The Marantz Class Battleship Fragment...

For Knight Rider:....

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The Lieutenant Commander stomping from the main IST of the USS Belo Horizonte would have been completley out of place aboard a Union HALD explorer only five years ago. He was a Nul and he approached the small Holdian sitting in the size adjusted Command Chair and said. “I just checked with Astrogation we should approach the region now.”

The little Holdian got up and the size difference between the Holdian and the Nul could hardly been greater, yet aboard the USS Belo Horizonte it was not the most extreme size difference between the Senior Officers or perhaps between any Union ship. The Holdian was the XO of the ship and acknowledged the Nul Science Officer with a nod and a twitch of his tail. “Than you Mr. Xorr.” The Holdian stepped further away from the Command seat and said. “Computronic please inform the Captain, we are about to drop in the reported region.”

The ship AI responded in an unemotional almost mechancial, definite artifical voice. “Captain Loptar is on his way.”

The Command chair was lifted away by a mechanical arm into a compartment in the ceiling and a circular opening appeared in the floor of the Command Balcony. The Captain of the ship was so big that he could only appear on the bridge with his head and shoulders. Captain Loptat was a Boloth and 36 meters long, almost 12 meters high and measured 480 cm from shoulder to shoulder. Technically and like all Boloths he did not conform to the physical requirements but he had managed to become a explorer captain and due to his exemplatory service he was recommended by the Admiral of the Fleet himself and sent to Command school. He received a commission and command over the USS Belo Horizonte. He became the first Boloth Union Fleet Star ship captain in history but his career was and had to be limited to the Belo Horizonte as she received a special refit of Bridge and the so called Under Bridge deck (or Deck 2) to accommodate his size.

The Captains head was bigger than the full command seat installation on other ships and his actual command chair was a deck below. The Boloth Captain blinked his big eyes towards his Helm Officer, a Mini Terran. A being 22 cm tall, no bigger than an insect compared to the Boloth and said.” Mr. Roswell drop us out of Quasi and then lets see if the Old Nul report of a strange Energy signal and mass reading in this otherwise empty gap area is still there.”

The USS Belo Horizonte was investigating an old Nul survey report about strange and unusual energy readings in this region. After Nelson II went online, the AI had significant capacity left and it went over the Nul records. Now that Nul records were fully accessible to Union researchers it was a treasure throve of information and survey reports of regions Union explorer had not been.

This region of space was technically already empty space. A region between two spiral arms.

Now Nelson II found that the Golden had a similar report of a strange energy reading in this region, but the Golden report was almost 2000 years older.

Nelson further analyzed these two reports and came to the conclusion that the energy signatures were somewhat similar with the energy readings of the USS Devastator and the sensor reports the USS Tigershark brought back. The possibility that something Seenian was drifting in this region was not to far fetched and so the USS Belo Horizonte was dispatched to investigate.



The Nul science officer manning his station in his preferd position by standing behind it said. “I don't think we have to search much, I have three strange and identical artifical objects on the scanners. All initial scans indicate objects that are indeed of Seenian origin. I suggest extreme caution, there is a report of a Barracuda destroyer engaging a Seenian courier ship and the battle was only marginally won by the Barracuda.

The Boloth Captain nodded and his Holdian XO said. “System call for General Quarters, and go to Red Alert.”

The Captain asked his Communications Officer. “Mr. Jones please inform Command that we found something Seenian indeed...