I sprinted back to my ship, The Swift, named after one of my favorite artist back on earth. I started it and let it float a few feet of the air, I jumped boarding it, approached the cockpit and flew away out of this moon base. As I got out of the stratosphere I punched in a coordinate, approached a jump axis and went into travel warp.
The Swift isn't the biggest nor the smallest ship in the galaxy but its just the right size for one man to live in just fine. This ship is a modified General Navigation model 5 or GN-05 as it is more commonly called, this ship focuses on precision driving plus it looks like a sea turtle with four hind flippers.
If you really want to know the technical specs of my fine ship, the engine is your typical hydrogen reactor but added a quartz lined warp charger, which basically means the ship can complete a travel warp a half the time it takes a normal ship within the jump axis and third times fast outside the warp. This is about 600 squire foot wide, 4 meters height and is divided into two main subsection.
The top which I call 'Work' is consisted of cockpit which house 3 seats; two in front for the pilot and co-pilot which has the control of every movement of the ship, and the middle is for the captain or navigator or actually who is in charge of everything which has a 2 screen computer for navigation and other computery stuff.
Behind the captain's chair is the stairs but we'll talk about that latter what I want to talk about is the multipurpose workshop, it only has a large table for either planning or tinkering, it has a tiny holoprojector on each side and big one up center. Down the table are drawers,each drawer has a corresponding items inside. One is marked 'First-aid' which means medicine for common cold to alien pox as well as stitching materials, another is marked 'Tools' which contains the basic from screw drivers to metal printer, basically a 3D printer but metal instead of plastic. There's also a drawer labelled 'Junk' which are essentially random parts and scrap I might use later, and lastly a drawer labeled 'Rover's Holoday Special' as the name implies is used only for special occasions.
At the right side of the wall is the weapon cache, which only houses a single beam revolver and a few charge cells. But it also houses three extra helmets that I use, maybe I should rename this 'Helmet' cache. While on the left side is the McGuffins, pieces of stuff I collected that were not sold for some reason yet quite useful, although most of them are one-off and therefore useless.
Last on this top floor is located at the very end which is the engine room, I've already talked about the engine. I was told that the engine and this ship was owned by someone famous or so I'm told but honestly this has a lot of complicated history in it of itself. What you should know though is that I have little maintenance knowledge for this thing.
As for the bottom which I call 'Home' down the stairs to the left is the Bathroom for its small space it has a shower and toilet. On the right is Kitchen, which has the fridge with food ration and other ingredients, microwave oven, stove, and doubling as water dispenser. At the center is the multipurpose table, it serves as a dining table good for four and has a holomonitor for entertainment.
On the walls are two fold out beds on both side. And lastly on the stern part of the ship near the exit, on the left is
Laundry, which is the washing machine and dryer combo. On the right is the Dresser which contain the clothes obviously.
Now if you're wondering this can be piloted by one person with no problem because of its A.I. Co-pilot 'C.H.R.I.S.' or Course Hazards Reduction Intelligence System but I like to call him Chris. He pilots the ship to locations I've preset or when I active the Autopilot.
Well since in my story my ship is still on warp, I could skip ahead to the good parts but I want you to know more about your scruffy looking, brown haired brown eyes storyteller here, where was my manners. I'm Rover Hawking, from earth. What?! Earth? Well yes I'm from earth, the from the preservatory galaxy of Milky Way. Typically earth is a no go for any and all creature throughout the cosmos but I was a different story.
Earth thirteen years earlier.
The planet was on its normal day, like normal spin around itself and to its sun. But near the moon a jump axis opened, but what exited wasn't a ship or escape pod but something that is a cargo discharge. The cargo did not float on space but activated small thrusters that propelled it in to the planet, the cargo strips itself of the safety cages. As is sped up to the surface the atmosphere of the planet burned it.
I was on my way home from school, everything is normal. School's great, bullies picking you up for lunch money and to feel good for the things they don't have, aced some test if the teachers were doing their job properly, on top of that I feel like I don't know what I am doing with my life or does my life even matter to any one. Sarcastically speaking I am happy about this day. As I walked with confidence I looked up wanting to wish in the blue skies for a change then I saw it. A shooting star, I made my wish and watched it fade away. But it instead of fading it moves towards my general direction, I started to rethink my wish. It flew past above my head, a burning metallic object in the size of a vending machine land about few steps from where I stand.
The object made a small crater, my mind tells me to run in the opposite direction but my body blindly moved towards it. The object was burning, as I approached it, it sprayed something that cooled itself. It opened itself and I saw a bright green light.