The Dark Ship Options

[Franavu]

This is a story I've been writing for a while now, sort of an ongoing project. I think it is ready to be posted, or at least the first part of it.
The story is elder scrolls related, it'll just take a while to get there.

As English isn't my first language I hope you'll forgive me any spelling or grammatical mistakes I might have missed.

Okay, here goes the first bit, I hope you'll like it.
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The dark ship

The dark ship shot through the great void of space, on its way to a planet of legends…

Meanwhile,
Captain’s log, supplemental
We still haven’t found the smugglers’ ship we were send here to find, we lost its warp trail two days ago, we haven’t recovered it yet, and I don’t think we will. How we lost the ship is still a mystery to my crew and me, one minute it was there, the other it was gone and nowhere to be found.
I wonder what they were shipping, one more thing we have never been told, I don’t like this, I don’t like this one bit... [Pause]…What’s worse, my first officer, who is from this region of space, looks like he hasn’t slept the past few days. When I mentioned it to him, he murmured something about bad dreams. He clearly doesn’t want to talk about it and I haven’t pressed him…not yet at least.
This region has some pre-industrial civilizations, none the smugglers could have wanted to go to…I hope. We really don’t need Prime Directive issues; of course it has to be taken into account, at least until we know why they went this way.
[End of log entry]


The dark ship stopped, they had lost their pursuers, for now. His red eyes shone with hope.

Captain’s log, supplemental
Still no smugglers, I have ordered to search all the inhabited planets for the ship…I don’t really expect anything from it, but I just had orders from command to keep looking…No reason given. This is madness, the bloody ship can be anywhere by now, I hope they have a damn good reason for all of this… [Pause]
I spoke with my first officer this morning, he looked worse again…I couldn’t keep ignoring it. First he evaded my questions, but I kept pressing. So at last he told me about his dreams, about a woman speaking to him at night, about glowing red eyes in the dark and strangely enough about large sugar crystals. I have advised him to talk to the ships counsellor about this; I hope he will follow my advice.
He also spoke about the stories of his people. Their legends tell about an exile from their birth planet by red eyed warriors and about lesser, greater and false gods. The stories say this exile happened because they had become so arrogant they thought they wouldn’t need the gods anymore. Sounds like a standard tale of hubris to me, earth must have dozens of them.
[End of log entry]

[Franavu]

***Announcement***

This story is not dead!

Hey you in the back, I can see you rolling your eyes. No, don't deny it.

I'm serious, it isn't dead.

***End of Announcement***

So, I got that out of my system. I'm planning to continue this story. (No, really I am)

In the next chapter the captain isn't going to be happy.
You can't blame the poor man, really. I mean he's outside federation space, he can't get into the ship he's supposed to get into, he was just in a fight with ancient machinery, his 'guest' is being a pain, and now his first offcer is acting up.

So he's unhappy, very unhappy, the kind of unhappiness in which swearing may be involved.
And there's my problem. I don't know the words the autocensor is going to respond to. So, to avoid a story filled with spotted owls and whatnot, I would greatly appreciate it if someone could pm me a list with words I can't use. Now I'm assuming the pm system doesn't censor. If it does pm me amyway and I'll send you my e-mail addres.

Well thanks in advance, and with a bit of luck a new chapter will be up soon.

This post has been edited by Franavu: Sep 20 2006, 01:41 PM