02-04-2018, 03:24 AM
ign Div
category Dark
Jhern awoke to the ever present thumping as one monster after another threw itself at her shields and promptly died. She had been sent to explore this newly discovered sun - so close to overpopulated Earth - with what appeared to be as many as ten habitable planets. But as she approached, some strange force unlike any she had ever experienced pulled her closer and closer to the sun. She had managed to break free before being roasted alive, but half crashed half landed on one of the planets.
That first planet appeared habitable enough; the atmosphere was similar to Earth's, but the creatures there were incredibly violent. Even though her ship easily held them off, they never stopped attacking. She assumed that she had wiped out several species as occasionally the attacker's features would change, but they just kept coming. She worked feverishly to repair her engines, but upon finally lifting off the strange force had grabbed her ship again, and she only made it as far as the next planet before being again forced to land.
This turned out to be a frozen planet, but there was still plenty of wildlife, and it was all still bent on suicide by spaceship. Jhern swore, and went back to repairs.
Eventually she had planet hopped to the tenth planet, the farthest from the sun. Each planet had varied considerably in both wildlife and terrain but the self-destructiveness of the inhabitants had not changed. Several worlds were obviously heavily polluted or irradiated, and the creatures on those planets were nightmare inducing, but even the most innocent appearing animals would not stop attacking.
She finished the latest repairs and prepared for takeoff one final time. She prayed that the distance from the sun and her engineering efforts would give her ship enough power to break free of the force. With fingers crossed she powered up the engines and lifted off. As soon as she cleared atmosphere every alarm sounded as the boosters strained to escape the system. But one after another overheated and powered off, and she desperately steered for the nearest planet. Everything went black as she crashed yet again.
Jhern awoke to the ever present thumping as one monster after another threw itself on her shields and promptly died. Groggily she powered up her viewscreen. And then screamed in despair and rage as she realized she was back on the first planet again.
category Dark
Jhern awoke to the ever present thumping as one monster after another threw itself at her shields and promptly died. She had been sent to explore this newly discovered sun - so close to overpopulated Earth - with what appeared to be as many as ten habitable planets. But as she approached, some strange force unlike any she had ever experienced pulled her closer and closer to the sun. She had managed to break free before being roasted alive, but half crashed half landed on one of the planets.
That first planet appeared habitable enough; the atmosphere was similar to Earth's, but the creatures there were incredibly violent. Even though her ship easily held them off, they never stopped attacking. She assumed that she had wiped out several species as occasionally the attacker's features would change, but they just kept coming. She worked feverishly to repair her engines, but upon finally lifting off the strange force had grabbed her ship again, and she only made it as far as the next planet before being again forced to land.
This turned out to be a frozen planet, but there was still plenty of wildlife, and it was all still bent on suicide by spaceship. Jhern swore, and went back to repairs.
Eventually she had planet hopped to the tenth planet, the farthest from the sun. Each planet had varied considerably in both wildlife and terrain but the self-destructiveness of the inhabitants had not changed. Several worlds were obviously heavily polluted or irradiated, and the creatures on those planets were nightmare inducing, but even the most innocent appearing animals would not stop attacking.
She finished the latest repairs and prepared for takeoff one final time. She prayed that the distance from the sun and her engineering efforts would give her ship enough power to break free of the force. With fingers crossed she powered up the engines and lifted off. As soon as she cleared atmosphere every alarm sounded as the boosters strained to escape the system. But one after another overheated and powered off, and she desperately steered for the nearest planet. Everything went black as she crashed yet again.
Jhern awoke to the ever present thumping as one monster after another threw itself on her shields and promptly died. Groggily she powered up her viewscreen. And then screamed in despair and rage as she realized she was back on the first planet again.