Lukas Rox
Torchwood Archive
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Posted - 2009.03.03 20:07:00 -
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Edited by: Lukas Rox on 03/03/2009 20:14:11
Sleepers were long gone. Life in it's very nature has both beginning and end. I was realizing that, while my crew was patiently analyzing the debris and ancient relics. It is why we came to Inder in the first place. While part of my consciousness was busy fending off Angel pirates, the rest was consumed by that thought.
Why a culture so advanced and so organized would ever die?
We are almost immortal. And we don't have a clue how this small Virtual Energizer can produce so much power, that would easily power all guns on this Navy Vexor-class cruiser. Yet, they are the ones who are gone, not us...
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Sudden flash of light and energy struck me off guard. I have lost all camera drones at once, blinded by a powerful explosion in front of us. Short while after I managed to send new drones and have a look... a look at...
- What the hell is that?! - my thoughts vocalized out of the neocom on the bridge.
My crew was already on the sensor readings, trying to make out what has just appeared out of the thin vacuum of space.
- Readings are almost... It can't be. - said a tall man, one of the bridge officers.
- God damn, what is it man, tell us.
- It is.. eve gate sir. Just like it but smaller. A wormhole. The gravimetric distortion is off the scale, we have to move away, our structural integrity is already being compromised.
Camera drones registered a flicker of light, when one of the Angel frigates got caught in the gravity well and exploded, torn apart by the sheer gravimteric stress of the anomaly.
I have slowly backed off from the expanse, watching closely all the ripples, spiralling slowly inside out.
- Can you tell what is on the other side? - my thoughts sounded again on the bridge
Can you tell where would it take us?
- Negative sir, the interference is too great. But if this reading is correct, we should be able to pass through this wormhole, or whatever it is. It will be a bumpy ride, but should be similar to a stargate jump.
I have quicly informed HQ about our situation. The response was very fast. Go in. Gather as much information as you can. Get out.
I have set the course for the orifice of the anomaly. I felt the hull tremble under the amount of gravity emitted by the wormhole, I suddenly felt sick, as if spinning around for a minute and suddenly came to a halt.
- My God.
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Two men were waiting outside with towels. I felt sick as if I was drinking whole night. The headache... not again. I have died again. Memories started to fill my mind, like empty cup being filled with hot coffe.
- Hello sir, we are glad to inform you... - the doctor started his sentence, the very same one you hear every time you die. Sort of die anyway.
- Shut up man, I need to speak to HQ as soon as I can. Give me HQ.
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That day I knew what killed Sleepers. They had rogue drones of their own. Better. Stronger. Smarter. And now they have been awakened.
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