Lux Ultra |short story|

Incoming transmission// //01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01001100 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 00100000 01101111 01110101 01110100 01110111 01100101 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100100 01100001 01110010 01101011 00101100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100010 01100001 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 00100000 01101101 01110101 01110011 01110100 00100000 01100010 01100101 00100000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110100 01101111 01110010 01100101 01100100 00101110// Message start// -ORS.89 Reporting in, ORS.74 do you copy? Over -I hear you loud and clear ORS.89. Over. -There has been a lot of activity just outside of sector... let me see... I think its sector 7.b12/3. Over. -Outside of Sector 7.b12/3 is past the outer ring, thats deep space. Over. -I know, which is weird. The strange thing is that the readings aren't going high, there going extremely low. Over -Possibly a Warsat that traveled a little bit too far out, they give out negative readings right? Over. -Its far too large to be a Warsat. ORS.99 and ORS.62 are closer to it than we are, I'm going to patch them through real quick. Over. -okay. Over. -ORS.99 and ORS.62, do you read? Over. -ORS.99 reporting in. ORS.62's comms are down, but he's right next to me. Over. -I've been getting some very strange readings just outside of your current sector. Can you see anything? Over. -Nothing, just empty space right now. Over. -I'm going to come over there okay? Over. -Sure thing. Over. -ORS.74 you should stay here, just so we keep at least one ship per sector. Over. -Works for me. Im going to cut myself out of the call. Patch me back in if anything happens. Over and out. -I can see you and ORS.62 right off of my port side, can you see me? Over. -Sure can. ORS.62 got his short range comms working, but can only patch into my channel. He says he's going to go out of the sector and take a little look around. Over. -Okay, but tell him to make sure he doesn't stay out that far too long. Over. -He's going to start moving out there now. Over. -Is he flying a Javelin? Over. -Yeah, its a LRv3. He did a few favors for Amanda holiday and she gave it to him. Thats the best ship any of us will probably ever get. Over. -If we were guardians on the other hands, boy oh boy we would be spoiled. Over -Hold on, ORS.62 says the readings are getting much heavier. They have gone from neg 79 to neg 400! Over. -Neg 400? that must be a glitch on his reader, its basically impossible for anything to give off that negative of a reading. Maybe we should turn on the lights and get a better look at whatever it is. Over. -Yeah ill tap into the maintenance line real quick, tell them to turn them on. Over. -Maintenance, this is ORS.99, requesting lights on in sector 7.b12/3, facing outwards. Over. -I still cant see anything, just more empty space. Over. -ORS.62, how far out does it say you are? over. -We should be able to see him, unless he's super deep. Over. -Wait! I see something out there. ORS.62, is that you coming in.... oh god.. -What the hell is that thing! -ORS.62 you need to haul ass back here, we gotta go! over. -Its coming in hot! what the hell is it? -Im not sure! What is that under it... 62 look out, don't go under the ship, i repeat don't go under the... -Oh god. -We have to move, ORS.62 is a goner. Tell ORS.74 to alert all sectors. -No time, we have to move! Its chagrining up its weapon again. Evasive measures, evasi... -Oh no. -Home base, this is ORS.99! Some kind of large, dark, triangular ship has entered our outer ring, sector 7.b12/3. It is extremely hostile, ORS.62 and ORS.89 are down. All remaining ORS ships in sector 7a-7d, retreat. I repeat, all remaining ORS ships in sector 7a-7d, retreat! Im putting my ship into full drive and... oh god no please NO! Message end// //01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100101 01101110 01100100 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101110 01100101 01100001 01110010 00101100 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100110 01101111 01101100 01101100 01101111 01110111 01100101 01110010 01110011 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01101100 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 00101110// transmission over//