I am back. This is Brick again. This is what has happened since I was last here.
I was drafted into the military in 2523. A couple of months had passed and I was in a Scout ship that had been sent to the scene of a battle that pushed us back from that system. It had no people on the planet but it was very important to us as we had mines down there for mining some lunarium. I was sent there to see if they were still there. It looked like they werenāt so I decided to go further in.
While doing so four of their frigates had been waiting for me and started firing. I was no match for the frigates but I managed to disable two of them before my weapons and most of my propulsion was destroyed. All I could do was move with thrusters so I managed to lay one torpedo out like a mine and I destroyed one of the disabled frigates who just got their engines back online.
I was ordered to surrender. With no choice because my weapons systems and engines were down. I did so but not before launching a beacon back to Earth.
I spent the next 3 months as a prisoner of war. The skaarans made us fight gladiatorial like battles to amuse them. The other prisoners made a deal with each other. We would only knock each other unconscious and not kill each other. I wasnāt very good and got knocked unconscious many times.
There was a captain there too that had been there for four months before me. He got caught near the start of the war. He managed to think up an escape plan and within a week the 5,000 prisoners who were in the prison with me knew about it while the skaarans didnāt know what we were planning.
One of the men who was in there was in the EIA (Earth Intelligence Agency) and had been caught spying in skaaran territory. He managed to pickpocket a guardās hand held computer that he used to play games on. He gave it to an engineer who managed to reprogramme it to unlock all the doors in the prison and make the surveillance equipment ārepeatā. During the night we unlocked all of the prisoners and managed to reach the weapons bay where we got weapons. Sadly we were caught escaping when we got to the landing bay and fierce fighting continued for over 3 hours. Many people were killed including the captain who planned the escape and the engineer who helped the most.
We managed to fight our way to five old battleships and take off but the head guard had already called for reinforcements from the home planet and as we took off there was already one destroyer and a couple of fighters waiting for us there. We managed to destroy one but not before a ship of ours was destroyed. On long range censors we could see a whole armada of skaaran ships heading for us that would reach us within three hours because they were much faster. They were frigates but they could easily destroy four old battleships. We put a distress call out to earth which was picked up by Fourth Contingent Command that was 5 hours away for us but if they sent their ships they would reach us before that. They sent the ships but the skaarans reached us first and it was another 20 minutes before our reinforcements arrived. Another of our ships was lost plus one from the Fourth Contingent. After one hour of fighting they retreated and we were victorious however over 2,700 of the escaped prisoners perished. I was also seriously injured after the console I was on blew up in my face. I spent 3 days in hospital.
Once I was back on earth I was allowed to stay at home one month with my family before I was asked if I wanted to rejoin. Conscripts are allowed to not be conscripted again if they were prisoners of war that escaped. I chose to rejoin as a fighter pilot. A dangerous job but I managed to survive. I was promoted to Captain or a small battleship after 17 years and fought many battles and lost many of my crew but I was always victorious in battle even if I was outnumbered. 2 years later I was made part of Operation SpaceLord. We were winning the war so Earth High Command thought it was time take the rest of the skaaran planets. 30 of the newest ships that were the fastest and most powerful were taken along for it as well as 100 older ships. I was given command of one of the newer ships-The Fearless. For 8 months all we did was battle. I barely slept as we kept pressing forward. The last stage was when we reached their home solar system. It was terrible. They put up their biggest resistance there. For 7 days I was constantly battling. They knew they had lost but they battled on. The losing didnāt seem to bother them. On the 7th day I had to escape the ship. It was about to be destroyed. I had no weapons left or shields so I ordered everyone to the escape pods and got in one myself. I put the ship on a course to hit their biggest mothership that had withstood days of bombardment and had destroyed 6 of our own ships. My ship made it to the big mothership easily as the engines on that ship had been destroyed but the mother ship still did not blow up however it took the shields down and within hours the ship was destroyed by fighters. It was another four days before the skaarans surrendered and I wasnāt there to enjoy it. I hoped I would be there but my ship was destroyed. I saw pictures but it wasnāt the same.
The citizens of the skaaran planet still kept on fighting I was told. They wouldnāt give up no matter what. In the end we had to destroy their planet and kill every skaaran. It sounds like genocide but we had no choice.
After the war I was given command of a new ship. I was hoping to be promoted but losing a ship stops you from being promoted.
5 years later I became a time guard and was commissioned as a leutenant commander as I was a captain in the military.
In my time it is now 2580 and I am the fifth in command of all earth time guards. I have been sent here with a team because terrorists are increasingly using a new sort of time travel called stealth travel. It is getting harder to detect them before they reach their designated time and they seem to be coming to this time so until our scientists develop a scanner to negate the effects of stealth travel I will be staying here. This will probably be my last post in this forum though so if you want to contact me you will have to do so over yahoo. I canāt tell you much about the future though as I have more responsibilities as a time guard so donāt be surprised if I say something like āI canāt sayā.
my yahoo is: anonymous_traveller2522
