Star Date: Nebulos 34/09
This is Captain Asher Noland of the Phygian Empire and Commander of the vessel Orion's Fury. I am broadcasting this message deep into outer space in the hopes that someone, anyone will be able to decrypt this signal and read the Captain's logs that follow.
We have just escaped a great attack on our home planet, Tarnasis, and I fear the worst has become of it. We are currently drifting somewhere amidst the Nu Scorpii star system. Our exact coordinates are still difficult to place. As our planet was engulfed in the flames of warfare I made a last, desperate, decision to use Orion's Fury's accelerated drive. A substantial amount of debris and echos have been confirmed near Tarnasis's star quadrant. This has led me to believe that our planet has been destroyed in the wake of our alien invaders. I have not informed anyone but vital staff at this time.
Within the Log's that follow may very well be the last remnant of our civilization. Within these pages holds our's philosophies, our goods and our bads. Our Promise and our downfall. Perhaps someone will search among these words with an unbiased eye and see that we were a young and advanced people, yet our technology and intellect eventually became our crux. It was our insatiable lust for technology that has led us to this.
Take, for example, the vessel that I command. This ship is the culmination of all the knowledge we have on deep space travel. It is a civilian model of the military's Dorian class ship. This vessel's max occupancy is 250,000. And we currently have 180,000 on board. Orion's Fury is about 50,000 miles in perimeter and about 10,000 miles from the bow to the stern. Orion's Fury has minimal military capabilities including several hundred .80 millimeter cannons spaced evenly from the front of the ship to the back. There are also some rocket pads for short range missile defenses.
But the greatest part of this ship and a credit to the Phygian MIlitary is the Thermonuclear Translight engine; it is the only one of it's kind. The Translight engine makes light speed achievable, however at a great cost to the engine itself. When jumping to light speed the Translight engine begins burning fuel and nuclear atoms at an incredible temperature. (About the temperature of a star about to burn out.) At those temperatures the atoms begin separate and about 1000 nuclear explosions happen every minute in that we are in light speed. The engine itself is about 80 miles long. Upon exiting light speed the engine's need time to cool off. (About 2,000 years.) So right now we can only drift and wait for the auxiliary engine to be ready.
I will begin to scatter my logs throughout the universe and hope that someone can read our brave yet tragic story.
Captain Noland.
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