"As the now captain of this ship, The ADF - Explorer, I must make sure that this ship, my pack, and anything stored or hidden in its confines are kept safe, it was a dangerous and plain stupid idea to try and steal this from the Illuminate, but it's a safer alternative to letting them keep it for now, this is ex-corporal of pack-13cA of the Illuminate navy Kyu, Ruiz signing off." The now identified creature Kyu is an Avali much like her pack, they are now outsiders, kicked from the only solid ground they had, they did something that seemed treacherous to some and heroic to others. They had stolen an experimental ship one that could spell the death of thousands if completed, so they did the only logical thing, they stole it and destroyed all documents that could lead to a recovery from this. As of current they are on the run from the Illuminate fleet.
As they go from system to system they have long out paced the Illuminate fleet so they take a break to explore the star they are currently orbiting, as they do that they find nothing, until they catch a SOS signal they follow it and find a ship? It looks like it's been there for decades the paint on the side is worn away into green and white splotches and parts of its hull are visibly punched through, a majority of the hull is scorched, as if this ship was in a major fight, as the ship gets closer and closer to the cargo bay you are able to see that this ship used to be a cruser of troop transport of some sort.
Kyu finally after having been given an assessment of the ships presumed capabilities she says "Suit up were searching this thing, maybe it even has some stuff that could help us escape from the Illuminate," after she finishes giving orders someone asks, "Are you sure, I mean don't get me wrong, its just that something about this rust bucket just gives off bad vides, as if its telling us to stay away." "I'm sure looking at the age of this thing even if it had any internal defenses they are likely non-functional at this point, just look at it, I don't think their is anything we need to worry about. but just incase some of you can stay on the ship incase things go south." Kyu responded in a matter-of-fact voice, "Ok I want Jesali, Khauko, and Jesun to stay the rest of us are going in. And you three when we give you the all clear you can come and collect things from the room wee have cleared. ALL RIGHT, lets move."
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They're finishing up their collection of scrap of other loot from this ship, they found that the name of the ship is the UNSC Posiden, they had ordered an emergency activation of their FTL drive which caught them dead in the water around this star after which they had tried multiple times to contact their fleet and got no response, they then with limited supplies tried to survive until they could be rescued, but help never arrived.
'We have found quite a lot of stuff hopefully this last thing will shed some light on missing links, we've learned that there were at least one space fairing species before us, and the tech we've recovered can be researched and possibly even retrofitted on to our ship, but first lets see what this log i-' [INTRUDER ALERT, INTRUDER ALERT, ACTIVATING ANTI-BOARDING SYSTEMS] as Kyu opened the last system the alarm went off, 'it must be some sort of dead-mans switch' she thought as she did her best to turn it off she could hear more of her pack being slaughtered by the turrets, when she eventually turned them off it was too late purple-ish blood was everywhere she rushed back to the Explorer to reconvene with the group she left behind, after grabing their military ID 'They deserve a proper memorial, to remember who they are and what they have done for others.' she thought getting emotional, after having what is essentially your family be killed before you it would scar you mentally, but right now she has to make sure everyone else is all right.
After having made her way back to the ship Kyu sees that the carnage is not nearly as bad back here, but it's still pretty bad, Khauko seeing Kyu immediately asks " What the hell just happened? One moment we were moving stuff into the cargo bay, the next were being shot at. Jesali is ok just grazed, but Jesun he got a bullet right through his leg, until we can get him a prosthetic printed he's going to be unable to walk." Kyu after hearing what happened is glad that they survived, "I'm so sorry, one moment i'm going through a databank, the next th-the t-turrets turn on and they j-jus-" Kyu is bauling at that point she's scared of what could have happened if she didn't shut the turrets down in time. Khauko immediately comes to comfort Kyu, "Shh... Shh, its ok, you did what you could to protect us, and I appreciate it, we took a risk and it bit us hard, but what matters now it the fact that were safe and that nothing can happen now. We need to go and remember those that had fallen today, Ok?" "Ok, lets do this." Kyu said in a weak voice, "Finish securing what you can down then when you're ready, we leave. Oh yeah move Jesali and Jesun to the safe room in case something happens as we're leaving." with that Kyu leaves to prepare for departure.
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"Are you ready to go?" Khauko asks ready herself to leave this hell hole. "Yep lets do this shit." Kyu responds almost immediately sounding as if she wants to leave this all behind, "Alright, activating FTL in... three... two... on-" as soon as the FTL drive is about to activate the ships navigation systems are shot with a railgun, presumably coming from the UNSC Posiden causing them to shoot off course, that is if they even have a course anymore...