EV/EVO Chronicles: The Colonization of the Ji Nebula- A Miranu Legend

It was nearly 3 Am when the navicomputer's beep woke you. You get up and set course to Mirava, then got some breakfast. You eat your salad while looking over the scans you had gotten of a system that you had named F-25. It appeared that the planet, though no larger than the moon, was fully habitable and even had a breathable atmosphere. As you jumped into the Mirava system, you walked to the captain's seat of your sleek brand new Miranu Gunship, the Alti. You pressed a green button next to the commlink and soon came up with a list of frequencies for different ships in the system. You scrolled down the menu and the entered the frequency for the Mira Spaceport. The computer gave a series of beeps and you called over to Kuno, your copilot, to activate the translator. The voice of a rather tired sounding Miranu came over the speaker.

"You are cleared to land in section F562, Alti."

You hail an air-bus and headed for the Department of Intergalactic exploration. The building, though small, housed files of over 1 million years of exploration in a single 36 tetrabyte file. Vero, one of the scientists on the board of Nebula exploration took the readings to analyze them and later sat down next to Andre and Kuno in the bar.

He said in a hushed voice "It appears that this planet that we have chosen to call New Leita is the center of a large group of inhabitable planets to the galactic north of it. We want you to take some scientists with you and examine it for any sign of intelligent life you can find."

He then gives you a credstick reading 80,000 and says "Take this to the shipyard and have them build some living space and a complete lab into the holds of your ship, tell them to charge me if they need any more money. When you get to the shipyard they get right to work and end up spending close to 200,000 credits on the equipment."

Next you take it to an electronics shop and have them set up the computers and show you how to use your ships weapons. By that time it was 6:00 o'clock and you take the ship back to place F562 for some rest. Hours later, you hear taking and pounding outside your door,

Oh God, The scientists!

You show them their quarters and notice that its 5:30 AM, time to get moving. You call Kuno and also another crewmember, an Azdgari named Qun that you hired in port, he was an Azdara pilot in Raiger and then joined the Miranu trading federation. You made him weapons commander and put him in charge of outfitting the ship.

You went to the captain's chair after getting an expresso and eggs at the replicator, then fired up the engines. I activated the afterburner and left Mira behind, I rolled over to the Navicomputer and enter coordinates for F-25 and then went back to bed. 2 hours later I woke up to the sound of Kuno over the speaker calling me to the bridge, I got there and found myself looking at F-2..... excuse me New Leita.

The scientists were already there looking at the specs and taking air samples. I piloted the ship to the ground and then equipped myself to explore, the scientists then tell me about a hover jeep type vehicle that we explored the planet with, all we found was a small birdlike creature but still deemed it good for habitation. We wen back to Mira and then returned To New Leita many times bring in supplies, by the time a year had passed a small scientist colony was developed and a large plantation to help provide special plants. Also during this time, they found a rich vein of an ore unlike they had ever seen before. It was shown to be stronger than any alloy currently in production and also high in conductivity, meaning it could carry a strong shield. A mining colony was formed and I was put in charge of a fleet of heavy freighters to carry the ore. Because of its position deep in an impenetrable nebula, we didn't get any renegade trouble either.

I decided to retire to A small cabin on the planet after 5 years of running the trade but hey I'm only 40 my life can still go on.

This story is far from over but I'm sick of writing if you want to add something just leave a comment on the web board so I know beside that I'm okay with it.

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