On the Frontier

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

Dirk mentioned. The ship was severely damaged and needed repairs, which is why the Commander had chosen to go to the space station and to head to the distress signal to help the ship that needed saving. While the Anaconda was getting repaired the crew decided to rent a cargo ship which was the only one available and headed to the distress signal. The ship looked old and had no weapons which would be dangerous if they encountered an enemy. Nearing the distress signal they noticed a fighter class ship floating around without power, as they got closer they saw two people, a man and a woman, struggling to get the ship started. Dirk had asked what they needed which was fuel. The Commander had checked the ship for spare fuel and found three canisters of fuel, giving it to the fighter ship. They were grateful and gave the crew ten thousand credits each, which was enough for the payment of the Anaconda ship repair.

They rushed to get back to the space station so they could reach the Capitol quickly and see the emperor for the job. When they got into the brand new looking Anaconda they got it started quickly and headed to the Capitol ignoring ships that would give greetings and jobs that would be a huge amount of credits so they wouldn’t have to switch destinations. Nearing their destination the Capitol was an exact look alike of Earth, although everyone knows that Earth is still around. These other planets allowed people to live on them like the humans on Earth did. As they landed near the emperor’s palace two guards were there to escort them to the emperor. The Palace was big and had an army of guards around.

The Commander saw the emperor talking to a group of men who looked ready to go out for a job. As they got near they could hear the emperor talk about a heavy combat crusader ship that was wanted for one million credits. Walking up they greeted the emperor and she got quick to business and told them where they needed to go for their job. She wanted them to take out a wanted man who was causing havoc around the galaxy and killing innocent people. His last location was near Triton which was the moon of Neptune. They got suited up and designed their ship with more weapons to get the job done quickly. They didn’t want to waste any more time and supercruised to Triton. As they were heading to Triton their ship started to rattle a lot and they were forced out of the supercruise. Yuri checked to see what happened, and a loud sound which sounded like a Capital ship. As the unknown ship got into view it looked nothing like what they have seen

before. Romeo had said he heard stories from others when he used to serve the Imperial Navy. They scan for any dangerous weapons on a ship and they take them out. It was a bad idea to design the ship with weapons as the unknown ship scanned the Anaconda. The Commander started to ready up the weapons to battle this unknown ship, which set it off starting the battle.

Twenty minutes later, the Anaconda’s integrity was almost depleted and the shields were about to get destroyed. The unknown ship looks like it took the lasers and missiles from the Anaconda without taking any damage. Yuri had suggested that they get out of here as the Commander focused on getting the destination to reach Triton. As the ship was getting to reach where Triton was, the unknown ship launched a dozen missiles at the Anaconda destroying the shields and wiping the crew out. The end.