Space memories

The Great Heroes of Alstanian Space Guard
[AK 0001 - AM 0000

Alex Lucas Brasing "Baseship Bane"
AL 1122: Born in Laszone.
AL 1140: Joined the Royal guard academy
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AL 1177: Killed in action in the Wormhole war, single handedly disabled the Ostian Baseship "Ostio"...



"Hey Granpa, you served during the Great war didn't you?"

"If you mean the Wormhole war, yeah. What are you reading there Lo?"

"History. Did you serve under Baseship Bane?"

"If you mean bullshit bane Alex, yes."

"Why do call him that?"

"First tell me what does your book say about the war."

"The war for the control of the Syian Wormhole lasted for nearly a decade and one battle that took place in the Sylas sector is considered the turning point because we with a weaker force destroyed the one Ostian Baseship in working condition then."

"And what does it say about Bullshit Brasing?"

"That he was the Commanding officer who lead our force of two warships and a dozen cruisers against a superior Ostian force consisting of a Baseship, three warships and two dozen attackships. He led the attack on Ostio when we were down..."

"Is that what your book says? You want to know what actually happened?"

"Ya!"

"The war was into its eighth year, we were patroling the Sylas sector. It was the worst case senario, outnumbered-away from home-bushwhacked-no reinforcements. Alex ordered all other ships to cover the retreat of his battleship Spitz. It would have been a massacre but for the cruisers. They mowed the attackships and were fast for the warships. Then the Ostio moved in, crippled the Spitz and began swatting the cruisers. What does Alex do in such a situation? He runs to the other battleship, Armtz and he takes all the available fighters to cover his ass. They run into the warship Oslon, the honor guard get slaughtered. The Oslon recognizing the shuttle instead of blowing it to plasma fire a robotic grip. Alex in a bid to save his ass fires the boosters, the grip attaches and changes the trajectory. They head straight for the Ostio, the magshield recognizes the grip lets them in. But the shuttle packed some shit, when the grip tried to steer the shuttle one of its rockets set of the fuse and BAM the shuttle explodes."

"Can a exploding Shuttle even with serious shit damage a Baseship?"

"Actually it can't even inflict a scar but the explosion occurred near the reactor exhaust. The sensors there must have overloaded and the central system must have shut the main reactor for fear of exploding."

"But there are always auxiliary reactors!"

"Before they could kick in, one of our cruisers just shot by the baseship robotic ion gun slammed into the control center."

"The magshield?"

"Down for just secs.Pure luck."

"They still had warships!"

"The Ion gun went crazy and shot the warships that tried to cover the baseship. They had to shut the whole ship down to stop that gun."

"But still..."

"The cruisers finished the job for us."

"So that's why you called him Bullshit?"

"That was one of the last reasons."

"What were the others?"

"Some other time, I am feeling sleepy."

"Just one more thing, where were you?"

"On the cruiser Alstian Pride, listening. I was the communication officer."