Memories....

As i was caught up in the daily slumber of mining, manufacturing and inventions i noticed i drifted off occasionally to past memories i have about an old endeavor we as White Rabbits had undertaken a couple of months ago.

Going through my notes, after another moment of flashes going through my mind, i dug up some files that i had written back then in the weeks that we occupied an unknown system in wormhole space.

As always memories are mostly better then the experience at the time and was surprised that in fact my memories where still pretty accurate of the events back then without the golden edge one tend to put on them.

'Oh My God...' i softly whispered when we entered an Exceptional Core Deposit asteroid field for the first time, almost having my jaw dropping to the floor.

The field stretched out tens of kilometers with large asteroids smashed together by unspeakable forces showing innards of rock and crystals alike.

Heat of the impacts had laced asteroids with strings and patches of glas like structures that lit up by the faint glow of the distant sun.

Turning the ship to a large Arkanor asteroid, the lights of the ship made ghostly shadows across the surface while making the precious metals vissable for the naked eye.

The best and most beautifull kind of minerals where almost dripping out of the slowly turning rocks that probably have existed since the first millenia the system had been created.

'Intruder alert' the computer suddenly signaled, and i got pulled out of the aphrodisiac I and my crew where in while looking at these untouched riches in front of us.

'Jason, what do we have on scanner?' i yelled, and my communications officer yelled back that he did not know.

'Then put a visual on screen for crying out loud' i barked back while the first missile hit our shields with extreme force.

Jason transferred a video feed to the main screen and something out of a capsuleer's nightmare was shown to us, but this was real.

'What the fuck is that?' i said 'And what the hell is it shooting with?'

The aggressor looked a little bit like the drones we had encountered so many times before, a little bit bigger then a frigate perhaps but hitting us like a battleship sized vessel, but very alien and different then anything we had seen before.

By the time we came to our senses, our combat support ships had begun engaging these alien dronelike ships and where capable of dispatching them without any losses to our side.

To out surprise, the vessels seemed to be unmanned and where wired with an Artificial Intelligent unlike anything we had seen before, in many ways looking more alive then machinery in its actions.

Perhaps we will never know the origin of these 'sleepers' as they seem to awaken when entering important parts of 'their' space, but we do know there are plenty of them out there, and we will encounter them sooner or later again when we push forward into their domain.

After this flashback, i was sure i wanted to go back there again in the not so distance future.

Back to the vast open space unclaimed by any race or faction, lying ready for us Rabbits to come and take the ripe sweet fruits that these cold and dark places offered...