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New Lands ..Chapter 1 Andromeda

The Voyage Now that the Milkyway was a peacefull place to live in, Cpt.Dj saw no reason to stay there any longer. New Lands had to be discovered, new Places colonised. Expansion in the Milkyway was not longer possible,all inhabitable places where ......ehhhhhhmmm inhabited. So Cpt.Dj decided to volunteer for the Andromeda Project...the U.P.`s attempt to reach our neighbour galaxy. The distances involved though,where so large that the voyage would take several hundred years. Thus all colonists where dropped into liquid Nitrogen sleeping deep, almost dead in their Cryotanks. Selfcontaining Med and Maintainance Droids saw to it that all systems where functioning proper. In one of those tanks dreamed our Cpt.Dj, nightmares of wars long forgotten by mankind.

Galaxy Cruiser The Vessel the U.P. build for the Andromeda Project, was the largest ever been build. They called the new shipclass "Galaxy cruiser". Basically it consisted of 4 Stardestroyer type ships which were build around a huge structure carrieing thousands of sleeping colonist and the resources to build a whole city. Was a suitable location for settlement found it could be disassembled in orbit and from the thus derived parts, new ships build. This would all be done by droids who would wake the colonists when all was ready. Was the colony successfully established and growing, a new Galaxy could be discovered.

Panorama The grand view through the bridge window towards andromeda, didnt bother the Navigational droids. They where far to buisy keeping the great ship on course and were not programmed for adoring great sights. Apart from that, even if they would have been programmed that way..the sight hadnt changed for a dozend years and would have bored them anyway.

The arrival After 800 years of voyage the Stracruiser finally arrived at the outer rim of the andromeda galaxy. The navigational droids started scanning the first suns for inhabitable planets. After a fiew years the finally found one and in orbit of it..they started demontaging the starcruiser It took a year of work, then moment had come, where the huge Stardestroyers that had functiond as drives, could break away from the main structure. Soon it would be time to wake the colonists.

The awakening Cpt.Dj was quite confused, as one should expect, after having had a 800 year nap. Blinded by the lights of the cryonic chamber and hardly able to move he tried to remember who he was and where he was. Med-droids carefully watched his circulation, heartbeat and brainpattern for every colonist was a very valuable good.

Constructionsite It was a strange world the droids found..mostly just rocks and water, the most evoluted lifeform being an algea that floated over the water by producing methane, the roots immersed...but they would be a good hydrocarbon supply. The colonists carried their own supply of seedgoods and farmanimals. They would survive with ease with that little local competition. The droids got startet constructing the settlements.

New Lands ..Chapter 2 The surprise

Discovery The security men where put out of sleep first, a hundred tough soldiers, in charge of them,Cpt Dj. Droids did reliable work..but did no good ,when it came to dealing with the unexpected. After having landed on the planet the first thing Cpt.Dj did, was doublechecking on the enviroment. It was a good thing he did so, while the surface of the planet was quite uninhabited, in the depth of the oceans there was abundant life. But the greatest surprise was yet to come. As him and his men searched the the depth in their diveboats they found a wreck of a huge ship and strangly enough it was a U.P Stardestroyer. Analasys showd it had been there for several hundred years.How was this possible ??? How did it get there??? Further investigation by scientists showed that mankind had developed a drivetype that was much faster then anything that had been known in their time. It seemed while they had been sleeping for centuries crossing the void between the galaxies mankind had allready spread further than the colonists could imagine.... There was one question that bothered them deeply...why then wasnt this planet allready settled ?

Patrol One night...flying a routine patrol a squadron of Cpt.Dj`s men found out why the planet wasnt inhabited. All of a sudden the water startet glowing and deformed by some alien energy the waves themselfs formed huge vile creatures grabbing at the seahawks. All they could do was report to mainbase what they saw before they vanished in the endless depth of the ocean , never to be heard of again.

The Plan The losses due to those strange beeings had been hard, but Cpt.Dj, head of security, worked out a plan. He assumed that those beiings controlled matter with their minds, since all losses had been due to monsters that somehow had been formed by the elements in the enviroment. It was some kind of energy they where not able to detect since now, but plotting the losses on a map..it gave a pattern with a definate center. A large mountain located not far from the base...it must be there those energies had their source. Him and 3 of his best prepared to visit that mysterious place. They boarded the seahawks and checked the systems while Technicians fuled up the vessels and made last checks on the drives.

New Lands ..Chapter 3 The energy beeings

The cave As Cpt.Dj and his men reached that mountain they searched the surroundings and found the entrance to a huge cave. Drawing their Blasters, they carefully entered. After a fiew hundred yards the cave got even larger and they found strange looking extrusions with blue crystaline outgrowths. All off a sudden those began to glow. The cave was suddenly filled with blue, pulsating, living energy ....that formed a huge creature materializing out of the rock that made the cave. Wishing they would have brought along a spare set of Pampers, Dj and his men looked upon what happened petrified with horror..and aware that their Blasters, where a mere toy to that creature that was forming in front of them. Cpt.Dj would need an alternate plan... and he would need it realy fast..

Meanwhile For weeks now, General Skullpecker Jr. had been troubled with a feeling of unease. His Father and Grandfather had enslaved half of the Andromeda Galalaxy and he himself was getting ready to enslave the rest. He knew it would be a tough job, the other half of the galaxy being in the hand of those mysterious creatures that could control matter with their minds and had costed the lifes of many good soldiers, not that he cared for, other than loosing resources. His scientist had developed new mighty weapons and there was a good chance he would win that war he was preparing for so actually he should be in a good mood. The unease he felt was in the air around him, some shadow on his soul, a tremor in his instincts, he almost bodily felt the presence of upcoming doom. His ancestors had told tales about this, for hundreds of years tho it had not happend. Could it be that "HE" had arrived..that eternal Hero..that lasted like a curse on generations of Skullpeckers ??? Nervously he inspected his troops..

Red Fred Taylor General Skullpecker watched the leaving shuttle thas had delivered them to one of the launchpads at the spaceport. That feeling of unease had been steadily growing stronger. He decided to inspect the outpost that where guarding the borders of his empire. He hardely trusted anyone but he knew he could fully rely on "Red Fred Taylor", an ancestor of the famous Commander Fred Taylor and the best pilot he had. Fred Taylors grand grand grandfather had been a young kid when he lost father, killed by Cpt.Dj. The pain of this loss had driven him to the evil side and for generations now his family had served the Skullpeckers loyal.

At the touch of a mind The mens Blasters vanished and all of a sudden. Cpt.Dj was lifted into the air, unable to defend himself the blue energy emersing him.. holding him tight. At that moment though his mind touched that of the alien inteligence. Scanning the mind of our Cpt, the creature realised the true nature of the Cpt`s existance. It saw the bruised heart, the wounds and scars of gererations of fights and wars against all evil, those hundreds of years in where he had given his life defending the good, only to be born again, with his immortal soul to once more defend the life of the innocent against the dark forces of the universe. Gently it put him down..the inteligence realised that not all humans where as vile as Skullpecker and that in Dj and the colonist it had found allies in its fight against the vile General, who was trying to concquer the Andromedan galaxy.

New Lands ..Chapter 4 Djangos Lot

Djangos Lot After having made contact to that alien intelligence, Cpt.Django and his men flew back to base and reported what had happend. The aliens where a siliconbased crystaline lifeform, very mighty and intelligent. They indeed controlled matter with their minds but the range was not very far. Once they had spread over the whole Galaxy, it had taken them eons to do so, cause they reprocuced by forming cocoons that slowy drifted out in space driven by the force of mind only, often for thousands of years before finding another planet. Mean General Skullpecker had put an aprubt end to that. Realising those beiings where quite immune to any kind of energy weapons he had developed Blasters that where firing highly compressed Hydroflouric Acid, dissolving even the toughest minerals. Thus he had allready taken over half the galaxy. The colonists agreed that it would be wise to form an aliance with those beeings against the Skullpecker Clan. Cpt.Dj was ranked up, became Major and was put in charge of the operation. Quite aware thet there would be no chance battling Skullpeckers Troops on a Battlefield... they where far to numerous ..he planned a cloak and dagger mission. With not more than 4 platoons, led by the best officers he had, he planned to strike Skullpecker right where he didnt expect it..... in the center of his empire..His Headquarters. Him and his three best officers became legend even before they left on that fatefull mission. Major Django, Cpt.Pepper, his best friend, since they had been recruits, First Leuitnant Dag Pummel... and Leuitnant Cat Putzy where to become known as Django`s Lot.

Interface After having restored one of the Stardestroyers that had made up the Galaxy cruiser, the colonists developed a communicationsinterface to intergrate that alien intelligence into their own technology. The huge Stardestroyer was fitted with one of the interfaces recieved a new, very tough, mineralic hullplating. An alien cocoon was atached to the interface, cause with its telekinetic and telepahtic abilities, it would be able to make the huge ship invisible for Skullpeckers men and even their scanning devises. It would be possible for the majestic vessel to appear surprisingly in orbit of Skullpeckers homeplanet, but from then on everything had to go smooth and fast and was solemnly in the hands of Djangos lot. Cpt.Pepper watches first tests made on the cloaking device.

We brake for nobody Heavily escorted by Seahawks that where made fully Spacecompatible the mighty U.P. Revenger left the orbit of that newly colonized Planet. Out in Space the Seahawks would return to their hangars and the cloaking device activated as to reach Skullpecker homeplanet unseen. Major Django was in a real destructive mood by now..Skullpecker would have to confront him yet again.

Back to buisness The huge stardestroyer materialized right in front of one of General Skullpeckers orbital Defencestations. Skullpeckers men where taken by total surprise and didnt stand chance. They werent even capable of launching one "Enforcer" spacefighter.. yet.. very brave, in last desperate act ,"Sparky" the commumications officer,managed to inform Skullpecker what had happend, before he was drawn into the void of space and died a rather nasty death. Major Dj, as usuall checking all communication bands heard the hail.... He knew that they had had luck in orbit, but with Skullpecker informed it would get a tough fight dirtside. Warning his men he hit the boosters..time was their only advantage against Skullpecker and his evil breed.

D-day 3 of the 4 shuttles safely reached the ground, one got picked off the sky by a squadron of Skullpeckers "Enforcers", 20 good soldiers wasted in just a moment. The shuttles deliverd the Crewcontainers and then returned back into safe Orbit. For the remaining 60 Soldiers it would be an either succeed or no return Mission. Blasting with all they had they stormed the Maingate of Skullpeckers residence.

Labyrinth Taking the main entrance had costed the lifes of almost half the soldiers. Skullpeckers "Battle Demon" wardroids where the best developed Major Dj had ever seen. Armored heavily and very fast, not programmed for mercy and fear, they sloughterd Major Dj`s men with their Blasters. It was a disaster and Major Dj realized he was not going to make it if he wouldnt find Skullpecker fast, kill him and deactivate the Droids.

The glorious seven Major Django and his troops made it to the door of the main controlroom. But what a price they paid, only 7 of the 60 soldiers where left... 3 of them prepared to open the door while Major Django and the other remaining 3 secured them against the fierce attacks of the droids. Suddenly Leuitnant "Cat" Putzy got hit.... One of the high speed armorbreaking uraniumcore bullets some of the droids used pierced her lung and with a silent cry she went down. Major Dj cought her in his arms , firing at the droid who had hit her, full of grieve because once they had been lovers. Cpt.Pepper joined his friend kneeling down beside him , keeping the droids away by firing all his "wastemaster" could give. Seconds only to whisper a final farewell..a job had to be done.

Vile Skullpecker While Red Fred Taylor prepared the Enforcer for emergency takeoff, Skullpecker, guarded by the last two of his droids, initialized the selfdestruction of his base. He hadnt expected that Major Dj would be that determined to get him. Skullpecker knew that Major Dj hadnt produced any offspring yet while his own son resided savely in a secret hideout. It would be his great chance to end this curse that was following the Peckers through Space and time. Even if it meant death to him, he would see to it that this time Major Dj would meet his destiny. Skullpeckers eyes focused the door,hearing the blasterfire behind it, he knew the moment had come..

The mainhangar Major Dj stormed the mainhangar with the rest of his comrades. Kneeling down and firing he destroyd one of the droids,hitting its energy cells, an in a white ball of fire it desintigrated. Vile General Skullpecker charged to the front in his rage, his wastemaster blasting all it could, hitting Cpt.Pepper hard, Lt. Dag Pummel couldt do anything but watch her dear friend go down in a rain of steel. Red Fred Taylor, seeing that things where not going that good, took of with his Enforcertrying to escape .. while the countdown of the selfdestruct was aproaching zero fast. Major Dj , determined to kill both, would have to hurry if he wanted to succeed.

25 seconds Filled with pain, of having lost one of her best comrades Dag Pummel hit back hard. The last of Peckers droids blew up while Major Dj faced General Skullpecker, his eternal enemy. He didnt hesitate a second and as soon as he had focused on Skullpeckers heart his two wastemasters released their fatal load blowing Skullpeckers guts through almost half of the room. They had 25 secs to go until the base blew up and there was still Red Fred Taylor to get. This time Major Dj would finnish the Skullpeckers and their evil breed for sure.

Escape The Backraft of the huge explosion that desintigrated the base sucked Red Fred Taylors fighter right back into the fire, unfortunetly taking the remaining comrades of Major Dj. with it. Major Dj tried to get all resources out of his jet suit hoping,he would have enough fuel for a safe Landing. The odds where against him, but fire he felt in his back left him no choice other than to try.

The Bar It was long after closing time, in one of the bars located near the spaceport. After Major Dj had landed he just saw a docter for his bruises and went straight into that bar, trying to forget. He didnt even bother with glasses, being on the forth bottle Jackie, his Hands slowly stopped trembling and the mental scars faded, into the eternal depth of the drunken mind. The pole dancer tried to cheer him up, not that Dj cared , he was done with young girls, to many he had lost, in this battlefield called life. The barkeeper, looking at the time, informed the policedroids, with the plead to remove this desperate man. As the second droid saw what had happend to his partner, just asking the Major politly to be so kind and leave,his circuits decided it would be wise to put away the gun he had pulled. Major Dj had developed the bad habit of handling his Wastemaster very nervously over last fiew weeks. The droid decided it would be better letting the booze do the job and then call the medics.

The end New Lands

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