Prologue

The waves of the Nordsea were continous banging against the ship of Electron company. It was a ship designed to strife through the harsh sea, bringing its passengers to their destination. Today, it was booked by a travel group from the university of Karlsruhe, to show them the marvelous and new shining project of the company, the North Sea offshore windpark.

Countless wind turbines were constructed in rows to harvest the needed electric energy 30 km north from the German island Nordeney. It was a gigantic alley of wind mills.

The sip itself was a common touristic ship, able to host 40 passengers for daytrips between the coast and several islands and on top of it with an observation deck. There, a company guide was explaining the difficulties of the construction and used techniques through a microphone to the students and teachers. The listener themselves were mostly compromised of male mechanical engineering and building construction engineers, which was also the target audience for this organized week trip by the university.

Looking outside of the windows with a boring look, sat Arn Tschiller in a window seat. A 22 year old engineering student in the 4th year. He himself would describe him as average looking, being 1,78 m tall, blond hair, blue eyes and a skinny to normal build.

The more he tried to focus and listen to the guide, the more bored he became.

So he poked his neighbour with his right index into the side.

“Aui, why ? What have I done again ?” replied Leon, the poked person.

“Nothing, I am just bored and you as a building engineer should already know these techniques. So why not plan the drinking in the evening ? “(Arn)

“pshht, I wanna hear this. Ask Sebastian and Nils. “(Leon)

Arn looked one sitting row back to the named persons. Sebastian being a 1,95 m tall, 23years old, brown hair moderately musculous and voluminous, mechanical engineering student, and Nils, , 1,76m tall, 21 years old, very muscoulous through his sport as a gymnastic, electronic engineering student. All three of them were his closest friends since middle school.

“So, about tonight, what…” (Arn)

Suddenly the light turned outside from blue to deep dark. Confused, Arn turned back to the window only to see the sky pitch black and with several green and red strivings on the horizon.

‘Ui Jesus, this looks like the northern lights, what a show’

Several students cryed out of joy, and also the guide stopped talking .

But then a huge explosion took place at the horizon, illuminating everything in milliseconds only to die afterwards to leave back all people aboard blinded. As this would be not enough, in the faint distance Arn could see a small wave rolling towards the ship.

“Take hold on something, a wave is coming “ he screams out to his friends.

Some students hear him, following his advice quickly while the bell of the ship starts to ring.

“ATTENTION ATTENTION, this is the captain. Please take cover and hold onto something. A huge wave is approaching us. We will try to steer the best course to take it. Brace for possible impact”

Tensed, crying out in panic and also in unrest, the whole ship waits for the arriving wave, only to be hit by a breeze. And in the moment the wave passed the boat underneath with the accompanying feint breeze, the sky cleared up and looked normal again.

Confused, Arn standed up to see a blue box 40 cm in front of him.

“Congratulaion peasants for surviving the introduction catastrophe (Tsunami Northwest Europe)”

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