Part 1: Life As We Now Know It
Mornings are always so nice. The air is crisp, the snipes are singing, and there is always the promise of a fresh new day. Today is extra special though. I finally get to join my friends at the top of The Spiral Order(as it exists on this planet). The work will be harder from now on but I’m proud to serve the order and excited to work with my friends again.
My name is Rebecca. Our group has been on this planet called Cradle for almost two years now, though we did not come here by choice. On our journey to explore unknown stretches of space our ship malfunctioned. I had finished my training for the day and was going to my room to rest when suddenly there was a loud boom and the walls around me shook. After a moment of silence the emergency lights turned on. The voice of our ship’s captain boomed throughout the ship, “Please go to your assigned escape pod, this is not a drill. I repeat, please go to your assigned escape pod, this is NOT a drill”. Everybody in the hallway I was in froze. Many of us thought the time to use the training we had received would never come. When we started moving again we moved quickly. For most it was fast and efficient. For a sad few it was a scattered, time-consuming, and life-ending experience.
The door to my escape pod door would not open until it had checked the outside air and seen if it would have any negative effects and do what it could do to make it less harmful to me. While I waited I checked my MID to see if there was anybody around me. There was nobody in a 400 meter radius. We were told to gather in small groups and survive while the commander and his officers would search for a place large enough to sustain our group. With a group as large as ours it would take some time, we were told it would take around three days to two weeks. We just had to survive until then.
This is a story I've been spending a lot of time thinking about. I don't know if I'm all that comfortable with what i have right now but if i don't get started some time it will never get done. It's going to be a long story with possible large gaps in between progress. The first part is going to be longer than i wanted at the start but i think it is necessary to get a feel for the story? I'm just doing things as i go along so some things might change but I will try to keep them to a minimum.
Things to note:
-This is not the Spiral Knights you know: obviously it can't be that much different but it will be my own version of things.
-The world of the knights: Spiral Knights have evolved from human like creatures. (i removed this so i could work on it some, will be put back in later, just some history. Maybe in different comment?)
-Very disciplined people
-MID: Multipurpose Interactive Device, standard issue knight equipment. It has scanning abilities, can hold lots of data, and displays a knights status. It is located on the right forearm of each knight. During the evacuation these were used to find a path and a pod for each knight to use.
If you want to know anything that you thought of i will try to answer it as best i can, some answers might change as i go though the story, but probably won't happen for a good time to come.