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Across the galaxy (Yummy x Aphroditus Dionysus)

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Yummyfuta

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Nate had spent practically his whole life training for this moment, he had trained with and competed against thousands of others, all to be the one chosen to be sitting right here right now, behind the controls of humanity's first ever Faster than Light ship. Oh sure it wasn't some grand interstellar exploration ship, it was just a small one man test vessel, but to be its first pilot...to be the first ever human to travel faster than light....his was a name that would go down in history, a name that would be taught in schools and remembered for the entirety of human civilisation. And when he got back, when the real ships began to roll out, Nate would be at the front of the line when it came to choosing their Captains.
"This is FTL-1, ready to depart" Nate had finished his final systems checks, every system showing green. His course was plotted, a trip out to near Pluto where a satellite was waiting to record his arrival, where he would run a full set of diagnostics before heading back to Earth, all at Light speed.

Once the commander on the orbital station had given clearance Nate gave one final grin of excitement before getting serious, powering up the sublight engines, the small test ship smoothly accelerating away from the Earth, the FTL engines humming as they started to power up, a countdown to final activation starting on one of the displays. "5...4...3...2....1...activate!" Nate hit the activation control, the FTL drive powering up before his ship vanished in a flash, accelerating beyond anything humanity had ever gone before.

Unfortunately Nate's ship also accelerated far beyond anything that had been expected, anything that it had been designed to achieve, beyond anything that should even have been possible. Nate tried to bring the ship back under control, tried desperately to decelerate, but as the ship rocked violently Nate was knocked out as his head struck one of the control panels. A few moments later the FTL engines overloaded and burned out, finally slowing the ship down to sublight speed, now on the far side of the galaxy to the Earth.
Nate's ship was adrift, Nate himself unconscious, his engines completely burned out and little more than scrap at this point, and worst of all his ship seemed to be on a collision course with a planet....
 
Yummyfuta said:
Nate had spent practically his whole life training for this moment, he had trained with and competed against thousands of others, all to be the one chosen to be sitting right here right now, behind the controls of humanity's first ever Faster than Light ship. Oh sure it wasn't some grand interstellar exploration ship, it was just a small one man test vessel, but to be its first pilot...to be the first ever human to travel faster than light....his was a name that would go down in history, a name that would be taught in schools and remembered for the entirety of human civilisation. And when he got back, when the real ships began to roll out, Nate would be at the front of the line when it came to choosing their Captains.
"This is FTL-1, ready to depart" Nate had finished his final systems checks, every system showing green. His course was plotted, a trip out to near Pluto where a satellite was waiting to record his arrival, where he would run a full set of diagnostics before heading back to Earth, all at Light speed.

Once the commander on the orbital station had given clearance Nate gave one final grin of excitement before getting serious, powering up the sublight engines, the small test ship smoothly accelerating away from the Earth, the FTL engines humming as they started to power up, a countdown to final activation starting on one of the displays. "5...4...3...2....1...activate!" Nate hit the activation control, the FTL drive powering up before his ship vanished in a flash, accelerating beyond anything humanity had ever gone before.

Unfortunately Nate's ship also accelerated far beyond anything that had been expected, anything that it had been designed to achieve, beyond anything that should even have been possible. Nate tried to bring the ship back under control, tried desperately to decelerate, but as the ship rocked violently Nate was knocked out as his head struck one of the control panels. A few moments later the FTL engines overloaded and burned out, finally slowing the ship down to sublight speed, now on the far side of the galaxy to the Earth.
Nate's ship was adrift, Nate himself unconscious, his engines completely burned out and little more than scrap at this point, and worst of all his ship seemed to be on a collision course with a planet....
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... Nate awoke in what seemed like a hospital bed, only not. It was too dimly lit, too austere, too empty. He remembered dreams of strange beings, long spindly creatures, with dusky azure skin and luminous eyes, traces of shimmering gold across their forms. The images seemed as if conjured from a fever dream, he felt across his forehead where it had struck the upper console, a thin film of some kind of medical adhesive like an artificial scab had been placed over the wound, now a fraction of the size it was when he struck it. How long had he been out?

But before he had too much time to wonder, he noticed her. Or rather he saw her light. There in one of the far corners of the room, perhaps only having just arrived or perhaps here the whole time was the silhouette of a woman, her shape was outlined in stark contrast to the otherwise dark setting with a neon blue display of bio-luminescence.
Shape
While humanoid in nature there was a subtle litheness of form, a slightly longer neck, pointed ears and what appeared to be some kind of bio-luminescent braid or bulbs in her hair. She wore only a subtle diaphanous white toga that did little to hide her curves underneath, the erect nipples of a B-bcup bosom poked out through the fabric with a subtle glow of their own while a generous portion of hip, thigh, & leg were exposed on one side.
Outfit
As she drew closer he could see the haunting glow if her eyes, and the flecks of gold that seemed almost tattooed to her skin.
while her shape alone was staggering the part that shocked Nate the most was that when she opened her mouth to speak his ears were greeted with near perfect English.

"Hello nameless one, do not be alarmed, you are safe. I am your designated caretaker. My name is Trill"
Trill
 
Nate groaned as he began to awake, wincing as the throbbing pain in his head was still there, though not as bad as it would have been if he had woken earlier. "Nnnngh....." As his eyes fluttered he started to move a little, odd flashes of dreams coming to mind, though he quickly dismissed them. His memories were foggy, but it all quickly started to come back. The test...he had been flying the ship and then...then....that was it! Some kind of accident, something had gone wrong. He remembered struggling with the controls, trying to abort, trying to regain control, then intense pain for a split second and then nothing, nothing until this. He started to open his eyes a little, bit hissed at the even dim light, closing his eyes again quickly, before opening them a little more slowly than before. His vision was a little blurry at first, so as he glanced around he simply figured his ship had been retrieved by a rescue vessel and he'd been brought to a hospital....maybe one of the Saturn orbital stations. Finally his vision settled on a figure, he presumed it was one of the doctors or nurses, it woud make sense after all. But as his vision began to clear something was clearly not quite right, the figure had seemed normal enough at first but then he thought he saw....glowing? Around her head and even her chest...wait...her chest was glowing?

"What..." Nate closed his eyes again for a moment, wincing as his head throbbed in pain once more, though when he opened his eyes again his vision continued to clear. Combined with the figure coming closer to him it made her easier to see. When finally his vision had cleared up enough, and she had gotten close enough, Nate gasped in shock at what he had seen, his eyes going wide as he stared at Trill. No human had ever met an alien before, none of Nate's training had ever prepared him for this.
"What...what are...where am I? Who...who are you?!" Nate tried to move away as she got a little closer, but he only backed up into the head of the bed. It was clear she didn't mean him any harm, but Nate's mind was in such shock, combined with the pain from his injury, that it was difficult for him to grasp that fact by himself. "I...what's going on? What is this place?"
 
"Don't be alarmed, I'm sure this all must be stressful"
"Your ship was badly damaged & from an unfamiliar trajectory"
The woman with glowing blue eyes said calmly.
"The Hegemony is extending you hospitality in exchange for peaceful relations between our worlds as well as the privilege to study your culture and genetics."
She said in a subtle, even tone. Her worlds were almost hypnotizing.
"I am Trill, your envoy and caretaker. You have arrived on the Planet Nidus in the 3rd year of the Red Century, tell me traveler, what are you called?"
 
Don't be alarmed? That was easy for her to say! At least Nate assumed this was a she...her form seemed female at least by human standards, but this being was clearly anything other than human. "My...my ship...?" Nate rubbed his head gently. It was coming back to him...the malfunction, the alarms, the panic, his attempts to correct the errors and decelerate. Yes, yes something had happened to his ship, it made sense that it would be damaged. But how had these beings found him? The engine was supposed to barely exceed the speed of light, it could never have propelled him fast enough to get to another solar system so quickly. Even if it could the fuel would have run out before he got that far.

"I....r-right...." He nodded slightly, taking a few deep breaths. "Planet....Nidus? I...just where am I?" Wherever it was, it was clear this wasn't the Earth's solar system. "I...I'm Nate...my name is Nate. I'm...I'm from a planet called Earth" He glanced around, then looked back to Trill. "Do...do you have any star charts I can look at? Try to figure out just where I am?"
 
As if from nothing Trill made a gesture with her hand and the room lit up with iridecent shapes and patters that seemed to burst out like the brith of a galaxy from within her palm. Soon all around them were glowing points of light in the shape of nebulas and stars. It all looked sooo, ... unfamiliar.
"Na-ate, Nate"

She seemed to roll the sylables over on her tounge as if hearing them for the first time...

"What brings you to our world Nate? You seem ill equipped for work as an ambasidor, your craft baraely had room enough for yourself much less trade goods."
 
Nate gasped at the explosion of light, looking around quickly as he was surrounded by what appeared to be stars and nebulas, though he quickly calmed his movements as the pain started to return, he was still sore it seemed. "Holograms? So much more advanced...." They had nothing quite this sophisticated back on Earth, hologram technology was still in its relative infancy. The equipment to project something a fraction as advanced as this would take up a room three times this size.

"Ambassador...? Trade...? O-oh, no. I...I never intended to come here, I didn't intend to come this far, nowhere near this far. My ship was a test ship...it was only supposed to go to the edge of our solar system, no further" Nate slowly got up from the bed, his legs shaking for a moment before he caught his balance, examining the hologram. He'd studied star charts extensively, but nothing here looked familiar, not even remotely familiar. "It can't be....this...this is a map of this galaxy? Correct? If that's right then...somehow...I'm not in my own galaxy anymore. The star positions....all wrong...these nebula....there's nothing quite like them. My god....the engine...it was supposed to barely exceed light speed....it should've taken millions of years to reach the nearest galaxy, not minutes..."
 
"it seems you and your ilk also made the simple mathematical error in accounting for the elasticity of space-time. So you are indeed stranded then, and it could likely be eons before your kind ever learns of your fate, short of reiterating the fluke of finding our small nebula twice."
Trill said in her ever even tone,
"The other members of the Hegemony will likely have other inquiries, but you needn't be alarmed, all negotiations will go through me, I want you to feel safe Nate."

Other members..., that's right, what were those visions of other beings he recalled from his sleep? the lithe pale ones that seemed as glowing white branches with eyes? surely they didn't all look like trill, but then where did she come from? Surely these aliens didn't appear so human. was she some manner of illusion, another hologram? or did they experience some kind of bizarre sexual-dimorphisim? Nate's head was swirling with questions.
 
Nate winced and clutched his head as flashes of memories came back to him, other figures, shadows, nothing too clear, some of them similar to Trill and others completely different, like completely different races once again. Just where the hell was he? He gently shook his head to clear it, careful not to move it too quickly for fear it would hurt, looking back up to Trill once more. "I....stranded...so your technology can't go that far either...?" Based on what he remembered there was likely no way Nate could repair his own ship, the way the readings were before he blacked out the prototype drive would be completely fused. He knew how to make some basic repairs but his ship would most likely need rebuilding from scratch, and Nate certainly didn't understand the science for that. Even if he did, the accident had been a total fluke. And even then if he recreated it, who knew where he might end up?

"I don't have much choice but to stay here do I? Well...thank you, for helping me. But I'd like to see more of this place, I don't think I can stand being cooped up in this room for much longer" Nate had never much liked being indoors, in small spaces. He had always loved his freedom, that was probably what pushed him into being a pilot. "I'd like to learn more about this....Hegemony. What is it? Who is it?"
 
"Oh no, you misunderstand. the error in under valuing the relational velocity of travel beyond light speed was also an obstacle we too had to overcome, it took time to understand its subtleties. Whats unfortunate about your situation though, is that there where no active monitors to record your exact trajectory upon entry, & with most of your ship so damaged we have no way of discerning your point of origin. It seems you are indeed stranded here with us."
She took a minute to let her words sink in,
"When you were recovered the Hegemony fabricated me to be your guide, they are the ruling body of clerics and scholars that govern our world, they have a great interest in learning more about you and your culture, ... as do I..."
with that last utterance Trill's voice took on a somewhat different tone,
"Tell me star traveler, what do you hope to see outside these walls? was your world dark or bright? , blue or green? , peaceful or full of excitement?"
Now as Trill spoke she moved in a good bit closer, Nate could see the brightening glow of her bosom right through the sheer fabric of her toga, and for the first time he caught a scent of her, she smelled like flowers & rain...
 
So...even if they could fix his ship, even if they had a ship capable of sending him home, they had no point of reference on what direction he came from. And since the star chart she had shown him had no familiar points on it he couldn't direct them either. As impossible as it seemed he was almost definitely in another galaxy now, and there was absolutely no way back home, he was stuck here for the rest of his life. Nate slumped back to sit down on the edge of the bed once more, letting the reality of it sink in for a few moments. He'd wanted to see the stars, explore the unknown, but this wasn't exactly what he'd had in mind. Still, he knew the risks when he signed up to fly an experimental space craft, and no matter how you looked at it being alive and stuck here was better than being at home and dead.

"Hm? They...fabricated you?" Nate looked up to her, a confused expression on his face. What did she mean fabricated? Was she some kind of robot? She certainly didn't act like one, she was far too, well, alive for that. "Well, I don't really know. Back home it's bright during the day and dark at night, it's both blue and green....it's both peaceful and full of excitement. Home was...is...a bit of everything"
Nate was standing up again as she moved closer, then blinked as her bosom began to glow. His eyes couldn't help but focus there, his cheeks blushing as he caught her scent and found himself staring at her chest, the material of the toga becoming almost fully transparent because of the bright light. Did everyone here dress in such a way? Did everyone glow like that? "I um....well I...whatever it's like I....look forward to seeing more of your world..." He stammered a bit as he continued to stare, his heartrate quickening as blood began to rush down between his legs. To him it was a perfectly normal reaction of arousal to staring at a womans chest, but of course this species had no way of knowing much of anything about his human physiology.
 
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