After the event of the battle in space the moral of the crew was at its all-time high and many were parting in the cafeteria in the ship. Before our decent to the planet the ships all docked and even on top of the carrier they were fixed into so that all the pilots could have some party time all together and then rest.

At the moment it has been over 9 hours since we have been descending towards the planet and we had the ship on auto pilot aimed towards the base on the planet. I was currently in the captain’s chair watching the planet get slowly closer.

As I watch I hear the door slide open and my merry crew of Basil and Ernest come in.

Basil: HAHAHA now that was fun HAHA you should have joined Noah.

Noah: I don’t like being in to noisy of a crowd I kind of hate really loud noises.

Basil: that’s a shame.

Ernest: really you need to relax your still young have some fun.

Noah: your talking like some old geezer that could die at any moment.

Ernest: we never know when we will die only god.

Noah: …I can’t argue against that.

Ernest: good…this here is for you captain, that nice cook girl Jin asked us to bring it to you since you didn’t come down.

What he held was a very good looking plate wrapped in plastic so it didn’t spill. I quickly devoured the food, we have been eating rations during the time we passed though the layers so we don’t waste much but truthfully real cooked food was the best.

Noah: AH!! This is good stuff I have to thank her the next time I see her.

Both Basil and Ernest laughed at my reaction but they understood who I felt. They didn’t know that she gained cooking skill with helped a lot to when cooking with the ingredients they have as well as conserving a lot to last longer.

After eating I left the control room after asking for them to wake me when there were about a half hour before reaching the location then I went to my room for a well-deserved rest.

The two and a half hours of sleep felt like god sent even though it was very little it helped relieve some of the stress I was building up.

As I walk back into the control room I find the team here already working. Outside I see we are already close to the planet and very far away I can slightly see something that doesn’t look like desert and rocks.

Adam: hey Noah had a good sleep.

Noah: it was great. Mind telling me what that dot in the distance is.

He activated the monitor and the image appeared and slowly it started advancing until its limits.

With a smiling face he looked at me. And the monitor was a large factory like base.

Adam: we will soon be in com range so it’s good you’re here to talk directly.

Noah: how much longer?

Adam: maybe 10 minutes, the magnetic field and rich mineral deposit on this planet interfere with radio wave which is why we had trouble picking up the signal. To tell the truth it was a miracle we got the signal at all.

Noah: ok I’ll take manual controls from now on get you get calling and put it on the monitor.

I sit down and shut the auto pilot while taking control. It was a bit hard because now the gravity of the planet interfered with the ship. As we got into range Adam sent the signal to the base. After a few minutes we got a response.

??? : h-h-he-hello

Noah: hello my name is Noah I’m the captain of a carrier ship that was sent by the Mr. Cane from Kelha II station.

??? : thank *hic* god rescue came GUYS SOMEONE CAME FOR US.

We were all surprised by the sudden outburst.

Adam: um I’m starting to get worried when we tell them we can to get the base up and running.

Noah: ya I think we should land with a Dingy just in case.

??? : so when will you be here to take us out.

Noah: we were asked to see the situation of the base and get it up and running to contact the station in space. So what’s your name? are you the leader there?

??? : you…came to…fix the base…

There was a silence in the room. It sent chills down our spine hearing him talk like that. They must have gone crazy after the base was cut off from space.

??? : he…hehehe…you can…to fix this place…for those greedy hounds…that left us here…if that’s it then…we will take you ship and get out ourselves.

The come went dead as they cut the coms.

Noah: …Adam

Adam: sir?

Noah: get the men ready for land battle we will take the base by force if needed.

Mission: Planet side

The old crew that landed on planet Kelha II has most likely gone crazy and wants to leave the planet. Learning that you want to restore the base instead of rescuing them you must capture the base by force if necessary.

Difficulty C

Objective: capture or kill the old crew as well as secure the whole base without them taking your ship and get the base power and coms working.

Failure: your crew dies and they get your ship.

Reward: the base once its repaired

Adam: I guess the quest already called them.

I nod

Noah: attention all crew, the current crew of the base has become hostile because we didn’t come to rescue them as such we are to capture or kill them as well as secure the base as quickly as possible. Focus on capture unless necessary. Gunner prepare those battle droids you were so fixated on making have them set to leave the ship as soon as we land and push any invaders back.

As soon as the message was sent the relaxed atmosphere in the ship turned into one ready for battle. Everyone placed their helmets one and began getting ready for action. All fighters reported the armory and picked up a rifle and two pistols. And gunner…he was happily activating the droids he pestered me to fund to build. There were 40 combat droids 40 worker and 40 repair bots in total in the ship. he insisted we make more bots for work to get done quicker.

When we were about 5 minutes to the station we saw that there was a large wall and landing pad for ships three times our size which was probably meant for large scale freighter ships. On the ground the scanners picked up human movement and when we saw there were many poorly armed men with guns that looked like they would blow up in their faces at the first shot. When we were preparing to land we could see them behind the walls around 100 dirty men with the poorly built weapons. We had set the shields to block anyone that doesn’t leave from the inside from coming in though this didn’t mean it wasn’t impossible to enter especially if they blow a whole into the side of the ship.

When we were five meters from touch down I set the ship to hover there and gave the command to drop down and secure the landing zone but only use suppression shots(they are like Tasers meant to temporally paralyze they guys) then left for the armory.

Noah: ”no way am I going to miss this action” Adam you in charge I’m going to join the fight and will be leading the fighters.

Adam: got it.

I ran through the corridors and soon found the armory, with my helmet on I did a quick scan of the area and found the rack with the guns I wanted. One of the last remaining snipers, a rifle and two pistols. The sniper will be essential and its one of the weapons that not many people trained with so only me, who trained with Basil, or some real life sniper can use them.

After doing a quick check of their condition I left the armory after locking it up, don’t want anyone that can get in getting good weapons now do we. A quick run and I exit into the hanger. All the fighters were there but from the sound of shooting outside the droids were already outside. As I walk up I see the chubby suit which holds Gunner inside and had over.

Noah: so Gunner how’s the situation outside.

Gunner: better then I though, the high grade armor I equipped the combat droids with works like a charm against laser weapons.

Noah: how high grade?

Gunner: after we started getting more materials and also discovering the mix for that magnet stuff from the flyers up in space I studied that stuff and found its some really strong stuff in its processed form the result makes really good armor.

Noah: good to hear so how many men are left.

Gunner: from the readings on the droids there are about 100 men as of now around 30 have been knocked unconscious thanks to your orders not to kill.

Noah: shouldn’t be long before we secure this area. Once it’s done have any captured men brought inside and questioned about what happened when the base was cut off. Also since they are wearing power suits its possible they have access codes needed to enter the base, hack into the suits and see if there are, also see if they have a map in their suits they probably have one since they might need it to get around.

Gunner: sure thing.

After that there was only idle chat while the bots captured as many men as possible. As soon as the number dropped below 30 they retreated. At that point I sent a call to Adam to land the ship which he did and we unloaded.

Noah: Gunner, have 30 bots stay and guard the ship as well as have any snipers up on top of the ship on the lookout.

After a bit the unconscious men were brought into the carrier and I followed. After a few slaps to the face we woke one of them.

??? : ow that hur…AHH!!

He almost jumped out of his skin when he saw our battle suits, none of us took the helmet off the give a more intimidating look to it. Trying to act like a the bad cop from movies I go over and grab him by the hair

Noah: I’ll say this once you answer our questions and you will get out alive got it

He nods franticly which I find a bit funny. I could also hear some of my crew giggling through their coms.

??? : hehe nice bad guy act, this is make I nice show.

??? : careful not to make the guy piss his space suit, we can use that.

I almost laughed out loud after the last one.

Back to the interrogation I make him sit up.

Noah: now tell us what happened to the base when its connection was cut.

Prisoner: you mean the freighter incident…those fucking rock…things jumped out of the ground and dragged it down. They were giant worms and other things it was something out of a nightmare.

Noah: ”so they did originate from here”, what’s the situation of the base, the conditions of the equipment mostly.

Prisoner: we had to take many machines apart to keep life support up and running we are almost out of workable materials as well.

Noah: can’t you mine and make stuff.

Prisoners: this place was made to mine the planet not process it that was supposed to be the stations job.

Noah: that good enough, take him and the rest and put them in an empty room until we find some place to put them in the base.

They were all dragged away and I left the hanger and headed outside.

Noah: anything new happen?

Gunner: there are fighters in to spots, we released some droids to scan the base from above here is the map.

I see a download bar in my helmet then a large map appears with a blue circle at our position. There are also some yellow and red circles all around.

Gunner: the red circles are enemies yellow your men, and blue you and your ships.

Noah: do they only have scrap weapons?

Gunner: mostly, this was a mining base so there wasn’t much to begin with there is some that got standard class weapons but…

He pulls out one of those guns, it was rusty and in need of remodeling since no kind of maintenance would work on it in this state.

Noah: I see, I’m surprised it’s still working

Gunner: imagine how I feel.

I then leave him to order around the men and droids and head for one of the battles. I first jump onto one of the nearest buildings and scout the area and finally find the two battles. They are fighting about the same number on each side, about 40, and can’t seem to get past them. I pull out the sniper and set it to suppressing and aim at the right group. The scope is really amazing it brings it really close up so I use it to look around. As I look I spot a certain man it seems he is just watching and every few seconds he points a direction, he might be a leader or something. Taking aim I aim for the chest and hold my breath before shooting. I miss my target but not by much it hits his leg instead of the chest and makes him collapse all the same twitching from the shock.

With this single person out of the picture their side loses its head and goes into chaos which my crew capitalizes on and takes down many of them in one go.

I then walk over to the other side of the building and aim at the other group. It takes a few minutes but I finally spot the leader here as well and snipe him. The battle went the same way as the other.

You have gained new skills.

Laser Gun mastery (basic 1)

Through the use of all forms of laser weapons in all range you have begun to master them.

+5% accuracy with all medium and long range weapons

+5% damage to all guns

Skill Snipe (basic 1)

With a precise aim you can hit a faraway target with more ease

+10% to accuracy when using a sniper

+5% to accuracy when using a pistol or rifle

Wow it’s been a long time since I got anything related to skills…oh right I’ve been commanding the ship so I’ve just been doing that. Hmm wonder how my weapon construction skill is, I did do some of that while helping research and construction. I call them up

Weapon Construction skill (basic 5)

You are capable of taking many basic components and make a functioning weapon even though it may be basic in nature.

+10% when making a weapon

Weapon Research(passive)

You have learned the techniques to developing your own models of weapons that can surpass factory standers.

Increases research speed

Increases chance of discovering/inventing something new to improve weapons.

Noah: ”wow my weapon making skill went up nicely and I even got a research skill”

As I pondered on my skills the com to my helmet turned on

??? : hello sir we have found several doors that are locked by access codes how should we proceed.

Noah: leave them be, for now capture all the personal they may have the codes in their suits we will have our techs look at them later as well as Gunner.

??? : yes sir.

With that the coms go silent I look around and spot the team of the right. It seems they are the ones that called as I see a few messing with some doors while others tie up the base personnel. I watch them cautiously to make sure nothing is on the roofs when I saw one of our drones floating over us. I got an idea and with my suits systems I accessed my ships systems and took control of that drone and had it scan the inside of the rooms the men were searching. The inside had some machines I could figure out the function of. After seeing the drone soon they were using them to scan for possible ambushes and to map the insides of the base.

As they advance I pull out the rifle and join them as well Basil was in this group which meant the other group was either led by Felix or Earl.

Joining up we took out a few more groups before we couldn’t find any more people outside even with the drones. I then called Gunner for some status update of the ship.

Noah: hey gunner you there?

Gunner: sure thing boss what’s up?

Noah: did you find any access codes on those guys we caught?

Gunner: nope after I checked everyone one of them I went out myself to see the panels and it seems to be eye scan access, we can only get in if we force one of them to do it.

Noah: …you have my permission I want everything out here categorized, use the worker droids to help inventory it all.

Gunner: yes sir.

The channel closes as we reach a cave entrance with a large bulkhead hatch down in front. Soon the other group appeared here as well.

We looked at the hatch wondering what’s inside is to figure it out I had the drone scan. Inside were a couple dozens of men near the door trembling in space suits.

Noah: seems that there are miners remaining only inside, can anyone hatch the bulkheads controls.

On cue our reliable junkyard hand appeared.

Gunner: you called for a hacker boss.

Noah: heh you got here fast.

Gunner: I gave the orders to the droids and the a few mechanics that remained behind to…”persuade” a few men to help us. They are going around now unlocking the doors while the workers are categorizing all the stuff. Now let’s crack this puppy.

He comply strides up to the scanner and attaches a cable from his helmet to the panel and begins fiddling with it with little care for anything else.

Soon we feel the vibrations on our feet as the doors come to life and starts opening up. Inside, just as the scans say there are miners dressed in space suits cowering on the ground.

My men point their guns and every one of them raises their hands to show they surrender. I walk up and create link my com with all of them.

Noah: alright now are there any more people inside?!

One man near the front looks at me.

??? : no most of us came up to try and take the ship to escape us in here didn’t want to fight or could from injuries.

Noah: Gunner, send all the drones to scan the cave I want a map of the inside.

Gunner: on it boss.

Soon enough the drones all converged here and speed at high speeds inside scanning the place. The miners were taken to the ship as well we all returned as the drones scanned the place.

Back at the ship there were many prisoners that were awake and making a ruckus and some very frustrated crew mates ready to zap them again.

Noah: what’s the problem?!

I called out and in moments the frustrated soldiers calmed down

Soldiers: nothing sir these guys were just being a pain in the ass crying about wanting to get off the planet.

Noah: we will get you guys off the planet faster if you helped us complete our objectives the Mr. Cane gave us.

??? : what do you need then?!!

He asked desperately

Noah: we need to fix this place up get communication back up with the station in space and update our situation if you can help us fix the coms it will help if not we will do things as fast as we can.

I could see how reluctant he was so I just shrugged it off and went inside.

After getting the helmet off and took a good breath of fresh air not from a space suit I went over to the counsel that the workers were using to upload the inventory they checked. There was many things like part, both electronic and spare parts from other machines and equipment. One interesting thing was the miner droids that were found in a few warehouses. As I looked through I found things like atmosphere processors and air tanks as. These are going to be useful, I don’t know if they are working or how much power is needed. From the looks of this place we need to fix the power generator first there may be enough to charge the suits but who knows how much power it takes for them to power this whole complex.

As I am thinking Ernest appears behind me.

Ernest: hey Noah, I see your checking inventory find anything useful.

Noah: yep there is quite a lot of spare parts for equipment though they may have to be remade due to rust but it think we can get this place working, what I’m worried about is the power generator there doesn’t seem to be power in this place.

Ernest: well that’s easy to answer it came with the recent update from the drones look at your map underground.

I open it up and look at the complex underground. I look through each room until I find what looks like a power plant wires are all over the place.

Noah: the generator is broken

Ernest: more like overloaded, it had a safety mechanism that shut it down but these guys never went to fix it and lived off the reserve.

I face palmed myself, it felt like the time we took the derelict carrier. Such a simple solution but they are too lazy to fix it.

Noah: any people down there.

Ernest: nope those miners you found told the truth they were the last ones.

Noah: then send a group of mechanics and techs to get that generator working also take repair bots and some combat droids just in case.

He nods and leaves ship and begins building the team.

Noah: ”damn this is going to take much longer then I thought, but I guess it’s better than an easy win”

I call up the mission log to check the requirements

Mission: Planet side

The old crew that landed on planet Kelha II has most likely gone crazy and wants to leave the planet. Learning that you want to restore the base instead of rescuing them you must capture the base by force if necessary.

Difficulty C

Objective: capture or kill the old crew as well as secure the whole base without them taking your ship and get the base power and coms working.

Failure: your crew dies and they get your ship.

Reward: the base once its repaired

Noah: ”like I though we need this place working to finish this quest, most likely that is what is need to get the original crew on our side”

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