Sitting in a chair faced towards the window, Mr. Arkridge is having a meeting with one of his engineers. "What is the report from maintenance?" he say staring down at Vara-590 "One of our solar panels are damaged, we are 5% behind our normal output. something is wrong with hardware." the Engineer says standing in front of Mr. Arkridge desk, slowly he turns his chair around asking "Which panel is it?" in a menacing tone "I...it's panel 3 sir" nervously the engineer replies. "show me the panel" Mr. Arkridge says, the engineer steps forward setting a small squared device on the table. pressing a button on it a holographic image of the space settlement appears in front of them. "as you can see I highlighted the four panels red, panel 3 here on the tail end is damaged on the underside." Mr. Arkridge let's out a sigh the replies "How long until we will have it running back at full capacity?" before the engineer is able to respond someone knocks on the door "Come in" walking through the door a women in a suit appears.
"Mr. Arkridge you have a incoming transmission from Vara-590 in the control room." Mr. Arkridge replies "Alright here I come, oh yeah you go gather some people to help you handle that panel. I will check with you later." leaving his office Mr. Arkridge heads to the control room, about 15 minutes later he arrive. "Answer the transmission!" Mr. Arkridge shouts "Yes sir" a control room worker replies, moments later a screen appears in front of him with a middle aged man on it. "Hello Mr. Arkridge there has been a problem with a shipment of fragmented soil, around 0900 hours our shipment was hijacked by space pirates near Nars. [Nars: 8th planet from their sun] They are hiding in the rock cluster In the rings of the planet." enraged by the news Mr. Arkridge shouts "What!!! SPACE PIRATES!!!" he answers back "Yes, we are sending A.E.U inquisitor ships after them now Mr. Arkridge." starting to pace back in forth Mr. Arkridge response " Why am I only being informed now it's 1300 hours, now my fragmented soil is in the hand of space pirates!" "But sir the pirates somehow knew our transport route." sitting in silence for a moment Mr. Arkridge thinks to himself "it seems that other factions are starting to make moves against us."
"How many space pirates ships are in orbit of Nars?" He ask the man on the screen, "they have 5 ships sir" "Tell the A.E.U inquisitor ships to engage with intent to kill, keep me updated." Mr. Arkridge ends the transmission then storms out the control room mad heading back to his office, when he arrive to his office Mr. Arkridge grabs his phone called Spirit-13 a advance glass thin phone with a A.I system. "Connect me to the Cuorox cluster, I want to speak with Scientist Sofia." He says to the A.I "....beep..beep sending transmission to Cuorox Cluster waiting for it to be received...Beep..beep.. Transmission received connecting..." appearing on the screen of his phone Sofia a scientist that work in the Cuorox cluster. "Hello Mr. Arkridge how many I help you?" Sofia says answering the call "yes, the shipment of fragmented soil was hijacked and I want to know if the special cargo was onboard at shipment?" Mr. Arkridge asks "Mhm I would have to check the logs for that, one second sir....um no it wasn't in that shipment we sent at 0400 hours we only sent normal fragments soil."
"Good I will call you back after I deal with this problem." Mr. Arkridge hangs up the phone up sitting down in his chair, At Nars in the main pirate ship the crew members are talking amongst themselves "How long area we going to stay here for? you know the union is readying their ships." entering the corridor with heavy footsteps Zaid a notorious black market trader. "Stop giving me the cold shoulder, your captain has agreed to work with me in getting one of those Union ships." Zaid says to the crew waiting in the corridor "you want one of their ships! how are we suppose to do that?" one of the member says to Zaid "Yeah they will blow us up before even talking to us we stole a shipment of fragmented soil." coming in captain Kai stops them from arguing "Calm down everyone Zaid and I have came up with a plan. when they get here we will enter Nars baiting them with a fake transmission, using that we will fake a coup d'état saying we want to return the recourses." Captain Kai explains to his crew letting them know the plan "the union should be arriving soon." 20 minutes later in the pirates ship in the cockpit the union ships start to appear on their radar letting out a siren through their intercoms.
"We are the A.E.U Inquisitors sent by the Union, you have stolen property of the Union, surrender now or we will fire our phase cannon." aiming their cannons towards the pirate ships they wait for a response from their warning. back on the main pirate ship Captain Kai prepares their trap. "Alright let's begin our plan of response to the transmission." the pilot of the main ship responds to their warning "Hello this is a member of the crew, we have staged a coup d'etat and have taken over the ship. Our captain is locked up we request to land on Nars for a transfer." sitting in the orbit of Nars, 8 ships and 5 Union ships with 3 being the space pirates. the union ships communicate with each other through private coms. "What do we do? Mr. Arkridge was very clear to destroy them." one of the Union pilot says "Just follow orders Everyone activate your phase cannons and begin charge" watching the radar the pirates notice their sudden change "Captain the Union ships are moving into attack position while readying their cannons, what do we do?" Zaid walks into the cockpit "it's seems the higher ups don't care for the resources when they lose them." The captain begins to shout instructions "Begins evasive maneuvers and tell our comrades in the other ships to get into formation T30!" the pilot puts in the co-ordinates also sending instructions to get in formation T30.
Slowly moving into position the 3 pirate ships get in a triangular position, then the ships releases a electrical pulse creating a force field covering them. "BRACE FOR IMPACT!!" suddenly a loud crackling noise goes off as the Union releases their cannons firing at the force field, the inside of the pirate ship begins to rumble shacking the ships. "The shield is at 80% a few more hits and we are sitting ducks." the pilot shouts holding onto his seat, all of a sudden Zaid shoots both captain Kai and the pilot with a blaster and proceeds to kill the rest of the crew in the main ship. "since the plan isn't going well I should just take the resources, their should be an escape pod somewhere" Zaid hurries over to the storage room to grab a capsule of fragmented soil. an alarm sounds off as the shield malfunctions "I need to hurry up" the Union ships charge another shot while the force field for the pirates begins to dissipate opening holes in it. "FIRE PHASE CANNONS!!!" shooting another volley of blast at the ship, right as some of the blast hit the shield it fully disappears then detaching from the main ship an escape pod falls, then shoots off flying away out of the Depix System. "What was that!!" one of the Union pilot shouts the rest of the blast destroy the pirates without their shield. "Mission complete report to our commander that someone escaped in a pod probably the captain." Turning around the union ships head back to Vara-590...
4 hours later they arrive passing the Canaan settlement getting into Vara's orbit preparing for re-entry to the atmosphere. "Confirming re-entry Inquisitors squad-74HG request clearing." "...beep...beeeeep.. received transmission...information confirmed re-entry allowed." The union ships re-enter landing back at the A.E.U headquarters, all 5 land on a large air strip. walking up to the ships Commander Clark waiting as the pilots get out of the ships "Mission report!" Commander Clark shouts "The space pirates are dead but someone escaped in a pod we think it may be the captain sir." the leader of the squad replies to commander Clark "okay go clean up I'll report this to Mr. Arkridge, the pilots leave and commander pulls his phone out calling Me. Arkridge ".....beep..click.. waiting to be received..... received... Hello commander, I hope you have good news" Mr. Arkridge ask commander Clark "Yes I do we have kill the pirates, but there is one thing" before he can finish Mr. Arkridge cuts him off "what else is there! you said that you killed them right?" he shouts at commander Clark " someone escaped in a pod heading out of our Depix System the pilots couldn't pursue them. We think that it was the captain." commander Clark tells Mr. Arkridge "Okey that is fine it was only a regular shipment of fragmented soil, keep up the good work" ending the call with commander Clark.
Back in the Space settlement Mr. Arkridge goes for a walk throughout Canaan settlement. leaving his office making his way down a long hallway Mr. Arkridge approaches a door, pulling out a ID card he slides it into the module ".... access granted" the door open into the main Equatorial regions. A road leads from the door which connects to the first Island Drywood. going down the road you can see on the horizon of the cylinder walls as they stretch far, also buzzing with life the inhabitants of Canaan fly around in advance vehicle. Mr. Arkridge let's out a satisfying sigh "This view never gets old" along the road there is a pod center for the Sky cycles [a small pod that hold 1 or 2 people connected to a track for transportation] passing under a vidock into the pod center "Oh hello Mr. Arkridge, how are you?" a lady at the front desk asks him "I am fine, I would like to register a pod one sitter please." "okay, one singular sit pod coming up. go-ahead and over to the left your pod." Mr. Arkridge steps into the pod sitting down in a seat with a A.I panel of the arm rest. "Take me to Eagles Keep" Mr. Arkridge says to the A.I "..alright Mr. Arkridge...loading destination... Please stay seated for the duration of the ride." for the next 30 minutes he rides the pod heading home.
Sometime later Mr. Arkridge arrives to Eagles Keep his private area for the Arkridge household, a large platform with mansion on it. getting out of the pod he goes to a gate, as he nears the gate it suddenly scans him "... Scanning.. Scanning.... Identity confirmed welcome back Mr. Arkridge." the gate opens automatically letting him in, inside the property their is a water fountain. rushing towards him are tow small kids Tristan and Xavier his two twins sons. "Father your back!" "Dad look what mom gave me" bothe of his son's shout to him being excited to see him. "Where is your mother?" Mr. Arkridge asks his son's "She's inside." at the same time flying through space in a escape pod Zaid makes his way to into The Visrock Sector "I need to contact Evelyn, this mission was a bust...Send a transmission to the Visrock sector to Evalyn Mistspire." Ziad says to the A.I Transmitter "....connecting to The Visrock sector....waiting for transmission to be received.... Received." "Hello who is this?" a womens voice says through the transmission "It's me Zaid, I am calling about the mission I was assigned. The pirates are dead and the Union destroyed their ships I escaped in a pod, we were able to get a hold of fragmented soil even though it wasn't our main target." Zaid response saying to Evalyn " Oh it's you Zaid, I was wondering why I call getting a transmission through a unknown channel. that is fine bring me that fragmented soil and I'll give you half of what I was going to pay you."
Evalyn tells Zaid "I am on my way there now but it will take me a day or two, Im in open space right now with nothing around." Zaid expresses to Evalyn "Okay I will let the others know that you are on your way."
Two days later arriving in to the Visrock sector, a enormous meteorite homed to the black market faction. living within the tunnels of the meteorite a underground network of Black market traders thrive, Zaid flies in approaching a tunnel inside a large metal wall block the way, the pod is scanned. "....Code required for entry" Zaid puts in a number code into the modular on the armrest in the pod ".... Received code...verifying....code confirmed" the metal wall begins to move rasing up opening for Zaid letting him in.