David Jackson
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[Quest Gained! D For Detective! Investigate the disturbance that Klatissi identified in the Refugee City and deal with it in any way you see fit. Rewards: + Reputation with the Prespian City Refugees, +2000XP, +500CRED] Walking through the empty streets of the new Refugee city was a strange experience. It felt like the city had been abandoned, even though it had never actually been occupied in the first place. Empty houses, shopping centres that were completely shuttered, and entertainment…-
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Our primary job, as people were being teleported down to the surface of the planet, wasn't actually anything to do with the people that were arriving. We were on the lookout for anyone trying to snoop around, causing the refugees that had arrived on Actaeon any undue stress in this incredibly trying time. One of the many things that had been listed in the dossier that I had been given as a brief primer on Actaeon is that many of the people that already lived here weren't actually all that happy with a…
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Stepping down onto Actaeon was simultaneously thrilling and underwhelming. It was thrilling because this was a new world, one that I had never been to before and never experienced, and now I was free to walk across its surface. Something that I had only ever dreamed of back in my home universe. Now, yes, there was the fact that I had already been walking around Prespian City for over a week, but in my mind, that didn't really count. For a start, I hadn't actually walked around on the surface of the…
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"Computer, inform the ship-teams to start preparing the refugees for transport, we'll be walking them through the docks of the station to the teleporter banks, to be teleported directly down to their accommodations," I said into my holographic wrist watch. I was greeted by the three-toned beep that I was fast starting to recognise as an affirmative from the device. It was nice to have everything go so smoothly for once. I had become used to daring exploits of bravery, with explosions sounding off…
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I emerged from the teleporter, back in the cargo bay of the ship, looking out over the millions of people that were about to start their new lives. I'd contacted the entire inner circle before teleporting away, meaning Akash, Yr'Arl, Rin, Vadton, Klatissi, The Urstnir of Napdid, Boledo and Ke'Zuc were already present. "Any trouble from anyone down there?" I asked, striding toward the group and taking my place on the left of Akash. The tree-like alien looked down at me, "Surprisingly not, Squadron…
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A quick shower and some fresh clothes later, and I was back on the bridge sitting in my Captain's chair. From that chair, I had control of pretty much the entire ship with readouts coming from a holographic projector in the arm. It told me that we were only a few minutes from entering the star system that Atcaeon was a part of. From the information dossier that I had read, there were three planets in the system, with the inhabited world being the second of the two. The world was a little bigger than…
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I was sure I had heard that term somewhere in the past. I just couldn't put my finger on it. The Maw. It filled me with a very certain type of dread, icy and piercing. "What is… The Maw," I asked, the words sounded rotten and dangerous as I said them. Silence again, as if the entity that had styled itself as a goddess was choosing the best possible way to proceed in the conversation. "The Maw, in the simplest way that you can understand, is a being that has hijacked the multiverse at large,"…
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I walked back into the teleporter and commanded the computer to take me to the floor my quarters were on. The machinery whirred up and the familiar white glow of teleportation whisked me away to another of the pads. I emerged directly into my quarters themselves, there was a teleportation pod situated in the corner of the room. That was a smart move from the designers of the ship. If something went wrong, or I was desperately needed on the bridge at a moments notice, I could dive straight into the…
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I gazed out over the field of tents in the Cargo bay once more, marvelling at both how many people we had managed to pick up and how big my ship actually appeared to be. There were millions of refugees down there, all of them with their own tents and their own space. Drones buzzed over the top of the impromptu camp, delivering bottles of water and packets of food. Where medical aid was needed, which was almost everywhere by the look of it, shipboard AI-controlled holograms appeared, giving the…
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The ship lurched into whatever form of hyperspace this universe used for its faster than light travel. One moment we were stationary, and the next we were moving at blinding speeds that defied all description, with the rest of the universe seemingly melting away into nothingness. Yet despite the obvious change in velocity I had barely felt a thing. I had always expected a spaceship to rumble with the force of the engines that were shunting it through space, but on this craft, I had barely felt a…
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