Not sure if I will add any more, maybe next time I get board.
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DARK HAVEN
Chapter 1 (Fate of the Armadeaus)
Argon M6 deep space patrol vessel Armadeaus
Captains Log ... Final entry :
'We were patrolling an outer sector when we picked up a faint power signature on long range scanners.
As we neared the target we could see it was a small station of no known type.
Scanners couldn't penetrate the hull of the station.'
...
"Hail the station"
"No answer, Captain. But if it is fully automated, it should recognise that we are too big to dock and ignore us"
"Yes, Lieutenant, I am aware of automated docking procedure.
Helm, swing us slowly around the station. Keep scanning"
"Captain, that looks like a docking hatch on the left side there.
"Yes, I don't like it, it's too quiet."
"Perhaps we could take the M5 out and try to dock with that"
"Maybe.
Swing around once more then come to a stop above the station."
"Yes sir"
"I will take the M5 myself, I don't get out often enough."
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"Captain, you are cleared for departure"
"keep the scanners peeled, I don't want any surprises."
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"Now requesting permission to dock.
No response.
I'm going to fly a little closer, see if I can find another way in.
I see something.
A small hatch of some sort, a maintenance hatch by the look of it, and a glass panel.
What was that !!??"
"Captain, are you alright?"
Yes, I thought I saw something, something moving inside. Like a black shape, a shadow.
Perhaps just a reflection, the mind playing tricks. I'm not sure now."
"Captain, maybe you should come back."
"Not yet. I'm going around the other side."
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"Another hatch, the same as the first. The control panel on this one is lit up.
I think I will hop out a try to open it."
"Captain, I really think you should come back. We can report this and they will send in a properly equipped team."
"And let them have all the fun. I don't think so."
"You may have seen someone inside, they may be hostile, even if they are not, they won't be too happy at you breaking into their station."
"Don't worry, I'm armed."
"And you are alone."
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"I'm outside the M5 and approaching the hatch.
There is writing, of a sort, on the panel. I can only describe it as pictorial, though nothing I recognise.
There are five columns of five buttons. Each column a different colour, and each row a different symbol.
I'm not sure I should just start punching buttons here."
"Captain, we are picking up a disturbance, an energy spike, getting stronger."
"From the station?"
"No. It's non localised. It's coming from all around us."
"I'm returning to the M5, I'll be docking with you shortly. Keep me posted."
"Yes sir.
Jump points forming all around us. Captain, there are thousands of them."
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Lieutenants Log ... Final entry :
'The Captain has taken the M5 out to explore an unidentified space station.
After he believed he saw movement inside the station he left the M5 (against my protests) to investigate a control panel on a maintenance hatch.
We detected a non localised energy disturbance all around us.
The Captain is now returning to the ship.
There are jump points forming all around us. Thousands of ships are emerging. The ships are black, hideous and unlike anything I have ever seen. They look like they came straight from hell.
Their ships are small in comparison to the Armadeaus, but there are so many of them.
They are closing in fast, swarming around us, like insects.
Hails have been ignored. We have armed weapons and raised shields but we can't hope to survive if they attack.
The Captain won't even make it back to the M5 in time.
God protect us.
As we started to pull away from the station they opened fire on us. Their weapons pass right through our shields.
We lost main weapons with their first strike. Our secondary weapons seem to have no effect on them, and we can't lock on to fire missiles.
Fires throughout the ship.
Manoeuvrability is gone.
We are dead in the water.
I have ordered the crew to abandon ship. But I fear there is not even time for that.
We are going down.'
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Captains Personal Log :
'I don't think it wise to just start pressing random buttons.
The Lieutenant called me a moment ago, something about an energy disturbance. Doesn't seem to be coming from the station so I'm heading back, see what's going on.
Then we can call those damned experts to take a look at MY station.
I can see jump points forming all around. Everywhere.
Ships, blacker than space its self. And ugly, damn ugly. There must be thousands of them.
The ships are closing fast. They look as if they are going to attack the Armadeaus.'
"Get out of there Lieutenant."
'She didn't hear me, they must be jamming the comms.
Good, the Armadeaus is moving off.
Damn EVA suit, I'll never make it back to the M5 at this speed.
The Armadeaus is taking fire. Why is she not returning fire, ah the secondary weapons are, don't seem to be doing much though.
Oh hell !!
The Armadeaus is going down.'
"Get to the life pods, get to the life pods"
'No one could have survived a fireball like that.
The alien ships are gathering in a cloud around where the Armadeaus was. One is breaking off and heading this way. Another thirty seconds and I'll be at the M5, I don't think I'll make it.
The alien ship is almost upon me, it is putting itself between me and the M5.
It's just sitting there.
It seems to be watching me.
I will try to go around it.'
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'It keeps moving to block my path.
It is slowly turning, I assume away from me. A momentary glowing on the other side of the ship tells me that it is powering weapons.
A flash and the M5 is gone. The shock wave sends me sharply backwards, I use the thrusters to stabilise myself and stop.
The alien ship quickly turns back around to face me.
It moves in closer until we are nearly touching.
It's skin is black, mirror-like. I can see my reflection in it.
As I stare into it I notice something, something disturbing. The station looming behind me is not reflected.
Just then the skin seems to ripple and the image changes to the face of my Lieutenant.
I was thinking of her moments before and how this murdering bastard ship had killed her.
Was this thing reading my mind ??
The ship's surface smoothes again. I brace myself for the end.
It starts to turn again, then as quickly as it arrived, it darts off back to the rest of the group.
I wonder, why did it spare me?'
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'I've been watching the cloud of ships for several minutes now. They seem to be gathering up the wreckage of the Armadeaus. Also, they haven't taken any further notice of me.
I'm stranded in deep space, no ship, less than two hours of oxygen, and the nearest Argon outpost is ten months away travelling at EVA speed.
Well, I seem to have few choices, wait here for two hours, go fly over to the cloud of ships, or try that station hatch.'
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'I've arrived back at the hatch.
25 buttons, where to start?
Top left sounds good, yellow with an odd looking squiggle.
A moment after I pressed it there was a hiss and the hatch slid open, I've pulled myself inside and almost immediately it slid closed behind me.
Suddenly I hit the ground as artificial gravity comes on. Then I feel my suit go a little slack as the airlock fills with air, I can't assume it will be breathable.
The small window looking into the station interior gives nothing away as there is nothing but blackness inside. The only light is from a control panel in front of me, the same as the one outside.
Well, into the station I go. I press the same yellow squiggly button and the interior door slides open...'
Dark Haven - Chapter 1
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If you wrote that you must be insain in the brain 
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Well done Crunn to write is funMax-UK wrote: LOOK WHAT ITS DOING TO PEOPLE
Space is the place for words with grace
Teladi EVA suits are economy choice
Fifteen minutes oxygen then you lose your voice
Upgrade to a split suit you can be out their all day
When the enemy close in turn on the silkworm boosters and live another day !
