&quot;All Stop!&quot; ordered the captain. The NavMan echoed an all stop. The Amethyst came to a halt. All were silent on the bridge; only the hum of the ships instrumentation and spinning cooling fans could be heard. The bridge crew watched as their captain sat in her chair with dark eyes intently staring at the derelict portrait on the viewscreen. She took a deep breath, and let it out slowly, &quot;I need to know what's out there,&quot; &quot;I can tell you what's not out there, Cap! There are no immediate contacts; not anymore!&quot; Said Karapanov. Frosbeld stood pointing at the view screen, &quot;I would agree, but what the hell is that, then?&quot; &quot;Our eyes can be fooled!&quot; Locke said, nodding, &quot;A hologram maybe?&quot; Karapanov double-checked the data from NSAT, &quot;No, way. We would see residual neutrinoes, or at the very least a power-source. I see nothing.&quot; Lucy put in, &quot;I think we're all ignoring the most important data; the transmission,&quot; Comms crackled. It was engineering. &quot;Cap'n. Something is draining our power!&quot; Locke cursed! 2008-08-07T18:49:03Z http://ficlets.com/feed/story/35587 <p>you really did i noticed it a second time too</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/35587?basename=85145 2008-08-07T18:49:03Z Mighty-Joe Young http://ficlets.com/authors/user_8969 <p>I have three pages in my notebook dedicated to this series&#8230;. of ideas and jargon.<br />So &#8211; ya.. a little bit of thought hehe..<br />Thanks for noticing.</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/35587?basename=82135 2008-07-22T17:10:08Z ALRO613 ♪ LoA ♫ http://ficlets.com/authors/alro613 <p>alro you put a great deal of thought into this didnt you? i really enjoy this series</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/35587?basename=82095 2008-07-22T15:52:09Z Mighty-Joe Young http://ficlets.com/authors/user_8969 <p>A message to the cap&#8217;n: get out while you can!!! But I hope you don&#8217;t because the story will be more fun if you investigate the phenomena.</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/35587?basename=74409 2008-06-27T21:43:02Z thebetweenspace http://ficlets.com/authors/thebetweenspace