Dsara

Book One: Đşara

Chapter One
The North Pole was probably my favorite place on the whole world. Being one of the few regions remaining comprised of pure nature. When I was there, I'd love to gaze up into the starry nighttime sky and witness the heavens in it its virgin beauty, remaining uninfected by the many brilliant colossal megastructures that orbit around or tower above the world.

Back in my adolescence we'd visit often as a family, and I remember especially sleeping outside, my eyes focused on Siover looming against the backdrop of the sky. As kids me and my siblings were told stories of Siover, ancient myths that portrayed him as the guardian and simp of a beautiful goddess named Vorfare until her death. I never thought I'd miss the brute, but I do, and I'll always associate him with good times gone by, and innocence lost never to be regained. But despite the good times in the unreachable past, the exiting time is now, or so we are told...

Smirking to myself, I glanced down at the live image of the tiny little world, with its tiny little craters which would all soon be disemboweled along with the rest of it. It was the asteroid designated Çor-DV-Oph5129 with an average diameter of less than 15 kilometers whose orbit was carrying it on a trajectory with the "Asteroid Eater" space craft "FSC S-Lok IIIV", the twenty-first of its kind. This specific craft dating back to the first bloom. I was laughing at a joke that only made sense if you were living in my head the whole time and more than likely had something to do with caffeine. Glancing back up, I could see that no one else there was paying attention to me, most of them were just workers, drumming away at each other in their workers language.

I moved on to my next task over at the virtual control station, and upon arriving telepresently joined the crew headed for Çor-DV-Oph5129 (nicknamed Doph-51-29 ), this would be my last mission aboard the FSC S-Lok IIIV before my transfer to the VSE Tachyon, a minor auxiliary vessel used to repair the behemoth Dreadnought class war vessels. The current missions plan was for a small craft to come alongside the asteroid landing automated thrusts which would be burrowed into the rock of the asteroid and act to steer it towards the asteroid eater, after entering they would then assist in leading to the proper disassembly zone. I would oversee two bots during the mission and essentially just copy and paste the programs to the thrusts. The program would include precise measurements calculated by the Asteroid Eaters computers as detailed intel came in from our mission, that is not to say we do not have plenty of detailed information already. I would also operate an emergency bot on the mission in the near impossible event that either the programing or engineering was faulty.

I was satisfied to view in person the disassembly of Doph-51-29, the fixation of my past 60 hours of work, I returned to the ships quarters and fell asleep. In the morning I packed up my sleeping kit and headed off to my PT-Pod, my final destination was in the outer system out towards the Çor-Ic region (Approximately 10 AU) We would make a temporary stop around Çor-KV-ŪΡ1 the systems single gas giant better known as "Çϑerρaey" (Latinized as "Schtherraey" or "Sschtherraey"), from their I'd leave the PT-Bus and get shot off towards the VSE Tachyon.

I could barely make out the Tachyon as a speck of light in the distance before my pod began decelerating from "Fourth" Speed or around 40 miles per second. As my pod approached the craft, decelerating at 3.25 'G's, the apparent size of the Tachyon grew larger and larger. Though, not even weighing as much as the lightest Corvettes, it still weighing over 100 megatons and measuring nearly two kilometers in length. The vessel was divided into two main zones: "The Shell" whose outside was layered in hard materials in a single sheet and "The Lung" which was comprised of a flexible and porous outside. The Lung was used to attach itself to larger vessels adapting to their shape and move along the outside repairing any damaged sections. I barreled towards the craft which I could now tell was upside-down or rather I was. The whole journey took around eight days nearly all of that on the Geyser

Somewhere not Chapter 1:
His eyes closed slowly and suddenly he lay very still. I could hear my heart crying 'no' as I said his name aloud and shook him. His eyes opened and met mine. I slapped him saying "Don't you ever do that again".

Somewhere Else
Imagine a host of failed stars, spiraling together through interstellar space. As time goes on the community of worlds detonates. A different pair of worlds headed in each direction destined to find residence around a star. Before long even the pairs break up before the giants settle in distant orbits around their new project systems. An innumerable number of small and light industrial ships are shot off towards the inner system followed by lumbering megacraft and small industrial moons.

Another Section
"Morning!", I was startled by the unexpected enthusiastic greeting. I made eye contact with a surprised grin on my face, while replying with a reserved nod before looking down a little. "Hey, I've noticed you in here a few times and was wondering if I could ask you a question each time you came in here?" he continued.

I blushed, thinking "D**n"