Intergalactic Battles: Death and Destruction

[LOLKILLERTOTHEDEATH 1,921]

Explosions rocked the command center. Ivan’s ship was in trouble.

 

“Mr. David, what is the status of the Hyperdrives and the proton shield?”

 

“Sir, I’m having a little difficulty fixing it.”

 

“Wait… are those siege cannons?!” Ivan's voice trembled. He had heard a very loud noise over the radio.

 

“I’m afraid so,” David gulped “I can’t fix the Hyperdrives until they’re out of my path.”

 

“Hang on just a little longer Mr. David, I’m coming,” Ivan yelled over the radio.

 

Ivan rushed to the armory and put on an A-class suit. His unique A-22 was equipped with high caliber plasma rifles and oxygen tanks, as well as the ability to fly. Ivan got into the suit and ran towards the carnage.

 

Once he reached there, the hopelessness sank in. The ship was a mess. There were damaged cables dangling from the massive, twenty meter high roofs, the floor was dented and walls were covered in plasma. The whole ship had been severely damaged, and now he and David had to somehow disable the siege cannons. Suddenly a few shells ricocheted off the A-22. Ivan used the hand to point roughly to the origin of the gunfire. On a sophisticated visor, he saw a flanker. He charged up his rifle, and with a quick shot killed the enemy.

 

“Incoming enemies detected! Change to SMG advised.”

 

“I hear ya’ computer.” Ivan talked to his suit, “Prepare Pulse gun.”

 

After a great deal of whirring and gear changing, the two plasma guns turned into one big sized gun. Ivan then gracefully leaped into the air, firing a barrage of ammunition at his enemies. A few fell, but more still continued to return fire. Suddenly, a loud sound boomed across the hangar of the ship. It was the siege cannon.

 

“Computer,” bullets scraped against his suit, “Divert 100% power to the Ion gun!”

 

“Null action. Caution advised, if all energy is used, the suit will be rendered powerless.”

 

“DO IT!” still more bullets bounced off the suit.

 

“Power diverted to Ion cannon. The Ion cannon is ready,” His pulse gun changed to an Ion cannon. There was only one shot at this. Only one chance to save the crew. He instinctively pointed the Ion cannon at the last siege cannon and fired away.

 

The result of his recklessness was a massive hole in the ship. The Siege cannon was destroyed, and many of the enemy soldiers with it, but now the ship was almost inoperable, and Ivans sat in the dark, in his suit.

 

“Hands up!” an enemy screamed.

 

Ivan fell to the floor, seemingly out of exhaustion.

 

“Looks like the maggot’s dead. Let’s pick take him to the leader.” In reality, Ivan was looking for something. A piece of debris, or an empty ammo shell, to take out the soldier. He felt a sharp metal rod. He picked it up and smashed it into the soldier's foot.

 

“Ahhh! He’s alive!”

 

Guns started blazing. Ivan pulled out the iron rod from the soldier's foot and used it to sever the man's oxygen tank wires. An enemy charged at Ivan with his gun. Ivan sidestepped and impaled it through the man's rib cage. He picked up the guns of the dead men and soon all of his enemies lay motionless on the floor.

 

“David! You still there?”

 

“Yes, I am. I have fixed one Hyperdrive. The others require lots of time. Time which we don’t have. Tell your crew it’s now or never.”

 

“You hear that Marie? GET THIS RUSTBUCKET TO A PLANET. ANY PLANET. JUST FIRE UP THAT HYPERDRIVE AND GET US OUT OF HERE. THE EMP SHIELD IS FAILING! I REPEAT, IT’S FAILING!” Lasers had started to make their way to the hangar. Ivan retreated to the command center.

 

“Where’s David?”

 

“The airlock failed. His life signal just went offline.”

 

Ivan sighed. He had lost much of his original crew. Lots of it during this very battle, but losing David was a different kind of sadness. David had been Ivan’s friend, ever since he joined the academy. Also, since David was gone, there was no hope for the Hyperdrives.

 

“We can’t… we can’t… we can’t mourn for our losses now. We have no time. If we all sit here and cry, we’re dead. Where is the nearest planet?”

 

“Moronia. 200,000 miles away. I wouldn’t go there though, the indigenous people aren’t friendly at all. There have been many times where visitors were massacred.”

 

The explosions rocked the command center once again.

 

“Well seeing as the alternative is being blown to hell, I’d highly suggest you set course for Moronia Marie.”

 

Marie obliged. This was going to suck.

[Hex 11,520]

Approved!

 

Nice, looking forward to reading the next part!

[LOLKILLERTOTHEDEATH 1,921]

Approved!

 

Nice, looking forward to reading the next part!

oh my! 

[Mjro7 2,837]

well done as he said ^
hope to see part 2  ^_^

[govenier 1,202]

Im waiting  on the second part :D

Rly good :D

[Viking4s 10,791]

Nice descriptive scene and a captivating narrative.

 

One technical point: a planet at 200,000 miles away? That's a very very very short distance at intergalactic scale! For comparison our moon is at 238,856 miles from the earth. I don't think you will need an hyper-drive to cover such a small distance and your enemies will be still very very very dangerously close to you.

 

Use other cosmological distance like the parsec. One parsec is equal to about 3.26 light-years (30 trillion km or 19 trillion miles) in length.

 

See also this interesting links to further your sci-fi knowledge about intergalactic space travel.

https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/fastest-ship-speed-millennium-falcon-tardis/

https://www.tor.com/2014/12/08/star-wars-how-fast-is-the-millennium-falcon/

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120526163546/starwars/images/2/21/HDChartPart2-NEGVV.jpg

Edited January 9, 2018 by Viking4s

[Hippin_in_Hawaii 639]

Where do I get one of those A-22 suits?

[LOLKILLERTOTHEDEATH 1,921]

Nice descriptive scene and a captivating narrative.

 

One technical point: a planet at 200,000 miles away? That's a very very very short distance at intergalactic scale! For comparison our moon is at 238,856 miles from the earth. I don't think you will need an hyper-drive to cover such a small distance and your enemies will be still very very very dangerously close to you.

 

Use other cosmological distance like the parsec. One parsec is equal to about 3.26 light-years (30 trillion km or 19 trillion miles) in length.

 

See also this interesting links to further your sci-fi knowledge about intergalactic space travel.

https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/fastest-ship-speed-millennium-falcon-tardis/

https://www.tor.com/2014/12/08/star-wars-how-fast-is-the-millennium-falcon/

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120526163546/starwars/images/2/21/HDChartPart2-NEGVV.jpg

Thanks for your advice! I shall take into consideration next time.

Where do I get one of those A-22 suits?

LOL

[LOLKILLERTOTHEDEATH 1,921]

Where do I get one of those A-22 suits?

You might not have noticed this, however, the line "This was gonna suck," is meant to pay homage to your great series. I strive to one day write at a quality similar to yours.

[Hippin_in_Hawaii 639]

You might not have noticed this, however, the line "This was gonna suck," is meant to pay homage to your great series. I strive to one day write at a quality similar to yours.

 

I did notice! And I'm flattered that you'd consider someone as new as I am worth nodding to! Thank you!

[LOLKILLERTOTHEDEATH 1,921]

I did notice! And I'm flattered that you'd consider someone as new as I am worth nodding to! Thank you!

I don't believe that your newness makes you a not-so-good writer. If you ask me, I'd say you are without a doubt one of the best writers here. I guess though that the writers such as Magenta, who are popular (no offense intended), have more views than you, so they win/stand a much greater chance to win accolades such as "Best Writer".

[g-force 1,000]

REALLY NICE STORY. Amazing cliffhanger. Waiting for next part :)

[LOLKILLERTOTHEDEATH 1,921]

REALLY NICE STORY. Amazing cliffhanger. Waiting for next part :)

Thanks! I've posted the next part too. I guess reporters/AWC mods are busy, which is quite understandable. Hopefully, the post it up soon so I can get some advice/feedback and start with part 3.

[g-force 1,000]

Thanks! I've posted the next part too. I guess reporters/AWC mods are busy, which is quite understandable. Hopefully, the post it up soon so I can get some advice/feedback and start with part 3.

That's great :D

[r_trooll15 827]

did you mean 200 lightyears? Because 200,000 miles is awfully close in space. As already mentioned. Our own sun is millions of miles from us. Our moon is more than 200,000 miles from us. You would be battling in the space well of Moronia

[LOLKILLERTOTHEDEATH 1,921]

did you mean 200 lightyears? Because 200,000 miles is awfully close in space. As already mentioned. Our own sun is millions of miles from us. Our moon is more than 200,000 miles from us. You would be battling in the space well of Moronia

Yeah, I realized that I messed up there. My excuse for that will be that since the ship had only one engine (hyperdrive) working, even getting 200,000 miles was a stretch.

[r_trooll15 827]

Yeah, I realized that I messed up there. My excuse for that will be that since the ship had only one engine (hyperdrive) working, even getting 200,000 miles was a stretch.

We have sent astronauts further than that.

Seriously, the spaceship must be in orbit and moronia won't be able to make any sattelites if spaceship explodes

[LOLKILLERTOTHEDEATH 1,921]

We have sent astronauts further than that.

Seriously, the spaceship must be in orbit and moronia won't be able to make any sattelites if spaceship explodes

I get that first part, what does the second part mean?

[r_trooll15 827]

The fragments of the spaceship debris would destroy any satellite. They would also make for an awesome meteor shower.

Moronia is close enough to the spaceship to pull it in orbit. 200,000 is nothing for gravity.

Edited January 11, 2018 by r_trooll15
Refrain from using rainbow colors.

[LOLKILLERTOTHEDEATH 1,921]

The fragments of the spaceship debris would destroy any satellite. They would also make for an awesome meteor shower.

 

Moronia is close enough to the spaceship to pull it in orbit. 200,000 is nothing for gravity.

I get that. Well, I suppose I shall take more care with fixing scientific details next time.

[r_trooll15 827]

I get that. Well, I suppose I shall take more care with fixing scientific details next time.

:)

I am very passionate about science, so please do be somewhat scientifically accurate

[LOLKILLERTOTHEDEATH 1,921]

:)

I am very passionate about science, so please do be somewhat scientifically accurate

Me too! I just haven't done too much reading into physics though, so I'm not that great with making sure that my facts are right.

[r_trooll15 827]

Me too! I just haven't done too much reading into physics though, so I'm not that great with making sure that my facts are right.

We need a science mult reporter

[LOLKILLERTOTHEDEATH 1,921]

We need a science mult reporter

huh?

[r_trooll15 827]

huh?

Nevermind.