On the Frontier by Xavier Madera Inspired by Elite Dangerous, published by Frontier Developments
The year is 3307, deep in the galaxy of the Milky Way. This story is about a commander leading four of his crewmates and their adventure on a ship called the Anaconda, which was a ship adapted for all purposes like mining, exploration, combat, and trading. The Commander, an ex-bounty hunter; Romeo, a fighter; Dirk, a Fuel Rat; and lastly Yuri from the Empire. They are currently at the Coriolis Space Station, accepting jobs and building up credits to become the best crew in the galaxy, but they would need to make sure they climb the ranks and don’t get on the bad side of the Federation, Empire, or the Alliance which were the major factions. After bringing in jobs and wanted men, Arissa Lavigny-Duval, the emperor of Achenar has noticed their work and has asked them to come to the Capitol for an important job. As they are supercruising, which is a way for humans to be able to reach and explore other planets light years away, Dirk had gotten a distress signal from a ship 30 light years away which was way too far for the Anaconda to reach in one space jump. Dirk tried to persuade the Commander into going to the distress signal. As he tried, the Anaconda hit a massive wave of energy which was too much for it to handle and the ship became unresponsive! As this happened the ship was forced out of the supercruise and landed in a battle between two battle cruisers, one from the Empire and another from the Federation, that was born from Earth and is the oldest faction including a dozen fighter ships. The sounds of explosions and laser weapons were extremely loud. Romeo and Yuri focused on getting the ship back up, but were disrupted by a nearby missile going off near the ship knocking Yuri down, hitting her head unconscious. Dirk had taken Yuri to the medbay where he gave her an injection of newly developed medicine which could make the human cells speed up and heal any injury, while Romeo was still focused on getting the ship to work again. Lasers started to hit the ship which was great as the ship had gotten started, shields started to work and the Commander started up the supercruise going to a nearby space station that was near the distress signal that 65
