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SarielliPrologue
Captain Gerter was unceremoniously woken up from his slumber by an Ensign from his crew.
"Captain, we have recieved an SOS from Trenchant." The Ensign said after a quick salute.
Dragging himself out of bed, Gerter massaged his eyes, trying to wake up. He looked bleary eyed back up at the ensign, who's nametag read Fuller.
"Which ship?" He asked, blinking away the last dregs of tiredness.
"The Trenchant, sir. You better come quick, you'll want to hear this." Fuller replied as he performed an about face and exited the room, signaling that Gerter should follow.
Getting up off of his bed and walking after Fuller, he began to wake up a bit more. Passing crew members muttered "Good morning,Captain's" and "Hello's". The lights glowing in the hallways and corriders they passed on their way to the bridge were at their brightest, allowing the crew to wake up easier.
Arriving at the bridge, his First Mate, 1LT Wiess saluted him. After giving back a quick salute, Gerter asked, "About this SOS...?"
Wiess looked nervously at a man sitting down near the ship's Comm unit. After looking for several seconds, he said quietly, "It's weird, sir. You better listen for yourself."
Wiess walked over and tapped the man at the Comm unit on the shoulder. The man nearly lept out of his seat, but calmed immedietely in the sight of his commanding officer.
"Put the message over the intercom, but contain it to the bridge." Wiess told him.
Nodding, the man flipped a few switches, then pressed a few buttons.
Suddenly a staticy message drilled his ears, driving sleep out of him for good.
"This is Second Lieutenant Nostro, any and all ships in the area come to vector- a low growl cut across these words, followed by distant howling - help please! I've never seen these things before - loud barks cut acroos the message again, and this time the howling seemed to be right next to the man - ELLS OF CORELLIA! Come quick, bring backup, bring damn Jedi! Blow the ship up! Just kill all of these things, KILL ALL OF TH - a numerous amount of growls were all that could be heard, along with screams.
The message ended abruptly. The man by the Comm unit quietly said to the Captain, "The rest is just static. Captain, what was that?"
The Captain didn't answer right away, but after a while said, "Son, relay that message to Coruscant and then try and find the location of the broadcast. Everyone else, be prepared to leave the minute we get a clue of any kind.
As everyone rushed to make pre-lightspeed adjustments, the Captain turned and stared out into the darkness of space.
What was that? What?
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