《Leap of Faith》Prologue 2 - Long Sleep
Advertisement
Further exploration only strengthened that initial hypothesis of the wreck having some sort of covert purpose.
It seemed whatever the crafts outer walls were covered with served to hide it from conventional scanner technology. In the first place, he had only found it because he was only one person and could therefore afford to personally survey the debris field with short-range, high detail scanners. Even then, the ship had never appeared on any electronic survey tools, he had first found it by sight alone.
Within the inside corridors he had found further evidence of combat: explosive residue, spent bullets, impact marks on walls, floors, and roofs. The battle scars clearly intensified in the path from further inside the ship and to the hangar.
“Got to be careful from now on.”
The hangar and adjacent halls were already open and lacking any atmosphere but the inner bulkheads have been held sealed throughout the years and might still hold gasses within the wreck.
“You really don’t want to see what sudden depressurization can do to anyone nearby, trust me on that one.”
Best to find access to the ship's old air filtration systems and gradually remove the atmosphere with those, it would require him to pass current from the Grajo to power the slow process. Safety first.
Pretty simple though. First, find a filtration grate and search for the line that should feed it power, cut it and attach a long disposable cable, run that thing to the generator and connect both machines together. A bit more fiddling to get the grate working and soon it's pumping air out into the vast unknown.
After that it’s a simple matter of manually opening bulkheads, exploring, cataloging, and transporting loose valuables back to the hab.
“Some of these things are pretty efficiently valuable, stuff that sells well and weighs little.”
Advertisement
A couple of days had passed and by now he had access to a cafeteria, barracks, armory, and medical area. The MREs were always good business and so was high-quality medicine, never mind some was past their expiry date, someone could still find a use for these sorts of things.
The armory had been a bit of a letdown, whatever scuffle had gone down, people evidently raided that area of the ship long ago, a couple of simple handguns and some loose caseless ammunition were all there was to find.
He had high hopes for this next one though throughout this process he had been checking power lines and had found them all dead. All but one. Coming off from below his feet, through the barrack floor, and into a sealed room with no windows was a single high-intensity cable, currently live and powering something.
That meant the ship's power was still working at some level, which could mean high-value salvage, it also indicated something behind this door was continuously requesting power to keep operational and had likely done so for years.
Shims hammered in the right places open the locks and a hydraulic bar wedged into the seam pushes the door open, inside is the one thing most likely to keep pulling power after so long.
Built for endurance thanks to health and safety guidelines lie ninety-nine empty medical coma cylinders.
And a single operational one, still occupied.
Advertisement
- In Serial22 Chapters
Aeon Chronicles Online
Edited Book 1 now available on Kindle Unlimited in all regions! US https://www.royalroad.com/amazon/B07BKR6FWT Book 2 is now available on Kindle Unlimited! https://www.royalroad.com/amazon/B07Q4Z3Q9S A dark litRPG novel. After a deadly encounter with a forest wolf, Rowan Black survives thanks to stem cell therapy and experimental bionic brain implants. Rowan's body recovers, but the treatment leaves his memories fragmented and his psyche shattered into something inhumane, irritable, callous—and a tad bit lustful. When Rowan's doctor fails to notice this, his parents reluctantly sends him back to Westwind Highschool, resulting in the murder of Rowan's past bully. After serving juvenile detention in a psychiatric center for two years, 18-year-old Rowan is offered a choice by a powerful corporation: Either spend the next decades in a psychiatric prison or play in their fully-immersive virtual reality game, Aeon Chronicles Online, and grow into the role of the world's next major raid boss that players must defeat. Will Rowan regain his old psyche? How will Aeon Chronicle’s AI controller react to Rowan’s unique mind? Will Rowan receive help in a team-oriented game or is he alone? Find out in this 130k+ word, dark LitRPG novel! This series is part of the LeMort Multiverse.
8 272 - In Serial7 Chapters
Goblin+
Reincarnating into a goblin was not the plan. Being regarded as a "lesser being" by other races was not okay. Losing so many opportunities because he was green and ugly was not cool.It didn't matter though, he would rise above the masses. He would aim higher in this life, maybe be a king or perhaps even a god.After all, he was more than just a goblin. [aka Goblin+] ………………………….Join the mc in his rise to the top of the world. A LitRPG with the MC being reincarnated into to a goblin.
8 211 - In Serial11 Chapters
Starlio Stex:Year 1
Starlio Stex.A character whose abilities are inspired by Iron Man. Possessing dozen of state of the art crime fighting armors,a fortified futuristic man made island as his home surrounded by people he loves with billions of dollars in his wallet: Now known as one of the most powerful heroes,rich,famous and powerful.Once,he was just a teenager living in a family ridden by poverty,struggling to get by day to day with his only redeeming factor as a student was his unparalleled intellect. Using his passion for creation,Starlio began constructing homemade weapons and technology,knowing that such tools would one day be vital in his crime ridden town to defend the people around him and when a group of his classmates went missing during a school trip,Starlio was forced to go out on his own to rescue the friends that no one else wanted to. A 14 year old boy with homemade weapons,fighting against an army of human traffickers,this story shows the beginnings of the boy who makes his way to become the wealthiest and one of the strongest heroes around. You can also find me on Booksie.com as Max Lkc where previous books written about the same universe has been posted.
8 111 - In Serial18 Chapters
Heart of Borneo
Onays Mukarram is a mediocre 16-year old who ends up in an unanticipated holiday trip alongside his uncle Tariq and aunt Khairina. He sets off into the thicket, clabbered forest slash oil revenue country that is the Heart of Borneo, Negara Brunei Darussalam. Through the course of his holiday, he somehow duped himself into a problematic situation neither he wants to solve it and wants to get involved. Nevertheless, what could a mediocre kid do right?
8 84 - In Serial20 Chapters
Sword of Savage Desires
While using the unorthodox path of cultivation, the Demonic Cultivation Technique to attain immortality, Xie Zhelan loses his powers and ends up destroying himself. Zhelan, by luck, is granted another chance to correct himself and is thrown into the mortal world with no powers to aid him. With nothing but a saber to help him achieve his goals, Xie Zhelan sets out to reach the peak of cultivation and attain immortality. On his journey, he meets Liu Yang who has met a similar fate as him and the duo join hands to get back all that they have lost. However, Liu Yang is not an ordinary cultivator. There is a secret about him, a secret so grave that Zhelan might be pushed into a fathomless abyss. Furthermore, the path to immortality does not seem as easy as he thought it to be, especially when there are enemies who want him dead. At every step, he faces danger and the only way to protect himself is by trusting no one, not even himself.
8 126 - In Serial21 Chapters
The red one | Sam U'ley
River swan. When her parents died she has no where to go; so she goes to her uncle Charlie house. What she didn't expect was to get imprinted on by none other than the possessive Alpha male; Sam U'ley. Nor did she expect the supernatural things that were going to happen to her and the people around her. Twilight fan fiction | Sam U'ley Started: Sunday July 25, 2021 at 10:27 pmI'll update probably once a week :)Or everyday. Whatever I'm feeling. If you have any question on the book feel free to send me a message and I'll answer :)*NO PREGNANCY TROPE!!!!! (I hate them so in case y'all were wondering, no the MC will not get pregnant :) )
8 160

