As the last of the Commanders, Lieutenants, and Officers entered the room. Admiral Tzu relaxed and said "Good morning, I trust you all had a... terrible sleep". The Admiral shivered and said "I always hated those ice-beds, they always gave me nightmares and they burned me in the ass... in fact my old unit way back in the day had a nickname for them: The Ex-Wife"
Admiral Tzu laughed for a moment, clearly this Admiral as very down to Earth and honest with his men. It was quite the change of pace for Jasper who smiled at the statement, every brass he had to deal with had a stick up their ass.
"Unfortunately, the mission or rather missions I'm about to assign you all on will possibly be far more dangerous than any Ex-Wife" said Admiral Tzu. He turned towards the table where a large Hologram appeared in the middle being projected lenses on the ceiling and on the table to create what appeared to be a large gaseous planet with a series of meteor-like moons.
Admiral Tzu now sounding professional for the first time said "The Mission consists of two team to investigate two anomalies of this rather small and seemingly unimportant planet that we of the Primo Victoria have dubbed 'Eurus'. The first team is to investigate the planet itself, upon first inspection one would guess the planet to be made of nothing but gases such as Helium, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, and Neon... we couldn't be more wrong. Less than 48 hours ago we launched a probe in it to gather data and then to return back to the ship, we lost contact with probe and all of its data when it crashed into something solid on the planet. We estimate that the atmosphere of this planet is over 900 miles thick, 3 times the thickness of Earth's and almost every other home-system of colony in the Alliance"
The AI known as Victoria spoke up "More or less, the Mission is to land on the planet via Drop-Pod (as it is too dangerous for a Drop-Ship to make two trips), find out what our probe knows, and return to the Primo Victoria with its data via Drop-Ship"
The Admiral nodded and said "The second team however has quite a different mission, on one of the half-formed meteor moons we discovered... anomaly with our initial scans looking for ships or any other form of intelligent life. On the surface of one of the moons we discovered what we believe to be an old, derelict base of some race outside of the Alliance. It is unclear whether or not this was a mining facility for ore, a research platform, or some sort of military outpost"
Victoria AI said "Essentially the mission is advanced recon via Drop-Ship, collect as much data as you can on the base, and leave via Drop-Ship"
Admiral Tzu then said "The leader of one of the first mission is Commander Lovecraft, the leader of the second mission is..."
//Admins? Who wants to lead? Mori? Angelic? Herch?// |