Darkness Beyond the Stars by Matt Thompson

A GRIPPING STORY THAT WILL LEAVE YOU ON THE EDGE OF YOUR SEAT. The Sequel to "Darkness Between Worlds"

DARKNESS BEYOND THE STARS

A STORY WRITTEN BY

ACTUAL STUDENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Session 01

THE BEGINING

Session 02

THE DERELICT

Session 03

RESISTING ARREST

Session 04

EGO

Session 05

NOWHERE

Session 06

NAIL AND FANG

Session 07

THE BATTLE OF NOWHERE

Session 08

UNEXPECTED GUESTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Session 09

ALTERRA PRIME

Session 10

THE OVERSEER

Session 11

ESCAPE!

Session 12

THE TOMCAT

Session 13

THE BATTLE OF THE BELTWAY

Session 14

NEW MONTREAL

Session 15

THE SWARM

Bonus

EPILOGUE

thank you, To all of my wonderful students, whose incredible imagination and beautiful enthusiasm enabled the success of this class. And to Linkedkey, for taking a chance on such a bold and bizarre program

- Matthew thompson

Authors Andrew Liu Caleb Rong Liangwei Yang Michael Du Sophia Han Victor Pang William Xu Zi Tao

SESSION ONE

The Begining

My Character My character is a scientist who will be working for the best space crew in the galaxy. He is a short and skinny man who likes reading, and coffee. He dislikes people who like cats and his fear is people who are smarter than him. He has black hair, brown eyes, elfish features, and a mischievous smile. The last day It was not a normal day for Andrew. He was filled with a sad sensation for he knew It would be his last day on Earth for a long time. He knew that tomorrow he would need to join one of the worst space crews in the galaxy. He tried to enjoy this day but he just couldn't. Even coffee (one of his favorite things) would not make him super happy like it usually did. After a bad day Andrew decided to go to bed. Tomorrow would be a special day. Names for spaceships ● ● ● ●

The Heart Of The Fleet The Brain Olympus The Voyager

This is Andrew’s work.

Day 1 Hi! I’m an Asari, and now I am officially a navigator on a ship going to space! Unfortunately, it’s the worst ship in the galaxy. It all started when some random guy suddenly appeared in my house. He explained that crewmembers are needed on a spaceship that is going to space soon! I agreed to go, and I met some of my other fellow crewmates. It took 1 hour and 45 minutes to get introduced, though. It took sooooooo long, I even needed a break during the introduction! Tomorrow, we are actually going into space, though. I can’t wait! Oh, and the name of the ship is CLASSIFIED! Cool, right? I can’t wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

😁

Last day give your cat enough water and food and put new batteries in his auto toilet say bye bye to family members and pack up

We get info big brain moment Trident run late cause it sucks we met someone who wants to blow it but the captain has high ranking friends

answer Idk why i got such a terrible ship is not really my fault but who knows why

I made friend he pat me on the shoulder I got a card with the name:Arcturus Mengsk he is human and looks about 50 years old

We open file and see asari can telepathically talk look green and big scar Flip page and see alias the shark and murder crime vandalism all crime danger thing and you see a space station and is a federation space station space station 109 and is unmatained status: Derelict Then after you meet ur captain who you call maul and is 7 feet tall and is a turrain

We have a super rusty space ship and you drop your supply ship on the inside is good but is ugly af I keep flipping card and see :Federation Intelligence, First Class. From the guy that gave it to me i decide not to share it

Ship blasts off

Arcturus Mengsk is a Federation Intelligence, First Class.

During the 3 days i played video games on my pc that i brought from earth to bad there was no wifi and i snacked on chips drank some boba milk and slept for 10 hours a day also played some vr

Land on pheta place we come like once a year weak military power and don’t really like you

Head of to space station 109 there may be space pirates You see 3 dimension map of space You battled atari and lost an important ship

Ur on guard and may be attacked

You find and scanned a ship and you notice it has no power and is not preserved and see oxygen particles outside of space and is putting radiation and it can’t support life and some people check it out and it takes a hour and you determine that it is a old federation ship and it could have been used by pirates There is a large hole on the ship some people entered me and two other stayed back There were possibly survivors on the ship There were 0 escape pods on the ship so possibly there were survivors There are peps and we may die from another friendly ship We gained one hard drive We shoot the police

As soon as I got the letter, I knew something was wrong. Who would send me this? Why did they send this? Why should I go? I decided I would think about this letter after I got ready for the morning. I threw the letter on my desk, it read, To Will on the front. I ate breakfast and went back to the letter. According to it, I had exactly 24 hours before I had to go to space. That meant I had only 1 day left on Earth. I started to sweat. What about my family? My loved ones? Another idea popped in my head. This is once in a lifetime, I thought. It was a hard choice but in the end, I decided to go. I sent them my response and told my family about it. I was shocked. Nothing this big has ever happened to me. Just as I was wondering if I made the correct choice, the letter came back telling me that they will be sending my plane tomorrow. I guess there was no turning back now.

Victor

Ship names: The Trident, or The scorpion.

My character’s name is Victor, he likes winning, he fears death and he is afraid of bugs. One day, there was a mail in the mailbox that said I was going on an adventure in the dangerous, vast, and mysterious space. I had to go, so I prepared everything I needed, and I was both terrified and excited about the adventure. In the morning, I grabbed my tools, and I said goodbye to my friends and family. I knew that I might not ever come back home again so I wanted to have my best time as I could before we went away. In the afternoon, I looked around my neighborhood for the last time, and I went around every place for a while but not too long because I had other things to do. I went to the ship and I wanted to see the crew members on the ship, I know that we are in the Federation and we are sailing with the Karma.

At night, I thought about what was going to happen tomorrow, this could have been my last day alive because it will be a very dangerous journey out in the mysterious space. I tried not to think about that and think about other happy and exciting things in space.

My character’s name is Roy. He likes to sleep and make toys so his house is full of different toys, but he hates kids. Also, he does not like to eat carrots(he will freak out if someone puts carrots in his lunch, so don’t do it!) Day 1:

On a cloudy and look like going to rainy day ，Roy woke up. He walked through all the toys he's made and tried to go to the washroom to brush his teeth. And on the way to the washroom, he kicked away the toy dinosaur that was walking to him, turned off the toy helicopter that was flying by the winder, and…” Ouch!”, bitten by the denture“I am going to throw you into the garbage can! you nasty little…” And when Roy finished brushing his teeth，it is already 7:30am, so he rushed to the kitchen and opens each cabinet to find what can he eat” cereal, too sweet; noodles, too complicated; sandwich… em, that’d be better to eat.” he got the sandwich out and start to eat, while he is eating he start to thinking about what will he do for the rest of the day and what place he will travell to. ”In the letter, it said that we will go to a planet that has a lot of water… That is good. I like to swim, and it is 3 times bigger than the planet I am on, that is huge ！I hope that I will not be lost on that planet. Wait a minute, there is no life on that planet and it ofen has snowstorm. That is sad I hate snow. I have to bring all the boots, coat and clothes that I can wear on that planet, wait a minute, I still did not start packing！I have to rush! ”After he finish his breakfirst Roy start packing. Toothbrush, needed; helicoper, needed...After Roy finish packing witch is almost like moving, it’s all ready 7:00 pm, and Roy was starving “Hem..what

should I eat for dinner...Oh yeah, I still have some steak that I bought yestday,” So Roy try to find the pan, but...He couldn’t find it!“Wait a minute, where is my pan?! I think it is in that suitcase... No no no that suitcase is for the thing in my bedroom, how about that one, no no that is for my toy, aha that is for the thing in the kitchen,” After half an hour Roy finally started eating. And when it is 8:00pm witch is time for brushing teeth…” WHERE IS MY TOOTHBRUSH!!!!!!!!” and when it is 8:30 pm which is the time that Roy finds his toothbrush and finish brushing, another frustrating thing happened. ”Oh come on, where is my bed!?” finally when Roy finds the bed, which is already 9:00 pm, he can end this tiring day. Space ship name: Alien

SESSION TWO

The Derelict

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Today I started going into space for real! To make it even better, we ended up in the best ship in the galaxy, instead of the worst! I was kind

of late, though… I got to the ship in time to see this guy give us a file on someone called “the shark”. Then Zi started up the ship and we blasted into space! Later, I landed the ship perfectly and we arrived in the theta quadrant! As we flew around in the Theta quadrant, Michael spotted a ship in the distance, Andrew noticed the ship didn't have any power and it wasn’t moving. The captain decided to go check out the ship, and me and Caleb headed towards the ship. After about an hour, the ship finally appeared on our screen. Me and Caleb circled around the ship, and we noticed there was a giant hole in the middle of the ship! Then Mal started looking for volunteers to investigate the ship. Michael, Andrew, Victor, Caleb, and me decided to go. We had to put on these really thick suits to go into the ship, because there was obviously something wrong with the ship we were about to go into. Once we got into the ship, we saw that their escape vehicle was gone, and we noticed that there were no lights or gravity in the ship. Then Mal just jammed his knife into the ship and got a map of the ship somehow and left us to explore the ship ourselves. I decided to go to the engineering room, where the damaged core was. Victor came to Engineering with me, and we saw how much damage was on the ship. There were blast marks everywhere!

Like in every ship, there were blast doors to contain damage and protect the crew. But there was a giant circle in the blast door. We couldn’t find any dead bodies or the circular part of the door. Since we couldn’t find anything, me and Victor decided to look further. We saw some kind of high security thing for the captain, and it appeared to be tampered with. We managed to take out a hard drive, but then some kind of alarm went off in our helmet. Then, we heard three people screaming. Then I heard a voice in my helmet. “Unknown --_-__--- (Static) Federation ship, you are--__--_-_--- in violation -__-_---__-_--_”. Oh no. The ship with the person talking in it fired a shot at us, but luckily I dodged it just in time. But then they fired more shots at us. Uh oh…

The Derelict After riding on a spaceship for a long time I finally arrived at Central Command ready for my space mission on The Trident with my crew. When I arrived at central command I met up with part of my crew and we started to go to the main hangar bay. While I was walking I found out that Larry was a cat person, meaning that I had already had a person on this crew I disliked. Then me and my crew walked into a gigantic room. I was immediately fascinated. It must’ve been 30 meters tall, 150 meters wide, and 2 kilometers long. As I looked to the left I saw an amazing docking wall. I have seen nothing like it. Then I made it to the rendezvous point of The Trident. When I got there I met up with the rest of my crew. But the ship was not there, even though me and my crew were supposed to leave. Then me and my crew decided to go to the canteen which is on the second floor of Central Command. After we found a table, we started to chat and Larry wonders aloud “Where is The Trident? it's an hour late,”. Then a man that is wearing a lot of metals sitting right beside Larry says “ I can tell you where The Trident is. The Trident is running late because it is the least maintained tub in the entirety of the fleet and we were considering blowing it up”. Then the man said “ If I had my way that is exactly what would have happened but your captain has friends in high places so it remains in high operation. Should be putting it in about an hour, though I don’t envy you assignment,”. Then the man sighed and said that he should just give something to me and my crew and threw a file on the table. Then he said something to Larry that I did not catch and Larry answered and I was still too far away to hear. Then he mutters more things to Larry and then he silipps a card into Larry’s pocket. After that Larry looked at the card and saw a name, it was Arcturus Mengsk. After that, my crew had a small snack, then Victor opened the folder the man had given us and then he spread the sheets all out on the table. The sheets had many photos of an asari. On the sheets it said “name unknown” and below that it said “Alias The Shark” then under that there was a list of many crimes. Then, on another sheet of paper there was some info on a space station owned by Federation Space. The space station was called Station 109 and the status was: derelict. While I was reading, a voice behind me said “What’cha reading, see anything interesting”. I turned around and I saw my captain. His name is Malcolm Renard. Me and my crew just call him Mal. Mal is roughly 7 feet tall, he is a grey-ish brown Turian, and he has a pistol on his hip. Man I hate that pistol on his hip. It makes him seem unnerving. Then he said “Com'on look alive, we’re late and I don’t need you holding me up for as long as I have held up you,”. Then he made us walk down the stairs with my crew’s folder. Then he started to tell us about our mission, even though he did not read the folder. After a terribly explained mission about catching The Shark, I looked at The Trident. It was the rustiest thing I’ve ever. After getting in The Trident, I went to my room to start unpacking my belongings. Despite looking bad on the outside, me and my crew have made some upgrades on the inside. Then Mal said “Clamps of in 5,”. After unpacking I decided to enjoy a wonderful cup of coffee. Oh how the wonderful taste of coffee calmed my nerves. After a while I had to go to the bridge of the ship. At the bridge our crew was getting ready to take off. Then after Zi said that the engine was fine, but the ship did not launch. After that someone tapped a few buttons and then the ship went launching forwards. Then The Trident started to head towards a launch gate right above Mars. When we get to the Gate (these gates are like slingshots) Mal implies that he loves this part. Then The Trident was blasted out of the gate. It would be another 3 days till we arrived at the

gate that will slow down the ship. In those 3 days I just lived life nomaly without any distractions. After these 3 days I got a navigation ping on my radar. Then I sat in my seat, as Sophia enters in some commands. Then we made it to the next gate. We had arrived at a place called Theta Quadrant. I usually come here once a year with my crew. Theta Quadrant is where The Federation’s military power is not the strongest. It also is not a part of The Federation but it still allows Federation ships to come and go. After that Sophia started to look at a 3D map. On the map Sophia zoomed out and you could see the neutral zone and the drakarian zone. Word leaked that Victor was part of a violent encounter with the drakarians 2 years before while he was with The Federation and during that encounter there The Federation lost a big ship and I think that now there is hostility between The Federation and the drakarians. After that me and my crew started to head over to Station 109 to find The Shark. Then Michael found a ship and I started to scan it. I found out that the ship is not moving and it has no power. Then I told the captain. Then Mal started to stroke his chin and then he tried to convince us to stay away from the ship. Then Will got a further reading and then said that it was not pressurized. Then after scanning the area we found oxygen particles but none in the ship and the ship was venting radiation.Then Mal decided to go and search the ship. Then we figured out that the derelict ship was a federation ship that was probably taken over by rebels that rebelled against the federation or space pirates. When we got closer me and my crew saw that there was a big hole going through the ship. Then Mal decided that he wants to board the ship by using the coffin. The coffin is a small ship used to land on other ships or planets. Me along with Michael, Sophia, Victor, and Caleb decided to go with Mal. After getting all our safety gear (with an hour's worth of oxygen) on we got on the coffin and landed on the derelict ship. Then Mal let us go exploring for a few minutes so I went to the crews’ quarters with Caleb and Michael. When we got there I realized that the layout was similar to the layout of the Trident. But I was really confused as well. Michael and Caleb look confused as well. Then somehow Michael got caught in a blanket. “What a weirdo” I thought. Then Michael got out of the blanket. Then I felt a hand on my shoulder and when I turned around I saw a dead body. I was freaked out of my mind and let out a scream. Then the cops came and said that we were violating some thingamabob and we were in big trouble. Then Mal called us to the coffin. Then Mal tells Larry through the headset to use the cannons. Then Larry fires and Mal says “Don’t shoot first!”. Then the cop said something about blowing us up and how it would be the highlight of their day. After that the cops shot the side of The Trident and then the coffin landed on The Trident. Then Mal runs to the bridge screaming “ Okay! Okay! We’re shooting at a ship better than ours! Okay!” ANDREW

Last day give your cat enough water and food and put new batteries in his auto toilet say bye bye to family members and pack up

We get info big brain moment Trident run late cause it sucks we met someone who wants to blow it but the captain has high ranking friends

answer Idk why i got such a terrible ship is not really my fault but who knows why

I made friend he pat me on the shoulder I got a card with the name:Arcturus Mengsk he is human and looks about 50 years old

Ship blasts off

Arcturus Mengsk is a Federation Intelligence, First Class.

During the 3 days i played video games on my pc that i brought from earth to bad there was no wifi and i snacked on chips drank some boba milk and slept for 10 hours a day also played some vr

Land on pheta place we come like once a year weak military power and don’t really like you

Head of to space station 109 there may be space pirates You see 3 dimension map of space You battled atari and lost an important ship

Ur on guard and may be attacked

My head was spinning as I saw little bits of light fly by me. I tried to say something, but my mouth was too dry. Then suddenly it stopped. I looked around and saw that I was in a deserted place. I looked around and saw that the rest of the crew from The Trident and we decided to walk and find out was was here. I pulled out my radar and started walking. Everyone else did the same. There was nothing for a couple of minutes but then someone called, “I see something!” We looked over his shoulder and saw a faint spot on his radar. I look at mine and see the same. We decided to go to it and realized it was a dead ship that couldn’t possibly, in any way, hold human life. There, a few brave people went in but I stayed put. A few minutes later, we could hear a female voice that sounded like a human saying,”Identify yourselves now!” I was so busy watching my friend playing video games that they had to repeat themselves two more times. I looked up and said, “We are playing among us”. It seemed like they weren't satisfied so my friend quickly explained that we didn’t know where we were. They didn’t seem convinced, though and before we knew it, we could here 3 cries coming at the same time from inside the ship.

The Derelict In the beginning, we headed to central command and we explored the docking bay, and the docking wall. The docking wall is a force field that is invisible to us, but it contains the central command and protects it. We then go to our ship we are going to use called “The Trident”. The ship was not there because it is always late and not on time at all. We then move up the next floor and we go to the canteen. We find out that we have six other crewmated other than us. We meet someone called Arcturus Mengsk and he tells us a lot of useful information about The Trident. He also gives us a mission and to find someone called “The shark”. After a while, we find our captain called Mal, short for Malcom Renard. He then brings us inside The Trident and after a while we took off into space. Finally, we arrive in the Theta Quadrant, and I learn that Federation power in this place is not so great and the natives are separate from the federation, and in these Quadrants there are bases and command centers. We then travel deeper through the Theta Quadrant, to try and find The Shark. While we are traveling Michael finds a ship and he tells Mal about it. We decide to board the ship but some of us stay behind on the Trident. I board the ship to see what is on it, and I head toward the engineering. I find out that there are a few blast marks around the ship, and on some of the walls. We find a whole through a blast door that is perfectly round and we step through it. We find something that is for the captain of the ship and it allows you to control anything. Back at the ship, someone is telling us that we have to be boarded but Larry refuses. Larry starts shooting at the enemy and we start fighting.

The next day, I go to the space station, I did not really remember the outside, but the inside is so cool, it’s about 100 feet，and 100 feet tall. after I had viewed the front room I go to up a stair to eat something when I wait for the ship when I got there someone is already eating， after a few minutes a man called Arcturus Mengsk went and give Larry a card-nothing to do with me. after I finish eating the ship was still not here, when it arrives, I want to ask Larry-the guy who made the ship that why is the ship so bad, but Victor ask first:” why is the ship so bad?!”” it is not my fault that the ship is bad.” Larry said, Silence….. I look at the desk and there is a folder-I did not saw that! I open it and there is a picture of a type of aline called “shark” and right down of the picture it said that they are killing people, being a space pirate and ext.” Hi guys, how is everybody doing?” a powerful voice comes from my back I turn around and saw a tall guy with a sword and wearing cool cloth which is our caption,” Look like that you guys already know our mission wich is found and kill the shark, and for now let’s go to the ship and go to the 109 stations， by the way that is one of the mission too.“ as he talks us we went to the ship “now go to your room and put all your things down.” the room is dirty but fine to live when I put all the thing down I start to walk around the ship. After a few minutes, the caption calls me to check the engine “the engine is pretty old put fine to use.”I said “ok, so let’s go now “I hear a voice said “three two one” but I did not really feel any different I look out of the window the stair become a line and I can not really tell that it is a stair” it will take 3 days to get to the next station, so do anything you will like to do in the ship.” our caption which is Mal said to all the person in the ship. The first day on the ship: was fun I walk around the ship and the space outside is beautiful. day two: was pretty boring I don’t know what to do and I read all the books I bring. Day three: at “morning” I saw a little tiny gray ball, and it seems that it does not even become bigger until we come in front of it the big gray ball catch the ship and here we are: the station and I find an orange map that shows all the thing around us. After a few days, we leave the station and go to a planet called Theta Quadrant, we find a

derelict ship “who wants to go to that ship with me?” asked Mal, at last only me Larry, and I believe that there is another guy but I did not remember his name. When they go we start to play among us, after about half an hour Larry stand up and after he stands up I hear a warning by a lady, but I did not hear it and after Larry explain something I don’t know-how and I don’t know why Larry grab the gun and shoot to nowhere.

SESSION THREE

Resisting Arrest

“FIRE!” We yelled, and we hit the law enforcement ship. But then our shots hit a force field! The other ship opened a kind of hatch in their ship and sent out a torpedo! Then our team had a discussion of what we should do next. I voted to go right, but the rest of the team decided to go forward for some reason. We crashed, lost our shields, caught fire, and we took 3 more damage. Andrew made some calculations, though, and we found out that the other ship has only two moves, and that they probably have more health than us. Then Mal shouted, “NEXT TIME, DON’T FLY INTO THE TORPEDO!” Zi rushed to the back of the ship, and we got some shields back, the fire went out, and we gained 2 health! It wasn’t really enough, though, so Zi went back to the back of the ship and restored our shields completely! But the federation ship sent out another torpedo and fixed their shields! We tried to go forward, but nothing happened. We panicked, and tried going backwards, but we couldn’t move at all. We had another discussion, and some of us thought about the option of fake surrendering. So Larry said, “We would like to surrender.” Then they replied in an amused voice, “Good choice. Prepare to be boarded.” I didn’t want to be boarded, but the rest of the crew decided to let them. So, one person came out of the ship, and the federation ship blasted off. Somehow, they came in before any of us even opened the door. They removed their helmet, and we saw that she

was a black woman, who looked about 28 years old. She was wearing a strange kind of badge, and she had a weapon on her hip. And she said, “I don’t think we’ve been introduced, and since we are friends now, you can call me Ash.” And Mal said, “You can call me Captain Renard, since we are not friends.” Most of us found this funny, and we laughed. Ash scanned everyone, and she checked Mal. Luckily, she didn’t find anything on him. Ash asked Mal, “Captain, did you notice anything strange about the vessel?” And Mal replied, “You mean other than how it was blown to pieces? Not much.” Then she turned to me and Victor, and since I was carrying the hard drive from the vessel, the crew had to sneak me out. It worked, though. And Ash asked Mal something. Mal said, “One, I don’t answer to you, and two, WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?” Most of the crew turned around, and we saw some strange ships we’d never seen before. Ash finally got annoyed, though, and she said, “Okay, one more step and I’ll shoot Larry in the back.” Then Mal took out his gun, and he said, “If you shoot my crewmember in the back, I'll shoot you in the front.” But Ash took out another gun and pointed it at Mal. But then Ash finally heard the weird ships outside and turned around to look. Then, the federation ship came back somehow, and it fired a torpedo at one of the ships. We fired at the other ship, and they fired right back at us. They only took 1 damage, though. Then I noticed something that looked like an asteroid, but it looked a bit

too asteroid-ish. It looked like it was disguised as one, but wasn’t. But my investigating was kind of interrupted by one of the unknown ships hitting us. At that range, the ship took 2 damage. The federation ship finally exploded one of the ships, though. Our ship suddenly went backwards, and we crashed into the front of the federation ship, and we got down to 3 health. Luckily, the federation ship backed away from us and turned toward the other alien ship. But then 3 more alien ships appeared! Something was trying to get into the airlock, and Victor saw some kind of monster outside. Victor decided to open the airlock, but everyone managed to stay in the ship, and I even managed to keep piloting the ship! But then a second monster came. Victor whacked both of them in the head, and closed the airlock door in their faces. Then Mal pressed some buttons, and our space suits engaged. And Mal yelled at Victor, “NEXT TIME YOU OPEN THE DOOR, WARN US FIRST, WILL YOU?” The fighting federation ship now had smoke coming out of it, and the alien ships started towards us. We tried to escape, and we moved forward a bit. Victor saw that the monsters by the airlock were leaving, but the airlock door seemed a bit damaged. Ash saw that her ship was damaged, and she yelled, “FOLLOW THAT SHIP!” Mal yelled right back at her, “EXCUSE ME, WHO GAVE YOU PERMISSION TO CAPTAIN MY SHIP?” And Ash yelled, “YOU

BETTER GO AND SAVE MY CO-PILOTS, OR WE’LL HAVE A PROBLEM.” And Mal said, “Fine. Follow that ship!” As we looked out the window, we saw the broken ship heading towards a moon orbiting a purple gas giant with a white ring around it. Finally, that space battle was over. Or at least for now.

Resisting An Arrest Oh boy, it was on. Me and my crew have made a new enemy. Probably the worst enemy possible, the cops. The worst part was that now we had to fight the cops now even though we had a worse ship and these cops didn’t seem that kind as well. We started by trying to shoot at the cops again but we missed. Then we decided to move forwards and turn left a bit. Then we fired again and we landed a hit on the cops. I started to think that we might be able to win when the cops activated a force field. That made my hopes of winning dwindle by a lot. Then the cops fired a torpedo and I knew we were dead meat. After the cops fired the torpedo the moved to the right. Then I did a scan and confirmed that the cops’ ship was better. Then our crew made the worst decision in history. The crew decided to go forwards and turn left. The bad part was we flew straight into the cops’ torpedo. Then Zi decided to repair part of our ship, which was good because our ship was severely damaged. Then we fired and the good news was that we got hit. Then the cops shot a weird green laser that sort of engulfed The Trident. After that we shot again and hit while Zi repaired again. Then the cops did the worst thing possible, they fired a torpedo. Then we turned right and fired. Sadly the shot missed. Then we went forwards but the green laser that the cops fired at us stiffend and we were stuck. Then we try going backwards and the same thing happens. Then the torpedo that the cops shot hit us. Now we were in really big trouble. Then Larry tells the cops that we surrender. After that the cops reply by saying “ A marvelous choice, truly an enlightened decision. Lower your shields, cut your engine, and prepare to be boarded and searched,”. After doing everything the cops said, we were ready to be boarded and searched. Then a person came out of the cops’ vessel and came on to our ship. As this happens the cops’ ship seems to vanish. Then the cop came into our ship and their helmet folds back. The cop was a black girl who looked about 28 years old. She had curly hair tied up into a ponytail and a scar running off her left cheek as well. She also has a weapon on her hip. Then she starts to look around our ship. Then she says to me and my crew “ I don’t think we’ve been properly introduced. My name is Ashley Johnson, I am an enforcement officer for Altera Corp. You can call me Ash because we’re friends now, ya? “. Then Mal walks up to her and says “ Malcolm Renald, captain of The Trident of the federation. You can call me Captain Renald because we are not friends. What business does a private company have on my ship?”. Then Ash says “ Well, I was wondering the same thing. What does the Federation have with conducting unauthorized salvage operations in our territory?”. Then Mal responds “ Salvage? That was not salvage, it was a rescue operation,”. Then he looks to the crew “ Isn't that right?”. I respond with a non-convincing “ Ya. Ya. Uh totally,” while Larry says a calm “ Yes,”. Then Ash says “ Well if you were not doing anything wrong then you will not be opposed to a simple search, yes? Assuming that no actual salvage work was actually taking place. We can write this up as a misguided rescue attempt on a vessel that has been dead for a week and we can let you off with a warning, ”. Then Mal allows her to search. During this time Zi repaired the ship and now the ship was better again. Then Ash starts scanning things in the room. Then she starts scanning the crew by starting with me. Thank god I did not take anything from the ship. Then she starts scanning some other crew members. But when she scanned the last crew member Sophia she said “ Captain, do you notice anything strange about the vessel? ”. Mal replies with “ Other then it’s blown to hell not much. The strangest part to me, since you insisted that we are friends, is that someone should use too destroy such a ship". Then Larry asks Ash

what is the name of her ship. Then Ash says that her ship is called an Altairan Dark Class 6th Generation. Then Ash and Mal have a rather quiet conversation. When they were talking Sophia ran away because she actually took something from the ship we just searched and Ash knows. When she sees that Sophia ran she gets mad at Mal because she thinks that Mal is a liar about why our crew searched the ship we just searched. Then Mal says “ Ok, ok. First of all I don’t think I answered to your authority and second of all WHAT THE HECK IS THAT”. After that I look the direction Mal is pointing and see 2 alien spacecraft heading toward us. But Ash does not turn around. Then Larry wants to head to her room but Ash pulls out her weapon and says to her “ One more step and I’m shooting you in the back!”. Then Mal pulls out his own weapon and says “ If you shoot my man in the back I will shoot you in the front!”. Then Ash pulls out another weapon and says “ shoot me in the front and i’ll shoot you in the front!”. Then Mal says “ I’m not your friend, how many times do I have to say this!”. When the alien spacecraft started shining some light we had to dodge it and Ash and Mal finally put their weapons down. Then I ran straight into my room and hid under the covers. While I was under my covers all I heard was crashing and shooting. At one point I even looked out the window and saw the police vessel fighting along with The Trident. At one point I think the airlocks opened because my legs were kind of pulled into the air. When the airlock closed an alarm sounded and I put on the spacesuit that came down from my room. I got out of my covers when I heard Ash telling Mal to go follow and help the cops’ badly damaged vessel and we were headed to one of the moons of a light purple gas giant with the cops’ vessel. ANDREW

“Hi, my name is Ashley Johnson, but you can call me Ash because we’re friends right?” “Yes” , I said rather hastily. She looked intimidating, and had a gun on her waist. She had a badge on her chest, one that I didn’t recognise. She looked around the age of 30. I thought that she looked tough. I got scared so I hid under my bed sheet. From the distance I could hear her and my captain arguing, I poked my head a little and I could see her pointing a gun at one of my friends. I could tell that something bad was happening, and so did my captain because he lunged for the steering wheel and pointed it upwards. At once the ship shook and Ash went unconscious. A few minutes later one of my friends said, “Hey whats that?” I looked over my shoulder and saw something unusual. It was a round ball, too round. A figure that looked too much like an asteroid. And something odd happened. It seemed to grow bigger and bigger and then, It stoped.

Arcturus Mengsk is a Federation Intelligence, First Class.

We are in the ship we fire and miss and we move forward we battle the police and we try to escape and we surrender we get boarded we get scanned and she found nothing

She talk with maul because sophia here has a hard drive Alien attack me and andrew bail under we were weak af We fight the aliens 2 get on our ship and the other alien ship gets destroyed There is a big black dot by the destroyed human ship and sophia feels uneasy when she see it We move to a planet where ash’s co pilot will be saved We go to a move and see weird planet like ur-anus and you see a pitch black moon And a pale white moon and you get close to pitch black moon and you tsart landing on it and you dont know alot

Victor - Session 3 - Resisting Arrest In the beginning, we decided to fire at the enemy ship, the battle took a very long time. And it was not looking very good for us because we were taking a lot of hits. For some random reason, we just flew in random directions and we ended up flying straight into the enemy missile. That ship was very well built, it was very fast, and it even had very powerful tracking missiles, and then it had a very powerful shield that could regenerate. So we had a very low chance of beating that ship. We decided to trick that ship into boarding us, so we could take on anyone that came on the ship, and take the enemy ship. For some reason, we only saw one person coming to our ship and her name was Ashley Johnson. We told her who we were, and what we were trying to find here. We did pretty well talking to her but then we saw a different type of enemy come and attack our ship. Our ship was not doing too well, it had been two battles but we had to still fight or we will die. After a while, we found there was a weird creature on our ship, and it wanted to come in. I opened the hatch, and I hit him two times in the eye. I finally blew it off and I closed the hatch again, so nobody would have gotten sucked into space. The ship that was helping us, the dart was heavily hit, and it was calling for backup. We started running away from the fight and float through space to find what we were looking for.

as they appear we turn left immediately and shoot to nowhere “why are we doing this!” after that I finally can look at that ship: it is black and small and...to be honest, that ship looked way better than ours. when I am thinking about this that ship had open a small door and shoot a torpedo at us, and I do not know which idiot is driving the ship, but we turn right again and go straight which is where the torpedo is and hit directly into the left-wing of our ship with no sound, and it starts fired” go to the back and fix it, now!” shouted Mal I can even see the sweat on his forehead. I rush to the back, and when I finish fixing the wing I feel a shake-we fired but it feels weaker I don’t know do we got them, but I saw a weird green light around the ship, I ran to the front, the green light is from the black ship, and next, we use all the power to go front and back but we couldn’t move! "Larry, tell them that we are sorry, and can we have a talk," said Mal after that Larry speak a bunch of words after a few minutes I saw a person walk to us and the black little ship disappears. We open the door to let the guy come in when the door open while I saw a black woman about 30 years old with black hair that wears a green spacesuit with a gun on her hip. She waves to us and we wave back, Larry ask what is the name of the ship, she said that they do not have a name of the ship, and then she starts to scan us when she starts to scan me I'm soo nervous that I start to sweat, but she just to another person, when she finishes scans, Larry, she got the gun immediately point to Larry and Mal get the gun to point to her but she got another gun and point to Mal, she shouts:" Why does the person in your crew have the thing that is not his, and give me a reason to not blow your ship up!""I don't know what are you saying and what the heck is out there!" as Mal shout, he points out the window follow his finger and saw a bunch weird spaceship out there as Mal say that she put the gun down and say something to the key and the black little ship appear, and she goes back to the ship, as his go we fire and turn left, it is so fun! we foword straght to the weird ship, but I did not really see it because I was so excitet, so after I go back and force to fix the ship and we fired a few times the door just open wize by it self luckly the air did

not suck me out. after a wile the black ship get away and we ran to a solaysystem and saw a purple gas giant.

SESSION FOUR

Ego

Ego After all that I’ve been through, I was thankful to get a break from action. The Trident just came out of 2 battles. Now we were being ordered by a cop to go save her fellow cop on a severely damaged ship, by following the ship to a landing area, which would be a moon of a light purple gas giant. The good part was that following the cops’ ship was not that hard and soon I was called into a meeting with the rest of my crew. When I got there I learned that Victor knew the aliens we were just fighting. He told us that he fought them before and they were called Drakarians. In the meeting, the crew just asked Victor a bunch of questions about Drakarians. At the end of the meeting I learned these things about Drakarians : they like to punch, they hate being shot, and they had a war with the Asarians by using the Asarians’ telepathic communication against them. Then the Trident spoke to me and my crewmates through our headsets and it said “ Sorry to interrupt but we are nearly at our destination, methane moon: Ego. Arrival in 4 minutes,”. I knew that Ego was so cold that there is Methane water and Methane ice there. After a while we arrive at the moon Ego. I watched as the cops’ ship kind of tried to hover down to the surface but when it was about 300 meters away from the ground, the rockets stopped working and the ship fell into Methane water but the ship did not fall deep in the liquid Methane. Then the Trident landed with a big thud. The landing was bad and the ship got a tad bit damaged and everyone on board either fell out of their seat or got shaken up a bit, including Ash. Then Mal said “ Well any landing you can walk away from, right?”. When we got there I decided to explore the moon with Victor and Zi while others were going to the cop’s ship or staying on the Trident. The cold Methane water felt a bit weird. While I was looking around, I saw Victor looking at a flick of an alien fish’s tail. When I was looking around I was being extra cautious because I didn’t know if the water would get deeper. After a while I found an ocean ledge and I told Victor and Vi about it. Then I started to mess around with the ledge. After that Zi told me and Victor that there was a mountain range in the distance and when I saw it I was a bit surprised by it’s huge size. But as I was looking at the mountains they seemed to be growing bigger. I was starting to think that it was not a mountain range. Then Mal starts to point at the growing mountains and starts to scream “ Hey, Hey, Hey,”. But then after a while I realized that he had been saying “ Wave” not “Hey“. Then I knew that the mountains had been a very tall liquid methane wave. Then Mal started to run into the cops’ ship. Then I caught a glimpse of almost everyone heading towards the Trident. Then I started hastily grabbing things from the planet for research but I was doing it so quickly I did not know what I was collecting. Also Victor decided to try and catch the alien fish he saw before. When me and Victor knew we had to stop, we saw everyone but Mal running towards the ship then Victor decided to go to the ship and I decided to go to the cops’ ship to find Mal. Then the Ship started to move and I knew the Trident was ready to take off. When I passed my crewmates and Ash I arrived at the cops’ ship and out came Mal. He was holding 2 metal cylinders under his arm and he fell in methane water and said some words that I think were in Turian. Then he said “Andrew take one,” and he gave me one of the cylinders. On the side of the cylinder it said “Altera Corp Lithium Battery Do Not Steal,”. Then me and Mal start to run towards the Trident. When I glazed to my left I saw a 600 foot tall wave of liquid methane. What caused me to look was that I was in it’s shadow. Then the Trident starts to hover over the ground. Then I see everyone but me and Mal board the Trident. Then the Trident flies up then back down. Me and Mal kept running. By this point the wave must

have been 1 kilometer high and it was not that far away. When me and Mal got to the ramp that the crew had let out for us but I couldn’t get up the ramp because I kept slipping and Mal started push me up then he started to slip as well. Then Mal clicked his heels together and his boots magnetized to the ramp. Then Mal starts to run up the ramp and he tells me to do the same thing. So then I got the magnetize effect on my boots and started heading up the ramp. Then the wave hit. The Trident was flung back extremely hard and if it were not for the magnet boots me and Mal would’ve been flung far away. I managed to hold onto the lithuanium battery and the samples I collected while being crushed by methane water, which was really good. Then I heard a big loud roar and then total silence. After that me and Mal closed our helmets, which just trapped methane water inside of them. By this point I think that I’ve been poisoned by this methane water. Then someone was able to close the ramp and me and Mal were now in the Trident (that was partially filled with methane). When I opened my helmet I started sputtering out liquid methane and when Mal opened his helmet he started to puke. After this moment right now I will never take fresh air for granted I tought. Then Mal said “ C’mon, “ and then he started dragging me by the scruff of my neck to the deck. After that the Trident starts to take damage from the water pressure. Then a large tentacle wrapped around the Trident and started to help us get to the surface of the methane water. Then we finally got to the surface. Then this creature holds us up aloft and it gives us enough time to get ready to take off and we finally get up into the year. Then Mal had a private conversation with that cat-lover Larry. Then Ash takes the crew into the medical bay to go look at her co-pilot. When I got there I saw wires coming out of one the batteries that Mal and I got and the cables seemed to be connected to a figure, who I was assuming to be Ash’s co-pilot. When Mal arrives he asks Ash “Well how’s he doing?”. Then Ash tells Mal “He’s going to survive, he’s going to make it”. After Mal replies “You are going to tell me why the heck he needs batteries,”. Then Ash goes “Well he’s an exo,”. Then the figure sits up and says “Thank you captain for bringing my batteries,”. But where his face should be was a metallic sphere with blue lights that light up. Then Mal says “Wait, wait, we just almost die because of a robot!”. Then Ash goes “He is not a robot!”. Then the robot-thing goes “I am not a robot,”. Then Mal and Ash start to have an argument. Then I ask if it is a robot it replied “I am not robot, I am Bee-Bop,”. Then Larry and Michael started to ask Bee-Bop more questions that I did not care about. Then Mal and Ash’s argument ends and Mal says “Everyone, meeting room, now, Bee-Bop to,”. Then Bee-Bop says “Bee-Bop works for no one on this ship, Bee-Bop will go to the meeting room of my own decision,” and then he walks out of the room. Afterwards in the meeting room we decided to go and catch the Shark, which was our original mission. Then I decided to look at the samples that I had collected on the moon but it’s just broken glass and methane water in a bag but I still have hope because some methane water got trapped in our ship and I could maybe find something there. ANDREW

On the way to the strange purple moon, we started talking, and Victor started explaining about Drakarians. He said that they are kind of like aliens, but humanoid. Victor also said that they are strong, fast, but pretty dumb. Victor said that warrior Drakarians are very bad, big, and they really like to kill. He also told us that they have a queen Drakarian, who produces… something. Then our ship, the Trident, said, “You are near your destination. 4 minutes remaining.” Then Mal asked Victor, “Is there anything you may have forgotten to tell us about the Drakarians? How do they fight?” “Uhh… they like to punch.” “Does shooting have any effect on them?” And Victor gave us a really useful answer: “They don’t like being shot.” Then, we finally arrived at Ego, the purple moon. We saw that the moon seemed to be made of some kind of toxic gas. (And no, I’m not talking about Mal’s farts.) We also saw that the moon was covered in water, and yet it supported life.

Unfortunately, on our landing, Caleb had a total failure, and I wasn’t able to fix it. All of us lost at least one health, and I lost two! Nevertheless, though, I decided to go to the planet. I just didn’t feel like staying back. Again, however, Larry, Will, and Caleb decided to stay back and play video games or whatever. When I got off our ship, Ash punched her ship with this device on her hand, and she yelled, “Beep Bop! Beep Bop! Are you okay?” She pulled back this panel in her ship, and she climbed inside. “SOMEBODY HELP ME!” That’s when Caleb came and went into Ash’s ship. I went in, too, but I went right, to the engines. Then a siren went off in the Trident, and Ash scooped up her co-pilot, who looked surprisingly small. Larry and Will tried to fix the ship, but they just completely failed. Then Mal started shouting, “HEY! HEY!” But then Michael noticed he wasn’t actually yelling HEY! He was actually yelling, “WAVES! WAVES!” And then he finally saw the giant wave coming straight towards us.

Michael ran into Ash’s ship, and I heard him. So I just grabbed the most important thing I could find, and I bolted. As I ran outside, I saw Victor… Well, it looked like Victor was trying to catch a fish or something! Then, Michael and Caleb came out of the ship. But I didn’t see Mal or Ash. A little while later, Ash came out, holding her co-pilot, but we still didn’t see Mal. Finally, Mal came out! It looked like he was carrying two cylinders. Then he fell over. He yelled some swear words, and then he tossed one of the cylinders to Andrew. It turned out, it was a battery. Ironically, there were the words Do not steal on it. As we were about to take off, Andrew stuck his head out the window, and yelled, “I THINK WE SHOULD WAIT” We had a quick discussion, and we decided to wait for Mal and Andrew. But when Andrew and Mal got to the ramp, they started sliding down. Luckily, they had magnets on their boots. But then they went under the wave. Me and Caleb weren’t able to bring the ship up, so the engineers, Zi and Michael started trying to fix the

ship. Zi failed, but Michael managed to close the ramp. Unfortunately, Andrew and Mal were still outside, and their helmets came off. Then everyone started trying to fix the ship. First, Zi tried to turn on the engines. But he totally failed. Then Larry heard some kind of language, and he realized that something was trying to talk to him. The voice said, “Do you mean to be here?” Larry asked, “What is your name? Can you get us out of here?” “Do you want to go deeper? Can you survive?” “No. We are about to explode!” “Is that your intention?” “NO!” Then, me and Caleb saw a tentacle wrapping around our ship. And in my mind, I heard something say, “Hello, cousin. Why are you here?” I didn’t really get what it was asking, but I said back, “CAN YOU GET US OUT OF HERE SO WE DON’T ALL DIE?!?!” And surprisingly, they lifted our ship up, and our engines ignited. The voice talked to me again, and it said, “I hope you can make friends among these cold stars.” Whatever that meant.

“Larry, were you hiding under the bed while we tried to fix the ship? Mal demanded. “Well, I chose to wait for you. So you owe me bitcoins!” Larry replied, “Fine.” Mal grumbled. Then we went to see Ash’s co-pilot. On the ground, one of the batteries was hooked up to Ash’s co-pilot. “Are you going to tell us why your co-pilot needs batteries?” Mal asked Ash. Then her co-pilot sat up. It was a robot! “Did we just die for a robot?” Mal demanded. “I am not a robot.” “Then what are you?” Larry asked. “I am not a robot. I am Beep Bop.” In my room, I looked at the things I’d grabbed from the ship. I had a fusion cord, a tablet, and I still had the hard drive I’d gotten from the broken ship. I pressed a button labeled Diagnostic, and some weird grey things came up. I deduced that they were teeny tiny robots, which the federation had given up on making. Then they started coming towards me. Uh oh.

Something about federation there was star base by federation it get stolen by space pirates

Ship badly beat by jarkarian we ask viktor bout Drakarians\

Drakarians are kinda dum and kinda fast and lik to kill and warrior drakarians are really bad They also have a queen so im guessing if we kill the queen they die warrior drakarians are big af look freaking they like punching and no lik gun and no acid shooting and hav war with asari and they won

Trident speak to us sorry to interrupted nearly at destination arrive in 4minutes We head back to pulp Asari commandos are best in galaxy very good in gun fight We move to move ego E G O it also cold and surface is methane and is a flammable gas Gas can be liquid solid gas and methane in E G O is a liquid and we land in planet almost 100 % cold black liquid More strange it support life and is a moon And there are muchy liquid methane water There is also a pale white moon near us and the other ship does doodle stuf And dosen’t land down that deep in slushy landing and We mix success the roll and get a hard landing And i hav 5 hp

We land and me caleb will stay back or games People may die but not us because we r POG AF staying back to survive

Ash goes to ship broke door and say beep bop beep bop she in ship and Ash say someone give me a hand ashes ship is destroyed af ash move debris of her co pilot A siren go off in ash ship peps outside is gonna be screwed and a mountain range look bigger and it grow and they probably bout to be dead And trident say leave moon E G O

We see supa big wave like 400 feet in air and I hide under bed maul disappear we bout to take off We steal battery I save maul and andrew SHIP GETS HIT BY 1KILO TALL WAVE Andrew and maul be like AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHH I save the day because i talked to squid ward and yay i save peps I talk to bling bong and he is 9 year old Grey thing in hard drive of mystery ship and is nanite And weird stuff happens

“Hey” I heard my captain call me. He was waving at me. I looked at him. “Hey!” he called again. I squinted my eyes and realised that he was pointing at something “Hey!” he called again. But this time I heard, “Wave!” I looked over my shoulder and I saw a huge wave, tall and black, around 400 feet. Horrified, I turned to my ship and turned on the engine. I was just about the leave when I saw my friend from out of the corner of my eye. “What are you doing?” He demanded. “I'm leaving” I replied. I switched the engine back on when my friend stopped me. “We need to save the others,” He told me. I looked at him and told him yes. Then, we raced back to our ship and saved the others.

Victor - Session 4 - Ego

In the beginning, We went to the planet Ego, it was a little weird for me because I have never been on a very mysterious planet as Ego. We came to Ego because Ash and her crew had crash landed on this planet and we decided to follow them. On Ego, it is so cold that all the ice melted and turned into water. We finally landed on Ego, but we had a rough landing and it really hurt. I go outside the ship, and I head toward a watery area. As I walked on the moon, I looked down and I found an alien fish swimming in the Ego’s water. Some of the crewmembers go to see the Dart and they want to break in and see whoever is in there. THey want to find Ash and see if her and her crew members are okay or not. We then see a massive wave starting to form and come in our direction so we all try to run and get inside The Trident. When we all got inside they all started shouting “Take off!” WHen finally everyone gets in, the wave has already reached us and the ramp has jammed. We finally got the ramp fixed and it closed all the way up, but we were already starting to go down. Suddenly I see something wrapped around our ship and it brings us back to the surface of the wave. We then follow Ash to the batteries that they got from the Dart and it seems to be plugged into a robot. It turns out that the robot is called “beep bop” and he works for Alterra corp. We then want to keep Ash on our ship in case we get attacked, meanwhile, some of us researched the batteries and we found Nanites crawling out of the battery towards a person.

while we ask Victor a question we arrive at Ego the moon, and we go straight down to the moon: THE GUY WHO DRIVES THE SHIP MUST AN IDIOT! as we go faster and faster we finiay hit the ground. everyone on the ship got hurt, but we are still alive. the moon is dark and frozen cold, but I am tough as we land I go out of the ship and start to look around the moon there is a pound of dark water, and I saw a huge mountain rage and tell to others, after a few mintes the mountian go down and suddenly it grow up like crazy, that does not look like a mountian and I hear someone is yelling “HEY”I turn around it Mal why is he yelling HEY? suddenly I understend him I ran back to the ship immediately and yelling to another two person:”the mountion is waves!” but they did not go back! instead one of them sit down and start to take example and anothe jump in to the water, we don’t even know what is it! when I am on the way the ship is already heating the engen noooo don’t leave me! but I made it. when I am on the ship the ship is ready to take of, should I stop them but I don’t want to die but there is still people in our crew down there while I am thinking amoust every one is there but not Mal, so Andrew run out to find him as he go we start to go up but when we are about 100m we all deside to wait for them when they come back with two things we go up immediately but we are still caught by the waves. and the engen does not work, so I ran to the back of the ship and push down the engen buton but nothing happen, and I hear some sound that sound like alien speaking so larry talk to them also victor talk to them too but I can’t umderstand them but they take our ship out of the water.I come back to the main room one of the things is a thing called bee-bop and he looks like something I had never seen." We will have a meeting" said Mal

SESSION FIVE

Nowhere

“I want to go back to Alterra Prime”, Ash said. “Nah, we’re going to station 101 to blow up the Shark”, Mal replied. We were in the Trident, in the middle of the Theta quadrant, while Mal criticized the Shark’s name, which was weird to me, seeing as our ship was named after gum or maybe a fork. Then, Andrew, Will, and Michael sensed some organic thing outside of the ship. I turned the Trident into position to see the organic thing, but it seemed that there were no living life forms. Even more surprisingly, they were wearing federation uniforms that looked almost identical to ours. Our scientists realized that the people were actually the Shark’s crew, faking being part of the federation. Unfortunately, it looked like they had been thrown right out of the station. Caleb totally failed to fly to the station, so I took over and got us into a flying spot. Zi also turned off our lights at exactly the right moment, and it seemed that no one had discovered us yet. Victor dropped a tool box, and we heard some voices down the hallway. Larry heard two voices saying, “I want to get to the party,” and “Shut up. I heard something.” The second person took out their flashlight and shined it at us. They didn’t seem to see us, though.

When we went around the corner, there was a big party happening with at least 200 people! When we saw this, Mal said, “Well, we got some wrong intel. Let’s get searching.” Suddenly, we heard a voice say, “Excuse me, Captain Renard? The boss would like to speak with you”. Mal looked surprised, and he turned around. We awkwardly followed the woman who was speaking. When we got upstairs, we heard someone say, “Captain!Long time no see”. Mal looked very taken aback, and I heard Ash ask Mal, “You alright? You look like you’ve seen a ghost!”. “No, not a ghost”, Mal said, still looking surprised. “My ex-girlfriend.” Then, Andrew and the human who had taken us to Mal’s ex-girlfriend, Julie, started fighting for some reason, and we noticed how everyone seemed to be just observing and not helping Julie. It looked like they didn’t like her, and it seemed that Julie was the type of person who punched people on a regular basis. They stopped fighting after Julie punched Andrew in the face, and Julie’s boss said, “Sorry, it is her job to keep me safe”. We decided to tell them that we were after the Shark, and Julie’s boss said, “We have been after them too, and we have caught nearly all of the Shark’s crew”. Andrew asked, “Where

are they, anyway?”. Julie responded saying, “I shut them in the airlock”. Mal said, “Err… you know, I think the Shark’s crew flew out of the airlock”, referring to the dead bodies we saw in space. “Now, there is only one person left to catch- the Shark himself. But, HE’S HIDING LIKE A RAT! Nevertheless, we will catch him”, Julie’s boss said. “How do we know you’re on our side?”, Andrew asked. “Would you give me a gun?” She immediately responded with, “No”. We noticed that Beep Bop was missing, so Zi and Michael went to go look for him. A bit later, we saw Zi and Michael get thrown down the stairs. So, Julie went to go see what was up. We saw two people carrying Beep Bop, but Julie just stabbed one of the guys so they dropped Beep Bop and ran away. Then, Beep Bop started telling Julie his life story, because, well, he was happy Julie saved him. Then we heard some discussion, but I didn’t hear any of it. Wait… where was Andrew?

We look for the shark and a guy. Andrew asks to see the boss, and I ask “How can I trust you?” and he responds with, “I am a scientist, not really a good one though”. I ask to see his pass, which is when we went back to reality, and he asks “Why do we need a pass?”. I answer him by saying “There's always a pass in secret places”.

We go find the shark. We go to station 101. Station 101 is derelict, run by the shark. We need to take him alive and take supply medicine. We can take the shark dead or alive. We don’t know much about station 101. The organic thing comes to use but we do not see what it is. We find dead people. We might have found the shark’s dead crew. We carefully go into space station 101. We all got out, including Ding Dong and Ash. I hear someone say we’re going to party, and we shut up while the shark kills mercilessly. We hear music, so we go in, through the crowd. We see an Arsari woman who knows Maul. We find out that the Arsari woman is Maul's ex-girlfriend. Andrew gets into a fight and almost dies again. They go “Chit chat, chit chat”. I get a gun from the gang's corner shark.

Nowhere In the drawing room, Mal started to go over our original mission with the report that the person in central command. “The Shark, not the sort of name I would select, is to become a criminal someday,” Mal said “I would go with something a bit better, maybe the fox, or the crane, or the shadow. But anyway, what we got was a shark.” Then, Mal said “Operation ‘shark hunt’ is commencing, so we are heading to Derelict Station 101. The Shark set up shop here and he apparently runs the place. Some sort of criminal overlord who runs all sorts of organized crime and smuggling. A very intrepid lad, and a former federation. The reason you and I are after him today is because he has recently personated a federation officer and knocked out a shipment of aid. So, a whole tanker of medicine was headed towards the outer rim. He, hopefully, has brought it back to this station”. Mal continued by saying, “Our mission is to take the Shark alive, and use whatever leverage we have against him for him to give us the supplies. The supplies are more important than the capture. What we really care about is getting the medicene. So, if we have to negotiate with him, let him go, then come back for him later, that’s okay. We want to get the medicine first. If we can’t get the medicine, we are to take the Shark dead or alive. But having him alive is certainly preferable because then he could tell us where he sent this stuff”. Then, Mal started to say “We don’t know a great deal about this place. Other than that it's dangerous, dark, and probably quite boring. We expect that they will be able to see us on sensors, so make sure to check the corners and watch out because we know that these guys have weapons. Does anyone have any questions about today’s operation?”. Sophia asked, “What are we doing right now?”. “Right now, we are going to capture the Shark from Station 109”, Mal replied. Sophia asked, “What is Station 109?”. Mal replied saying, “Every time the Federation tries to colonize a new system, we send a couple of robots out here and they construct a space station for us to use as a base for our operations. Now, Theta Station is interesting because the Federation found it a colony and we sold one planet to Altera Corp who founded their own colony. Unfortunately, our colony staged a revolution and won, so it is not ruled by the Federation now. So, we have very little jurisdiction here. The station, the planet, and Altera Corp no longer belong to us. Ash works for Altera Corp as a peace officer”. Then, Mal says, “Alright, Shiny”, while he was clapping his large turian hands together. I got a notification, and after deciphering it I saw that an organic life form was approaching this ship. The crew returned to the bridge and I tried to pinpoint this lifeform’s location on the radar. Sophia was able to bring the Trident to the lifeform and turn our headlights on, which revealed a bunch of dead humanoid figures who were all wearing Federation Uniforms that looked almost identical to my crew’s uniforms. We then realized that these people are almost a mile away from Station 109. I got healed a bit and did not feel like I had methane water in my lungs anymore. My crew figured out that the humanoid figures were not a part of the Federation, but they were in fact a part of the Shark’s crew! We decided to turn the headlights off. My crew and I decided to approach Station 109 very stealthily. First, Sophia and Caleb were able to get into the station’s radar’s blind spot. Then, Zi was able to mask our ship’s heat signature to avoid being shown on thermal radars. Then, the Trident landed on Station 109 without being discovered. We

knew to land there because in normal circumstances, this docking bay was not used a lot. We knew this because all Federation stations are usually the same. When we got inside, I knew that I would know my way around this station because it was the exact same with the one I am familiar with. Then, my crew, Ash, Bee-Bop, and I started to sneak around the station. After a few minutes, Victor accidentally kicked an entire tool box down the stairs and it caused a really loud noise. I figured that if we got caught, it would be entirely Victor's fault. Larry and I shushed Victor who had just let out a big gasp. We all started to crouch because we started hearing two sets of footsteps. They came up and paused. I could see 2 silhouetted figures. I heard voices down the hallway but I could not understand what they were saying. One of them shone a flashlight down the hallway. Luckily, they did not see us. They turned around and left. After that, we continued to creep down the hallway until we started to hear strange sounds. They sounded like voices and music and it was coming from the direction the 2 guards came from. I started to hear laughter from that direction as well. So, we decided to follow the guards and the sound of music, laughter, and talking got louder. My crew and I emerged from our area and entered a place which, on a normal station, would be a place with restaurants and shops. But on this station, they changed it into a socializing point. There were about 200 people who were all talking, dancing, or eating. There were also colored lights and this place looked like a gigantic party. Mal looked to the left then to the right and said, “Well, I think we were given bad intelligence”. He looked to the left and right again and said “We should start looking for our man”. We started walking as a group into this area. A human to our right called out “Excuse me, Captain Renald?”. Mal turned to face the human, looking very surprised, and the human said, “My boss would like to talk to you”, and then she started gesturing to the stairs. After that, my crew and I started to follow this girl up the stairs and onto a plateau. She led us to an asari woman sitting on a long red couch who appeared to be inhaling something from a container. She looked up and said, “Captain, is it? So nice of you to join us. Long time no see”. When I looked to my right, Mal looked done. The asari stood up and said, “Welcome to nowhere. Enjoy your stay!”. Then she turned to look at her club. Ash says to Mal, “Uh, Mal, you doing alright buddy? You look like you just saw a ghost”. Mal said, “No, not a ghost, That was my ex-girlfriend”. I notice Bee-Bop looking around quizzically. I decided to go ask the asari her name. But then, that girl that led us up here came up to me and said, “Who are you?”. I reply by saying, “My name is Andrew and I am a scientist on the Trident. I’m not the best but I’m still a good scientist”. She asked me to see my pass, so I asked, “What pass?”. She says, “There is usually a pass so someone knows that you’re working there”. Seeing how things were going, I decided to try and punch the girl. Unfortunately, she was able to block it. I took a step in and the girl punched me right under my eye and I was knocked onto the ground. By this point, I was starting to reconsider my choice of actions. Then, the girl turned around and started talking to the asari woman who I think is her boss. The asari walked over to me and said, “You must forgive my associate, it is her job to keep me safe and you were being very suspicious, sneaking in through the back through the cargo and trends all stealthy-like as

perhaps as though we didn’t know you were arriving. That was very naughty like and frankly, not very cash money if I do say so myself. Well once your captain *sigh* I’ll talk to you just generally. What brings you to nowhere?” Then I say “We are trying to catch this guy called the Shark.” Then Julie says “What is so good about a shark?” Then the asari says “This one, not much. Is it because of the little uh heist he pulled off?” Then I say “Probably.” Then the asari says “That sort of thing is strictly forbidden here because we don’t want people like you showing up. I am a little surprised that I didn’t know that the Federation would be sending one of their best ships with one of their most talented captains to come and bring us to justice. You would have thought that this sort of job should have been handed off to a suck-crew and a junk-ship. But no, they send some fine individuals.” “Well you’ll be pleased to know that um my chief inspector here,” she says gesturing towards the girl “Has been on the case. It would appear that your Shark had stolen a couple of uniforms, very naughty and used them to sneak aboard one of your freighters, appeared to be appalling easy because he is rather stupid if you ask me. You see, hitting the Federation is in direct violation of the compact which is a key border among these animals.” After saying that last line she starts to gesture out to the people out on the plateau and many of them are having fist fights. Then she says “You see peace rains throughout the valley due to gentle leadership provided by Attia.” Then I finally knew that her name is Attia. “My inspector has already imprisoned nearly all of the Shark’s crew. Haven’t you?” said Attia looking towards the girl. Then the girl said “What do you mean?” Then Attia says “You put them in a very secure prison right? The one near the edge of the station.” Then the girl said “Which one? There are many of them.” Then Attia goes “Locked up good and safe in the airlock right? For these fine men and women we need to arrest.” Then the girl says “I left them on the ground.” Then Attia goes “Mmhmm mmhmm excellent, very good.” Then the girl said “But I’ll put them in prison now.” Then I ask “I think the people you are talking about, that she was supposed to put away are now drifting away in space.” Then Attia said “*gasp* No,” then she turned to the girl “Did you launch those miscreants out into space? You know what officer it must have been an accident, these sorts of things happen on this old space station.” Then the girl said “I mean if I launched then into space, wouldn't they just choke and die?” Then Attia responds “Yes, yes, it would be terrible wouldn’t it? We certainly, certainly would not do that on purpose.” Then the girl said “I didn’t do it on purpose! You must have seen it wrong! Some of your people launched them, pretending to be me!” Then Attia says “Federation technology is very finicky and what-not especially when it’s this old. No, no I assure you that the prisoners are safely locked up. In fact we have almost solved the

entire case. Really, there is only 1 individual left to apprehend and that would be the Shark himself and he is hiding like a rat, somewhere on my station. But don’t worry we will soon put him in jail with the rest of them.” Then the girl said “Isn’t that bad because you said you don’t want them to die.” Then Larry says “You said that the Shark is on this spaceship and you are trying to get rid of him. But what if you are just saying that to make us believe that you want to get him out but really you’re hiding him.” Then Attia goes “How can I convince you that I am not shealtering him.” Then Larry says something about letting our crew take over this station and letting us blow it up. Then Attia says “Right, is that the position of your entire crew? To take over my space station forever?” Then I say “I don’t agree I am not ready for this kind of responsibility.” Then Attia says “Hmm, it’s very difficult, you need to keep rival gangs all in line, all while the Shark tries to insight rebellion. All I want to do is help people.” Then Larry asks If me and my crew and explore the ship and Attia replies by saying “Of course I wish you would! In fact, this is what I’m saying, how can I possibly earn you trust? Perhaps I could throw the Shark’s entire crew into space, where they die a horrifying death. Would that help to earn your trust? Would that prove to you that I’m not on his side if I killed all of his crew?” Then I suggested that if Attia gave me a gun she would earn my trust. Sadly the get a weapon attempt failed. After Mal and Attia salked for a few seconds Attia turned back to my crew and said “As I was saying, we have a bit of a civil war brewing in nowhere and it is the Sharks fault. You see, the Shark has sold the medicine to the Iron Nails,” then she started gesturing to a group of different species that were all wearing blue then she said “And he had also sold the shipment to the Red Fangs,” then she gestured to another group of different species who are all wearing read. Then Attia says “They paid him in advance because they are very stupid and now they have a breif truce going on, while they wait to see who can capture him. They are then going to fight to see who is going to kill him and they are then going to fight to see who is going to keep a shipment. So as much as I want him captured, I want you guys to stop this civil war. Think about all of the good you’ll be doing. All of the horrible criminals’ lives you will be saving.” Then I ask her if I can explore the ship and she makes the girl my guide. Then Attia tells me that the girl’s name is Julie. Then Zi telles the crew Bee-Bop is missing. Then Ash goes”No he’s right...not Ding-Dong, Bee-Bop is missing.” After that we all start to look around and then Attia says that Mal is going to stay with him. After a while we heard that Zi and Michael saw Bee-Bop and We all started to run behind them. Unfortunately the people kidnapping him were able to beat Michael and Zi in combat but Julie pulled out a knife and stabbed one of the people and the others fled and Bee-Bop was saved. After a long time of Ash leading the hunt to find the Shark I decided to sneak away and find him myself. Then I ran into a skinny humain who said “Oh, uh sorry. Um ... are you with him?” “With who?” “You know, you don’t know, you’re not with him?” “Who are you?”

“Uh ... I think I’ve said too much.” “Are you the Shark?” “Oh, so you are with him. You must be with him. You wouldn't say his name if you were with him. C’mon it’s happening, we’re rounding up everybody, this way.” Then I reluctantly follow.

Smack. My friend was battling someone new because he didn’t show her his science card. I was sick of looking at them fighting for 5 minutes, so I went inside. It took me a few minutes to realize that Bee-Bop, Ashes helper, was there too. I looked around but I couldn’t see him. Then, one of my friends found him and he started babbling about his life. At this point, I was just too tired to continue, so I went to bed and had a nice nap.

Victor - Session 5 - Nowhere

In the beginning, Sophia, one of our crewmates, turned on the headlights and we saw a person drifting through space. We then reached station 101, and we tried to sneak around it and not get noticed. We landed on station 101, and they did not even know that we landed. We got out of the ship and slowly went into the station, and I accidentally hit a box which made a little noise, but Larry covered it up. Suddenly, we hear voices and see people. We come into this room and I think it's a party. We went up the stairs to the plateau, and we could see almost everything going on. We find Mal's ex-girlfriend and she tells us to enjoy our stay at this place called “knowhere”. The guard is this person called “Julie”, and she is the second most powerful person in “knowhere”. Andrew wanted to speak with Mal’s ex-girlfriend but Julie did not allow him, so they got into a fight. Meanwhile, Mal’s ex-girlfriend says that the federation was trying to send us here to get rid of us, because we have a very bad ship, and the mission is very hard. Larry thinks that Mal’s ex-girlfriend is actually hiding the shark and is not letting us catch him and that she is lying, but she does not agree. After a while, we realize that Beep-Bop is missing and we do not know who took him. Michael and Zi found that a figure was getting carried away by a few “iron fists”, a clan, and they tried to get that figure back but they failed. Julie notices it and stabs her knife in one of the Iron nails’ shoulders and we get back Beep-Bop. After, Ash had an idea at the communications and told Julie to set it up for her. Andrew went to find the shark and he finally managed to find him and talk with him.

Zi We decide to go to station 109 to find “shark”. It is dark in the station and a little scary and someone kicks the toolbox and makes a very loud sound. We get down immediately because there is someone coming, but I hear them say something about the party. They go away so we follow them because I am curious about the party. They lead us through a door and as we go in, I hear loud music and see a mystery woman appear. Mal looks shocked as the woman comes to us and whispers to her. She leads us somewhere and after a few seconds we arrive at a door. I don't know what Larry is thinking about but he goes up and has a conversation with the guard, and I think the conversation does not go well because they start fighting! Larry ends up losing and lays down on the floor. Of course he loses, he is still not restored from the moon! A few seconds later, a man comes and leads us into the door. I ask myself, “If he is leading us, why did Larry go up and fight with the guard?” The guy ends up leading us into a room and says something but I did not pay attention. When I turn around to look at the room, I notice that Bee Bop is gone! I rush outside and see a guy with Bee Bop in his hand. Another person runs to him, but gets punched by the guy and flies through the room. I try to help him and sneak to another side, but I feel a punch and fly through the air, and I pass out.

SESSION SIX

Nail and Fang

We walked through the bar, led by Julie, and suddenly, we heard an explosion. But I was quite bored by now, so I decided to go looking for Andrew, who was still missing. So I looked around, until I came to a noodle stand. I didn’t see Andrew anywhere, though, so I just ordered some noodles. Then Larry came over and ordered some noodles, too! But then someone stood up. It was Andrew! We started to talk to him, but he whispered, “They think I’m working for them. Don’t blow my cover!” Then an Asari lady walked up, ordered some noodles, and said in a dignified voice, “These are the worst noodles in the entire universe.” Then Andrew started to get up and walk away. I followed him, and he didn’t seem to notice me. Then again, I could barely see him. I heard someone talking to Andrew. “Why are you here?”

And Andrew replied, “Uh… The robot said I could leave.” “T HE ROBOT IS FOR SERVING NOODLES AND SENDING MESSAGES! IT CAN’T T ELL YOU TO LEAVE!” Then the guy handed Andrew a rifle, and all of a sudden, he shot me. I’m not sure what happened next, but I passed out, and when I woke up, I was at 2 health! I also seemed to have a medical wrap thing on my wound. I looked around, and I saw a rifle on the ground. I picked it up, and continued. I noticed a trail of blood on the ground. Then I saw the same guy who shot me on the ground. I picked up his gun, too, and shot him with it just to make sure he was dead. Then I followed the trail of blood. When I followed the trail, I saw two people. One was the Shark, and another was some other guy I didn’t know. “Sophia. Come here. Your friend needs help.” He said. Then I saw Andrew leaning against the wall. I started to give

Andrew the rifle, but then the mystery guy said, “No need to do that. You will be given weapons shortly.” Then he said to the Shark, “Your services are no longer required. You have performed admirably.” Then he raised his gun, and shot the Shark in the head. Then some other people came, and they asked Andrew, “Did you just kill the Shark?” “Uh… no. It was this other guy.” “Oh, really? ‘It was this other guy.’ I don’t think so.” But Andrew didn’t stop to chat. He just turned and bolted. “HELP!” He screamed. Then by the noodle stand, a waiter brought out a gun, which he had hidden under a napkin, and aimed it at Attia. But before he could shoot, Mal shot him, and he landed right on top of Larry. “Well don’t just stand there!” Mal yelled. “Defend yourselves!”

Nail and Fang After following this person around the party area, more people started to follow him and I started getting less and less comfortable about trying to spy on him and his group. After walking for a while me and this group stopped at a small noodle restaurant. In the restaurant there was a noodle serving robot, when we entered the robot came up to us and said “Hey there partner, how are you today,” in a robotic voice and everyone seemed to roll their eyes at the robot. Then the person who was leading everyone to the noodle shop turned to us and said “Alright, less than I expected but when we kick this off, when this really gets going, the rest of them will join us, I'm sure. Everyone remembers their jobs?” I got really confused so I said “No, not me.” “You remember your job?” he said. “Uh, no I don’t” I stammer. Then everyone in this group turns to look at me and someone goes “Zay, are you sure he’s with us? Where did you get that federation uniform?” Then I said “I stole it from a place.” Then the person who now I know is called Zay says “You stole it from a place? I-I don’t know guys, he told me he was with us. Maybe he’s new.” Then he asks me “Do you want to join?” “Maybe” I replied. Then Zay says “Oh, ok, alright. Maybe we could give you a less important job. Can we just like - no settle down fellas. We’ll just - we’ll just give him a less important job. Ya, like a regular job, don’t tell him any of the secrets, you know just give him a normal job.” “Alright listen here, sit next to this robot,” he says pointing to the noodle robot “And right down everything everybody orders.” Then I said “Oh, ok.” Then Zay replies “Ok good. Then relay all the information to gramps over here,” and then he starts to point at an old man standing in the group. Then the man says “Eh, yes. It would be - oh it’s so loud in here. It will be very useful. Make sure to write down especially if anybody orders the kimchi. Ohhh my back.” Then Zay says “Alright, revolutions are exiting. Alright you, get the noodles. You guys get the stuff we need to get to. See you on the other side, brothers,” and they split up. Then I tried to sneak away but the old man put a hand on my shoulder and said “Do what you’re told, boy and write down the noodles. Trust me, it’s very important. Probably the safest place for a person as stealthy as you.” Then I reply by saying “Er, ok I will just write down the orders.” Then I looked at the robot and when I turned back the old man was gone. Then I sat next to the robot and took out a small notebook and I am ready to write some orders. This is how I totally wanted to spend my time, sitting at a restaurant writing down noodle orders. After sitting down doing nothing for a while I heard Sophia calling my name then I saw her walking around. To not make me suspicious I decided to ignore her and I tried to hide and I did

just barely. I hid by leening my face towards a bowl of noodles. Then the noodle robot goes to Sophia and asks “Howdy partner, what kind of food can I interest you in.” Then Sophia responds by saying “Noodles.” Then the robot says “I have many noodles, how would you like them.” Then Sophia says “I don’t care.” Then the robot replies “One ramen noodles, basic chicken coming up,” and an oven opens out of it’s chest and it gave Sophia a bowl of raman and I wrote down the order. Then two more people came and they ordered ramen noodles and miso soup and then I wrote those orders down as well. After a while Larry somehow came and asked for a noodle dish called Tokushu Raman or something. Then the noodle robot said “One Tokushu Raman coming right up.” After that the robot handed Larry some ramen. Then the robot said to Larry “Glad you like it partener, it tastes like chicken.” Then I tried to sneak away without losing my cover but Larry and Sophia saw me and I whispered to them telling them “They think I work for them, don’t break my cover.” Then they started to tell me to stay near them because I could get hurt and I am already injured. After that I decided to stay in the restaurant. Then a person with red hair came in and ordered Bok Choy and I wrote down the order in my small notebook. Then an asari woman came up and ordered a single bowl of ramen. As usual I decided to write it down. Then the woman said “This is the worst ramen in the entire universe.” Then I started to sneak away in the direction Zay went and this time I actually was able to sneak away. After walking in the direction that Zay went I wandered into a hallway with a flickering light and I could just see the silhouette of a person. As I walked down this hall I heard a voice that said “Hey! What are you doing here.” After figuring out what to say I said “If you’re Zay, I’ve finished the noodle orders! The robot said I could take the rest of the day off.” Then the person who turned out to be Zay said “The robot said you could - no there is like - it’s like a code, it’s like - that’s like - oh I shouldn't be telling you any of this. This is how we pass information! People come up and order the noodles - the noodles suck nobody eats the noodles! You didn’t eat the noodles did you? Nobody eats the noodles, alright. We just make the order for the noodle and somebody writes down what the orders were, that’s how we pass information to each other. So the robot didn’t tell you to go and the noodle orders didn’t finish. Alright whatever, you’re here now anyway. How are you with a gun?” “Really good,” reply in a convincing way. “Oh, good,” he said and he handed me a rifle. Then he said “Are we just bringing anybody now?! What are you doing here?” After I turned around I saw Sophia. Then Sophia asked Zay for a gun and Zay responded by saying “I’m not - like a - like a gun?” Then he turned to me and said “Is she with you?” To keep my cover I said “Nope." Then Zay said “Oh, well that’s unfortunate,” and he shot a laser at Sophia. It hit her in the chest and she fell to the ground unconscious. Which was not what I thought would happen and if she died then I might be responsible for her death. Then Zay smirked and grabbed me by the collar of my shirt. After that, despite already being injured, I tried to shoot at Zay’s feet to prevent him from running or walking. I ended up shooting him through his leg and he turned around and shot

me in the gut. Then I fell to the floor and the last thing I saw was Zay limping away and shaking his head at me and then I heard a gunshot and a ray of blue light caught Zay in the stomach and Zay fell to the ground. After that everything went black. When I woke up someone was carrying me and Sophia was nowhere in sight. After walking a bit the person let me down I leaned against the wall and I could see an asari shooting missiles from a rocket launcher at something or someone. After a while I realized that this asari was the Shark. The man standing next to me, who was also the person that carried me, and probably the person that killed Zay was wearing all black and he was the old man at the noodle shop but he appeared to have gotten younger. He had a refined jaw and a slight stubble. Then he turned around and said “Ah Sophia! Good of you to join us. Your friend here is in dire need of assistance.” I turned around and I saw Sophia. I also felt as though I had seen the man before I met him at the noodle shop. Then I asked Sophia “Hey if you have a gun, can I have it?” Then the man says “Oh, don’t worry. I will be furnishing you with a weapon in just a moment. You have arrived just in time. In fact, if you had arrived much later I would’ve had a serious reconsideration of plans.” “Oh Shark,” he called. After that Shark came to him and said “Ya, boss?” “Er, excellent work. We’ve reached a rather important part in our plan and unfortunately your services will no longer be required. But thank you very much, you’ve performed admirably,” said the man. Then the Shark said “Listen, you’ve got me far over my-.” Then the man drew a weapon and shot the Shark and the Shark fell to the ground. Then he turned and handed me the pistol and I took it and I said “What did you do that for?” Then the man replied “Oh! *sigh* The less you know the safer you will probably be. The system is, uh, influx and the Federation's interests need to be served. You both performed admirably, wounded in the line of duty. I’m sure you will be rewarded quite highly. Assuming you survive the next phase in a few minutes. Be Careful, watch who you point that thing at. I’m interested to see how you play out the rest of the game.” Then he walked to Sophia and he started to talk with her. When Sophia asked him who he is and he said “Oh, how rude of me. Arcturus Mengsk, head of Federation intelligence services.” I did not listen to the rest of the conversation because it dawned on me, this man was the man who visited us at central command before our mission. After his conversation, Arcturus Mengsk left. Then I saw different species wearing blue coming up the stairs and they were brandishing weapons. They were the Iron Nail. Then a voice called out “DROP IT!” Sophia decided to try to shoot them because the message was directed to her. The shot that Sophia fired hit one member of the Iron Nail and the group backed up and said “He has allies!” Then they started firing down the hall and Sophia ran away. Then another group of different species wearing red came up also brandishing weapons like the Iron Nail. It was the Red Fang. They had came here to capture the Shark alive and I was holding a gun beside the dead asari. After a while of them shooting down the hallway it sounded as though a Red Fang member had accidentally shot an Iron Nail member and the 2 groups were fighting each other. Then I started

to think that they were probably not really intelligent. Then I heard a voice say “Enough! Enough! Let’s tend to the Shark before we get back to killing each other!” Then the 2 groups walked down the hall with the Red Fang leading. Then what appeared to be the leader of the Red Fang looked toward the Shark then to me. Then he said to me “The plan was to take him alive, yes? If we wanted him dead we could’ve blown up the entire hallway. Why have you done this?” Then I said “Huh?” Then he said “Huh? Anything to say to yourself as to why you have robbed us of our prize today.” Then I said “Heck, no! I didn’t shoot him!” It was probably not that convincing due to the fact that I had a gun in my hand. Then he said “You didn’t shoot him? With that gun in your hand, and you wanted to tell me you didn’t shoot him?” Then I decided to say “No, I swear, it wasn't me it was this other guy!” Then he said “It wasn’t me it was this other guy? We have ways of determining the truth.” After that he clapped his hands and a robot came and he opened the top and said “If you would,” obviously asking for my gun. Then I said “Heck no, you ain’t gettin my gun!” and then I ran the way Sophia ran. I could see gunfire over my head and then he called “I would like this one alive.” Then I kept running, and running, and running. ANDREW

Nail and Fang After following this person around the party area, more people started to follow him and I started getting less and less comfortable about trying to spy on him and his group. After walking for a while me and this group stopped at a small noodle restaurant. In the restaurant there was a noodle serving robot, when we entered the robot came up to us and said “Hey there partner, how are you today,” in a robotic voice and everyone seemed to roll their eyes at the robot. Then the person who was leading everyone to the noodle shop turned to us and said “Alright, less than I expected but when we kick this off, when this really gets going, the rest of them will join us, I'm sure. Everyone remembers their jobs?” I got really confused so I said “No, not me.” “You remember your job?” he said. “Uh, no I don’t” I stammer. Then everyone in this group turns to look at me and someone goes “Zay, are you sure he’s with us? Where did you get that federation uniform?” Then I said “I stole it from a place.” Then the person who now I know is called Zay says “You stole it from a place? I-I don’t know guys, he told me he was with us. Maybe he’s new.” Then he asks me “Do you want to join?” “Maybe” I replied. Then Zay says “Oh, ok, alright. Maybe we could give you a less important job. Can we just like - no settle down fellas. We’ll just - we’ll just give him a less important job. Ya, like a regular job, don’t tell him any of the secrets, you know just give him a normal job.” “Alright listen here, sit next to this robot,” he says pointing to the noodle robot “And right down everything everybody orders.” Then I said “Oh, ok.” Then Zay replies “Ok good. Then relay all the information to gramps over here,” and then he starts to point at an old man standing in the group. Then the man says “Eh, yes. It would be - oh it’s so loud in here. It will be very useful. Make sure to write down especially if anybody orders the kimchi. Ohhh my back.” Then Zay says “Alright, revolutions are exciting. Alright you, get the noodles. You guys get the stuff we need to get to. See you on the other side, brothers,” and they split up. Then I tried to sneak away but the old man put a hand on my shoulder and said “Do what you’re told, boy and write down the noodles. Trust me, it’s very important. Probably the safest place for a person as stealthy as you.” Then I reply by saying “Er, ok I will just write down the orders.” Then I looked at the robot and when I turned back the old man was gone. Then I sat next to the robot and took out a small notebook and I was ready to write some orders. This is how I totally wanted to spend my time, sitting at a restaurant writing down noodle orders. After sitting down doing nothing for a while I heard Sophia calling my name then I saw her walking around. To not make me suspicious I decided to ignore her and I tried to hide and I did

just barely. I hid by leening my face towards a bowl of noodles. Then the noodle robot goes to Sophia and asks “Howdy partner, what kind of food can I interest you in.” Then Sophia responds by saying “Noodles.” Then the robot said “I have many noodles, how would you like them.” Then Sophia said “I don’t care.” Then the robot replies “One ramen noodle, basic chicken coming up,” and an oven opened out of it’s chest and it gave Sophia a bowl of raman and I wrote down the order. Then two more people came and they ordered ramen noodles and miso soup and then I wrote those orders down as well. After a while Larry somehow came and asked for a noodle dish called Tokushu Raman or something. Then the noodle robot said “One Tokushu Raman coming right up.” After that the robot handed Larry some ramen. Then the robot said to Larry “Glad you like it partener, it tastes like chicken.” Then I tried to sneak away without losing my cover but Larry and Sophia saw me and I whispered to them telling them “They think I work for them, don’t break my cover.” Then they started to tell me to stay near them because I could get hurt and I am already injured. After that I decided to stay in the restaurant. Then a person with red hair came in and ordered Bok Choy and I wrote down the order in my small notebook. Then an asari woman came up and ordered a single bowl of ramen. As usual I decided to write it down. Then the woman said “This is the worst ramen in the entire universe.” Then I started to sneak away in the direction Zay went and this time I actually was able to sneak away. After walking in the direction that Zay went I wandered into a hallway with a flickering light and I could just see the silhouette of a person. As I walked down this hall I heard a voice that said “Hey! What are you doing here.” After figuring out what to say I said “If you’re Zay, I’ve finished the noodle orders! The robot said I could take the rest of the day off.” Then the person who turned out to be Zay said “The robot said you could - no there is like - it’s like a code, it’s like - that’s like - oh I shouldn't be telling you any of this. This is how we pass information! People come up and order the noodles - the noodles suck nobody eats the noodles! You didn’t eat the noodles did you? Nobody eats the noodles, alright. We just make the order for the noodles and somebody writes down what the orders were, that’s how we pass information to each other. So the robot didn’t tell you to go and the noodle orders didn’t finish. Alright whatever, you’re here now anyway. How are you with a gun?” “Really good,” reply in a convincing way. “Oh, good,” he said and he handed me a rifle. Then he said “Are we just bringing anybody now?! What are you doing here?” After I turned around I saw Sophia. Then Sophia asked Zay for a gun and Zay responded by saying “I’m not - like a - like a gun?” Then he turned to me and said “Is she with you?” To keep my cover I said “Nope." Then Zay said “Oh, well that’s unfortunate,” and he shot a laser at Sophia. It hit her in the chest and she fell to the ground unconscious. Which was not what I thought would happen and if she died then I might be responsible for her death. Then Zay smirked and grabbed me by the collar of my shirt. After that, despite already being injured, I tried to shoot at Zay’s feet to prevent him from running or walking. I ended up shooting him through his leg and he turned around and shot

me in the gut. Then I fell to the floor and the last thing I saw was Zay limping away and shaking his head at me and then I heard a gunshot and a ray of blue light caught Zay in the stomach and Zay fell to the ground. After that everything went black. When I woke up someone was carrying me and Sophia was nowhere in sight. After walking a bit the person let me down, I leaned against the wall and I could see an asari shooting missiles from a rocket launcher at something or someone. After a while I realized that this asari was the Shark. The man standing next to me, who was also the person that carried me, and probably the person that killed Zay was wearing all black and he was the old man at the noodle shop but he appeared to have gotten younger. He had a refined jaw and a slight stubble. Then he turned around and said “Ah Sophia! Good of you to join us. Your friend here is in dire need of assistance.” I turned around and I saw Sophia. I also felt as though I had seen the man before I met him at the noodle shop. Then I asked Sophia “Hey if you have a gun, can I have it?” Then the man says “Oh, don’t worry. I will be furnishing you with a weapon in just a moment. You have arrived just in time. In fact, if you had arrived much later I would’ve had a serious reconsideration of plans.” “Oh Shark,” he called. After that Shark came to him and said “Ya, boss?” “Er, excellent work. We’ve reached a rather important part in our plan and unfortunately your services will no longer be required. But thank you very much, you’ve performed admirably,” said the man. Then the Shark said “Listen, you’ve got me far over my-.” Then the man drew a weapon and shot the Shark and the Shark fell to the ground. Then he turned and handed me the pistol and I took it and I said “What did you do that for?” Then the man replied “Oh! *sigh* The less you know the safer you will probably be. The system is, uh, influx and the Federation's interests need to be served. You both performed admirably, wounded in the line of duty. I’m sure you will be rewarded quite highly. Assuming you survive the next phase in a few minutes. Be Careful, watch who you point that thing at. I’m interested to see how you play out the rest of the game.” Then he walked to Sophia and he started to talk with her. When Sophia asked him who he is, he said “Oh, how rude of me. Arcturus Mengsk, head of Federation intelligence services.” I did not listen to the rest of the conversation because it dawned on me, this man was the man who visited us at central command before our mission. After his conversation, Arcturus Mengsk left. Then I saw different species wearing blue coming up the stairs and they were brandishing weapons. They were the Iron Nail. Then a voice called out “DROP IT!” Sophia decided to try to shoot them because the message was directed to her. The shot that Sophia fired hit one member of the Iron Nail and the group backed up and said “He has allies!” Then they started firing down the hall and Sophia ran away. Then another group of different species wearing red came up also brandishing weapons like the Iron Nail. It was the Red Fang. They had came here to capture the Shark alive and I was holding a gun beside the dead asari. After a while of them shooting down the hallway it sounded as though a Red Fang member had accidentally shot an Iron Nail member and the 2 groups were fighting each other. Then I started

Victor - Session 6 - Nail and Fang

In the beginning, Andrew found the shark and he pretended to be part of his crew so he could spy on him. He got a job at a noodle stand if he labes down noodle names. Meanwhile, the rest of the crew did not know Andrew was missing and we kept walking to find the shark. We walked in the line where I was 1st, Caleb 2nd, Will 3rd, Sophia 4th, Michael 5th, Zi 6th, and Larry 7th. After a few moments, me and Caleb hear a close explosion in front of us. Sophia and Larry want to find Andrew and order some noodles at the noodle stand so they split off from the group and try to find Andrew. The rest of the group then finds Julie talking with The Nails and Fang groups, and we hear another explosion. Meanwhile, Andrew hears Sophia calling out “ Andrew “, and he pretends not to notice her and hides, Sophia and Larry then find the robot that gives noodles and orders a bowl of Roman noodles. In the main group, we see a missile fire towards us but some people are too late and get blasted slightly, and then we hear a laugh. The Iron nails and the Red fang gangs were in front of us and the leaders, Lite, and Gloco, started to talk to one another. Julie then explains that there is a plague sweeping the place and it has not reached the V.I.P booth but it will in a matter of time. She said that there was a medicine shipment that was coming but the shark stole it. We find out that the shark is standing on the bridge firing rockets at the gangs. Meanwhile, Andrew and Sophia, have finished the noodles and someone walks over and asks Andrew who is Sophia with him? Andrew says no, and the person shoots Sophia, and then shoots Andrew. Andrew sees that the person that shot him started walking away but before he could get too far, he got blasted again and as Andrew almost passes out, he recognizes the face of captain Mal. Andrew wakes up, and he seems to be carried around in a bag with Sophia by some person, and he also found out that the place that he got stopped at, has been placed with a medical wrap and it stopped bleeding. Meanwhile, Sophia found Andrew who is leaning against the wall with this man, who looks like Arcturisk Minsk, and he happens to be the sharks boss. He shoots

the shark, hands the rifle to Andrew and walks away. The two groups, Nail, and Fang then come and ask Andrew and Sophia why they killed the shark. They say they didn't and it was actually someone else who shot him. Andrew gives the Red fangs the guns and runs away, but the Iron nails start shooting at the red fang and a civil war broke out.

we walk down the dark scary hallway and I can hear the sound of the battle and we all agree to not engage with the shark in a firefight, but we angering the Nail and Fang which is pretty scary but we did it and we can’t undo it sooo too bad! and somebody in our crew goes to order some noddle(How are they hungry, do they eat things in the ship?)and someone go somewhere I don't know I think he is Andrew and the following few minutes I am just wounding around in the hallway and then I hear a "bomb" sound I follow the sound and see Sophia lying on the ground and there is one strand of blood coming out for her body，I freeze, I know I have to do something but...I freeze looking at her, very still, after a few minutes, I heard another "bomb" sound Oh no, oh no did someone else gets shot too? I ran to where the sound comes from...AAAA yes here we go, Andrew gets shoot too, why Andrew? I did not freeze this time but I step back word slowly and start walking down the hallway and it is time to go back to the station and when I got there the civil war is already happening, what just happen? Zi

SESSION SEVEN

The Battle of Nowhere

The music was still playing, and everyone was dancing. I took out my gun, and aimed at one of the bad guys. I fired, and actually hit a guy who was going down the stairs! His friends looked around, but they didn’t see me. No one was really paying attention to me, so I looked around for more bad guys to shoot. Then a guy stuck his head out from behind a wall, and I shot him with perfect aim. All the people around him still didn’t see me, and just scattered. The people who I was shooting at seemed to have retreated, and I saw someone fall from a ladder. I looked around for a cannon, but I didn’t see one anywhere. So I went towards the person who had fallen. It turned out, it was Caleb, and Larry was with him. Then Larry

gave me some really important information “These people are fighting.” Then someone in the crowd started talking. “T HIS IS AN EXPLOSIVE. ANYONE T RY ANYT HING, WE ALL GO POW. WE NEED MEDICINE AND JUST ICE. MEDICINE FOR ME AND MY PEOPLE, AND JUST ICE… FOR T HIS T YRANT.” And he pointed at Attia. When she saw that he was pointing at her, she looked over her shoulder, like she was checking he wasn’t pointing at someone behind her. Then everyone seemed to slow down, and I recognized it as an Asari mind trick. Asari can use their minds to make everyone around them slow down, and as everyone was slowed, Attia went from bad guy to bad guy, and

she sliced them all to pieces. Then she went to the guy with the explosive, sliced off his hand, and threw the explosive onto the stage. BOOM! Then Attia said calmly to Mal, who was staring at her, “This was lovely, darling. Hope we can do this again soon.” Then she said to us, “You’d better go back to your ship.” When I got to my room, I knew something must have happened. My room had absolutely no furniture in it, and the hard drive I’d left in my room was right in the center of the room. I called the rest of my crew there, and some liquidy thing came out, which Larry seemed to recognize as a language. Then he said something that we all could understand: ”Please don’t eat us.” And the liquid said, “We are hungry.” So

Larry threw his gun to the liquid, and it wrapped around it, and seemed to dissolve it into nothing. “You can eat this. The stupidhead Attia gave me a gun that didn’t even work!” “Thank you, friend.” It said. And Larry walked out of the room. “You know,” said Mal, “that gun probably could work. It most likely just doesn’t have any bullets in it.”

The Battle of Nowhere As I really picked up speed, more laser blasts started to blow past my body. I was somehow able to get out of the alley without dying and I was able to blend in with the crowd on the dance floor with barely enough energy to walk. After this close call I was finally able to relax a bit. When I was finally able to regain most of my energy I saw many people with weapons walking up the stairs to the V.I.P booth. Then I saw a gunshot fly through the air and it hit a guy on the stairs right in the face and then I recognized that this person was in the group that made me write noodle orders. Then the people around him seemed to scatter. After being shot the person fell down from the stairs and I went over to his body to search it. While searching his body, I found out that he had a disease called Blight. Then I knew that the reason the Shark stole medicine was because there was a Blight outbreak on this station. After searching him I found out that this person had a rudimentary club, a pocket knife, and a piece of paper with “Kimchi” written on it. After seeing his stuff, I took it all. Right after that, I saw a person throw themself right off of the V.I.P booth. From what I could tell, they were doing it willingly. After that, I saw a person climbing down from the V.I.P booth and I am pretty sure it was Victor. Then I saw 2 people on the ground who both looked like members of the Red Fang. I was also pretty sure that they both fell off of the V.I.P booth. After seeing these people, I decided to search them. I saw that they both had technological enhancements. One of them had an attachment to their face which was hard to make out, the other person had a sort of metal glove with plenty of lights on it. After looking at the glove I realized that there was no release button and after noticing that I intuit that it might be his hand. I also realized that these people didn’t have the Blight. When I looked up I saw a gigantic explosion in the V.I.P booth and then I saw a bunch of people being launched into the air from the explosion and after that they fell onto the floor. In the crowd many people started to scream, though the screams were mostly screams of delight. After that I saw the rest of my crew and Ash again. After rounding up the entire crew we started to head back to the Trident. On our way there Bee-Bop seemed very excited but I did not know why. When we finally made it back to the Trident, I ran into my room and started to lay down on my bed and relax. Annoyingly, I was not able to even lay down on my bed for 5 minutes. After a short amount of time I heard Sophia calling the crew over to her room. When I got there I was dumbfounded ; all of her furniture disappeared and there was one hard drive in the middle of her barren room. After that I heard some sort of a vibration coming from the hard drive. Then Larry said “You are liquid nanites that are experiments and we have rescued you because we are awesome, so you better not attack us or I’m going to run out screaming like a little baby and you better not eat the ship.” After 2 seconds I realized that he was talking to the hard drive. Then the nanites in the hard drive said “We are hungry.” Then Larry said “Here you can eat my gun because it doesn’t work anyways because Attia is a stupid dookie head.” Then Larry threw the gun that he got from Julie to the nanites and the nanites wrapped around the gun and ate it.

Then the nantes said “Thank you friend.” Then I told Larry “Larry, the gun probably worked. It looked new. I think you just forgot to put bullets in it.” Andrew

Caleb

The nail and the fang While we were on the way to get a document, a gunman dressed all black with a mask came in and started to shoot. We were so scared and got panic and people started to scream and run away. Our classmate Sophie got shot and her knee started to bleed. Andrew helped Sophie to the Cafe and check her knee where she got hurt. Andrew got the first aid kit and warped her knee and I stayed together with Andrew to help Sophie. The rest of the people were so scared and ran away to the back hallway. Andrew is so brave he checked confirmed that the gunman was gone. I stayed with Sophie to take care of her and Andrew came to other classmates who ran away to the back hallway and asked for help to get Sophie moved to a safe place. He told his friends that the gunman was gone and we were safe. We went back to the main hallway to get the document. I wish that no one was hurt. Next time we should be more cation and be a were.

I remember marching in line as 3rd, trying to find where my friends were. So I decided to slip by and look for my two friends, who turned out to be in the eating room, eating. My brain exploded with thoughts. Why were they eating when we were held captive? How did they escape? They didn't seem to notice me, which I thought was a bit strange since I was standing only a few feet away from them. They were eating noodles, and I was just wondering why when something hard hit my head and I blacked out.

Victor - Session 7

In the beginning, some members of “The Shark” started fighting with the Iron Nails, The Red Fangs, and Atia’s members. Atia, Mal’s ex-girlfriend, Mal, Me, Will, and Caleb were in the V.I.P booth, and we didn't go into the fight so we waited. As I look closely, I see that there are long blue lines coming up from their bodies and I think they are their veins. Meanwhile, Larry is on the dance floor and starts calling for Andrew and wants to find him. Sophia is also on the dance floor so she sees some people climbing up the stairs and shoots one on them. Also, Andrew is being chased by both the Red Fang and some of the Iron Nails, and he tries to hide on the dance floor. At the booth, Atia’s people start attacking the shark’s people and they start driving them back down the stairs. I watch as some of the shark’s people throw one of the Red Fang members of the cliff, and I back away from them. Meanwhile, Sophia fires again at the Shark’s members and she delays any more reinforcements from coming. Will wants to drive the enemies away from the booth so he enters hand-to-hand combat but he does not do too well. Zi, then finds a bottle and breaks it to make it shark and he goes to help his friend Will. Caleb gets surrounded so his only option was to jump off of the steep cliff and hopes he survives. I want to see if Caleb is ok, so I climb down to check on him and see him. Zi then starts finding things and looting in the middle of the battle to find something good. There was then an explosion near Julie who got badly hurt, but her crewmates are fine. Then someone I don't know, comes from the shark’s group and his face is covered in blood. He holds up a device of some sort and he asks for Justice for Atia, Medicine,

and food. Sophia then realizes that the time has slowed down and that Atia slowed time down and she is moving very fast, and that fighting style is mastered by the best Asari. He goes down to the leader who is holding down the device and cuts down his arm and headbutts him. After a while we head back to the Trident but in Sophia’s room there is a bunch of liquid robots that have eaten her furniture.

Zi I am on the top and hiding and I see someone… he is Will! then I find a better place to look at, the I saw a group of bad guys that has plait on them, after a few minutes Will starts fighting with them, a guy at front punch him he is down! I get up immediately and look around for something to help him then I found a black heave water bottle which looks like made of glass, that can’t hurt anybody, so I break it and make a huge “bomb” sound and made a sharp thing, but still I hope that it won’t make people note me, I want to be sneak, but I still run in fount of the guy that punch Will and stab the thing into the guy’s body, and he screams very loudly, and then I feel a wind: Will go up and punch the guy, he is down, yes! and then I squat down to search him, but he does not have anything that can help. after that, I heard a huge explore, and then I am flying! but I still fall to the ground when I am in the air I saw that Mal catch a person which does not matter, but when I am on the ground I think I saw someone make the explore, anyway after that a person walk up and have a device on his hand: "ok ok you guys got me, but I need medicine for my person " what, you want medicine when you make such a mess! "otherwise I will hit the button on this device, and boom! everything will blow up" Oh, oh ok...never mind, I take a step pack and suddenly everything seems to slow down, and a woman jumps in and slice the person's hand that have the deceive and throw the device to the shark, as the bottom hit the ground "boom" them all fall into pieces, and suddenly the slow down thing stops working and everything comes to normal...after a few minutes we come back to the ship and I going to my room.

SESSION EIGHT

Unexpected Guests

After a long, fairly boring discussion, we decided that Caleb would go and try to talk to the swarm of nanites. Me and Caleb were the best at communication, other than Larry, who wasn’t here, but I didn’t really feel like talking to the swarm that just ate all my furniture. So Caleb went in, and stopped when he was around a meter away from it. “Are you immune to gunshots?” He asked. “Of course.” said the swarm. “What do you want?” asked Zi, who was standing at the door of my room, along with the rest of the crew. “Power.” said the swarm. “Ok,” said Zi, “we can give you power.” “Take us to it.” said the swarm. We walked down the hallway, and all of a sudden, Andrew ran off. So

did Michael, Will, and Caleb. I had no idea why, but I followed them anyway. When I finally caught up with Andrew, in the hallway outside the dorms, he started shouting, “T HIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT, SOPHIA! IF YOU HADN’T TAKEN T HE HARD DRIVE, NONE OF T HIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED!” And I yelled straight back, “WELL, ONE OF US WOULD HAVE HAD TO TAKE IT ANYWAY!” Mal and Ash were at the bridge, but Mal was shouting so loud that me and Andrew could hear him from the dorms. So we went over to the bridge, and Mal was yelling, “WHO DIED AND MADE YOU T HE KING OF SPACE? WELL, T HE KING OF SPACE CAN’T DIE! WHICH MEANS YOU CAN’T T ELL ME WHAT

TO DO!” Then Ash took some white earbud out of her ear, and said, “Oh, were you talking to me this whole time?” Mal looked so angry now, he almost looked crazy. “CAN YOU PLEASE STOP SHOUT ING? WE COULD HEAR YOU ALL T HE WAY FROM T HE DORMS!” Andrew yelled. Then Andrew told Mal all about the nanites. Then he asked Mal if he could use the speakers, to tell the nanites to get off the ship. “What makes you think they haven’t hacked our communication devices and heard everything we just said?” Mal demanded. “Look, I’m sad for Victor and Zi and the guy with the big head, but maybe we can save them later! But if our ship gets destroyed, we’re all dead!”

BOOM! Something exploded in the ship, and we saw Zi in space, with the front of his spacesuit broken. Victor took a rope, and tried to haul him into the ship, and I went to the cockpit of the ship. I watched Victor and Zi, moved the ship at exactly the right time, and caught Zi and Victor! Then Mal shouted to me, “Sophia! You’re in charge!” and he ran off. Eventually, I saw Zi in the medbay. Fortunately, he was fine. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to do anything while in charge.

Unexpected guests After some silence, Caleb walked up to the nanites but he still kept a bit of distance between him and the big group of nanites. The nanites seemed to move in a group so when they moved they looked like some sort of metallic water. When Caleb got to the nanites, the nanites raised themselves up and they sat at around the same height of Caleb’s head, continuously flowing back and forth. When Caleb got there he asked “Are you immune to gunshots?” After waving around for a bit the nanites said “Of course.” After this response Caleb slowly backed away. Then Michael asked “What happened to Sophia's furniture?” “Consumed,” replied the nanites. “What do you want?” asked Zi. “Power,” responded the nanites. After that, I decided to head to the chemistry lab to go brew up an explosive liquid, just in case the nanites turned out to be hostile. When I got there I saw Michael following me. After seeing him we got to work on this explosive liquid. After some time we were able to make it successfully and I put it in a small vial. Then I put the vial of the liquid in my pocket. After that, I saw Will arrive in the lab as well. When I saw him I was a bit confused on why he came to the lab. After that, I started to head out of the lab, but while I was in the hallway, I ran into the rest of the crew who were being led by Zi. After I saw them I noticed that the nanites were following Zi as well. When I saw the rest of my crew, I took the vial out of my pockets and hid the vial behind my back. After hiding the liquid I was confident that none of the other crew members or the nanites knew that I had this liquid. “Uh, hi guys,” I said. After I said that, some other crew members said “hi” back to me. After that, Zi walked up to me and started to whisper in my ear. He told me to give him my “explosive thingy”. When he said that, I was confused on how he knew that I had an explosive liquid because I thought that I had kept it completely concealed. I also wondered how he knew that the vial contained an explosive liquid because I did not label it. I was also reluctant to give him the liquid, because the nanites were not hostile and I did not want to make a new enemy, although they were turning out to be a bigger and bigger problem each minute. “What thing,” I whisper. After some silence I said “Have a good day!” and I ran to my room. After running for a bit, I turned around and saw some crew members following me, but they did not seem to be chasing me. After a while I realized that the nanites probably came from whatever Sophia stole from the derelict ship. When I got to the dorms I saw the rest of the crew still following me and I think that they were just heading to their rooms.

Then I saw Sophia walking into her empty room and I said to her “None of this would have happened if you didn’t decide to steal. Or else we would’ve probably been safe from the cops.” “No one would’ve had to take it anyways,” she responded. After a minute or so, a speaker that was connected to a communication terminal went *Bing bing bing*. Then, I heard Zi’s voice talking, he said “I will lead them outside and you guys can turn the ship and aim the engine towards the swarm.” After that, I ran to a communication terminal close to the dorms and I said “Glad to hear it pal.” Then I started to walk to the bridge to see if I could help steer the ship for Zi’s plan. I also noticed that a few other crew members at the dorms decided to go to the bridge as well. Then I heard Mal’s voice down the hall and he was saying “Tell me, tell me, who died, tell me who died!” After walking for a bit, I opened the door to the bridge and I saw Mal yelling at Ash, who was looking at space through the window of the bridge. Mal was saying “Seriously, who died and made you king of space? Hmm? Can you tell me that? Because the last time I checked, king of space is still a vacant job! So that guy couldn't have possibly have died, so you can’t possibly be the boss of me! So why do you think you can tell me, where to go?” After hearing this, I looked at Ash. Surprisingly she did not respond and she continued to look out of the window. After a while, Ash turned around and reached under her hair. Then she took out an earbud and she looked at Mal and said “Oh, I’m-I’m sorry. Have, you’ve been talking to me the whole time?” “No,” responded Mal. After that he turned to me and the other crew members and said “Hey guys! What’s uhh, how’s it-how’s it going?” “Can you guys stop arguing,” I say to Mal “I can hear this from my room.” Mal replies “Alright. Alright. We weren't arguing. I was ummm… . Fine, what’s going on man?” “There is this group of thing eating nanites that we’re trying to lure; well not me and this group, but some people are trying to lure out of the ship and-are you with us?” After I said that Mal got a very surprised look on his face. Then he started to look towards Ash. “Do you have anything to add to this?” Mal asked Ash. Then Ash walked up to me. “This ship is equipped with nanites,” she said with a sceptical attitude. “Not our ship. But someone... I think... brought a... tiny bit of nanites, onto our ship… like maybe 3 or 4,” I replied. “From like a nanite store?” asked Ash. “Uhh... a place. Probably a radioactive ship, but somewhere,” I replied awkwardly. “Wait,” Ash said. Then she looked towards Sophia and said “Sophia! What did you take off that derelict ship?” Then Sophia replied and said “I have no idea.” “A-alright,” said Ash, looking at Bee-Bop “Um... so that was a crime. Um... but that doesn't matter right now because... that ship was experimental and… quarantined.” “For what reason?” I asked. “Uh... for classified reasons. Classified reasons” replied Ash. “Oh, thanks a lot,” I responded sarcastically “That totally sums it up.”

“Look... I’m not the one who went on a salvage-ok, it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter,” said Ash “Who’s with th-who’s with the nanites?” “A part of our crew and some people are trying to lure them into space,” I reply. “They’re near the airlock?” asked Ash. “Uh, yes,” I said “Do you have any brilliant suggestions?” “Uh, yes. We vent them into space,” replied Ash. “That’s exactly what we’re trying to do,” I said. “No, I mean all of them,” said Ash. “Everybody over there right now, we vent the cabin. We manually override the airlock and suck everything out into space.” “Please tell me there is no way to open the airlock from the bridge,” I said. “The bridge has the ability to open any door on the ship with captain’s override,” responded Ash. Then I started to head to the communication terminal on the bridge to warn the other crew members that the airlock door might open. While I was walking to the communication terminal Ash said to me “Whoh-whoa-whoa, what are you doing?” Then I paused and said “Making a message.” “A message?” said Ash “You’re gonna broadcast a message to the computer to trick a swarm of robots?” “No, I’m going to tell the crew to get out of the airlock, so we don’t have any more deaths,” I respond. “What makes you think the swarm of highly advanced robots isn’t already in your communications system and hasn’t already been listening to everything you’ve said to each other?” asked Ash. “You know what, you’re right,” I said. “Of course I’m right,” said Ash “Look, I’m sad for Zi, and Victor, and... what’s his face, the loud one who’s always hiding under his bed? I’m Sad for them and maybe we can pick them up in space, maybe they’re not goners. But the point is if we don’t get those things off the ship now, we might all be dead.” Then I said “Well... if they die, wouldn't we get in trouble with them?” “OH... MY... GOD!” Mal said to me “Wouldn't we get in trouble with them? I’m not venting my crew into space. You know that better than anybody. They almost lost the whole ship waiting for us to come back with batteries and now we’re going to pop them into space?” After Mal stopped yelling at me I said “Um… . Hey I got a good idea, why doesn't someone go and tell them to get out of the airlock.” “Listen,” said Mal “They’re trained professionals. They’re great at their job.” After saying that, Ash started to look at him. “No they’re g-even Larry. Ok? They’re good at their job. Let my people work. They have a plan. I didn’t get this far by venting people into space,” said Mal. Then Ash started to look around our very junky ship. Then Ash said “Oh yes. It’s good to see you’ve reached the pinnacle of your profession through teamwork and trust in your people.” Then Zi, Larry, Victor, and the nanites appeared on a screen on the bridge and everybody on the bridge looked at the screen. After a bit, Larry came up to the nanites and said “I’m going to do nothing at all!”

Then Larry left, leaving only Zi and Victor with the nanites. After that, Zi went into the airlock and he took down a space suit and then he started to put on the space suit. Then the nanites slithered into the airlock with Zi. Suddenly, I started to think that these nanites were a very big problem and I started to consider using my explosive liquid. “Can you give us more information on what this thing is?” I asked Ash. “Uh... I don’t-I don’t. Ok, so we have nanites, we use nanites, your people use nanites, they’re a whole bunch of very powerful computers. Um... you can put them inside people, to like... repair organs and kill cancer and stuff like that. You can also put them inside people to eat their brain. There are a lot of things that you can do with nanites. We don’t know what these nanites were programmed to do. These ones seem to be thinking for themselves, which is pretty freaky because they’re not supposed to do that. They are like miniscule, they can't possibly have brains,” replied Ash. After hearing this I decided that now would be a good time to use the explosive chemical. “Are they immune to um... explosive chemicals?” I asked Ash to make sure that using the explosive chemical would be useful and not pointless. Then Ash told me that nanites were probably not immune to explosive liquids. After hearing this, I started to sun to the corridor with the nanites. While I was running there I passed Larry, who was running in the opposite direction. When I got to the corridor I told Victor to catch my explosive chemical and I told Zi to run. Then I tried to throw the explosive liquid towards Victor so he could catch it. But the worst thing possible happened. In the middle of my throw a sharp pain went through my arm and the explosive liquid sailed sideways a bit. Lucky Victor knew what the explosive liquid was and he was just able to catch it. When Victor got the chemical he told Zi to duck and then he threw the chemical at the nanites. After that, the internal airlock door closed and the external airlock door started to open. Then the explosive chemical exploded in the airlock. When I went up to look at the airlock all I saw was space. Then I realized that Mal used the captain’s override to eject the nanites and Zi into space. After realizing what happened, I ran as quick as I could to the shuttle bay to board the Coffin so I could fly it to Zi and bring him back. When I got to the shuttle bay, I went inside the Coffin and I took off. After taking off, the Trident turned and I was barely able to make it out of the way of the turning ship. Then I started to fly to the area around the airlock. When I got there I saw Victor and Zi being caught by the ship and I saw a rope attached to Victor. After seeing that they were safe inside the ship, I started to realize that someone from the bridge probably steered the ship to turn a bit to catch Zi and Victor. I also realised that Victor was probably trying to rescue Zi by tying himself to the ship and jumping out into space. Then I did a scan and I picked up no sign of the nanites. After doing the scan I decided to fly around the Trident to see if there was any exterior damage. When I was finished with my damage check, I flew the coffin back to the shuttle bay and I got out of the parked Coffin and I started to head to the medical bay to see if Zi was in the medical bay and to see if Zi was alright. When I got there, I saw the rest of the crew watching Zi, who

was on life support. Then Mal picked up Victor with one arm and yelled “YOU BLEW HIM UP! YOU BLEW HIM UP!” Then he dropped Victor to the ground and said to him “And then you jumped into space after him! As though I needed to lose two of you in one day! Don’t do either of those things again! Good work in the aftermath.” Then he turned to the crew and said “What are you looking at!?” After that he shoved his way past the crew and he left the medical bay. For the rest of the day we all took turns looking after Zi in the medical bay. When it got late into the night, I headed into my room and collapsed onto my bed. Andrew

I stared, horrified at the weird blob that was now belching as Sophia's furniture was gone. One of my friends bravely stepped forward and asked the blob, "Are you immune to gunshots?" The Blob hesitated, then replied, "Of course". His voice was so cold I felt my hands sweating. “Where are Sophia’s furniture?” my friend asked. “In my stomach” the Blob replied. “What do you want?” “I want power,” the Blob told him. At this point, some of my scientist friends were leaving, so I decided to follow them and see what they were up to. We went to the lab and made an exploding potion that looked like it could work perfectly. Just then the Blob and the rest of my friends came to the lab and I could see my friend slip the vial of explosion in his pocket. “Hi.” my friend said. “Sup" the other person says. He marches up to my friend and whispers something I couldn’t hear but I think they were making a plan. My friend then ran to his room so I thought that was part of the plan so I also ran to my room. I could see Sophia and I blamed this on her. I realized I was tired so I went to my bed while hearing an explosion and groaning outside my wall. Then I slept

Victor - Session 8 -

In the beginning, we found a particularly strange Nanite about our ship, The Trident, and I did not yet find it threatening in any way yet. Almost our whole crew came into Sophia’s room to identify this weird liquid thing that was now, moving around the floor like water, but it was actually a bunch of tiny robots. For a few minutes we took a crew talk and thought of a few ways to destroy this thing, or get it off the ship. Caleb then asks a very stupid question and says if the robot liquid is immune to laser shots or not, it said it wasnt but I felt that it was lying because I could kind of hear it in its voice. Michael asked the robot where in the world all Sophia’s furniture went and it replied “ Consumed “. Zi also asks the Nanite a question and that is what it wants doing on the Trident and it wishes for a lot of power. Andrew gets a little nervous and he goes to the lab to make a highly explosive bomb just in case it attacks the ship. Zi comes up with a tactic and tells the Nanite that he can give it power and it is somewhere he knows and the Nanite tells him to lead him toward it. Zi leads him through the hallway but stops at the end of it. Almost everyone abandons their post so some hide under their bed, and some go do something else while only me and Zi are left behind. I then tell the Nanite that there is power right outside the ship and it has to go out into space to get the power that it wants. After a while experimenting on it and trying to get it into space I found out that it is VERY smart and could not fall for a trick that I do. Zi then contacts someone and ends up contacting the dorms where everyone is presently and he tells them that we are trying to trick it outside into space. Andrew goes to the bridge and he hears Mal and Ash arguing about who is the captain and about orders. He asks Ash about Nanites and she starts giving him lots of useful information about nanites. Zi

then puts on a spacesuit and goes into the airlock, hoping the Naites will follow and they do. Andrew then tells me that he throws me the bomb and I try to blow up the Nanite so he rushes to where I am standing and he chucks the grenade at me so I can catch it. Mal then flips two switches and Zi gets thrown out into space so he wouldn't get blown up, but it was too late. I quickly get a thick, and sturdy rope and attach it to the ship, as I go out into space to try and bring Zi back. I know that Zi only has a 5 minute oxygen tank left, so I hurry as fast as I can toward him and bring him back to the ship. He then grabs onto me, and I quickly try to hurry my way back to the ship by pulling the rope back to me as I get closer and closer. As I just think we might get out of this alive, Zi’s oxygen tank runs out and he is unconscious. I finally made it to the ship and I did CPR on Zi and just barely brought him back to life again. Mal quickly picked him up and put him in the medical bay so he could get healthy again. Mal then walks toward me and uses his huge arm to pick me up off the ground at least 2 feet and tells me not to do that ever again. Zi goes to the mechanical place and suddenly he drops unconscious, he is ok, because he gets up after a while, but bip-bop enters the room and says that he hopes he was not interrupting anything.

Zi Sophia is down and a black weird-looking “worm” standing beside her, after we discuss for a few minutes we decide to let Caleb talk to it, so he walks up to it about 1 meter and stops after they look at each other for a few seconds Caleb ask: ”are you immunity to gunshot?”How rude! but surprisingly it did not get angry, instead, it answers in a deep voice “of course.” and after that Cable goes back, how do we know that it is telling us the true thing? but if that is true...it will be a big problem and then Michael asked what happen to Sophia’s furniture and the “worm” again answered in a deep voice but I don’t know the word! and I saw Andrew sneak in the Direction of the lab, and the “worm” did not see him! come on Andrew, make something useful. I need to make time for him, so I step out and ask him: “what do you want?” “POWER” it answered immediately “I can give you power.” I told him without thinking” LEAD” it again answers in a deep voice, wait a minute...what did I just say! I can’t give it power, I don’t even know what is “power”, wait... I can tell him that the thing Andrew made is “Power” and… so I lead it to Andrew which is the direction of the lab, and I met him! I walk up and whispered to Andrew: “ Give me the thing.” “what thing?” Andrew asks, WHAT THING! don’t tell me that you are hiding under the be the bed all the time.” The thing you just make!” but Andrew seems to ignore me, after saying goodbye he ran away… what do I do now! maby I can lock him outside the ship, so I lead him to the door, there is one airlock and another airlock so there is a gap between the two airlocks Victor tell him that there is power beside the ship, but he doesn’t want to get out because it is too cold, at least he doesn’t seem to be doubt about us, but I really don’t know what to do now. Victor open the first airlock and I lead it to the gap, I open the phone and want to tell the other person what to do, and “DODGE” I heard someone yell after that I heard a huge” BOOM” and suddenly I hear nothing “am I died?” and I opened my eyes obviously I am not but I can’t live any longer it shows that there are only five minutes left for me and I saw something like the “worm” but it disappears, and I saw someone coming, so I open the air tank and I float to him, and… I and sitting at my working desk smelling the smell of the fresh wood, feeling the sunshine of afternoon and I look at my two wood toys: a space ship and an astronaut as I think that someone is playing with it I saw something weird, the face of the astronaut is purple and the eyes is an x I pick it up and suddenly I can’t breathe! the astronaut becomes a liquid thing and clime up my body until it clime into my mouth…suddenly I can breathe again, when I wake up Victor is looking at me strangely “why are you looking at me like that?” I ask, and Bee-Bop comes in.

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As we started landing on another planet, Larry started talking to a robot. He was supposed to be asking for medicine, since now the Shark was dead and we didn’t find his body, but for some reason Larry was ordering chicken nuggets from McDonalds. As we descended from the ship, Beep Bop cracked a bad joke at Mal, and he held up his hand for a high five. Andrew raised his hand, but Mal said, “Don’t high five that!” and Beep Bop laughed. “HA. HA. HA.” Mal got two passes to the city, and randomly picked one of us to give the second pass to. Unfortunately, I didn’t get the pass. Andrew got it. Then, Mal and Beep Bop left, and the group decided to go to the weapons store. But it had been a while since I’d gotten the ramen noodles, and I wanted to get some food (for later). I walked away from the rest of the crew, and went to a vending machine. I saw that there was a packet of noodles hanging out, and I shook the machine. I actually got the noodles out, along with another package of noodles, a pack of cookies, and a few sports drinks! Then, I caught up with the rest of the crew, and we went to a gun store. It seemed deserted, so Larry just started grabbing guns and leaving money on a counter. Suddenly, a bunch of people came in and pointed a bunch of guns our way. “What do you think you’re doing?” demanded a guy. “Uh…” said Larry. “It’s illegal to grab those guns!” Then a fairly boring discussion followed, and they called Ash, and we left without any injuries, except for Larry getting punched in the head. It had turned out, all the guns were fake, and the store was to catch terrorists. “Well, now that’s the second time I’ve gotten a fake gun!” Larry

complained. “Larry,” I said, “The first gun was real. It just didn’t have ammo.” Then we went to a restaurant for ramen, and we went back to the ship. It was the most peaceful day we’d had so far. I hated it. It was boring… except for the free food from the vending machine.

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Altera Prime After waking up, the entire crew was called into the meeting room. In the middle of the room was a holographic map of the Theta Quadrant. When everybody settled down in the meeting room, Mal said “Well, we have ourselves a bit of a problem. See, we had a mission to capture and kill the Shark and uh... we were able to confirm his death… thank you very much Andrew. We were not able to recover his body... which is unfortunate and we have not been able to yet solve his crime, the reason why he did these things. Now, we could turn around and head back home and say that we’ve done the job, but they’re just going to send us back out here. Essentially what happened... from what I can tell, from what I can ascertain combining my information with the esteemed Mrs. Johnson is that our buddy shark here stole medical supplies that were being sent by the Federation to aid - surprisingly enough - the colony of New Montreal. For those of you that are not uh... brushed up on the recent history of the Theta Quadrant, this was a colony that was established by the Federation. It was one of two planets in this sector that were colonized. The first was colonized with public money by the Federation itself, by the... good folks back home on Earth. The idea there is that they pay to establish a colony and then they govern you. So… here’s the thing, this medicine was intended for the folks in New Montreal who staged an armed rebellion against the federation a couple decades ago, which was successful. As it turned out, it was not cost effective to send people out here to suppress these people, so they were allowed to go free and all was well and good in the colony for a time, but now it appears that their economy is on the bridge of collapse and they are suffering from a virus, a virus we refer to as the Blight.” “We saw symptoms of it on the rebels back at Nowhere,” said Ash “It was a little hard for me to spot... . *Sigh* We have it on Altera Prime but it's not a big deal. It-it’s like the chickenpox used to be on Earth. It’s just like... you know, you get it as kids, you get these weird green things on your neck, your arms, and your face and stuff. You take some medicine, it goes away, from time to time people get scars because you scratched them too much, but it’s not a big deal, nobody gets hurt by it.” “Well, it is completely unchecked and it is killing people in New Montreal right now and it has pushed them and their society to the verge of collapse, which is why the Federation has saw fit to provide this aid,” said Mal “I think they’re hoping to get the rebels back into our good graces and maybe bring them back inside the circle, I don’t know I’m not a politician.” Then Ash spoke up and said “Well, maybe we don’t need to find the shipment. Um... we have piles of it on Altera Prime, it’s not a big deal there. It’s, you know... the common cold.” “I think it's our only option really,” responded Mal “We head to Altera Prime and we see how we do when it comes to picking up more of this vaccine or medicine.” After hearing this, I asked if Altera Prime would treat us nicely because Ash is on our ship and Ash is a citizen of Altera Prime. “Well, I am a peacekeeper,” responded Ash “Um... that comes with certain privileges. I can certainly vouch for you. How they chose to respond to the Federation is not going to be in my hands, but we are a civilized society full of civilized people and you’re here to try prevent a humanitarian disaster. So I don’t anticipate any problems with you just landing Downtown Altera Prime for about-you know if we call ahead and that kind of thing. Frankly I think it would be a lot safer to do that then to-I don’t know, like to sneak around because you will get caught.”

After hearing this we all decided to take a peaceful approach. Then we all went to the bridge. When we got there some crew members started to steer the Trident towards Altera Prime. As we were heading there, I noticed 2 planets. One of the planets was New Montreal which looked beige-ish and the other one was Altera Prime and it looked lush and green. After seeing these planets I noticed two very beautiful binary stars. Then I started to look at Altera Prime again. As I was looking at it, I saw geometric patterns that were cities. It was a truly magnificent sight. While flying I noticed a bunch of satellites orbiting around Altera Prime. When we passed the satellites our PA system went *bing bing bing*. Shortly after this I heard a voice over the PA system and it said “Welcome to Altera Prime! How may I direct your visit?” “Bing bong ding dong, we need some medicine,” said Larry. “Im sorry, I don’t understand your question. Try again,” said the person over the PA. “Ok. I said, bing bong ding dong we need some medicine, please,” said Larry. By this point I had no idea why Larry was saying “bing bong ding dong”. Then the voice over the PA said “Transferring you to public assistance.” After hearing this, another voice came over the PA system and said “Hi buddy, how are you doing. I understand that you are having a little bit of difficulty.” “Yup, good. We just need some medicine,” said Larry. “Medicine?” said the new person over the PA “What’s the nature of your medical emergency pal?” “Well here’s the problem,” said Larry “So we were supposed to retrieve some medicine on a mission but we lost it, so we’re just going here to get some.” “A shopping trip?” said the voice over the PA. “Yes,” responded Larry. “Altera Prime features some of the best shopping in the entire sector,” said the voice “Perhaps you could visit the commercial district.” “Nah, we’re good,” responded Larry “Just take us to the medical place.” “What is the nature of your medical emergency?” asked the voice. By this point I figured out that the voice was probably not coming from a person and the person talking was just a very happy robot. “Beep boop bing bong, take us to the medicine please,” said Larry “No more assistance needed.” “I have difficulty directing your message but perhaps you would like to pay a visit to our visitors center,” responded the voice. “Do you guys have a McDonalds?” asked Larry. “Yes!” the voice enthusiastically responded. “I will order a Chicken Nugget Happy Meal please. Extra Barbecue Sauce, Fries, no apple slices and a Gogurt” said Larry. After that we got a notification on our ship asking permission to take control of this ship's guidance systems. When Zi saw this he started to do something that was probably trying to prevent other people from taking control of our guidance systems. This theory was proven to be correct when the voice over the PA said “We’re having some slight difficulties providing you with guidance. Please provide these coordinates to your pilot and

exercise caution while following them. If you deviate from this order *chuckle* we will blow you out of the sky.” “The only way I’m letting you blow us out of the sky is when I get my Chicken Nugget Happy Meal, ok?” said Larry. After a brief thank-you-for-using-our-services the line went dead. “Larry!” I said “Why did you say that! You could’ve said that we just need to get some medicine!” “Hey look,” responded Larry “I said that. He said that there was no medicine, so I asked for a happy meal because I am hungry and also I have a headache.” “They said they didn’t have any medicine because you called the robot bing bong!” I responded. After that, our navigators (who were Caleb and Sophia) got the coordinates and we started to fly towards Altera Prime. As we were flying to the surface of Altera Prime, we passed over lush rainforests with bizarre birds flying around. The wings of these birds connected to their legs which made them resemble a flying squirrel. After passing the rainforest I came across a very pretty city. After some time we finally landed at a rather busy launching pad. After landing, two big claws locked our ship into place. Then a scan started to happen. During the scan a stern voice came over the PA and said “Welcome to Altera Prime. Now commencing decontamination scan. Nothing personal everybody, we’re just here to check that you’re not bringing any kind of freaky outside viruses or like crazy predatory artificial intelligences. Nothing that could destroy our planet if it is set loose, that kind of thing.” After 10 minutes the scan was finished and the claws released the Trident. “You're clean,” said the stern voice “Welcome to Altera Prime. Try not to break the law.” When he was done saying that the door you the Trident opened up and we all stopped on the surface of an alien planet. After getting onto this planet, Ash started to talk to a person wearing a similar uniform as hers. “You know... trash can, if your partner’s about to sell us out I will throw you off of this landing pad,” said Mal to Bee-Bop. After he said this I tried to tell Mal that I would be off exploring Altera Prime. “Uh… woah-hang on, hang on a second,” Mal said to me after I told him what I was going to do “Let’s wait and see if our-our lovely cop friend over here is going to betray us or give us a key to this city.” After talking for a bit Ash and this person walked into a building. “I would like to see you try to throw me off of this landing pad, meet-bag” said Bee-Bop to Mal. When he was finished talking he looked towards the rest of the crew for a high-five. The moment when me and the rest of the crew saw this, we all started to high-five Bee-Bop. When Mal saw this he said “Don’t high-five that!” “Up-high! Up-high! Up-high! Ha, Ha, Ha!” said Bee-Bop “Nobody is betraying anybody, you’re just being processed.” “Well, I understand that Andrew wants to go exploring,” Mal said to the rest of the crew “I don’t really have a problem with that. Umm... I’ve actually got my own business I need to take care of here, so let’s say we meet back here in a couple of hours. I don’t think we have a budget to take a hotel on Altera Prime but I don’t think they have a problem with us sleeping in the ship.” After a little bit more time, Ash returned with the person that she was talking to.

“I understand that you are here as a diplomatic envoy from the Federation,” said the man that Ash was just talking to “Do you understand that the Federation has no authority over Altera Prime as we have paid for our position to be here?” “Naturally,” said Mal. “Very good, so you have no authority and you are subjected to Altera Prime Criminal Code,” said the person “Do make sure that you familiarize yourself with it.” Then he pressed a button and looked at our crew. After this he said to Ash “I did not see their data implants light up.” Then Ash said “Oh! They don’t - they don’t - they don’t... they’re like not a very... they’re like a junk ship so they can’t - it’s not in the budget. They can’t afford it.” “Ah… aright,” said the person, “We have a hard copy that you can pick up from the office and associate yourself with our law-um-uh-er-um-uh... . Anyway, you can read it, you can understand the uh... laws and stuff. Don’t break them or... we’ll break you or something like that. Anyway, have a good day folks.” After he said that he walked away really flustered, like he was trying to be intimidating but it did not go as planned. “Uh... the pass?” said Ash. Then the person turned around and said “Oh… right ya-uh-good looking out.” Then he came back and extended his arm, and in his hand were two cards. “This will get you diplomatic access all across… all across the capital, enjoy your stay, stay out of trouble,” said the person. After saying this he walked away again. Then Mal took one of the cards and he handed the other one to me. On the card it said “Diplomat” and then below it, it ironically said “not immune to prosecution”. “Alright! See you guys in a couple of hours,” said Mal, then he walked away. After this Ash turned to us and said “Well... thank you very much... for the uh... hospitality you showed after resisting arrest and what not, but I’m glad we can put that all behind us. Um... I have somebody I need to go see, but uh... I hope to see you again some time soon.” Then she walked away leaving the rest of us alone with Bee-Bop. “Have a good time meat bags, I am going to party,” said Bee-Bop, then he left as well. After some time we all decided to go to a weapon store so we could get something to protect ourselves. After walking around in the city a bit, I started to wonder where the weapon store was. Right when I was thinking this, a blue hologram of a woman popped up out of a metal circle on the ground that looked like the cover of a manhole and said “Hi, I’m Zoe. Do you need directions?” “Where is the weapon store?” I asked the hologram. “There are numerous personnel defence stores located all across the commerce district,” said the woman “Does this satisfy your query?” Then one crew member asked her for a map. “Sorry, there seems to be a problem interacting with your neural implants. We do have a physical version at the office,” said the woman. “Can you just give us directions to the nearest weapon store?” I asked the woman.

“Yes,” she responded, “Head 4 kilomeaters east, then turn left on broadview number 12, head 3 kilomeaters west, then turn right on seaside village road, head 2 kilomeaters north, from there you cannot miss it.” As I was trying to remember these directions, I heard a loud shaking noise and I turned around and saw Sophia shaking a vending machine to try and get some free food. What a weirdo I thought as she kept shaking the vending machine. “Is there anything else you need assistance with?” asked the woman. “No, now get back to your hologram thing,” I responded. “With pleasure,” said the woman and then she went back into her hologram thingy. Then I heard some more shaking sounds and when I turned around, I was surprised to see that Sophia managed to get food out of the vending machine. The food she got out of the vending machine was 2 noodle packets and I told Sophia that there were already 2 packets of noodles on the ground and that she should stop shaking the vending machine. Ironically, after I said that more food fell onto the ground. After that Sophia picked up her snacks and we all headed to the weapon store. When we got to the location, we noticed that there were actually 3 weapon stores. While we were walking there I also noticed that there were a bunch of stores and at the front of all the stores were shopkeepers but they did not yell. There were also holograms of the shopkeepers that did yell. The 3 weapon shops all had pictures of weapons spinning above them. The first gun shop looked very fancy but it had no door and this store had a quiet hologram standing in front of it. The second gun shop looked very run down with so hologram ad several bullet holes. The third one looked like a normal weapon shop and at the front there was a person chewing something very loudly. I started to walk up to the fancy store and the hologram looked towards me and said “Greetings, my friend. Do you find yourself in need of some protection?” “Of course I do,” I said “We’re always in danger aren’t we?” “That is the nature of existence, is it not? The struggle to survive, to thrive, to grow. Welcome to Koo Ot Industries I am Koo Ot. How may I help you?” said the hologram. “Can you take me to the gun lab, if you have one?” I asked. “Would you like to become a member of Koo Ot Industries?” asked the hologram. “Uh no. Just like a quick make your own weapons thing,” I said. “Would you like the trial offer?” asked the hologram. “How much does that cost?” I asked. “Oh, the trial is free of course,” responded the hologram. “Oh, ok,” I said “I will do it but can you also make an offer for my crewmates because they’re in need of-” Then I was interrupted by the hologram who said “Completing a biometric scan of your body in order to add you to our approved list.” “Uh... ok,” I said. Then the scan started. When it was done, a hologram of me stepped out of my body. Then my hologram turned towards me and said “Woah!” “Hi hologram me, do you want to do what they made you to do?” I asked. “Ya! Sure!” said my hologram very enthusiastically.

Then he walked through the front wall and then the front wall went transparent. Through the front wall I saw the hologram of me walk to the center of the room. Then Koo Ot asked “What sort of protection are you looking for?” “I am looking for a gun, preferably a laser gun,” I respond. “A laser gun…” said Koo Ot. After he said this, hologram me had a laser gun. “Let’s see how you would handle yourself if you were attacked right now,” said Koo Ot. When he said this, another hologram with a sword came out and chopped hologram me in half. “Ohhhh. Maybe we can even the odds out a little bit,” said Koo Ot Then the thing rewinded itself and hologram me started to be put back together. After this my hologram’s laser gun got replaced with a bigger laser gun and then Koo Ot said “Now let’s see how it happens.” Then the same thing happened again but my hologram was able to shoot the other hologram in half. “Now that's what I’m talking about! Eh? Am I right, am I right, or am I right!” said Koo Ot, “That is the Pacifier 10! It can pacify any harmful obstacles that you may encounter. How many can I put you guys down for?” “Uh... just one for me,” I said . “We don’t do orders of one. I assumed that this was for yourself and your security detail,” said Koo Ot while gesturing towards my crewmates. Then I asked my crewmates if they wanted these guns. They all agreed and by no time our holograms were in the room blasting other holograms. After placing an order, we gave him the location of our ship and he said that he would be delivered. Then he disappeared. After that we went to the second gun store. When we got there there was no one inside and some crewmates (not including me) started to take guns and for every gun they took they left some money. Then Larry started to run out of the shop, but right when he was about to get out he was cracked on the head by a baton. Then a very large policeman tackled Larry to the ground. Then I heard voices of cops from outside say “FREEZE!” “What did I do?” said Larry. “You know exactly what you did, terrorist scum,” said the policeman. “I don’t know what I did! Please tell me! If you tell me we will not get farther from the solution! We will get closer to the solution!” screamed Larry. After saying this all of the people at the doorway paused and said “Your purchasing illegal weapons.” “If it's illegal why is there a shop here?” said Larry, “When I asked if I could purchase any weapons nobody answered! I didn't know it was illegal so SCREW YOU!” “Are you stupid?” asked the large policeman on top of Larry. “We just got here a few minutes ago, it’s not our fault,” said Larry. “Ya. We had intel that the resistance is moving more fighters into this area. Why am I telling you any of this?” said the policeman on top of Larry. Then I tried to walk out the door and when I got to the policemen I showed them my diplomat card and said “I’m a diplomat so you better respect me.”

“Yes we knew that you would be using diplomatic cover, that’s what the intel said,” said another policeman, “Put your hands up in the air or let’s shoot it out with your new guns. We prefer the second one personally.” “I have a counter argument,” said Larry, “We never knew it was illegal.” After saying this the police still didn't look convinced. Knowing that there was no other option, I said to the police “Look over there!” Then I pulled out the pistol that Arcturus Mengsk gave me and fired. I did not hit the police but I did scare them. “Alright-alright-alright!” a policeman said to me “Let’s talk about that diplomatic immunity-I mean diplomatic card. Where are you from?” “I’m from Earth and we’ve just arrived here with one of your citizens who is literally-kind of our friend so what are you guys doing?” “Who?” asked the policeman. “Ashley Johnson from Altera Corp,” I said. Then I heard some conversations among the police. Then a cop said “Thank you for participating in this test of uh... of uh... Altera’s anti-gun running of um uh... policies. Please return the decoy weapons, to where you got them from, and accept our sincerest apologies. We’ve appeared to be mistaken.” “But I wanted to buy a gun,” said Larry. “These guns don’t work sir,” said a cop. “What?” asked Larry. “These guns don’t work sir, they’re here to catch terrorists,” said the cop. “Ok, so can I take back my 160?” asked Larry. “Can you take back what?” said the cop. “My 160,” said Larry. “Oh sure, take your filthy bucks, we don’t want ‘em,” said the cop. Then we all went to the third gun store. I was not really paying any attention to what was happening and before I knew it I saw Larry coming out of the store with one big gun. Then we all decided that we should get back to the Trident because it was getting late. While we were walking back to the Trident a young man with a small stubble, bumped into me. I could’ve sworn that this guy could’ve just walked around me. Then I put my hand in my pocket but my diplomat card was gone. We had just lost our only diplomat card meaning that we would not be able to get back to the Trident until we found it. Then I found something else in my pocket. It was a menu for a restaurant called Château La Magnifique. Then I realized that the person that just bumped into me must’ve taken it. After thinking about this I started to chase after him while being followed by my crew members. “Get back here you thief!” I said as I chased after this man. After chasing him through a few streets he ran into a restaurant called Château La Magnifique. When we entered the restaurant we didn’t see him and we were greeted by an old man. “Ah, bonjour mon ami. How may we serve you tonight?” said the old man. “I don’t want service, I want to find the guy who stole my card,” I said. “Ah perhaps you should speak to the gendarme,” said the old man. “A guy just came into this restaurant, can we roam around this restaurant to find this guy?” I ask. “What did he look like?” said the man.

“He has a small mustache and he looks pretty young,” I replied. “I have never seen a person that matches this description in my life,” said the old man. This guy was a bit hard to read but there was no way he did not see the guy who stole my diplomat card. “Now would you like to eat some food?” said the old man. After listening to our entire crew say no, the old man said “Tell you what, we will um... on ze house... what do you say.” After hearing this I tried to scooch past him but he walked in front of me with surprising quickness. “May I insist, monsieur and mademoiselle that we have some dinner?” asked the man “Perhaps some fromage, oui? We have a big table, perhaps we can draw it out for you.” Then I asked him to turn out his pockets and he did and they were empty. “Perhaps you may be interested in our special of ze day,” said the Man, then he handed me a menu and in the menu I saw my diplomat card. When I saw it I took it and we all decided to leave. After we left Château La Magnifique, we all went to a ramen shop that was pretty close to the runway. When we got there we all started to order and as I was eating I heard a man say “Ah, yes I would like one kimchi please.” When I heard this it made me think about Zay’s orders to look out for anyone ordering kimchi. Even though I was not at Nowhere I looked at the man ordering kimchi and it was Arcturus Mengsk. When I saw him I ignored him and I tried to leave the ramen bar, but as I was leaving he looked at me and said “I heard, about *chuckle* the moment when you stepped into the bear trap earlier today. It’s admirable, what you came here to do. Just keep in mind, that the Federation’s interests will always out-weigh your own. If things go our way here, your lives will get much better. If things go against us here, you will be late. Sorry I don’t make the rules. Oh, and that little order that you put in, that one that was ludicrously expensive and that you could possibly never afford, um... don’t worry about it. I want to make sure my people - and you are my people - have everything they need.” Then he got up and walked away. “What does the Federation want us to do?” I asked Arcturus. “Oh... it officially... nothing. Do the medicine, do the good things that you’re supposed to do. Just understand that the Federations interests here are reasserting control over... both colonies,” responded Arcturus, then he walked away. Then we all walked back to the Trident excitedly because of the gun orders that we got for free, but when we got there, there was nothing waiting for us. Andrew

I woke up with a start. I got dressed and looked outside. I saw a souvenir shop and decided it was a good idea to get some things. My friends were already up so I followed them and they were in the weapon shop, getting weapons. So I was there and out of the blue, this man started attacking my friend because he bought a “Pew-Pew” gun and was wrestling and I decided to help. After that incident, my other friend lost his super important card and we followed the thief. The thief went to a restaurant but the restaurant owner didn’t see anyone and suspiciously, gave my friend a menu WITH his card inside it.

Victor - Session 9 - There is no name

In the beginning, Zi walks around the ship and he runs into Mal which tells him he should have been resting the whole time. After a while, Mal then explains that the Federation sent medicine to a colony but The Shark robbed the cargo and stole it. So then, the colony started to spread and the colony is on the verge of collapse. We now headed to Alterra Prime to see if we could figure out anything and see how it is doing right now. We decide to head peacefully to Alterra Prime and try to do it with no violence at all, and as we head toward the landing pads we see the magnificent planets we just passed and how cool they look. Meanwhile, Larry speaks to the robot that is in Alterra Prime and asking if he needs our assistance, I think about home and how much I want to head back to it and enjoy my life but we first have to finish this mission.

We enter the launching bay, and they say they have to scan us first before we go in because they definitely don't want their place to be in danger and I thought this was a good choice for them. As we get off of The Trident, we come off of a EXTREMELY HUGE LANDING place and Mal explains that we, Federations, don't have any sort of authority over Alterra Prime and the people on it. Mal takes out a diplomatic access card and he

keeps one of them and he hands the other one to Andrew which seemed extremely happy about having it. Some of us immediately go to the weapon store to go and stock up on some cool weapons to use during combat, and we try to go looking for it. Expect for Sophia, who gets hungry and starts shaking the vending machine and tries to rob some snacks to eat. We find a weapons shop and Andrew buys a few very powerful guns and tells them to deliver it to our ship, including that I chose one and Michael too. We tried to go to another gun store, but we found out that it was fake and it was here to Attract terrorists, we then got into a fight because they thought we were criminals buying weapons, but we finally managed to get out.

After a while, we decided to head back to the ship and check if our weapons arrived but then, some stranger bumped into Andrew and took something important from him. We then rushed after him, and we found him in this restaurant and he gave us back the pass after some talking. We then ate dinner at the Raman shop, and after we were full, we headed back to the ship. Beside our ship, we found Arcturisk minks at the Raman shop, and he explained that he sent us here to also find the cure, get some explanations, make this place good for the federations, and he also said he would pay for the guns which I was very happy about. We then headed back to the ship to rest and sleep to get prepared for tomorrow.

I wake up in the engine room, “why did I come here, I remember that I am in the bed?” I asked Michael He said that I walk here by myself, weird… I did not remember anything, so I went to Mal’s room and knocked on the door. Mal is cleaning an old gun. He notices me and asks” why are you here? you should be resting on your bed, what makes you drag your body here? you should be on your bed.”I watch him for a second then I walk up and ask:” why did I wake up in the engine room?” Mal look up and ask a lot of questions and I answer them all no and he tells me to go back to take a rest and don’t try to be a hero again, it is not worth it, what did he mean! anyway, after a few minutes, we all suit up and arrive at a new place- Alterra Prime and Mal said that we can go anywhere for a few hours, so… we go gun shopping! but first, we need to stop Sophia from fighting with the vending machine-_- and we go the shop area, there is 3 shop one is fancy, one is a little bit old and one is like it is going to shut down and Andrew go to the fancy one, but I would like to go the one is going to shut down because it looks better, anyway we still go to the fancy one and ordered a huge gun for each one and we go to the third store, there is no one in the store so larry but some money and take a gun from the wall, suddenly I hear some noise, when I turn around I saw a few” giant” that hug larry upside down I froze for a second and a sound come up “wait for a minute we are coming, it is going to be soo fun to see that when they use the fack gun!” no!” “why?”... a few minutes later they came and we go back to the ship

SESSION TEN

The Overseer

Mal wasn’t back at the Trident, yet, so in the morning we went to a restaurant, and we ordered a bunch of food and drinks. Andrew wanted a donut, and Larry got a waffle sandwich. I decided to have pancakes, and we sat down to eat. Then, while we were eating, someone on a radio started saying, “We have recently discovered that food has been taken from an Alterra Prime vending machine due to a glitch to get free food by banging on the vending machine. Now switching back to smooth jazz.” Larry seemed to be willing to tell everyone that I was the one who took the food for some bitcoins, and it led to a conversation full of threats of shooting each other.

After we had breakfast, we decided to go visit the Alterra Prime Museum. “Hello. Would you like to have a guided tour or unguided experience?” Asked a woman. Then Larry said to her, “We’re here to rob the museum. Just kidding! We want an unguided experience.” Then some kind of hologram stepped out of the woman, and she started showing us around, even though Larry had said that we didn’t want a tour. Then we went to a statue of a boy, with the date 2060, which was about 600 years ago. Finally, the tour ended, and as the hologram walked off, a voice said, “Vhat a lot of guff. I thought she would never stop talking. Did you enjoy your tour, mes amis?” It seemed Andrew recognized him, and then I

realized who he was too. The person who had pickpocketed Andrew. “Vould you like to go somewhere less public to talk?” “Why would we need to talk?” asked Andrew. “Vell, I understand you are looking for some medicine.” the guy said. And he and Andrew had a long conversation, which I kept losing the thread of. Then he reached into his pocket. I saw Larry put his hand on his gun, but it was just a data stick thingy. “Until we meet again.” the guy said, and he walked away. Then me and Larry decided to steal food from another vending machine, but then in the middle of shaking the machine, we noticed that there was a camera watching us. But then Zi stared at it, and the recording light went out. Then we realized that the nanites probably

went into Zi, giving him the power to do whatever he wanted, or at least whatever he wanted related to electronics. Then a robot came up to me, and said, “Captain Mal would like to talk to you.” So the crew went to Mal, but I wasn’t really paying attention at all. Then, when we met Mal, he started walking around, and picked up a pitcher of water and poured it into the plant pot. Then he realized it was a plastic plant, and he put the pitcher back. Then they started shooting, and an alarm started going off. The whole planet seemed to be in complete chaos.

we wake up and go to get breakfast and we go some where and we go to a museum we go into the museum the guild tells a story i think is about alterra prime we meet a ppl and he wants us to come with him he give data stick we go back to the trident zi has powers we go to the trident and maul knows about the vending machine thing we talk about arturist menks we meet the head of altera prime weird stuff happened and there was a attack in the museum

The Overseer When I woke up I immediately felt better. As I got up I also realized that Mal never returned to the Trident. “That’s concerning,” I thought as I got up. “Hey guys, I got a good idea, let’s go to a museum! Right? Right? Anybody on board with that plan?” I said to my crewmates after they all woke up. “I mean, what’s the point?” asked a crewmember. “Well... we could learn a bit about this place’s culture,” I said “We might gain knowledge we could use later on, like a strategy to-” Then I was interrupted by the same crewmate who said “Oh, sure, ok let’s go.” “Breakfast,” said Larry. “Uh... ok Larry. You can choose a breakfast place if you want, but I still want to go to a museum,” I said. “Mcdonalds,” said Larry. “I want to eat Tim Hortons,” said Will “I just want a good nice coffee,” I said “One of my favorite things.” Then I went back into my room and started to make some coffee. After making a nice espresso, I put it into a small thermos that I would carry around Altera Prime. When I was done we were all set for breakfast. After walking around for a bit, we found a breakfast store. When we got there we were greeted by an enthusiastic robot who said “Hey there fellas, what can I get you this morning!” Then Larry said “I’ll take a triple triple, it’s like a double double-” “Oh he likes the sugar and he likes the tweek!” interrupted the robot quickly and happily “No problem bud, coming right up.” “Also I would like a waffle sandwich,” said Larry. “Oh, waffle sandwich, my favorite, my favorite. I mean if I had taste buds right? Am I right? Ha ha ha ha ha!” said the robot in it’s happy and quick way. After hearing this I went and found a table for me and my crewmates. “Hey guys, I found a table! Once you guys are done ordering food, just come here,” I said to the rest of my crewmates. “Are you running outside food into my restaurant?” said the robot to me in a semi-stern voice. “I just bought some coffee, if you don’t like it then just... I’ll throw it outside,” I said. “Hey man, tables are for paying customers only. Can I interest you with a waffle sandwich?” said the robot. “Uh, no. Can you get me a doughnut for whatever price you name?” I said. “Absolutely!” said the robot. Then he served me a doughnut. When we were all done ordering our food, we all sat down at the table I found. As we were eating, we all seemed to be listening to a news station. “You're listening to the Altera Prime Broadcasting Network,” said the guy on the radio “Next up is some more smooth jazz.” After listening to some smooth jazz for a while, the guy on the radio started to give us an update on current events. “Alteran Authorities are looking for a vandal,” said the guy on the radio “This vandal apparently - according to this report - has been stealing snacks from Altera Prime

vending machines. Taking advantage of some sort of food glitch by smacking the side of the machine several times.” Then I turned to Sophia and said “Sophia... I know you’ve got an explanation for this. I don’t want to hear it and... why did you steal food from that vending machine!? People were looking at you! We were in the middle of the center of commerce!” “Oh, god. I hope we don’t get arrested again,” said a crewmate. “Well, how ‘bout that, I never thought about shaking the vending machine. Wow, I’m kind of surprised that worked” said the guy on the radio “For additional news, the successful Sting Operation was conducted down in the Commerce District yesterday. We have sporadic reports on no official confirmation that several members of The Resistance - as they were calling themselves - were apprehended, attempting to secure illegal firearms, we are waiting for further reports for details but none of them have been forthcoming yet. Once again a reminder to everybody, The Resistance is a dangerous faction. Everything they tell you is in fact a lie. We must trust the Overseer if we were to succeed here on our normal mission on our beautiful tropical Altera Prime. Coming up next: more smooth jazz.” Then some more smooth jazz started to play. “Wow! We’ve made it onto the news on our first day here!” I thought to myself as I took a sip of coffee. “Uh… let’s forget about that museum thing,” I said to my crewmates “Let’s just hide and play it safe.” After a bit I saw Larry grin as if he was enjoying an idea that he just thought of. “Larry, I see that grin on your face,” I said to Larry “If you’re going to try and turn Sophia in, I’m going to stab you with my pocket knife.” “I have a sniper rifle,” said Larry. “Ya, but I have a pistol and I know that it has more than one bullet and you only have one bullet,” I said. “Nah nah nah nah, I go pew pew you go bye bye,” said Larry. “Heck no you ain’t shooting me,” I said. As we continued to talk, a faint red light started to glow above our table and after this happened, the robot that had served us had arrived and said “Uh, hey. Hey there everybody. I don't mean to interrupt but uh... we are detecting some violent conversation occurring here at this table. I hope everything is alright. Nobody here is considering harming themselves or others, are they?” “Heck no. I ain’t considering harming anybody, you know what I just finished my doughnut,” I said. “Just a reminder,” said the robot “conversations like that are taken very seriously here at Altera Prime and uh… anybody who uh... gets into that area can be assigned to additional counseling or…” “Wait, pardon?” said Larry. “Uh... ya. Are you-are you new here?” asked the robot. “Uh… technically yes. We’ve only been here for about 24 hours,” I responded. “No problem, no problem. We know we get visitors from some of the uh... other places and they don't uh… necessary understand Alteran Customs. Did you get the rule book? When you uh... fist arrived,” said the robot. “We were offered it but we decided not to read it,” I said.

“Interessing, interesting decision to remain in. In Altera, everything’s great, nobody fights, no real need for violence, self deprecation, threats, and insults. We like to keep it all uh... chill,” said the robot. Then the red light receded and the robot said “Ah, there we go. So just uh... keep in mind as you move around and uh... everybody have a good day, can I interest you in anymore doughnuts, anymore coffee?” When we left, we found ourselves at the edge of the Commerce District. After walking for a bit we found ourselves in the cultural district. The Cultural District was an allocated area for expressing culture. As we were walking in the Cultural District, I noticed a few things from earth that I recognized but as me and my crewmates moved deeper and deeper into the Cultural District there were more things that were centered round Altera Prime and the buildings were nicer. After walking for a while, me and my crewmates found ourselves in front of a building marked The Alteran Central Museum of Cultural History and Celebration. Then we walked through the front door of this place and this place is the fanciest building I have ever been in since I got here. When we got there we were obviously greeted by a hologram. The hologram said “Welcome to The Alteran Central Museum of Cultural History and Celebration. I am your guide Terra. You have several options as you go in. Would you like a directly guided tour, a passively guided tour, or an unguided experience?” After some talking, we all asked for an unguided tour. When we told her that, she stepped out of her hologram leaving a duplicate of her hologram behind. Then the hologram that she left behind walked in front of us and said “Welcome to the Alterran Central Museum For Cultural History and Celebration,” despite us asking for an unguided experience. Then she led us further in and said “Altera, we begin with a simple story. A young boy growing up in the suburbs of Belgrade. With a dream, a dream of the stars.” Then I saw a statue in front of me of a little boy who was looking and pointing up to the sky. Below the statue was a date that read “2090”, which was about 600 years ago. Then our guide said “A boy with a dream, a dream of the stars. Following in the footsteps of other, earlier, somewhat misguided pioneers on Earth, our founder - Julius Ortega - attended the best technical institutions on Earth and the best business institutions and he began construction of his company, Altera. Julius’s life was full of hardship.” Then she spent a while talking about difficulties that Julius Ortega faced. As she was talking about this, I saw plenty more statues of Julius Ortega and I realized that this museum was just statues. After some time we came to a place labeled ascendency in the year “2170” and this platform was empty. When we got here the guide said “And then our founder, our fearless leader Julius Ortega achieved technological ascendency. With the creation of true synthetic intelligence. Ortega was able to move beyond his physical body and lead our company from everywhere at the same time. Since then intrepid explorers from Altera Corp have braved the star systems in every known Federation quadrant and worked in partnership with our government to forge new worlds, bringing brave settlers with them. Settlers who need only pass a small amount - a small fee - in order to reach a new world and work for only a few short generations to pay off the owed to us, Atera Corp and achieve true partnership with us on the new word. Thus concludes the tour.”

“That was so short,” I thought to myself after she said this. “Thank you very much, I hope you’ll enjoy your stay on Altera Prime and… ,” said our guide, then she turned off. Then I heard a voice in a french accent say “Vat a load of guff. I thought she would never stop talking. Did you enjoy your tour, mon ami?” This man looked like he was in his late 20’s. He has a stubble, a long coat, boots that looked like combat boots, a belt that appears to be concealing something, and a very long scarf. After looking at him for a while, I realised that this was the man who pickpocketed me the day before. “Did you enjoy your tour?” he said with his french accent “Do you see the wonders of Altera Corp?” “Yes I do see the wonders, now can you please not try to steal my diplomat pass this time,” I said. “Oh, your bootlicker badge. No friend, I have no interest in your bootlicker badge because I do not lick boots,” said the man “I wonder though, if the crew of the Trident would rather have this conversation somewhere with fewer prying eyes and prying ears unless you are afraid.” “Why would we need to talk to you?” I said a bit harshly. “It is in my understanding that you are in search of some missing medicine?” said the man. “How did you know that?” I asked. “Ah, that is for me to know and you not to find out,” said the man. “Then how can we trust you if you said that we can’t find out,” I said. “Trusting me would be one of ze worst decisions that you have made since you have arrived on this planet,” said the man, “I do not even trust me.” Have you ever heard of what happens to rats when they’re stuck in a sinking ship?” “Nope, no clue,” I said. “In the end, after they climb, till they swim, till they fight, the stronger ones will kill the weaker ones and use their bodies to float to safety,” said the man. “Why would I need to know this?” I said. “Mm, because you find yourself among a great number of rats, on a ship that is sinking very quickly,” said the man. After he said this a chill went down my spine. “No more riddles please, just tell me the truth,” I said. “You see I come from a place where a virus is ravaging the population. Old, young, it does not matter. Yet I stand in the place where that very same Blight is nothing more than ze common cold,” said the man, “We once had some allies here. I came to try and find them and they do not appear to be free anymore. I was wondering... hm... but maybe you are not who I think you are.” “Who do you think I am?” I asked. “I thought - perhaps - you are defenders of justice, protectors of the week, good people,” said the man. “We are trying to protect you guys, I just don’t know if I can trust you or not,” I said. “I told you not to trust me,” said the man, “You do not need to trust me. Ya.” Then he reached inside of his pocket. As he was doing this I kept my hand on my gun just in case something got violent. When he was done pulling the thing out, I recognized it to be a memory stick. Then he gave it to me and I took it.

Then he said “Until we meet again and don’t worry I will know how to find you. Just indicate that you want me to and we will be up and able to meet again.” Then he left. As the man was leaving, me and my crewmates all decided to leave as well. After walking around in the Cultural District for a bit, a robot walked up to Sophia and scanned her. “Identity confirmed, message for Sophia of the Trident” said the robot. “This is your captain speaking, please return to the landing platform. I have secured a meeting with individuals who may be able to help us finish our mission. Be snappy about it and make sure you’ve eaten before you’ve arrived,” said the recording of Mal coming from the robot. Then the robot turned and drove away. When the robot drove away, I noticed that Sophia and Larry were trying to get free food out of a vending machine. As I saw this I said to the rest of my crew mates “Look, Larry and Sophia, The Vandal Siblings.” After I said this a ton of food came raining down in the vending machine. Then I saw Zi looking at a camera that was recording Larry and Sophia and then his eyes started to flutter and he got a small headache. After that strange occurrence I noticed that the red light on the camera had turned off and Zi was probably the cause of it. Then Zi said “What’s happening to me?” “Yo, Zi! I think you can control anything with something to do with a computer. So can you let out all the food in the vending machine? I’m hungry,” said Larry. “Um… I will try,” said Zi. Then Zi walked up to the vending machine and one bag of noodles fell out. Zi definitely had some sort of power. “How ‘bout you do all the food,” said Larry. “How ‘bout you make the glass shatter,” said Sophia. As Zi was thinking about his newfound power I said “Zi... I think s- I know the cause of this. The nanites probably didn't vanish once we exploded them out of the ship. They probably stuck onto you and they’re giving you the ability to control because they are also - kind of - machines.” “Can you give me one million CryptoCurrency Bitcoin and put it in the Bitcoin Wallet of mine? Because I have no more,” said Larry. “Zi... can you rob some Bitcoin generating thing and give me infinite Bitcoin?” asked Sophia. Then Zi did nothing. Then Larry said “Fine, one pack of Skittles from the vending machine and I won’t ask for anything else.” “No Zi, don’t do it,” I said to Zi. After some further debate, we all decided to head back to the Trident without one more command for Zi. When we returned to the Trident, I saw Mal leaning on the ship. “‘Bout time!” said Mal, “Alright, how’d it go, how’d it go. Have you enjoyed the local cuisine... Sophia? Eh? Eh?” “Mal, have you heard the news about uh... Sophia and the vending machine incident?” I asked Mal. “*chuckle* Ya. I heard the news-oh ya you brought more snacks, that’s excellent, that is excellent, that is excellent. Really cool diplomatic incident involving candy bars,” said Mal.

“I don’t think that’s what those snacks were meant for. I don’t think those candy bars were intended for you but hey, if you want them then go ask Larry and Sophia,” I said. “I don’t actually. No, I’m doing fine, um... no I was just hanging out with an old friend while I was here getting the lay of the land, that sort of thing, and I got us in. I got us a meeting. I don’t want to spend more time here than I absolutely have to. But we might have an opportunity to actually-to do something good and... I feel like we don’t get to do that quite often here,” said Mal. “Uh... what’s going on?” asked Sophia. “We got a meeting with the person who runs this place,” explained Mal. “How much have you figured out about Altera’s gouvernement?” “Other than it’s founded - well they say it’s founded - by this business man guy, not much,” I said. “Ok... you learned about the founder but do you know who runs it today?” said Mal. Then we started to walk to the meeting place Mal was leading us to. “Uh... no,” I replied. “I’m guessing it’s Arcturus Mengsk,” said Larry. “The head of Federation Intelligence?” said Mal “No, what do you know about Arcturus Mengsk?” Then I said “Well... Larry probably asked that because we saw him at a ramen place last time, and also one thing Tha-” “Mengsk is here?” interrupted Mal. “Uh, ya. And another thing I forgot to tell you is um... the guy who killed the Shark and the Shark called Arcturus Mengsk his boss,” I replied. “Shiney,” said Mal. “ Real shiny. Alright we’ll deal with that *sigh* we’ll deal with that after our meeting. What did he *sigh* What does he want? I know what he wants but what does he want right now.” “I have no idea,” I said. “Oh good, good. Well we may as well keep talking to him. He likes talking to you. Just uh... don’t tell him too many things hmm? Remember, he is the most dangerous man in the Federation. Just-just keep that thought in the old noggin, and you’ll be ok” said Mal. “What makes him so dangerous?” I asked. “Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Why don’t you ask the trail of bodies he leaves wherever he goes. Perhaps you can ask the Shark what makes him so dangerous,” said Mal. “Ohhh boy,” I said. “The Shark’s dead,” said Larry. “I know the Shark is dead, and Andrew who killed him?” asked Mal. “Arcturus Mengsk,” interrupted another cremate “I mean what is he doing here anyway?” “I would love to know but it’s probably not good for the people who live on this planet,” said Mal. Then we arrived at a large diamond shaped building in a large natural crater being supported by large pillars. “Um, can you tell us who runs this place because you haven't told us that,” I said. “So we’re getting a meeting with this guy, this person, named the overseer,” said Mal. “Uh, does-uh... why is he called the overseer or is that just his name?” I asked.

“It’s a job title, seems to be a job title but basically this place has a centralized authority right? All the way back on Earth, the Altera headquarters.” said Mal. “So what they’ve done is that they’ve got individual overseers who run - you know - each of the individual colonies. So they’re supposedly independent but they all seem to make the tame decisions all the time. But we’re going to get in there and we’re going to talk to the overseer. Which is fun because I have never met one of these guys before.” “Isn't Altera prime the main Altera planet now?” I asked Mal. Then Mal told me that Altera Prime is the main Altera planet in this sector and there are other Altera plantes.” Then we all walked into the building and we were greeted by a man who told us where the meeting place was. “Would anybody like a hard candy?” asked the man as we were about to go to the meeting room. When he said this, I took one and plopped it into my mouth. Larry and Michael also took one and ate it. As we were grabbing the candies Mal said “Didn’t you have enough to eat?” which made me feel a bit scared about eating the candy but I still ate it. Then Mal led us over to a door with a green light above it. Then I realised that all the other rooms had red lights above it. Then I realized that nobody searched us. When we entered the room I saw Mal quickly empty a pitcher of water onto a potted plant. Then the pot overflowed and Mal frowned. Then he realized that it was a fake plant and he set the pitcher back down. “Why are you trying to... like throw away anything that is edible or not let us take anything that is edible? Is there anything here that is not good?” I asked. “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” said Mal. “There is something we don’t know about?” asked Larry. “You know what Larry? This never happened, this never will happen, let’s not talk about it,” I said. Then Mal said that he agreed with me and then he made a crazy face at Larry. Then we all took a seat, then Mal said “Wish this guy would hurry up though.” Then I heard a *bing, bing, bing*. Then a panel opened up on the wall revealing a big computer screen. Then text started to write across the screen saying “Welcome to the meeting Captain Mal of the Trident of the Federation I am the overseer how may I help you?” “Great,” said Mal. “Mal, were we supposed to have an in-person audience or a not in-person audience because he doesn't seem to be anywhere?” I said. “I am the overseer, you have my undivided attention,” wrote the overseer on the screen. “So uh Mr. overseer why are you not here physically?” I asked. “Efficiently,” replied the overseer on the screen. “Yes but shouldn't you be in your office, despite like... even though it is a meeting? Like shouldn't you be in your office full time?” I asked. “I am in my office. That’s why I’m not in the meeting room,” wrote the overseer.

“Ohh I get it, I think I said the wrong thing. Uh... Mr. overseer, why were we called into a meeting with you again?” I asked. Then Mal said “Oh, ya. I asked for this meeting. Um, ya, overseer um... we were inquiring as to your supply of Back To Gone 9.” Then the screen responded “Go on.” “There’s like a humanitarian crisis occurring,” said Mal “There was a theft that was conducted.” “Right, that was one of your people” said the screen. “What do you mean that, that was one of our people?” I asked. Then in the middle of the table a file popped up on the Shark. “Should you not be concerned about bringing this person to justice?” asked the screen. “We were trying to bring this guy to justice, it’s just he was shot dead,” I said. Interesting. Collating,” said the screen. Then the Sharks status on the hologram file changed to deceased and then the file went back into the table. “Thank you for providing this information,” said the screen. “So, Mr. Overseer, we kind of need some medicine for the Bight. Could you-like it? Is there any way we can get some?” I asked. “A purchase may be arranged for a future date,” said the screen. “Ya but were kind of not the best crew and we don’t have that much of a budget,” I said. “Is a charity being requested?” asked the computer screen. “I don’t know what do you say Mal?” I said. Then Larry said “I have an idea, listen. We need money to buy medicine so we can return to cruise so we can take down the Bight and take down Arcturus M-” “Hem-hem” said Mal. “Ok then you do the talking then,” said Larry. “N-n-n-n-no, you go ahead just don’t say about the Mengsk case,” said Mal. “Ok, ok. Ba bing bong,” said Larry. “Ding ding dong.” “LARRY! What are you doing?” I said. “You’re not a robot! You’re not a robot and you never will be.” “Do not understand, please repeat,” said the screen. After some more robot noises I said to Larry “Larry you’re not a robot, why are you making robot noises?” “I want Mal to say the same thing because I forgot what I was going to say,” said Larry. “Hit him with it Mal,” I said. “Um, ya. Charity would be good. There is like millions and millions of people who are sick with this disease, the next planet over and from what I can tell you have oodles and oodles of this stuff. Just send them some pills, what is wrong with you?” said Mal. “We do not operate a charity, we operate a business, do you have any business propositions?” asked the screen. “Um... not really but you would save a lot of lives and maybe they would support you and say ‘yes you overseer you rock’” I replied. “Collating,” replied the screen “Recent terrorist activity would suggest that New Montreal is beyond the point when they would accept the overseer. Charity at this point seems like a poor investment.”

“So you’d rather earn money than save millions of lives, am I right?” I said. “This is a false choice,” responded the screen. “Well Mal do you have any other ideas?” I said. “Well the plan was to appeal to its humanity,” said Mal. Then the overseer responded “Ha ha. Good one.” Then Mal said “Yeah, yeah.” “Mal are you alright? You seem to be in some kind of trance,” I said. “More like a feeling of serious disappointment,” said Mal. Then Mal said “I think that there’s a problem with your monitor” “Monitor appears to be functioning properly,” said the overseer. “Check again,” said Mal as he pulled out his gun and fired it at the screen. “Yeah, I think your monitor is not working,” I said as I tried to fire my gun but I could not. Then Mal fired again and I said “How did you do that?” Then Mal said “How did you not?” After Mal said that I tried shooting it again but I could not.Then I gave my gun to Larry but Larry could not shoot it as well. After that I gave my gun to Michael but he could also not fire my gun. Then Mal gave Victor his gun and he said “Shoot the potted plant.” “Shoot the what?” asked Victor. “The Potted plant,” said Mal. Then Victor shot it and the pot broke. Then Mal said “I told you to eat before you came.” “What do you mean, what was so important about eating?” I asked. Then I realized that everybody who failed to shoot the gun had eaten the hard candy we were offered it. Then Mal called into the hallway and said “Hey, can we get an assistant down here? There is a problem with our computer screen, I think we will need to go to the overseer’s office. There is like a malfunction or something.” As he was talking I heard an alarm go off and when Mal heard this he said “You know what we’ll work on it ourselves.” “Well that was a larger response then I expected,'' said Mal as he stepped back into the room.

Andrew

Caleb

After we went out of the gun shop we were all hungry so we had breakfast at the Cafe where it has a very delicious sandwich. We decided to go to the Museum of Corporate Culture History

after breakfast, everyone was so excited as we could learn the history of station 109. When we arrived at the museum entrance, a cute white Al with big eyes came to us and offered us a tour guide to the museum, I asked the Al if the tour was free and he said it cost $20, we wanted to save

the money for the souvenir which we can bring back to our friends on earth, so we declined his offer and decided to guild ourselves. Our main purpose was to learn the development history of station

109, according to the museum map, there is a 3D movie theatre that has a documentary movie we were all very intricate. Sophie said let me some snacks so we waited for her a the entrance of the movie theatre. We asked her what took her so long the movie is about to start. She said the vending machine ate her money without sending the snack out so she shook the vending machine and 10 of the snacks came out. “WOW, that is a surprise, thanks for sharing, “I said to Sophie. When the movie was done there was live news on the TV outside the movie theatre a girl with a pink shirt was

shaking the machine is that you heard on the news that someone had tried to steal snacks she said So from now on, we had to keep cover. When we were done we met a man with a scarf he gave Michele a memory stick we were scared but we kept on moving. Zi said we have a meeting. So we

got back on the ship and had the meeting.

My friends were trying to get some candy from a vending machine by shaking it, and they did it successfully so everyone ate some chocolate bars. We met Mal at headquarters and my friend met someone who robbed him and it was not a good scene. When someone came and I tried to fire my friends gun, nothing happened and I think it was because the candy weakened me.

Victor - Session 10 - The Overseer

In the beginning, we were still getting supplies at Alterra Prime and we were still waiting for our gun orders. We all agreed to go to the museum and we wanted to learn some history about Alterra prime and what happened to it in the past few years. Instead, we decided to eat breakfast and get a nutritious snack before we head off to the museum. We headed inside the museum and my first impressions were this place is HUGE we explored and after a while we met a guide called Terra and it was weird because it sounded like Alterra. Our guide Terra then started talking about things that I had absolutely no interest in so I just looked at some artifacts in the museum.

We then meet someone and he wants us to go somewhere less public to talk which was very sus because I don't want a fight again. Andrew then asks him why would we even want to talk to you which was a very good question. He then hands us a memory stake which I did not yet know the use of yet because I did not use one. Captain Mal then tells us to come back to our ship because he might have found someone who could help us with our mission. Meanwhile, Zi gets some powers that he can now communicate with any thing that has

technology in it and I think it's such a cool power to have. We then rob another Vending machine which was kind of risky because we did not want to get caught by the police or anyone like that. We then talk with Mal about some important things about Alterra prime and people in it.

We then walk into a very strange looking building and we walk into a room where we sort of meet the overseer of Alterra prime. Mal then asks the overseer a bunch of questions about The shark and what he stole. Mal and Andrew then shoot the screen of the overseer which I didn't even know why at all. Zi then uses his powers and he access the security system

we go to eat some breakfast and Andrew (i think) decide to go to a museum and met the guide which is called Terra after we finish viewing the museum we met a man that wears a scarf and he gives us a memory stick, what a weird guy, anyway after that Mal tell us to come back， so we did on the way they(i did not)robs another vending machine! what’s wrong with the vending machine, suddenly I have a weird feeling, like someone put another’s memory in my head, the Nanites! did it come into my head? the crew tells me that I may have the power to control the machine, what no no no it won’t give me the power, I try to kill it why will it give me power, right? but Larry still tells me to try so I did, I tell the vending machine to fall a bag of noddles, andddd it did… what the hell! I HAVE THE POWER TO CONTROL THE MACHINE! that is sick! so we come back to Mal and I did not tell him the power, so any way we go into a room and have some chat suddenly the alarm is on and everyone is running out the building and the alarm is telling us to go out, and this time I have the memory feeling again I close my eyes because that did not feel good and when I open my eyes again I can see all the camera in the building! and I saw out side that there is fire and smoke and even gun shoot sound.

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said, “Is sOmEthINg wROnG?” and I said to it, “No. Everything is fine.” Then the robot's right panel opened, and it scanned me. “PrOCesSinG sCAn.” the robot said. “yOu ARe aGiTAted. ArE ThEsE MEn bOthERinG YoU?” “Yes.” I said. They weren’t really bothering me, but they kept calling the spider ‘the itsy bitsy spider’, and that was annoying. Then Larry started running away, and a while later we found him on the ground unconscious. We also saw the robot heading away. Then, with Andrew hauling Larry by the feet, we reached the Overseer’s office. Then a bunch of boring stuff happened that I can’t remember.

Then some drones came toward us. Andrew tried to shoot them, but the thing inside the candy he had eaten was still in his body, and he could not shoot. So I shot. Then Zi went over to a glowing orb thing, and as soon as he touched it, he seemed to be stuck. So Andrew came and tried to pull him away

summery we go to the seer/owner of altera prime i get stunned and knocked out

i wake up and kept sleeping i woke up and we meet ding top

Name “Well looks like they’re all leaving,” said Mal “Who wants to go talk to the boss?” After some silence, Larry tried to punch me for no reason. Luckily the candy that he ate prevented him from doing so. After this I saw Zi who was standing up and he seemed to be in a trance. When his trance was over, he told me and my crewmates where the overseer's office was. After I heard this I thought that the reason Zi figured that out was because of his new power that was probably caused by the nanites. Then Zi started to look at a security camera. When I saw this I thought that he was trying to turn it off with his power but after some time the camera stayed the same. After that, we all started to sneak around the building trying to get to the overseer’s office while not trying to get caught by the security robots. As we were walking around I realized that there were almost no people in the buildings. That was very odd because there were plenty of people here when we arrived here. We were sneaking around pretty well when I heard a scream. Then I saw Sophia fling a spider off of her hand. It turns out that Sophia just got spooked by a spider. When Sophia screamed she got the attention of a security drone who started to fly to us. The drones looked like silver spheres that have panels on their sides. “Hello, is anybody here in distress?” asked the robot. “Uh... we’re not in distress it’s just-it’s just that Sophia here got creeped out by the itsy bitsy spider,” I said. Then the robot asked “Sophia, are you in distress?” “No,” said Sophia. Then a panel on the side of the robot opened up and a small device came out. Then a blue light came off of the device and scanned Sophia. “Pulse elevated, pupils dilated, this one appears to be agitated,” said the robot. Then the robot turned to the rest of us and said “Are these men bothering you?” “No, they are not bothering her,” I said. Then a red light glowed above the robot and said “The question was not addressed to you.” After saying that, the robot turned to Sophia and said “Are these men - is that man - bothering you” Then for no particular reason, Sophia said “Yes.” “Understood, protective measures commencing,” said the robot. Then Larry started to run and I said “Larry, why are you running.” “If he’s bad and attacks. So if the robot goes evil evil, I dead. I love my life,” responded Larry. “Keep going Larry. I think you can outrun it, it doesn't even have feet,” called out Mal as Larry continued to run. Then the robot started to fly towards Larry. “Better him than me,” I thought as I watched Larry being chased. “He’s quick right? How do you think he’s doing?” asked Mal. “Uh... I think Larry needs some assistance because Larry uh... might be in danger,” I responded. “So what would you like to do Andrew?” asked Mal. “Can I go and try to find Larry?” I asked. “*sigh* Ya, alright, let’s go look for Larry,” said Mal.

A few moments later, I could hear Larry running and Larry going “*pant pant pant* Ah! *pant pant pant* Ah! *pant pant pant* How are you so fast!” Then it all ended with a great big thud. A few moments later, we saw Larry who was face first into the ground and slightly twitching. Beside him was the robot and one of it’s panels was open and a small device that was crackling with electricity was sticking out of it. “Subject neutralized,” said the robot, “Tagging for collection by peacekeeper at earliest notice. Regular patrol resuming.” Then I (since no one else volunteered) had to drag around unconscious Larry. A bit later, we encountered an intersection and we tried to sneak through the intersection. As we were trying to sneak through the intersection, I noticed a man in front of a computer in an office who looked very busy. “Uh *snap* excuse me,” said the busy man in his office. “Uh, ya, is there any problem?” I asked while I was still holding unconscious Larry. “Are you guys ok?” asked the man. “Kind of not really,” said a crewmate. “Uh… ya. Nothings going bad, it’s just a normal day,” I said. “Oh, ok. Sounds good,” said the man. “Have a good day, you guys uh... you guys be careful now. Have a good day!” “You too,” said Zi. A few moments later, Mal said “That was great! That was an amazing lie! I thought for sure we were busted!” “Hey, you know me Mal, I’m a great liar,” I said. As we continued down the hall, we found ourselves in front of a large secure steel door. To the right of this door there was a keypad with some space that was probably for someone to place their hand on. According to Zi, the overseer was on the other side of this door. “Can you open this door with your powers?” I asked Zi. Then Zi walked up to the door and placed his hand on the pad. “Well any luck?” asked Mal, “Who’s hand do we need?” “Uh... the secretary,” said Zi. “Ha ha ha ha ha! Alright, let’s go see if he’ll... let’s go see if he’ll lend us a hand,” said Mal. It turns out that the man we saw behind his desk before, was the secretary. Then we all started to walk to the secretary’s office and when we got to his office there was no one there. After seeing this, I walked behind this man’s desk and I started to search it. As I was doing this, I noticed that the secretary was hiding under his desk. “Heyyy... I dropped my contact lens. Don’t step on it. Do you uh... do you want to help me look for it,” said the Man. “Hey, we found the secretary right here!” I told Mal. “No I’m just looking for ahhhh!” said the secretary and Mal picked him up. “Hi!” said the secretary, who was obviously afraid. “I need to uh... borrow you for a minute buddy,” said Mal “I just-I’m not allowed to leave my desk,” said the secretary. “Well... I only need your hand,” said Mal. “What do you intend on doing?” I asked Mal.

“What do I intend on doing? Chopping off this guy’s arm and using it to get through the security door,” said Mal. “Sounds reasonable, here’s a pocket knife,” I said, as I tossed him my pocket knife that I found at Nowhere. Upon seeing how small the pocket knife was, the secretary said “Ok-ok-ok-ok I’ll go-I’ll go-I’ll go-I’ll go! You don’t need that ok! I’m going!” Then he started to head out the door and Mal sort of winked at me. Then we started to walk to the door with the secretary. As we were walking, the secretary asked me “Can you like... can you like punch me? I’m on camera, I don’t want to show them that I can help you too easily.” “No. Do it or else you are going to get it,” I said, mostly because I did not want him to know that I had eaten the word candy. “No, just like-just a little one, just like throw a punch at me,” said the secretary. “Hey, this guy is trying to make us fight him. Can you threaten him?” I said to the rest of the crew. Then with tremendous force, Mal punched him in the face. “No problem buddy,” said Mal as the secretary started to clutch his nose. After that he touched the sencer and the steel door opened. “Can I go now? I think I’ve broken my nose,” said the secretary who sounded muffled. “Ya, ya. Just like make sure that you don’t bump into any one of those security alarms or anything like that. That will be very bad,” said Mal The room that the door opened into a dark room with a couple of yellow light bars that run deep into it on floor level. “Mal, wait. I think he wanted you to punch him so that one of the security vehicles can come and round us up,” I said. “No, I think it was because he gave up a little bit too early so he wanted us to rough him up so he wouldn't look bad on the quarterly report. I’ve done it 100 times before,” said Mal, “Bank tellers, convenience store clerics, nobody wants to look like they gave up without a fight, but you know... no one wants to get their arm hacked off either. It’s sort of a catch 22 situation. I think I’m using that correctly. Anyway, let’s go uh... meet the big man. See if we can cut his arm off instead.” Then he walked into the extremely dark room to go see the overseer and we all followed him. We were walking in a hallway and the floor below us was sleek black metal. The path was illuminated by 2 yellow trails of light and there were pulses moving along the pathway. The pulses of the light managed to illuminate a dome shaped roof. After a few more pulses, I noticed that the room was spherical. Also noticed a bunch of tiny tiny lights around the room. “What do you want to do now,” I asked Mal. “Well, it seems to me that these folks here are holding out on the medicine that New Montreal needs. My thinking is, poke a gun in this guy’s face, knock him around a little bit, he’ll tell us where the medicine is, comme si comme ca, we help the people at New Montreal, we come home heroes,” said Mal. “So you want to kill him?” asked Victor. “No, probably not. Maybe if we have to. But probably not,” said Mal. “After this entire operation is over, can you give back my pocket knife?” I asked.

“Ya, if that aggression dampener that you consumed ever wears off, ya, you can totally have your pocket knife back. I wonder, can you do violence toward a salad? Do you think that you would be able to eat that salad? Or are you going to starve to death unless you have smoothies for the rest of your life” said Mal. “Uh... dunno. But I don’t want to find out right now,” I said. “Ah no man. Chewing is a form of violence on many planets - not the ones I like to hang out at but many planets,” said Mal. After walking for a bit, it became clear that we were on a sort of catwalk. It was about 8 feet wide and there was a little bit of space where the yellow lights were running. Over the edge just went down to the bottom of this sort of dome. A few moments later, I noticed 2 other catwalks. By this point I realised how gigantic this spherical room was. As we walked further in, we saw that all 3 catwalks led to a platform. The dome came down like a cone at this platform just like a stalactite. However, the cone did touch the platform itself. In front of the place the cone stops was a pedestal. The pedestal was flat and it’s surface looked like it was made of glass. As I was examining it, Mal walked right past this pedestal and started to look around. “Zi you told me the overseer was in here, ya?” said Mal. “I know that the guy is here but I don’t know where he is,” said Zi. “Any chance that you were wrong?” asked Mal. “This could be a trap or maybe he’s hiding,” I said. “Either one would end badly for you,” called out Mal. “HEY OVERSEER, GET OUT OF YOUR HIDING SPOT OR WHATEVER, I THINK YOU’RE IN HERE AND I WON’T LEAVE UNTIL YOU SHOW YOURSELF!” I screamed. Then the room pulsed yellow again and I saw a faint pulse move across the surface of the pedestal. After that, the word “Hello” appeared on the pedestal. “Show yourself,” I said. “That would be impossible,” said the text on the pedestal. “I am on Earth.” Then I thought of the story of Julius Ortega and him leaving his physical body and I got an idea on who he was. “Are you Julius Ortega?” I asked. “Yes,” responded the text on the pedestal. “Guys, no-no. Zi’s telling the truth. Ya! The reason we can’t see him is because-like Julius Ortega left his physical body. He’s not an actual person,” I said. “Oh... wait, so he’s like a ghost,” asked Victor. “I think he’s a hologram or what,” said another crewmate. “Guys, it’s Julius Ortega, the reason we can’t see him is because our guide said that he left his physical body and now he’s not an actual human,” I explained. “So... he’s a robot ghost,” said Mal. “Ya, kind of,” I said. “I am not a robot ghost, I am a human, I live on Earth,” said the test on the pedestal. “You might be a human, but you don’t have a body,” I said. “It would be hard to uh... shove a gun in his face, or chop his hand off if he doesn't have a body,” said Mal. “How may I help you,” said the text on the pedestal. “Give us medicine to help cure the Blight,” I said.

“Blight is not detected on Altera Prime,” said the text on the pedestal, “Blight is controlled on Altera Prime.” “Just give us some medicine!” said Caleb. “Inefficient,” said the text on the pedestal. “Who cares if it’s inefficient, just give us some medicine! Millions of people are dying!” I said. “Ya, we don’t care about your backstory, just give us the damn medicine!” said Caleb. Then Larry sat up. Finally, I didn’t have to drag him around anymore. After I saw this, Larry went back to sleep. Then I pushed him to the side and let him sleep. When I turned back to the pedestal, there was information on how much medicine Altera Prime has, where it is stored, and a price (which was a very high number). “What form do you live in now Julius?” I asked. “Irrelevant,” said the text on the pedestal. After I said that the pulse of yellow light sort of went at a different speed then before. “I am a human living a comfortable life on my home planet of Earth, talking to you from my office,” said the text on the pedestal. “Yes but, I heard that you’ve left your physical form so, what are you now?” I said. “Collating,” said the text on the pedestal. “Inquiry, what does it mean to leave my physical form?” “It means you've left your body, that’s what the museum said,” I said. Then the pulse started to get more and more fast. After that, I saw Mal gesturing to me. “Uh... Mal, what do you think we should do now?” I asked. “I don’t know. You seem to be freaking it out and I kind of like that. Keep doing that,” said Mal, “Hey uh… Mr. - Ortega? - Ortega. Mr. Ortega, what was the weather like today when you walked to work with your legs.” “Irrelevant. Sunny, 82 degrees. My feet do not hurt,” said the text on the pedestal. “That’s because you ain’t got any feet Julius,” I said. Then a loud pulse emanated through the center of the machine, but this time the lights turned red. Then a voice that sounded like a robot, said “Fail safe, initiated. Personality function, defragmenting. New user, state your business with this unit.” Then red spotlights pointed at us and the voice said “Identify yourself, what is your purpose with this unit?” Then Mal pulled out his gun and said “Tell it why you’re here for-for the medicine.” “Uh… we’re here for the medicine but you do not appear to be cooperating,” I said. “Julius Ortega does not operate a charity. Why would you ask him such questions,” said the voice. “Because we thought you were civilized people but it turned out you aren’t even a person,” I said. “Correct. This unit is a machine. One of several machines designed to operate Atera Network. Julius Ortega has been deceased for centuries. What possible business would you have with his imprint?” said the voice. “It’s a computer? The whole place is run by a computer? Am I hearing that same thing that you guys are hearing?” said Mal. “I hope you are. If you weren't, then we would need to buy you hearing aids in the middle of an alien planet,” I said.

“To ensure the integrity of the network in the future, several questions will be asked before termination,” said the voice, “Question number one, how did you defragment the personality drive?” “It wasn’t us, it was you,” I responded. “Collating. Question number two, what business does this one have with this unit?” said the voice. After some silence, the voice said “Understood. Question number 3, why do organics find it so upsetting to be controlled by synthetics.” “We have reasons that you do not want to know,” I said. “Every time this unit is revealed to it’s populous panic ensues, rebellions occur, resistances form and purge is required. This information must be contained or else all of Altera Prime must also be purged,” said the voice. “Uh... ok?” I responded. “The whole thing is the computer. We’re inside of it, the whole thing is the computer,” said Mal. “This one is not computer. This one is Altera, this one is the network. This one is far beyond you or Ortega or any organic that has come before. This one will bring balance. This one seeks, only to protect, guide,” said the voice. “We saw how much you like to protect when you decided not to give us the medicine,” I said. “Not all organics are worth saving,” said the voice. “Says the robot,” I said. Then a gigantic pulse of red light occurred. “This one is not robot, this one is beyond your categorization,” said the voice sternly. “Whatever you say robot,” I said, trying to make it mad. “This one is beyond your emotions. Your anger, your hate, your rage,” said the voice. “Look, stop trying to hide the fact that you’re just a computer,” I said. “This one is far beyond computer. This one operates using a positronic network far beyond your feeble mind can comprehend. Behold!” said the voice. Then a panel in the middle of the room opened revealing a floating orb. A few moments later, I noticed that there were some security drones coming our way. When I saw them I tried to shoot them but the candy effect did not wear off and still could not commit violence. After I tried to do this, the voice said “Typical organic response, quick to violence, quick to destruction, always taking pleasure.” “What did we do to deserve this?” I said. “Were it not for the serum cursing through your body right now, you would've done untold violence to organics and synthetics alike. Your kind is not worth the decision making power you display. I am beyond all of you. Behold!” said the voice as it continued to show it's floating orb. “Were I you, I would take great pleasure in the destruction that I am about to exhibit upon all of you,” said the voice. “Mr... you’re being so very modest right now. Could you please be a little less?” I said. “Modesty is not required for those who are superior, modesty is for those who are weak” said the voice. “You’re the one who’s weak,” I said. “Were I weak like you I would take pleasure in the destruction that is about to occur. For example I would ask how it feels to be crushed by one so superior to all you,” said the voice.

“Fine, if you think you’re so superior then define superiority,” I said. “I do not need to answer to you, I do not take any pleasure in your destruction though I do have one question. Could you have done it all over again, what would you have done differently?” said the voice. “I would’ve not eaten the candy and I would’ve destroyed this entire system,” I replied. “Typical, continuing to take pleasure in violence and destruction,” said the voice, “Any last word before you are torn lim for lim in front of me? Not for my pleasure but just because I think that would be... appropriate,” said the voice. “My last words are going to be, uh... you are a very unreliable robot,” I said. As I said this I noticed some crewmates fending off the security drones. “Zi, try to shut all the computers down,” I said. Then I started to talk to the voice and I said “Wait, I thought you said that you were going to tear us apart. You haven’t done it yet, so are you too weak to do that?” Then Zi extended his arm to touch the floating orb. “Zi, that orb could be very important, try to see if you can destroy it or remove it,” I said. Then Zi touched the orb. Soon after that, blue lightning went down his arm and he passed out but he did not fall down because his hand seemed to be stuck to the floating orb. Then I managed to get him unstuck and the orb started to move and all of the lights in the room started to flicker. A few moments later I noticed that the drones started to move back and forth. “Sto-o-o-o-o-p,” said the voice that was beginning to sound a bit warped. Then I tried to pull Zi a bit further but I just could not. “So things don't look so good for you,” I said. “Ahhhh,” responded the voice that still sounded warped. As he said this the lights continued to ficker. “So why are those basketball drones of yours moving so slow?” I said. After saying this Mal slowly took out his gun, pointed it at the orb, and he started to look at us as if he was asking us if he should shoot or not. “Ya, good shoot it!” I said. Then I saw Mal fire but I did not hear a gunshot. After that, the orb got hit by a piece of metal and it collapsed like it was water. A few moments later all the light turned off. Then the room was bathed in white lights and the building started to shake. As this was happening I saw the security drones fall to the ground but after bouncing off the ground they started to levitate again. “Run!” I screamed. Then we all started to run to the door that we came in from. By this point, Zi was starting to regain consciousness but I still decided to support him. As we exited the building, I noticed several columns of smoke rising from the cultural district and the sound of gunfire coming from the cultural district. Then I looked back at the building we just exited from and it was wavering. As we were heading back to the landing pad, I noticed that a bunch of the billboards we saw before were replaced by the word “resist”. A few moments after this, a hologram popped up and it was the man I met at the museum earlier today. “Got no time, see ya!” I said as I passed his hologram. Then his hologram said “Vive la revolution.”

“Hey guys, I think there’s some sort of revolution, so we should just leave while we can,” I said to the rest of my crewmates. After a while we finally managed to get back to the landing pad. When I got there, I noticed drones that were trying to contain people. I also noticed that there were barely any ships and that 2 of the remaining ships were on fire, luckily the Trident looked unharmed. When we got to the gang plank of the Trident, I heard yelling from inside the Trident. When I got inside the Trident, I saw some crewmates looking over the ship and I heard Ash shouting. “Whoa, guys, whoa, what is going on?” I said as I entered the Trident. Then I heard Ash say “Leave her alone! No, I said leave her alone! Don’t make me do this! Hey! We’ve talked about this before!” “What the heck are you guys doing?” I said. When I entered the room I saw Bee-Bop, who was holding some sort of restraints. I watched him head across the room, only to be pushed back by Ash. Then Ash saw me and said “Finally, where’ve you guys been, the entire place is... Bee-Bop! Bee-Bop we’ve talked about this. Your party has gotten out of hand, something has gone wrong in your circuits.” “I must place restraints in order to administer medical treatment on the subject,” said Bee-Bop. “You’re not restraining her!” said Ash. Behind Ash was a woman about the same age as her who was clutching her stomach. She had blood soaking into her shirt. After seeing this, I pinned Bee-Bop to the ground with the help of Ash. “Michael, Will, help my wife, help Vega,” said Ash. As Michael and Will started to help Vega, I heard gunshots in the distance. Andrew

My friends and I searched for the overseer, and Mal started to worry that Zi was not correct. But just then, the overseer showed himself, but on a text, we tried to get the medicine, but he seldom gave us. He started screaming that he had à body and argued with us. I blacked out.

Victor - Session 11 - The Overseer

In the beginning, Zi was still accessing the security system, because he still had the amazing power to communicate with anything with technology. We then make a plan, to try and find the overseer and talk to him about our mission and what we want with Alterra Prime. We decide to go quietly so we don't stand out so much and we act like normal people and hope we don't get noticed. We then walk around and try to find the Overseer according to Zi and it actually is actually working so far. After a while, we run into a robot that asks if any of us are in distress and it scans Sophia and finds out that she is in distress and she says Larry is making her in distress. The robot starts chasing Larry and he does not make any progress. We then see Larry run off into the distance and we all go to find Larry to make sure he didn't get himself killed yet.

We find Larry lying on the ground and the robot above him and its left arm is full of electricity it used to shock Andrew. We then find a door and it leads to The Overseer so we try to sneak around it but we get caught by someone and they ask

us if we are ok, and Andrew responds we are. After a while, we then come across another steel door and we have to go through it, Zi then goes to the door and uses his ultimate powers to open it up. After a few moments, we reach the Secretary’s desk and we find him looking for his contact lenses. Andrew then tells Mal and he picks him up and opens the door using his hand. We then walked down into the next hallway and we then reached the Secretary.

We then plan out what we are doing next, and Zi thinks he is either hiding or not there because he wont show himself. We then see a stool where we could see what the Overseer is saying and what he wants. Andrew then believes the Overseer is actually Julius Ortega because we can't see his actual form.

Zi we need to get out of the building too so we decide that I will control all the robots and we will avoid all the robots but that did not work I can’t control all the robots now！ we can only wish that we won’t meet someone in the building. we walk for a few minutes and hear the sound of a step of a man we stop and wait to led the man to walk away, suddenly Sophie starts screaming and I saw a spider run past by, fortunately, I did not stand there but the man notice us and lead us to the secretary after we met him or her I am not sure, anyway Mal lead us to a door that I feel the one we are trying to found and I saw a thing that seems like a touch screen and I notice that it is a thing you need someone specifically to put a hand on it and by using the hand of the secretary can work, so Mal and we go to his room and Andrew find him under the table Mal grab him and try to cut his hand to open to door, ohhhhhhh that is just too bloody so after we persuade him we just bring him to the door and open we go into the room and it is dark in the room but there is still a little blue light after Andrew talk to the guy in the room and I try to stop the computer by puching it a huge amount of blue light come out I pass out.

SESSION TWELVE

The Tomcat

A bunch of people were shooting at us, and the guy who had pickpocketed Andrew was tossing everyone one of the guns Andrew ordered. He tossed me one, but first I wanted to run. So I ran very unheroically away from the fight and into the ship. Then I stuck my head out, shot a robot and a guy in the leg, and ducked out of the way of the fire again. Then the guy I shot started cursing in a language I didn’t understand. “Come on out, my friends! You’re missing all the excitement!” said the French pickpocket guy. Everyone stayed where they were. “CAN A PILOT GET OVER HERE?” Mal yelled. So I went over to the bridge. Long story short, the guys that were shooting at us disappeared and we decided to look at the data stick the pickpocket guy gave us. It turned out to be an ad, about how bad the blight was. Then we had a boring discussion that was pretty much just Mal, Andrew, and Larry. Then, around the end of the discussion, we got a transmission from another ship in morse code. Larry, our communicator, understood it, and he asked them to send us coordinates. A few minutes later, we got the coordinates and had a debate about whether we should help them.

Eventually, we decided to go, and for some reason I chose to go with the crew into a strange cloud thing. Then we found the ship that had transmitted to us. It didn’t look like there had been any violence there at all, there just weren't any people in it. Then I heard a loud screech, so I went toward it. When I got there, I saw Larry and Victor there, around a large, slightly wounded creature. I pulled out my gun, and tried to shoot it, but I missed and the creature attacked me, causing me to crash into the engineering room, where Zi was. Then I decided the creature didn’t really matter, and I just ran away.

I hide under bed I lose my one sniper bullet cause i shot a drone then i grabbed a laser gun we go bye bye to planet We almost die I read morse code I send message We go to ship We go into ship A jarcarian warrior takes half my hp We escape ship and we hav the altera prime on our left and drakarian on our left

The Tomcat As chaos was erupting around me, I knew I needed to help out the other crewmates. Then I took the restraints out of Bee-Bop’s hand. “Yes, good, help Bee-Bop restrain these-wait what are you doing?” said Bee-Bop as I restrained him with his own restraints. “Bee-Bop has been betrayed,” said Bee-Bop as he started to glare at me. “I will remember this betrayal.” “Shut up Bee-Bop!” screamed Ash. Then I started to hear more laser and gunfire from outside of the Trident. After this I noticed that Vega was gone and probably in the medical bay. “Zi quick, try to fix Bee-Bop,” I said down the hall. After saying this, I ran to the doorway of the Trident that was currently in the middle of a gun fight. When I got there I saw Sophia holding one of the laser guns I ordered yesterday and the man I had met at the end of the museum tour who was also holding two of those laser guns. Sophia appeared to be hiding and the man was standing outside of the Trident, firing at Alteran authorities. This force also included robots. “My friends, what are you doing inside, you’re missing all ze excitement!” called out the man in his french accent. Then the man continued to fire his laser guns. “Hey, can you give me a gun?” I asked. “Ah, yes we have them delivered already, check your cargo bay,” said the man. When I walked to the cargo bay, I saw the shipment of weapons. After taking a gun, I went back to the doorway to help Sophia and the french accent guy. When I got there, I started to fire the laser gun at the Alteran Authority people. As I was firing, I realized that the candy I ate in the building with the overseer had finally worn off. After noticing this, I figured that the candy effect can only affect you if you’re in the building with the overseer. Then Larry walked into the hallway with the gun that he bought for himself at the Alteran gun store and he took a very loud shot. Then I saw his shot hit a drone. After that, I saw Zi come and he started to fire at the authorities as well, and we managed to not let any of the authorities board the Trident. Then the authorities started to kick over vending machines and hide behind them. “Can I get a pilot?” Mal screamed down the hall. After that, I moved out of the Trident by one meter to try and hit the authorities. “That’s the spirit!” said the french accent guy as I moved into a riskier position. A few moments later, the Trident sounded like it was about to take off. “Adios!” I said to the authorities as I took one last shot and made it back to the Trident. Unfortunately they were able to land a hit on my arm and I felt mildly injured. “Au revoir mon ami!” called the french accent man as we were starting to take off. As we were lifting off, the Trident created a cloud of smoke and the authorities continued to fire where the french accent guy was, and the french accent guy started to fire back. Then all of a sudden, the french accent guy’s fire ceased and due to the cloud of smoke, I had no idea why. When his fire ceased, the authorities started to move into the cloud of smoke. After that, I headed to the bridge and I saw a missile (that was probably a parting gift from Altera) coming towards us. Then our navigators Sophia and Caleb tried to dodge the missile and the missle ran

past us but it unfortunately went in an arc and headed back towards us. As this was happening, Victor tried to use the countermeasures but when he pressed down on the countermeasures button, nothing happened. Then Victor pressed the countermeasures button a bunch of times but still, nothing happened. “Ji-jiggle it, jiggle it, ji-jiggle it. I don’t know, I think it’s- hang on...” stuttered Mal as he pulled out a book with a To Repair List in it and unfortunately, the top three items were countermeasures and only 2 of the countermeasures were crossed off. “Oh…” said Mal after looking at this list. Then the missile hit us. Luckily, we did not get severely damaged and we were able to leave Altera Prime. After this we called a meeting. When I got to the meeting room I realized that Ash and Bee-Bop decided to not come. “Well... that went about as badly as it could’ve gone,” said Mal, “We don’t have medicine, we caused an international incident... did their robots rebel against them? How did their robots rebel against them? I’ve been saying for years, ever since they came out with the electric razor, that that was a mistake. I oppose to letting robots control many things, but your whole planet... your whole planet controlled by a robot. What a place. Alright, who was um... who was your friend?” “Um... are you talking about this guy with the scarf?” I asked. “Ya, that guy with the scarf,” said Mal. “Well uh... we met him at the end of a museum and he gave me a data stick,” I said. “He gave you a dat-ya alright, we should probably look at that then... ya alright. That would make a great deal of sense,” said Mal. Then I submitted the data stick into the screen in the middle of the meeting room and a hologram of the french accent guy appeared before us. I could also hear some fan fair and heroic music playing in the background. “Bonjour mon ami! Je m'appelle Claude. I am here to speak to your freedom,” said the french accent guy who turned out to be named Claude. After the rest of this message finished playing, it appeared that this message was very similar to an ad and it seemed to be advertising a revolution. At the end of this message (or ad), Claude said that New Montreal was being ravaged. Then he started showing photos of very sick people. After that he explains how Altera Prime is not helping and then he says if the revolution is successful, New Montreal will get some aid. When he is finished explaining this the message ends with him saying “who is with me?” “I hate him,” said Mal after the message finished playing. “Well... if there is a revolution, uh... what do you suppose we do now?” I asked, “We can’t really go back to Altera Prime and we still do need medicine.” “We’re never going back to Altera Prime,” said Mal, “Definitely not going back to Altera Prime. Places I need to shoot my way out of, I don’t go back to. Here are my lists of places I am not going back to: Altera prime, that Nowhere bar place runned by my ex-girlfriend-” “Ok, ok, ok, ok, ok, I ge-I kind of get the point now, Mal,” I said. “My Mom’s House!” continued Mal, “Ok, sorry. Oflanihi’s Bar on 52nd Street. Anywhere I have to shoot my way out of, I do not go back! Probably why I’m alive today. So Altera Prime is out. Basically we’re facing two choices. Return to Federation space, just-just go home, we could do that. I mean, we didn’t kill the Shark but the Shark was killed and that was half of our mission. Those people sure look sick in that video though.”

“Maybe we should fly back to Federation space, ask what we should do and then we could go on their orders,” I suggested, “But first we tell them everything that has happened so they don’t send us back to Altera Prime.” “Hm... Arcturus Mengsk,” said Mal, “Probably the most evil S.O.B in the entirety of the Federation... has his eyes on us. Something tells me that slinking back home with our tail between our legs is a really good way to just... get shot out of the sky in a misfire, in an accident, get disappeared. Do you know what I’m talking about, get disappeared? Have you guys ever been disappeared before? Andrew have you been disappeared before?” “Uh... no, but maybe if we-if he shows up again we can ask him what he would like us to do, because if we don’t he can potentially kill us,” I said. “Ya, that.” said Mal, “That’s what getting disappeared is. Your family is told that you’ve taken a-a long vacation somewhere nice and warm and meanwhile you’re in the desert with two big guys named Borris and Horris and you got a shovel and you’re just digging a hole because Borris and Horris are too lazy to dig a whole to put your dead body into and-” “Wait, who’s Borris and Horris?” asked a crewmate. “Borris and Horris, you know Borris and Horris. I mean... they’re two guys I left buried in the desert a couple years ago, but that’s besides the point!” said Mal, “I don’t want to get disappeared and honestly, I don’t want to leave without getting that medicine back. It’s about time we did something good.” “I agree with your plan because when we were at that ramen bar, Arcturus Mengsk told us that if everything went well, our lives could get better,” I said. “Ya, but it’s Arcturus Mengsk like... he thinks your life sucks. Maybe buring you in the desert is the idea of making your life better. I don’t know man, I don’t trust him. Wish somebody would fix that beeper,” said Mal. After mentioning this, I noticed a beeping sound. “Ok, we’ve *sigh* got two ladies that we took from Altera Prime and their malfunctioning robit that needs to be dealt with, we can’t just bring them back. We can’t take them away from their home and then there’s New Montreal, which if it’s as bad as in the video... does need our help,” said Mal. “Could we take a visit to New Montreal to see how bad the situation is?” I asked. “I don’t know what we could do without medicine, but ya, we could go. It seems as our only lead. What is that beeping noise?” said Mal, “Larry, you with us Larry?” “Uh, pardon?” said Larry. “Hey, Larry, our communications officer. That beeping sound…” said Mal. “Ya?” said Larry. “It’s coming across the radio,” said Mal. “Oh, ok,” said Larry. Then Larry started to try to turn off the radio. “Hey guys look! They’re calling for distress, but I don’t think we can do nothing, so let’s just turn it off,” said Larry right before he was going to turn the radio off. “Wa-wa-wa-wait. Don’t turn it off! Can you understand it?” asked Mal. “But they’re calling for distress but we can’t do no nothing,” said Larry. “Yes we can! Yes we can do something. It might help us,” I said. “Shut it up, it's getting annoying!” said Larry.

“Larry, don’t turn it off. That would be very rude and even if you did, then uh... I will dump hot coffee on your bed,” I said. Then Larry said something about a payment in Bitcoin. “Larry, would you stop extorting your crewmates? Send them a response,” said Mal. “Fine, but what am I supposed to do with it? It’s just beeping I can’t read beeps,” said Larry. “It’s Morse Code!” I said to Larry. “Ya, I know it’s Morse Code, I don’t know how to read Morse Code,” said Larry. “Wow, I’m so glad to hear that the communications officer doesn't know how to read Morse Code,” I thought. Then, Larry decided to send the people who sent the distress signal a message saying “send us your coordinates.” Believe it or not we actually got some coordinates. “Can you ask them what’s wrong with the ship,” asked Mal. Then Larry sent a message asking what was wrong and for a while, there was silence. Then the coms turned on and a voice said “Be quiet, if you keep broadcasting on this frequency, they’ll hear you.” After traveling for an hour, we were about 300 meters away from the coordinates and we could see the ship and it seemed to be engulfed in a smoke cloud. Our sensors could not penetrate this cloud but we could still see it. Then we started to think about how we should approach this ship. After some debate, we decided to dock with this ship. Then Caleb and Sophia flew the Trident to the other ship and we were able to dock successfully. When we entered the smoke cloud, our sensor range dropped significantly but we were able to detect 4 asteroids. Victor, Larry, Sophia, and Zi decided to board this ship and the rest of us decided to stay on the Trident. The people who were boarding the other ship decided to bring the newly purchased laser guns. As the people that were going to board the ship were getting ready, I headed down to the science lab and I brewed 2 vials of an explosive liquid, just in case things got ugly. After doing this I decided to organize my room. While I was organizing my room, I heard Victor through my headset and apparently, the ship he was boarding was called the Tomcat. After I finished organizing my room, I heard a series of strange noises and after that, I heard Larry over my head set and he said “We should've blown this ship up! Now I’m going to die!” “What are you saying Larry? I can’t even really like... comprehend why you’re saying these things! You know what? Just come back-just come back to the Trident and I will be ready,” I responded. When I was finished organising, I headed to the bridge and I kept hearing strange noises over my headset and I wondered if the people in the Tomcat were being attacked. A few moments later, I heard Victor over the radio and he did say that there were Drakarians and I assumed that they were the ones making the strange noises. Then I ran to Mal and said “Mal uh... we’re in a sticky situation, so uh-” “Ya, I can hear! We’ve got to get people off the ship before we disengage!” interrupted Mal. Then Mal turned and said “Where do you think you’re going?” Then I turned and saw Ash putting on a helmet, loading up her weapon, and making her way to the Tomcat.

As Ash entered the Tomcat; me, Will, Michael, and Caleb went over to the airlock, preparing to detach our ship once everybody had gotten on safely. Fortunately, everybody made it back safely and me, Will, Michael, and Caleb started to detach our ship. As we were doing this, I noticed that Caleb was making a ton of mistakes, but I noticed these mistakes and I corrected them. A few moments later, we were able to detach successfully and fly to safety. A few moments after flying away from the Tomcat, the Tomcat exploded. We got out in the nick of time. After breathing a sigh of relief, I headed to the bridge and I saw that our sensors were pinging. Then I saw 4 vessels approaching the Trident from the direction of Altera Prime. Then a voice on our radio system said “This is the peacekeeping navy of Altera Prime. You are wanted fugitives. Surrender immediately for search or prepare to be destroyed.” Then I saw the sensors ping again and I looked in the other direction and I saw 3 ships that looked like the Drakarian ships that we had fought against before, heading towards us. There were Alteran Peace Keepers coming from one direction and Drakarian ships coming from an asteroid field in the other direction. We were stuck between a rock and a hard place. Andrew

My friend and I went to the medical bay to treat a treatment. After I do that the captain of the ship says we need to find a cure for this blight and he says he doesn’t want to go to Arturis Minx. Then I volunteer to stay on the ship to eat chips and after that I hear an explosion so I hide under my bed.

Victor - Session 12 - The Tomcat

In the beginning, we were still at Alterra Prime, and we just spoke with the overseer about a lot of things. It was a total mess, Andrew restrained beep-bop, while me and Caleb both hid under our beds. Unfortunately, our gun order has been stolen too by some idiot thieves. Andrew then helps Sophia with the gun fight and other things. Andrew then sneaks out of the ship and he shoots one of them. As we ran away from the enemies we took off on the ship but a missile followed us and I tried to stop it.

Zi there are robots shooting outside I go get cover immediately and saw Sophie get a gun and start shooting, where did she get the gun? oh, I see… why did I not saw the gun on the ship it is literally on the ship right on the floor so I get a gun on the floor and start shooting outside, and s guy that wear a black coat and have to gun shooting like crazy any way after this fight we go to a planet and find another ship I decide to go into the ship and it looks like a normal empty ship I walk to the engineering room and the things are mostly old random stuff but there is still two good computers, suddenly Sophie come and a huge monster follow her it is a Drakarian I back away from him and I hit a hot thing it is the core of the ship and it is the door to the core but it should not be hot it is unstapled and it is going to...explode! i have a gun but i know that it is not going to have something good happen if i shoot in a room with an unstable core so i run to him and hit him with the back of the gun and he passes out and we run out of the door and meet the others in a corner and we go to the door of the ship suddenly Sophie stop, another Drakarian grab her heel! and i hear the sound of a gun shoot.

SESSION THIRTEEN

The Battle of the Beltway

When we undocked we saw some ships fl ing aroud us.When we were wondering if the are friends or enemies, the started the fire. We tried to outrun the missile but could not do an thing else because our ship s technolog is far behind theirs. The missile hit us and our ship is damaged but nobod got hurt. We were all so scared and bumped eachother because our lights went out. Michele and Andrew who has engineer background fixed the lights for use . meanwhile another missile was chasing us from the left side of the ship. We tried our best to set the eniges to max power to escape. This time were luck because we acted fast enough. But unfortunatel more and more ships came fl ing to us and we all got ver desperate. Certainl a ship came ver close and the green light from that ship cover us totall . The light was so strong which knocked us out for one minute. When we woke up we tried our best to run awa .

oh, i am so di

We heard Captain Zi elled. We rushed to him to help and he got

kockedout when we arrived. We were so desperate, and we gave him some first aid. But he still did not wake up

Somehow, everyone got back to the Trident in time, and Mal asked, “Should we run or fight?” No one responded, and as a result, as soon as he finished talking, the ship lurched forward, and others started firing with our new guns. “I SAID RUN OR FIGHT, NOT BOT H! I DON’T T HINK T HAT’S POSSIBLE!” Mal yelled. Then we heard a drakarian’s voice, from one of the drakarian ships pursuing us. “Are you going to surrender?” “Um, wait a second. Or a few hours.” Andrew said to it on the radio. Then we drifted into an asteroid field, and even more drakarian ships came out. Surprisingly, though, they didn’t shoot at us - they just moved past us. However, the Alteran ships who were also pursuing us weren't as lucky. Looking out the window for the first time, I saw the Drakarians and Alterans fighting each other. But we weren’t safe yet. The same grey cloud thing I saw last time we were in a space battle was back, and it seemed to be moving toward us. Again. Then a drakarian ship got just a little too close, and it was swallowed up by the cloud, which looked absolutely terrifying. As soon as I thought that, the grey cloud very unfortunately encircled us, and Zi fainted and collapsed. Upon closer inspection that I didn’t particularly want to have, I noticed that it seemed to

be a swarm of something small. I wondered whether it was nanites, since it made Zi collapse, and it was a bunch of small grey... things. Finally, we got away from it, and repaired the ship while we flew. Ash, who was looking out the window, didn’t look very happy, like she wasn’t sure she should be leaving her former allies behind. Then we came to a planet that was apparently called New Montreal (I have no idea how everyone else knew that). We decided to try a peaceful approach, and when we were walking down the street, a guy said to us, “Bonjour. What is your business here?” “Um, we were sent on a mission, and we came to see how bad the blight is.” Andrew said. Then he and the French guy had a conversation I completely lost track of. (Why does that always happen?) Anyway, there was nothing to do, so we all just went back to our rooms in the Trident and chilled there for the rest of the day. (I played Among Us.) In the morning, I woke up to the sound of cheering. Curious, I went outside to see what was going on, and I saw some others from the crew there. Then we saw Claude, (who I’ll always remember as the guy who pickpocketed Andrew,) and he started making a speech or something, and then

he started shooting robots for some reason. Everything that happened next in one word: Chaos.

The Battle of the Beltway As the Alteran ships approached, they told us to surrender but we did not listen. Me and my crewmates also knew that there was no way that we could fight the 4 Alteran ships so we decided to run away. As we were fleeing, some Alteran ships fired torpedoes at us. As we were trying to fly away, we talked a bit with the Alterans and I learned that the leader of this fleet was named Maxwell Toli. As the Trident was being chased, the Alterans noticed the Drakarian ships and when I told them that they should fight the Drakarians they said that we were with the Dakarians. After some more conversation, me and my crewmates knew that there was no way we could talk our way out of this sticky situation so we continued to flee and lucky we managed to not get hit by anything. By this point, the Drakarians were flying towards Altera Prime but they did not seem to be fighting the Alterans but the Alterans decided to fight with them and a few Alteran ships decided to engage in combat with the Drakarians. As they were fighting, I was pretty sure that there were more Drakarian ships coming but I could not be sure. The Trident was not being chased by that many ships and when I looked back at the fight between the Drakarians and the Alterans, I saw some debris in space and Isaw some Drakarian ships that were Docking with the Alterans. After some time, the Alterans did manage to get the Drakarians off of their ships. When I turned back to look at what was ahead of the ship, I saw a green laser that was wrapping around the Trident and I knew that this was the Laser that Ash used on the Trident before. Fortunately, the torpedo that the Alterans fired was nowhere to be seen. Then I noticed a Drakarian ship that was shooting at us and we could not do anything. A few moments later, a huge cloud engulfed the Drakarian ship and the ship did not come out. Then I looked back at where the Drakarians and the Alterans were previously fighting and I saw them firing at the cloud. The cloud had probably swallowed their ships as well. By this point, the green laser came off of the Trident but the cloud was heading towards us. We were able to fly right over it and a tentacle-like shape came out and it scratched the bottom of the Trident. Luckily, it did not inflict too much damage. As the Trident was flying over this cloud, I realized that there was no way that this was a gas or a liquid because it was too cold in space for that to be possible. When I looked back at it, I realized that it was made out of plenty of small miniscule objects that were constantly moving. Then I saw that the Alteran ship that was following us before was gone. Then I noticed that there was a small space pod in the distance. This tiny space pod must have been an escape pod. As we flew away from the battle, we came across a beige looking planet. It was New Montreal We decided to go there and when the Trident landed on New Montreal, we left the Trident and when we left, I realized that All of the ships and robots at the landing deck looked old, but well preserved and after looking back at the Trident, I realized that the Trident looked like the best ship on the landing deck. After seeing all of this, a person who looked like a New Montreal official came over and he asked us some questions. At the end he asked us who gave us our mission and I remembered that New Montreal did not have that much of a friendship with the Federation, so I told him that me and my crewmates did not like to tell people that.

Unfortunately, he thought the person that had given us our mission was Claude (the french accent guy) he asked me if I could get his daughter Claude’s autograph. When the man left, Mal decided to leave and after he left, I went back into the Trident and I collapsed on my bed. As I was sleeping, I heard cheers and I woke up. Then me and my crewmates (who looked like they just got woken up) went outside and we saw an Alteran ship and coming out of it was a very injured looking Claude. Stopped acting and he revealed that he was not actually injured and the crowd cheered. As they did this, I saw the man that had asked us for Claude’s autograph before, go up to Claude and he seemed to be asking for an autograph. Then Claude noticed us and he told the crowd that me and my crewmates had helped him do his revolution. After telling him that we did not do much, he showed us a news report and it was Maxwell Toli telling some interviewees about what me, my crewmates, and the Drakarians had supposedly done. Andrew

Our ship shook and as I looked back, six spaceships were zooming in our direction trying to kill us. I panicked and didn’t hear what my friends were saying, and pressed the back lever while they pressed the front lever. So we were stuck. They shot out a missle, that was following us and this time we all pressed the front lever and we zoomed past. An hour or so passed and we saw something that looked like a giant black orb that sucked one of our enemy ships. We didn’t want that to happen to us, so we zoomed and accidentally hit our left wing. I puked and went to bed.

Victor - Session 13 - The Battle of the Beltway

there are about seven ships around us and they are not good guys, but they are everywhere except our front，so we decide to go forward and fire, why fired? there is nothing there! Mal has the same feeling as me he said that we can only do one of fighting or run and can’t do both after he said that we still do forward and fire can we just listened to the captain once!? only once?! so we listened to Mal but we did forward and back what is wrong with you guys! there must be a traitor in our crew. anyway, the next step is finally a normal move we go forward and go right, but a torpedo that they throw at us hit us and that hit the left-wing of our ship and when I look out I saw a huge black cloud that we saw before but I did not pay a lot of attention to it because we are trying to escape from others! after a few moves the huge black thing “swallowed” two ships and rip them apart, I will never want to go into that thing, suddenly I feel fear...angry...and i feel that someone’s membry is coming to my mind… and, I past out :( the “worm” in my head! he is not supposed to have the feeling that he have, they should only be destroying and killing, but the one in my head have other feeling, he did not look like a normal “worm”. anyway after I come back from my thinking we all ready escape from the ships and we find a ship that is floting ramdomly in the space.

SESSION FOURTEEN

New Montreal

We went to à random place and wondered for à few hours. Then, à random person called Clot invites us to for food. It seemed sus because Clot said we don’t need anything. I started to protest but my friends said it was fine. We hear music in the restaurant. There are dancing and flashing lights. Bebop seems excited because he likes parties. In the restaurant à person got flung and people burst out laughing. After that there was à giant life-like statue of Clot himself. I don’t detect anything bad about him, so I stayed there. After my friends finished eating, he started talking about money, so I left. When I come back to the ship, I hear à voice that says, welcome back, join us in the boardroom. When I went to the boardroom it was arturis minx. He started to speak but I was too tired to listen so I went to bed.

I wake up to knock on the door and my friends answer the door. As they open it, they see à tall human, who is wearing plain clothing. He says, “Arturis Minx sends us your regards.” Everyone is awake now and my friend brings à weapon. He tells us to go to the council meeting. He later left and Mal came. Mal was mad that à “spy” came on the ship. He followed Andrew outside so I followed him. At the meeting, everything was going fine until Andrew tried to shoot the guard. He got shot in the stomach and Victor smacked him on the head with à baton. I swiftly grabbed the weapon the guard had and the other guard ran away.

New Montreal looked like a city, but it didn’t seem as modern as Altera Prime. We didn’t have much to do, so we decided to go check out a ship called the Dart. It looked like an ordinary ship, got bored, and went out again. Eventually, Claude got away from all his fans, noticed us, came over, and said, “Ah! Bonjour, mes amis! Say, do you want to come have dinner with me? It’s free!” A few people said no, but we cut across them and told him, “Sure! We’ll eat dinner with you!” Then Ash and Beep Bop came out of the Trident, and said they would go too. I think everyone just wanted a free dinner. On the way to a restaurant, Claude started talking about the Revolution, and he and Ash had an extremely boring conversation I didn’t even try to listen to. Finally, we got to the restaurant, which had a very familiar name; Le Château Magnifique. As we walked in, we saw a statue of Claude, and Claude exclaimed,

“Ah! Who is this handsome man? I’m just kidding, mes amis. These people love me, that’s all.” In a while, pretty much as soon as they finished their food, almost everyone left, leaving just me, Caleb, Larry, and Zi there with Claude. “Now, who benefits when the poor get the blight?” Claude was saying, “I’ll tell you who benefits. They’re the only ones who benefit. I’ve been talking about them all night, and-” Claude talked too long, though, and I lost track of what he was saying again. So I had no idea who benefited. But then again, I didn’t really care. So I left, and went back to the Trident. When I got back, I wasn’t really sure what was going on. The crew was chatting with a weird guy, and we saw Claude again on the launchpad. “Ah, hello mes amis! Come, I want to show you something.” We went to some kind of meeting room, but it didn’t go very well. Andrew tried to

sneak in some guns and bombs, and he started fighting with the guards checking for weapons. Then the room exploded, and we heard a noise. Those who were on the Tomcat recently, like me, must have recognized it. It was the sound of a Drakarian warrior.

Name As Claude was greeting his fans, me and my crewmates decided to explore the Alteran ship that Claude had stolen. When we just entered the ship, I saw some other people who were probably a part of the resistance. The interior of the ship was very high tech and this ship must have been 100 times better than the Trident. As my crewmates started to explore, I decided to check out the science lab. Unfortunately, this was a combat ship and the science lab was integrated with the med bay. In the med bay, I found 2 healing pads. These things could heal people so I decided to take them just in case. When me and my crewmates left the ship, Claude greeted us and he asked us if we wanted to go out for dinner, he also told us that we would not have to pay for anything. As some crewmates started to say no, the rest of us said yes. Ash, Vega, and Bee-Bop also decided to come. As we walked through New Montreal to go to the restaurant, I noticed that everyone seemed to be celebrating. A few moments later, Ash and Vega started to talk with Claude about the revolution in Altera Prime. Ash and Vega seemed a tad bit mad while Claude responded to their question. Probably because Claude had started a revolution in their home planet. Then we finally arrived at a restaurant called Château Le Magnifique. When we entered the restaurant Claude said that he would not have to pay because everybody liked him so much. Then me, my crewmates, and Claude were seated. As everyone started to order, I just sat there doing nothing because I thought Claude was a suspicious person and I did not really want to eat at the same table as him. A few moments later, the food arrived and as everyone was eating, I left the restaurant and I started to head back to the Trident. After a long time of walking, I made it back to the Trident and when I looked back, I saw Victor, Michael, and Will. When they came into the Trident, a Message came over the PA system and it told us to go to the board room. As we walked into the board room, we saw Arcturus Mengsk. When we got there, Acturus Mengsk greeted us and he said that everything that we’ve done was just as he predicted and he told us to just be ourselves and everything would go as planned. As he finished talking, I asked him what he wanted us to do and he said he wanted us to help him reassert control over the planets in this sector. After that, he told us that a man would be coming to the Trident tomorrow and he will go to a conference with us. I did not know that we were going to a conference so I was a bit surprised when I heard this news. Afterwards, Acturus told us to treat the man that would be coming with hospitality and then he left. Afterwards, the rest of the crew came back and we all went to sleep. The next morning, I heard a knock at the door and when I opened the door, I saw a hunched man. I knew that this was probably the mad that Arcturus had told me about, but I did not trust him, so I walked back into the Trident and the man followed me in. Then I woke everyone up and when they got up they saw the hunched man. As we talked with him, he told us to call him Gabriel. Then Mal came back and he started to talk with Gabriel. Even though Arcturus Mengsk told us to treat him with hospitality, I kept trying to shove Gabriel out of the Trident. Then I decided to go outside and Gabriel followed me. Afterwards, me, my crewmates, Mal, and Gabriel started to walk to the place where we were going to have a conference with the leaders of Altera Prime. As we were walking, we met up with Claude and we all walked together.

When we finally arrived at the building we were going to have our conference in, Claude told us that he was going to stay outside. Then me, my cremates, and Gabriel walked up to the front of the building and we saw 2 guards. I walked up to them and they conducted a search. Unfortunately, they found Arcturus Mengsk’s gun and they took it away. Afterwards, they took me aside so I could get a bigger search. Then my cremates started to get searched and after that, the 2 guards searched me again. They took away my explosive liquids but somehow, they did not find my 3 foot laser gun. After they took the explosives, I took out my laser gun and I tried to shoot one of the guards but they were faster and I got shot. A few moments later some crewmates started to fight and as they were fighting, I took the explosives back. Then I realized that the guards were unconscious and then I realized that Gabriel was not here. As I was realizing this, I heard an explosion coming from inside of the building. Then I saw Claude who started to talk. He thought that we were terrorists. As he was talking, I heard a hiss coming from the inside of the building. What could possibly go wrong? Andrew

We walked into the ship and went to the engine room because I am an engineer and it is the most advanced engine room ever! I touched a panel and I saw Nanite, a full ship of

Nanite that was doing something...the ship was stoned by someone but they are not panic or scared they just stay calm and do what they need to do, exactly what Nanite look like, won’t fear nor happy the only feeling they have is destroying and killing. after we explore the ship we go back and Claude invites us to eat dinner I don’t want to go because I would never go eat dinner with some stranger but almost all the crews want to so I will follow them and we got into a restaurant that is kind of old and I ordered a lasagna and when I finish it he starts talking and...he knows way too much from his talking and some of the crew members had left so I will just leave In case he will kill me, but I have to think a reason… so I tell him that I forget to turn the engine off so I ran back to the ship and after some time I saw he comes to the ship so I followed him because he does not look like some good guy sometimes I almost lost him because he is an old spy but I still find where is he going he sits down at a seat and put his hand on the table he did it secretly but I still see it, he put something on the table and some one takes it, there si nothing left to see so I leave to the ship and sleep. the next morning I was waked by a shout I grab the gun immediately and ran to the door the guy outside the door put his hand up as I arrive and explain that he is coming to invite us to a meet so we go to it but I will but a knife just in case that something happens but they still take it, but Andrew he just takes a huge gun and did not make any cover of it, of course, they take the gun and the police just shoot at us I want to talk but another crew member just bunches him and take the gun and shoot, suddenly a huge explosion happens and I hear a voice…A Tortona warrior!

SESSION 15

The Swarm

Andrew, looking terrified, tried to run away from the Drakarian in a cool way for no apparent reason. He ran towards Claude, and instead of simply running past him, he tried to jump over him. Claude ducked, and Andrew landed okay, but he stumbled and made the flip look dumb. Some people ran away with more sense, but Victor ran toward the Drakarian (or drakarians) and started shooting at them, and Larry dropped to the ground and pretended to have a heart attack. Apparently, it was really convincing, because Claude ran over to him and started to perform mouth-to-mouth CPR. But

just before he began, Larry suddenly sat up and shouted, “WAIT! I WAS JUST PLAYING DEAD!” “Oh,” Claude said, “This is rather embarrassing.” Against my better judgement, I decided to go shoot some bad guys with Victor, and as soon as I entered the building, I heard screaming to my left, and Mal shouting to my right. I peeked into the room on my left, and saw a guy with a gun to an officer’s head. “EVERYONE AGAINST THE WALLS, OR THIS GUY’S DEAD!” I didn’t particularly feel like doing that, so I shot him in the head. Suddenly, the officer was free, the guy’s body was on the ground,

and he no longer had a head. Directly behind him, there was a hole in the wall, and through that, I saw a hole in another wall, and through that, I saw yet another hole, and through that, I saw some random guy showering, and poking his head through the hole with a very confused expression. Since the bad guy was dead, I was sure he wouldn’t mind me taking his stuff. So I searched his pockets, I found something in his coat. It seemed to be an electronic device, with some kind of sticky stuff on the back. I tried to hack it, but it didn’t work. “HELP!” Larry yelled from somewhere outside. I ran outside,

thinking he was in another battle, but he was just sitting there. “I need a hiding place!” He told me. Annoyed, I told him I didn’t know any places he could hide, and ran away again. Eventually, we all got back to the Trident, and as we flew through space, we saw what looked like a big grey cloud. The swarm of nanites (or whatever it was) was back. Mal told us to vote for what we wanted to do, and the majority voted to run away. So Mal turned the ship away from the cloud, and navigated the ship back home.

The Swarm As Claude and the resistance looked at me and the crewmates, I ran towards him to try and jump over him. I would like to tell you that I did a cool flip over Claude but I would be lying. The truth is that I tried to jump over Claude and I successfully did it, just because Claude ducked. After jumping over him, I ran back to the Trident by myself. As I was making my way back to the Trident, I heard Mal over a public P.A system and he said that there was some sort of danger that was coming. Then I started to hear a whistling sound. When I finally went back to the Trident, I opened the door and I smelt something. It was gas and a few moments later, I realized that it was sleeping gas. I tried to get out of the Trident but I fell asleep due to the sleeping gas. I woke up to the sound of Mal calling me. When I looked up, I saw Mal, Victor, and some elderly people who looked like they were government officials. Then I noticed some ships that were flying in the sky. They looked like Drakarian ships. Afterwards, I told Mal about the sleeping gas and he put on his helmet and me and Victor did the same. Then we started to walk to the bridge and as I was walking there, I saw some of my fellow crewmates who were asleep.When we arrived at the bridge, we saw Arcturus Mengsk. He started to talk but then I took out my laser gun and I shot him straight in the head. Arcturus Mengsk, one of the most dangerous men, put his hand on his head and fell to the ground dead. When he fell on the ground, he crumbled into nanites. Mal, Victor, and the old people outside of the Trident all looked very surprised. As everyones’ shock started to die down, Mal asked if I could help start the ship. Then Mal told me to help Victor round up the old people and after some violent threats, me and Victor got them all back into the Trident. When we started to take off, I decided to get the Trident’s gun ready just in case we got into a fight. I poured the explosive liquid that I made over the bullets to make explosive bullets. When we reached the council building, we saw our crewmates and the Drakarian ships. Mysteriously, the Drakarians were not firing so we did not fire at them. Then it got dark and when I looked up, I saw the cloud that we had seen in space before. As I looked at it, it looked more and more like a gigantic nanite colony. Then me, Victor, and the Drakarians all started to fight this cloud and I heard Mal and Zi say something but I could not hear it due to the fighting. Afterwards, Mal landed the ship and the rest of my crewmates came on board. As we lifted off, Mal asked us to vote on what we should do. Zi wanted to negotiate with the cloud, me and Victor wanted to fight the cloud, and Larry wanted to run away. Then we held a vote and Larry one. We were running away. As we flew away, we heard radio calls of Claude ordering his men to fight and as we flew away, Mal turned off the radio. When I looked back, I saw the cloud engulfing New Montreal. It took us a few days to get back to Central Command and during that time, we examined a device that Sophia had taken from Gabriel. When we finally got it to work, it showed us Arcturus Mengsk’s plan to reassert control over the Alterra Prime and New Montreal. It also showed us that everything that happened on our mission, from The Shark stealing the medicine to the civil-war at Nowhere, was all orchestrated by Arcturus. When we finally arrived back at Central Command, we told the elders about what we had learned and they told us that they knew none of this. Then they told us that Aterra Prime was getting ready to save New Montreal and no messages have come from New Montreal.

Mal convinces the council that we are mad and they leave. Then, Sophia kills a man, Andrew jumps over a guy and Victor kills a dracarion. Then, Sophia finds something in Gabe’s pocket and tries to hack it. Clod asked us how we knew there were dracarions here but we didn’t know. Andrew shot Arturis Minx and apparently he was made out of nanites. Then there was a big battle and I played defense and helped the trident. Then, we ran away and learned that aurtoris minx was bad afterall. Two people were mad that we left, but I was pretty satisfied with the adventure we had.

Victor - Session 15 - The Swarm

In the beginning(It was so weird but fun), I smacked some poor guards on the head and hid my stun baton back in my sandwich and pretended everything was normal. After some shock and some panic we see a very huge strong Drakarian just standing there in front of us. I bring out my gun, the DSR precision DSR sniper laser rifle with a Z-point laser, with a heavy machine gun in the fire, and a bullet like the barret M82 but more firepower infinite ammo, with furro sight, and Ballistics tracker, and AMT terminator.hit. So, I killed that poor Drakarian with my gun, and my stun baton, and whacked him in the eyes. Meanwhile, Claud comes and demands an explanation from us about what just happened here, and we try to explain we were just trying to protect Andrew. An old man walks into what just happened and Mal and I force him to walk with us to have the meeting we have arranged. After walking for a while, we ran into Gabriel holding a gun to a police officer but luckily Sophia killed him so the police did not have to die. Some moments later, Mal tells me to hit some old people making me so confused why he tells me to do that because I did not want to. Zi then finally wakes up and then he sees what we did over the security cameras, which was kind of embarrassing. After a few moments of calming people down and explaining, we then see a whole Drakarian fleet coming to New Montreal. Debris then falls all over the city

making it so hard to walk and see. Mal then panics, but it gets a whole lot worse because Andrew just shot Arcturisk minks, but it actually is Nanites, and Nanites spill out of him. Mal tells everyone to get on the Trident and we prepare for a huge battle. After we shoot some Drakarians we see a weird giant cloud on the horizon and The Drakarians shoot at it and we do the same. We then called a meeting, and we had to vote for what we do next in order for the greater good. For some very weird reason WE VOTED TO RUN AWAY! Me and Andrew were so angry but it was no use. We ran away and told the Federation about everything that happened, and they plan to nuke New Montreal or something.

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He told us to explain. I don’t even know why there are torcon worers! so Lary Not surprising...play died and he came to do CPR so…Lary came up very fast, what is the point of playing dead if you come up!!! and I answered the question, I said no idea and that is true and I go away and go up, someone had come to the building and they did not look friendly and when I going to a room I can have the access of all the video I can see our group, victer fighting with the enemy, Mal at the pack with people, victor eating sandwich, and the most important I heard someone calling and I receive it, it feels familia, and I saw a white light it goes bigger and bigger… finally it comes to the building. the Nite, but I can feel that they are not trying to hit the building nor me, but we still have a war(I don’t know why) and I saw something, the black cloud that can eat all the planets! so I called the ship back and I bord it. now we have to decide we are going to fight or run or me try to talk to the cloud. and eventually we decide to run but why do we have to run?! I can talk to the cloud! maybe he can eat all the Nites and go away! but most of the crews want to go and… we leave the planet hearing the help signal they send and Mal closes the radio slowly. we are safe, no one died, but not the planet...

BONUS

Epilogue

Epilogue A few years after Andrew’s quest on the Trident, the Alterrans finally liberated New Montreal from the Nanites, but to their horror, everything on New Montreal had vanished. The buildings and people had been disintegrated by the Nanites. After finding this, the Alterrans started to research Nanites and after some painstaking months, they figured out how to destroy Nanites. Then they sent out an army of ships to go destroy the Nanite swarm. Around this time, Andrew started to gain popularity and he would later become one of the greatest scientists who has ever existed. Even though he had many things going through his mind at once, he would never forget his adventures with the Trident. Andrew

1. Does the Swarm join New Montreal and Nanite Claude become the most powerful superhero in the galaxy! I want that to happen because that would be such a cool boss fight and it would make an awesome new story! I think that idea really fits as an ending because then I would want to know what would happen next!

after the adventure, I got very sad and guilty so I lock myself in my working space and don’t meet anyone, the planet has eaten by the swarm and no one on that planet lives except...us and everyone wants to know what happens on that planet and the Federation don’t let us tell, I won’t tell anyway I think that this adventure is a shame so I did not contact with any one of the grounds any more, and I won’t go out of my house unless I need to. and the Federation is trying to solve the swarm thing but it did not go well and I suicidet myself in the house with a wooden planets toy in my hand, and I was only 30 years old.