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Myriad's Spectre Prologue

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"Myriad, There are four BUGS-series spaceship approaching", came a voice from the monitor which displays a devious close up figure.
"I've told you to call me 'Sir'", said the boy who sat at the center of the room.
"My 'Sir' is only the person who buy this ship"
"Then what do you call the maker of you? I'm the main conceptor of your machine, AI programme and currently the head of this ship, after all."
"What will we do?"
Know how to evade, huh?
"It has been ninety hours already, aren't they tired?" He was not compelled to press the problem any further. "I think this is the point where we should use the 'Teleport' function....", he continued, expressionless.
"Where will the destination be?"
"Anywhere as far as we can from the colony and my chaser, of course, but make sure you keep track of where we going", the boy said as he get up from the thickly upholstered armchair which was decorated with controlling buttons at the arms support.
"Yes, Myriad."
And the boy left the room.

He was still at his bed, just awoke, when he heard the voice of knocking at the door. He touched one of the button at the side of his bed and the door slid open.
"Report, you have been sleeping for three hours, do you want some juice?" the light voice from a robot which stood at the door bringing along a glass of juice greeted him.
"Yes please, and....is there anything happened as I sleep?", drowsiness was obvious from Myriad's tone.
"Report, no spaceship approaching, space is clear, but we are coming near a planet which is still unknown to our map and there was a fuzzy call...". And as the robot reporting, he threw some darts to the board in front of his bed, a usual habit of his, especially after getting up, to gain his concentration faster. Then Myriad got up, walking out of his bedroom to the white room again. Sipping his juice as he was walking, he asked his robot once more, "Report the condition of ship.". "Ship is in fine condition, fuel 30 percent remaining, livestock for fifty five hours remaining. Water recycler normal."
"Good thing we come near a planet, I've been thinking of restocking again."
He get into the white room with his robot and called, "Sefh, you recorded the fuzzy call, didn't you? Play the record, please."
"Yes." Sefh, the AI figure in the screen answered.
Then came the fuzz, disturbed voice "........Spectre of Gliese ..8.... post, ...from sheriff.....Jane........due.......ug......need......ters......" then silence.
"Nothing come in after that", Sefh said.
"Too hazy...", said the robot.
"That's enough, open the main window", Myriad looked up.
Then he saw a planet with grey brown color in front of his eyes. They said Spectre of Gliese? I've ever read about Gliese 581 in a book.....it said that some of our ancestors came from Gliese, Spectre colony.... "I think we can land on this planet, check the atmosphere and planet's data, Sefh."
"In a minute....."
Maybe I'll find something new here, which will be good for my research, and I want to see myself the land of the ancestors .... I'm very bored with the current research topic at the colony. They're too greedy anyway.....
"Report on quick research, atmosphere is liveable, much alike to colony's atmosphere, however the humidity is very low and there are some forces that we don't recognize. The land is solid and dry in majority, gravitation is slightly higher than the colony's."
"What do you think, Stringent?", he asked the robot. The robot grew silent for a while then replied, "I see that you're interested in this planet, I won't object if you want to land here, maybe it'll get your reseach something too. Just, be careful."
I need to restock and by landing, they'll have a harder time in finding me.... also the call said that they were in need of something..... Perhaps my inventions could be useful? In that case, I could so some trading...
"OK, we'll land. Prepare for landing."

"Is everything ready? Machine room, Stringent?" Myriad called with a headphone from his big couch of main control.
"Ready.", Sefh said.
"Anytime", Stringent answered back from machine room.
"OK, we'll begin landing, reserve energy, reduce heat, close main window, turn on the laser land radar."
The ship's lighting was reduced to a minimum. the main room was dimming red, red glow was used to reduce energy usage and heat.
"Entering the atmosphere. Check height."
"Entering the atmosphere. Height approximate 8,679km.", the AI replied.
"Move in 700kmph. Always update machine heat, keep it 70 farenheit or below."
"Roger."
"Report to me when we have entered 1000km."
So as the ship proceeded, Myriad was checking the system everywhere as often as he could to prevent failure.

After almost eleven hours~

Hm, everything is still normal, checking and guarding the maintenance for long sure is tiring
Almost eleven hours already, the ship should have reached 1000km
"Sefh, are we there yet?", he opened the navigation window at his front screen.
No answer.
"Sefh?"
At the navigation window, the height displayed is already 984km.
"Sefh, what are you doing? Answer me!"
I smell trouble
"Ye....yes." come the troubled sound of Sefh.
"We've entered nine hundred but you hasn't reminded me, what's wrong?", Myriad sounded more concerned than angry, he got a bad feeling about this.
"I'm sorry, but the program is getting errors here and there, so I'm still fixing it and I'm backing out files right now."
"Errors?"
"Yes, the further we proceed, a few complex programs get errors, so I got many things to fix including my own system. I'm sorry.", the AI answered with less human intonation than it usually had.
I smell trouble.... is it because the force that Sefh reported earlier?
"OK, I'll try to see what I can do with the system, you just proceed backing up the data and basic system. Reduce the speed slowly to 250kmph now.", he said with a glimpse of apprehension in his mind. He opened the system window. He shocked! The program was getting random changes everywhere.
What's this? Something is invading the system? Somebody is hacking here? But this is an isolated system! How can this be? Viruses? From where?
He tried his best to fix the system and building defenses but it couldn't stop the random invation at all! After trying for about an hour without any significant progress, he called out to Sefh.
"Sefh, are you still there?"
".......YES", a complete mechanic sound.
This is getting worse
He brooded for a while then decided. "I'm sorry, I should have notice this earlier, this should not have happened, we ought to stop as soon as we notice the odds...... but now we're more than halfway, there's no turning back.... we should press on. I don't know what we will be as soon as we land but I'll try to fix both of you till then, I promise."
"YES". "YES". Come the two mechanical sound.
As I thought, Stringent is getting the odds too
"I'm sorry to drag both of you into this trouble......"
There's no answer coming...
OK, I shall work alone from now. All of the program won't function but they'll respond if I command them manually, so the only way to do is to put command as quick as I can and keep the situation under control until we land.....If I fail, we'll die....
He caught a glimpse of temperature condition in the machine room. "Darn, the machine is getting the heat now....", he put his headphone down and run away to the machine room. Sounds easy, but actually not. Because his robot had also died, he had to run the command in control room and releasing heat from the tube at the machine room on turn regularly.
Glad this ship isn't that big. He think as he run in the red-dimmed corridor to the machine's room at the back. They have entered 320km and the heat were increasing rapidly. At the machine control room, he saw Stringent who had stopped. He opened a few knobs and when he got out from there, he took the robot to a safer place, somewhere in the corner of middle room.
After a few minutes running back and forth, he was getting dizzy but held out because he didn't want to visit the next world anytime soon, he had his promise to fulfill. Somehow the machine overheated and they were falling down fast.
As I thought, I can't do this myself, there's a minimal of two people to make the ship under control, especially if going to enter a planet's atmosphere he thought when he slumped himself down at the control couch and checked the radar once more, -100km already- he tries to reduce the speed but to no avail. Now, if the ship doesn't bear with the heat.... we are over with he thought as he closed his eyes in the middle of the dim room. I can do nothing now, this is gonna be a crash land, just a sheer of luck and we may be saved....
Not long after that, came the loud bang............



Myriad woke up and found himself still sitting at the control couch with fastened seatbelt, though he could see nothing around him. He felt the plane was aslant to the left and when he tried to get up, he felt hurt all over his body so we landed alive, huh unconciously, he giggled I've never depend on luck before...... He slipped when he had tried to stand because of the elevation. But he managed to get up and walk altough the ship was completely dark. He knew the way, he was the designer, after all. Before he got to the ship's exit, he went to the room where he had left his robot. Stringent was still intact but he felt that it had received some minor damage because of the crash landing, well, he could fix that later.
He got down to the lower ground and the supposed-to-be-exit door. Of course the door couldn't be opened automatically because there was no electricity, but glimpse of light slipped in from some cracks the ship had gotten. He went to the equipment and storage room to get what he need: rope, knive, lighter, water, a custom mask (actually it was only for hazardous-material research protection), and a jacket. Whatever the quick research of the machine say, always take precaution, so he thought when wearing the mask and full-body lab cloth, began to make his way out of the ship. He got a crack opened, and then he tied the rope to anywhere near which he thought sturdy enough to hold his weight. So he got out and-for the first time-stepped on the land of Gliese.
The gravitation is really more heavy here than the colony. The sky was greyish and rather dark, almost similar to what he saw from the outer space before, it's really hard to tell the time. He wiped out the scenery around him, nothing to see, just rocks, dried land with little vegetation and dusty winds blowing. Not far from where he had crashed, there was a dock covered in dust. Somebody had crashed too? Is this land a crash port? He glanced around again and decided to try taking off his gloves. He waited fo a while OK, nothing happened, clear here. Then he took off his mask and began to exam his ship. A few major melts at the front, minor at the back. And what's worse, the plane was distorted at one side where it had crashed. As for the land, there were some marks left from the ship trail which dragged upon before. The ship was not that big and heavy.
Now I need to find help here..... I cannot fix this myself even if I know what to do so he walked around the area. When he walked across the dock he saw a town somewhere far ahead I hope that's not a mirage then he saw a paper flying from nowhere to his feet. He picked it up. "I guess the town is not a mirage after all", upon the paper printed "BOUNTY HUNTERS WANTED" and the content was about calling in bounty hunters from all over the galaxy to eliminate the gangsters who had overran the Spectre town. Hm, my ship crashed, I am a stranger who need help and money here
"This is the straight second time in a day when I need to depend on my luck." He decided and get into the ship again to prepare for his first long trip. He get what he foresee will come in handy and pack it into his small bag and waistbag. He sighed then strolled to the town's direction with the poster in hand.
This is the story I made for my OC, Myriad's entrance in DAWG's tournament. I write it in the middle of my final test's perparation ^.^; But I didn't got it in, after all...

If you find this story interesting, you may as well go to :iconmyriad-oc:

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For Myriad's design see [link]
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Izark1369's avatar
nyaha~
akhirnya finish baca yg satu ini.. keren... ehehehehe.. menarik ^^
jadi pnasaran utk lanjutannya
btw2, komen dikit, hohoho
pressure pas bagian landing tu kurang brasa, jadi klo gw si blom bisa ngerasain klo dy bener2 menggantungkan diri pada luck. jadi pas waktu bagian 'akhirnya to be continued' tu, urge utk baca lanjutannya kurang si... hohoho...
mungkin klo mo nyoba survey pressure yg bagus gimana, gw pernah nonton anime full metal panic yg bagian penculikan massal, nah disono u bisa liat pressure dr takut dimacem2in ampe takut rekan sendiri terbunuh, ato mo yg hardcore? battle royal... ehehehehe...
sekian kecerewetan sayah...