Troy awoken from his slumber and practically fell off his bed. his body covered in sweat, he looked around trying to piece together where he was only find out that he was in his personal quarters. "It must have been a dream, I thought I actually died back their." He said to himself, after some time of sitting in his bed pondering, he decided to get up and prepare for the day. He lazily headed into the bathroom to take a quick shower and to get dressed, not that it really mattered anymore, no one would give a care in the world let alone stop him in his tracks if he walks throughout the carrier in nothing but his boxers but he still wanted to look and feel presentable for his sake.

A deep metallic voice boomed throughout the room, " pilot troy please report to the bridge to be given a assignment, check your pad for details." He knew that man's or machines voice all too well, fleet admiral spyglass of the notorious Remnant Fleet. Ever since the destruction of Demeter and the attack on one of the Hammond robotics Spectre production facilities  the fleet were force spread out within the frontier to avoid being hunted down by the militia. Without much needed supplies from core planets, human crew members all the way up to the pilots went AWOL to join other factions, leaving only troy as the last human pilot still loyal till the bitter end. it has been 13 years since that day and nothing seem to have gotten better at all.

After taking his time putting on his flight suit, troy walked out of his room and into the corridor of the super carrier, the hallway was nothing special itself having a light shade of gray covering the majority of the walls and ceiling while a line of blue LED lights ran all the way to the end of the corridor.  Two stalkers stood at attention by his door, both carrying L-star heavy particle accelerating energy cannons, their bodies were covered in layers of armor with the occasional opening revealing synthetic muscles underneath. Their heads were the shape and design of his own combat helmet but the only difference from them were the phantom white visors. Personal bodyguards of the last Remnant Fleet pilot, troy was pleased to see his two years of raiding other ships and Scavenging what little materials he could find pay off.

"Good morning sir, when is our next mission going to start?" It asked in a heavy European accent, unlike most Specter units, spark and Valkyrie had their own voices programmed into their Synthetic minds. Troy slightly smirked and playfully punched the machine's chest plate " I’m actually heading to see spyglass to get our next job, you two waits here and wait until I return." Valkyrie protested.   "awe come on troy, i wanna come with ya and hear what the boss gotta say!" troy chuckled when she lowered her head to eye level with troy and slowly cocked her head, trying to give the impression of a puppy wanting to go with their master. "it'll be quick, ill wont be gone long."Both of them nodded in unison and went back to their post by his door in silence, although Valkyrie did whimpered a little.

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Troy was sitting in the transport life leading to the bridge with his holo pad in hand, he pressed a button on the side of the device and the screen lit up showing him 3-D display of everything he needed from his record reports to his mini games he had installed awhile back. He scrolled passed some files until he reached what he was looking for, he pressed on the icon and waited a minute as a miniature version of the milky way galaxy forming just above the pad. The fleet admiral soon spoke up, his voice still sending chills down Troy’s spine. " we are in desperate need of materials troy, both the apex predators and the IMC are pushing far within our territory, we will fail to maintain order and peace within the frontier we can’t gain the advantage." The display soon changes, zooming in on a small portion of the galaxy that had darker shade to it than the rest, 'uncharted part of the frontier' troy thought. " our probes recently discovered a solar system that contains the rare Gleatrium alloy 2,347 light years from our current position in the star map, this metal could give our entire army the much-needed protection from any form of projectile. Being able to deflect both kinetic, heated plasma and even lazer based weaponry, the two stalkers you build are a prime example of the metals potential. Once we harvest and mine the solar system, ships to even our titans will be outfitted with the upgrades, we will no longer be the underdogs within the frontier, this may take you awhile to complete so im giving you access to our automated miners and factories that is currently being installed into your ship." 

The lift soon came into a halt, the heavy duty doors which lead into the bridge slowly opened. revealing an room filled with MRVN crew members, no human in sight. spyglass was sitting in the captain’s chair in the center, the fleet admiral had no choice but to link his mind to the entire Remnant fleet AI network. As a downside, he is forever bound to bridge due to the amount of power needed to control everything until he is either destroyed or transfer controls to a suitable replacement. He continued where the pad left off at his chair, " I cannot afford to send more than one ship into the dark zone for this mission so I will grant you full command of a I.M.C.RF light star carrier, your objectives are to: jump to the last known location of our probes, locate any Gleatrium minerals in the solar system, report back to me with all of the data you collected, everything else will be of your own judgement." Spyglass quickly spun from his chair to face the pilot, he towered over the man at 6,11 but his metal frame had been through hell and back well before the link to the network grounded him, he still moved with grace and stride as if he was built yesterday, Hammond robotics knew how to get their creations to last. “your skills in the front-lines proves that I can trust you with this so I am hopeful that this will be a cake walk for you Troy, do not disappoint.” Spyglass walked up to the observation windows to stare out into the dark void. “I am also giving you access to our prototype titan, it is the only one we built with the Gleatrium we had so far and I need a suitable pilot to embark the titan. you are dismissed pilot, you can depart once you are on bored your carrier, good luck.”

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 “Here is the inventory for your ship sir, Straton fighters are docked and loaded, await your orders. “A MRVN assistant said while transferring all the information to Troy’s pad, “thank you mate, prepare the jump sequence to the coordinates,” it gives a Troy a salute and quickly shuffled to his station in the bridge, he felt the ship come to life as the fusion reactor was powering up. “Valkyrie, tell me what I’m working with here, it seems as if spyglass is preparing me for an all-out invasion.” His personal Stalker walked up behind, she always sounded cheery with a hint of sassiness even in the worse of situations but that made her all the more unique. “from the looks of it he gave you: 12,000 spectres , a couple thousand assault stalkers and 750 reapers. You also have access to 100 titans including the new one, I’m getting all excited already captain!" she made a robotic giggle as the hyperspace drives kicked in, distortions were starting to form around the ship’s hull, taking the shape of rings as the space in front of the ship pushes forward while the rear was pulled back.

“sir I recommend that you strap into your seat, we are about to jump and we wouldn’t want you flying all over the place now do we?” spark stated. “don’t worry troy if you lose consciousness I’ll be more than happy to take command while you are out.” Valkyrie chimed in, “you two shut it and get ready for the jump, let’s get this assignment over with.” Troy barked, he soon pushed deep into his seat as the ship blasted forward with speed faster than that of light, distant stars soon became miniature streaks of light quickly passing around the carrier. " get some rest captain, we will be arriving in the 6 hours. we'll take it from here." spark said as he manned the navigators seat. Troy softly sighed and nodded, "alright but wake me once we are there and do a sweep of the area while you are at as well." everyone went to work as soon as he give the order, with that Troy slowly drifted off to sleep in his chair.....