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I keep swearing I'll stop writing fanfics, I suppose I should just stop swearing I'll stop. XP
The following is a story idea set in the Starbound universe. Might continue/revise it if there's enough interest but not right now.
Robert Mason is (C) Psion 2012
Starbound is (C) Chucklefish Games, go check them out at playstarbound.com ESPECIALLY if you are a fan of Terraria or Minecraft.
Starbound
By Psion
All Rights Reserved
Lights flickered in the alloy hallway as the battered shuttle hurtled through the endless night. Huddled refugees took shelter where they could, sobbing for friends and family that didn’t make it or jumping every time the ship lurched. Was that last shudder from the overtaxed engines or had their pursuers missed their target?
Sitting in a corner, a young brown-haired man stared blankly into empty space. Bright hazelnut eyes took in the contents of the main passenger area with a sweeping glance. The weathered couches were empty, children hid with their parents under metal tables welded to the floor. The lone stranger had to snort seeing this, if the hull was breached the furniture wouldn’t do a thing to protect any of them from hard vacuum. Then again, perhaps he shouldn’t blame them. After all, everyone in this room was a dirtsider, even him. The only people on this ship who had any spacer experience were presently screaming orders and working furiously to keep the vessel one step ahead of their pursuers. Not to mention the expanding cloud of planetary debris…. Debris, was that all that remained of home? Dust and vacuum-scoured rock?
Blaring klaxons jarred the man out of his thoughts, sending the passengers into a panic. The captain’s voice over the intercom only served to further incite the bubbling chaos. “Attention passengers and crew, please immediately report to the escape pods. I repeat, we are abandoning ship; all passengers and crew report to the escape pods.”
The young man was on his feet and running for the exit just as the primary lighting gave up, casting the ship interior in a red glow. A violent clang rang through the very bones of the ship while the refugees fled. The lack of the telltale boom of explosive decompression suggested only one thing… their refuge had been boarded.
“Security to D-Deck, intruders on board!” The captain’s voice crackled over the intercom.
From somewhere out of view, the sound of screams and weapons fire reverberated through the ship. Pulse rifles barked a staccato roar, the invaders countered with a guttural howl unlike anything the fleeing civilians heard before. Weapon reports echoed on for a few moments before a terrifying silence fell on the ship. But by then the survivors were gone, fleeing the doomed transport in escape pods. Dozens of small capsules hurtled away like tiny meteors. Some would find habitable planets to safely hide and wait for rescue; others would be trapped in stasis, prisoners of a hostile environment or the cold depths of space. Yet one pod, the one carrying the young brown-haired man, would suffer a far more curious twist of fate…
Proximity Activation Sequence Begun…
Detecting artificial object on approach vector…
Object ID verified: Civilian Escape Pod
Accessing Civilian Data Records…
Warning File Corruption Detected! Compiling uncorrupted data…
Passenger Name: Robert Mason
Gender: Male
Species: Human… further data unavailable.
The following is a story idea set in the Starbound universe. Might continue/revise it if there's enough interest but not right now.
Robert Mason is (C) Psion 2012
Starbound is (C) Chucklefish Games, go check them out at playstarbound.com ESPECIALLY if you are a fan of Terraria or Minecraft.
Starbound
By Psion
All Rights Reserved
Lights flickered in the alloy hallway as the battered shuttle hurtled through the endless night. Huddled refugees took shelter where they could, sobbing for friends and family that didn’t make it or jumping every time the ship lurched. Was that last shudder from the overtaxed engines or had their pursuers missed their target?
Sitting in a corner, a young brown-haired man stared blankly into empty space. Bright hazelnut eyes took in the contents of the main passenger area with a sweeping glance. The weathered couches were empty, children hid with their parents under metal tables welded to the floor. The lone stranger had to snort seeing this, if the hull was breached the furniture wouldn’t do a thing to protect any of them from hard vacuum. Then again, perhaps he shouldn’t blame them. After all, everyone in this room was a dirtsider, even him. The only people on this ship who had any spacer experience were presently screaming orders and working furiously to keep the vessel one step ahead of their pursuers. Not to mention the expanding cloud of planetary debris…. Debris, was that all that remained of home? Dust and vacuum-scoured rock?
Blaring klaxons jarred the man out of his thoughts, sending the passengers into a panic. The captain’s voice over the intercom only served to further incite the bubbling chaos. “Attention passengers and crew, please immediately report to the escape pods. I repeat, we are abandoning ship; all passengers and crew report to the escape pods.”
The young man was on his feet and running for the exit just as the primary lighting gave up, casting the ship interior in a red glow. A violent clang rang through the very bones of the ship while the refugees fled. The lack of the telltale boom of explosive decompression suggested only one thing… their refuge had been boarded.
“Security to D-Deck, intruders on board!” The captain’s voice crackled over the intercom.
From somewhere out of view, the sound of screams and weapons fire reverberated through the ship. Pulse rifles barked a staccato roar, the invaders countered with a guttural howl unlike anything the fleeing civilians heard before. Weapon reports echoed on for a few moments before a terrifying silence fell on the ship. But by then the survivors were gone, fleeing the doomed transport in escape pods. Dozens of small capsules hurtled away like tiny meteors. Some would find habitable planets to safely hide and wait for rescue; others would be trapped in stasis, prisoners of a hostile environment or the cold depths of space. Yet one pod, the one carrying the young brown-haired man, would suffer a far more curious twist of fate…
Proximity Activation Sequence Begun…
Detecting artificial object on approach vector…
Object ID verified: Civilian Escape Pod
Accessing Civilian Data Records…
Warning File Corruption Detected! Compiling uncorrupted data…
Passenger Name: Robert Mason
Gender: Male
Species: Human… further data unavailable.
Category Story / Human
Species Human
Size 120 x 120px
File Size 21 kB
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