Beyond Stars

Luna 035

Luna 035

Before it was said that there were three great powers in existence. Earth, Alliance, Saturn Empire. After Earth lost their war against Saturn half of its territories became Alliance territory, there is peace between Saturn Empire and Alliance for now, Luna 035 is on the verge of this neutral zone that used to be old earth territory, used to be an earth facility. - Historian -

I see in Luna 035 that the security measures have yet to be updated to alliance standards, not suprising as there is still much logistics problems conserning the old base's upgrades. They never really designed them the way they are built these days. Luna 035 is located at the moon of a small planet, to be honest there are alot of bases named Luna, enough to give grief to the headquarters about it.

So to deal with the problem they made a new agency, the Luna management division or as the folks called it Lunatic management division. It wasn't a place you wanted to get sent to. Well if you were in the lower ranks. All in all it was a decent assignment without much bureaucracy involved for the higher ups. Just the perfect spot for a Military security specialist, if you didn't want to do much work. That's me Joe Harrison, Security inspector of luna division, handsome man they say, got them blue eyes and i keep my brown hair short, not everyone does on my division.

My work usually involves checking on the upgrade progress of various places. To do all that they've supplied my unit with one of the second class deep space courier ships. Armed as it is, doesn't pack much of a punch. So to get to why i'm here, not for an ordinary job. We got called in as this place is a bit special. Luna 035 is one of those rare bases where they conduct human experiments and design new space technology. If that didn't tell you that this would be somewhat unusual assignment for me then i don't know what will. I swear one time on a similiar gig we had to detain a bunch of chimps who had stolen a shuttle. Not your usual work day, once in a while it's good though, keeps the job from feeling too stagnant.

The Base is suprisingly high tech for an old one. It's biotech lab had received upgrades according to a report i read on the way here, among some other things. The main research had been centered around building a new type deep space ship. There had been a prototype here. As i say had been, i mean that it was stolen. All the details are not known yet. That's why i'm here to find out everything necessary about the situation and to figure out how it happened, before the military's patrol ship arrives. I'm working on a limited schedule, which i don't like at all. The facility is quite big here, also unusual for a luna type base. They stopped building this base before it could be completed, around half the intended plans were built. They planned to build the rest later but the importance of this project dwindled before it could be done and resources were directed elsewhere.

He strolled into the security headquarters which was manned by your usual security types, guys who didn't seem to fit in the police or the army, their boss a round man with double chin had a worried look, he looked to be about to sweat dry. "Sir, what an honor it is to have someone of your stature visit us here, even if it is under most dire circumstances, i'm security chief Bronx " Bronx said. "Spare me the useless flattery Bronx, you're in deep shit, you better tell me all you know" Joe said.

It turned out that Bronx was not only an unpleasant sight but also utterly incompetent. According to his explanation the ship had mysteriously disappeared, along with a bunch of subjects from a research lab on the lowest level. He had no idea how these subjects had gotten to the ship and past all his security measures he suspected that one of the scientists was involved. By what i had seen you didn't need to be a rocket scientist to figure out his security measures which consisted of sitting next to a monitor and eating donuts while giving orders. I knew the job was going to be bad but i had no idea it was this bad.

"First things first i'll visit the lab where the subjects escaped from, assign me a guide that you think you really don't need here to investigate, and notify the personnel there" Joe said. "I have just the right guy, Rick! You're with Mr. Special officer!" Bronx seemed happy at himself, thought he had handled the situation well, he seemed to get nervous around higher ups and ended up sweating more than usual, Joe had seen it before. The man who Bronx had ordered to be his guide seemed more competent. Rick Nagan. Young man at his 20's, short black hair, well kept uniform, pointy ears and a pale face. A tech guy, probably been on a good career plan, until he had stepped on the wrong toes and gotten sent here. Joe thought a moment about why Bronx would want Rick out of his sight, men like Bronx, always parading around, undermining those who tried to excel at their jobs, might be that Rick was too keen to offer his advice to the chief.

They headed towards the elevators, which connected the security headquarters to all the necessary parts of the facility. "So rick, what's your take on what happened?" Joe asked. "We'll Sir. It seems to me that a group of enhanced humans hacked into our systems and gained knowledge of the ship and escaped, by fooling the security system, knocked out the guards, wasn't a hard thing to do as the security is so old" Rick said. "Did you suggest this possible scenario to Bronx?" Joe asked. "I did, he thinks it's preposterous and that it was an inside job by one of the scientists, thinks it's a plan to get him fired, he isn't exactly well known for being liked" Rick said. "Not worried that they'll hear that?" Joe said. "Nah, i carry one of those portable scramblers that the old listening system can't handle, it's been driving them crazy" Rick said. The man was obviously not worried about losing his job. Joe could use someone like him at his unit, futher observation of Rick would be needed. Even though the guards were guards they were still classified as military personnel and could be transfered if Joe or someone high up wanted to.