Another dull... (FT, Colonization thread)
0950 Sol System:
The Odyssey Dropped out of inter-phased warp just outside the system in the endless fields of rock and ice, The medium sized four hundred and forty two meter ship rumbled towards the system at high speed its form was silhouetted against the endless sea of stars in space, it came upon the outer rocky planetoid of pluto rather quickly. The planet over showed the ship as it passed it, the Odyssey banked to the side whizzing past the planet a stream of white hot particles flying from its two nacelles, Neptune was just a few AU away.
On the bridge of the ship Captain Alexei Houghs looked through the view screen, his blue eyes locked on the passing icy rocky planetoid, he sank back in to his chair with a gentle sigh escaping is mouth, his uniform was well pressed and ironed, he him self was an older man with grey hair and a toned face showing his age, while he wasn’t frail he was thin. He folded both his white wrinkled hands upon his lap watching the viewer as Neptune came up, a soft smile coming across his pale face, as his eyes looked upon the blue wondrous gas giant. It wasn’t their destination how ever, the ship was on its way to Jupiter, Its mission to scout out Ganymede for colonization. In fact several ships where waiting just out side sol for confirmation on colonizing that moon.
The ship continued along its trek, the soft yellow dim light of sol glinting upon its white hull as it left behind the blue giant of Neptune. The ship was composed of a saucer section primary hull and a secondary hull, its form was sleek and smooth, the symbols on the top of the saucer section read:
USS Odyssey, MCC-1813.
Alexei and yawned a bit, his eyes wandering over to the ships avatar who was in her holographic form and just standing besides him, he shook his head a bit, he still after all these years couldn’t get used to these computers having such forms, thin, smooth blonde hair, blue eyes and a federation uniform. He shifted his gaze to his executive officer who was busy taping on a holographic console to the side of him. He spoke out softly and in a friendly tone.
“Heh, so far so good Nick, any thing on long range sensors?”
Nicolas Birmingham was the ships first officer, he usually handled most of the long range sensor reports along with the rest of the bridge crew. He shifted over responding to Alexei.
“Nothing but a few border markers, We should stay clear of Io and Europa, it seems Ganymede looks like its free, so far scans see nothing on it.”
Alexei smiled and stiffed up as the ship started to approach the Jovian system , his eyes widened as he saw the massive form of Jupiter dwarf every thing else around it, and then there was Ganymede, the view screen changed, Alexei and the crew where awe stricken, their eyes focused on a massive moon that was dwarfed and silhouetted against the form of Jupiter Like a slave shadowed by its master.
Behind the Odyssey four massive long freighters jumped out from inter-phased warp drive, their massive forms while seemingly intimidated where still just harmless an unarmed. They flanked the galaxy class ship on both sides.
Alexei spoke out as he stood up from the command chair his eyes focusing outside on the scene of federation ships and the moon it self.
“I want constant sensor sweeps of Ganymede second by second, make sure nothing is there, also deploy a maker, this is now federation territory”
The ship came to a halt, the four freighters going in to orbit, streams of particles streaming from their engines. This was the start of a new chapter the first major moon colonized in sol after a century of isolation from the place.
The plan was simple:
Stage one:
Establish preliminary pre fab outposts on the surface
Infrastructure for permeant housing and habitability
Basic Orbital infrastructure
Basic Industrial Structures
Establish Ties with the local powers and local entities.
Stage Two:
Build advanced planetary Infrastructure
Diplomatic and trade centers
Increase Industrial capacity
Begin laying the ground work for tera-forming the moon
Construct orbital ship yards.
Stage three:
Construct orbital Infrastructure to build focusing mirrors
Lay the ground work for advanced tera-forming
Build genesis reactors and a genesis nexus
(ooc: short sweet and to the point O.o)
OOC: Are there any other places avaliable in the system? I am looking for colony worlds to, if thats acceptable?