times better then our old fusion cores." "Mhh, John. How much did this cost us?" "Sir I am not sure, but it was very expensive" "John, your team has to make another ship" "Ok sir, I will tell the DSY team." "And remember John, no-one can know about the costs, the people of Venus and Mars would never elect our party again." I understand sir". "And John, remember it's war". This was the best shipyard in the sol system. It was mainly specialised in building fusion ships, but the Krygar Caste Imperials found out how they could make antimatter cores, and antimatter cores generated much more energy then the Democrata Shipyards Fusion cores. So the Democrate stole a antimatter core. The ship that was just finished was one of the two that would ever be build from it. And it was strong. The minerals that were used for it were or stolen or found on the mines on mars. Mars and Venus were home to the Democrata. 20 years ago the Democrata and the Krygar Caste Imperials sepperated. The Krygar Caste Imperials banished every Democrata to Mars and Venus, but they found rare minerals on Mars and the Krygar Caste Imperials attacked. The war dured a year and after that the Democrata build the Democrata Shipyard on Venus to protect themselfs.
"Senator Tramius, we are loosing too many ships, we have to destroy the factories on Earth." "No that is impossible, it would react into a war" "But Senator Tramius. We have the DSY-1, the Krygar Caste Imperials don't stand a chance against it" "Don't you get it, Senator Juma?" "If a war would come, the Krygar Caste Imperials would have a bigger chance of winning, the whole Gemini System are behind them!" "I know that, but if we could get the people of mizar behind us?" "Get real Senator Juma, The people of Mizar don't care about the solarian wars." "Gentleman, calm down. We all know that we have to strick now otherwise the Imperials only grow and they already managed to build Antimatter Cores." "But President Naja, we would suffer great losses." "Senator Tramius, we are suffering great losses already, we have to strick now!" "Ok, Everyone that is for the prupose to send troops down to Earth and destroy the factories, say yes" And so President Naja ended the conversation and the prupose was accepted. A war of 300 years would come, all because of this moment.
But it didn't work. The Imperial army kept growing. But the Democrata had one last plan, a radical plan. Maybe even insane. But the Democrata weren't the bad guys. Before they wanted to destroy almost whole Earth, they took the DNA of all animals that were ever created, even extinced animals so they could always stay. The ship was build on an blueprint of the DSY-1. And the ship was named the "Arc of Evolution". It was a great ship and protected very well. After that they dropped antimatter bombs on the surface of earth, nearly destroying and kill all humans that lived on Earth. But the factories were gone, right? No, the Krygar Caste Imperials managed to colonize a new system, the Omega System. It was much more protected then Earth because no Democrata had a astrogation chip. The Imperials rebuild factories in the Omega System. Many new ships were brougth into the Sol System in fleets. The Democrata often ambushed these fleets, but it didn't help. The Democrata lost more and more and the Imperials took over the only resource of money away from them, Mars. After 200 years of war, many Democrata fled to other systems such as the Mizar System and the Antares System. After 300 years of war, the war was over and the Democrata lost terrible. There were still some democrata left that didn't had a real base anymore, when the Mantis arrived they called themselfs the Rebels and the once glorious Sol System was partly in ashes and the Arc of Evolution was lost.
Part 2
What was my sister doing here? Why was she here? It explained a lot, thats why I couldn't find her in the future. She followed me. I was so happy to see her. She told that Primeus was also here. My Sister and a great friend, together with me in the Future. She immediatly opened a chat with Primeus and told him that he had found me. He jumped to us. After that we had a long conversation, If i wanted to return and if they wanted to stay here. After I told them, that i only knew one way to go back and that it was very dangerous, Primeus and Amphibios decided to join me with my fight with the I-L.
But first they could use some new ships. Amphibios and Primeus didn't had a lot of cryonite, so I bought 2 ships for them. An newly made engineer the THI-B2 Engineer, (that was based on my ship) with instead of a Materializer, a Rocket Launcher with health rockets and a THI-B2 Sniper, (that was also based on my ship) with instead of a Attack Field also a rocket launcher with range rockets. As I did have enough cryonite for another THI-B2 ship i bought the shock with instead of a Speed Field a rocket launcher with shock rockets. Now we all had a new ship with deadly weapons. I flew back to the Rigel System when we got an emergency broadcast from outerspace. This might be a trap. I would go alone and Primeus and Amphibios would go to Hypton to meet the others. After I came closer to the Emergency Broadcast I opened a chat with Hypton and told them that I found a strange ship that looked very familiar, but it looked differant, older maybe?
Part 3
"General, we have establised a connection to the Omega System". "Good, is there information about the planets?" "Yes General, it contains 5 planets and a moon. The first planet is has a normal atmosphere with lot's of vulcanoes. The second has a toxic atmosphere, so we have not managed to get there safely." "What do you mean?" "We lost a squadron out there, General". "Then you are gonna send a better squadron out there. We have to know what happened to them, otherwise the emporar is gonna kill me." "The emporar isn't that bad right?" "Have you met him, Dave?" "No general, but..." "But what Dave?" "Never mind general, I will send a new team out there." "And do you have more information about the others?" The third isn't very exciting, a desert planet. But it has a moon with many kinds of metals." "So thats a mining moon Dave?" "If we would colonize it, but it's hard to colonize it if we can't travel there. Maybe we could make a replica of the Stargate that we found" "Good idea Dave, I will inform the Emporar".
"So general Omnicron, you have established a connection to the Omega System?" "Yes your highesty, I think we could use it as a base to destroy the Democrata" "Yeah those humans are the most dispicable of all, I want you to eridicate them now" "But Venus and Mars are well protected by a mothership" "Then destroy that mothership, you lazy monkey!" "Yes Emporar, I will try." "Try?!!, Get out of my palace." "Sorry your highesty." And so General Omnicron had the task to destroy the ship. But first he had to locate the ship. After a time of scanning it, they managed to copy the look and size of the ship and placed in on a scanner. If this couldn't find it then nothing would. After he installed the device, he scanned the sol system and he found very quickly the ship. But just as he was traveling trough the last known location, the scanner picked up another ship. That couldn't be right. It was probebly stuck. He flew to the location and found the ship very quickly. He managed to get a team of pilots down and they started to attack the mothership. But for some reason it didn't fight back. But after a bright light and gamma radiation the ship was gone. General Omnicron would keep it for himself. If the emporar would know it he would probebly be send to prison, or worse...
Part 4
"Mayday, Mayday. We are under attack" the officer said from of the bridge. "Officer, we need to use our escape plan" "No, kelly. We haven't tested it yet" "But officer, it's our only way" "Kelly, I trust you, but if it fails. We don't know what will happen." "Officer, maybe this is the time to test it?" "People, I don't wanna interrupt, but our hull has only 30% left." "Mhh, I see. Ok, Kelly. Execute the Escape Plan. Waine, Keep the hull online" "On our way, Officer."
"Where are we." "I don't know Officer" "Waine find out where we are. Kelly try to connect to the Anatina." "I will try Officer" "Officer" "Yes Waine?" "I think we are no longer in Sol" "What do you mean Waine?" "Do you see that star?" "Yes I see him." "Thats the sun" "Impossible" "I am sorry Officer, but it's true" "Kelly, have you contacted the Anatina?" "Yes, but only weak signals. Do you wanna chat with the Anatina?" "If thats possible Kelly" "Ok, I will redirect it Officer"
"The Arc of Evolution for the Anatina" "The Arc of Evolution, your signal is weak" "Yeah, we are aware of that, we have some trouble" "Sorry the ...volution, you ...ouble ...?" "Sorry Anatina, why can't here you clear, but here are our coördinates." "We recei.. the coörd...." "I am gonna close the chat. The signal is too weak"
"Kelly, the signal is too weak. Waine, try to get the engine working again." "Officer, the engines are on again, but the antimatter cores have been damaged in the fight, we are only generating half the energy we have." "Waine, You think you can reactivate the Warp Drive?" "I guess so." "Good try to get it working."
"Waine, can you try to relocate us again?" "Kelly, could you try to re establish a connection with the Anatina? And tell them our location, maybe they can send a squadron to us." "Officer, the anatina replied that our coordinates are too far away. Wait, no. Impossible. The Imperials found us." "What? Imperials? Waine, how are our engines?" "They could make one warp, but after that they have to reload." "Can we warp to Venus or Mars?" "No, our engines don't have enough energy to warp to Venus or Mars. We might make it to Neptune." "Ok, Waine set course to Neptune. Kelly, send our new course to the Anatina."
Suddenly the antimatter engine exploded and the crew got lost in space.