I'd just like to say where this story is coming from:
I had a creative writing assignment from school. So I chose to write about a guy who has a problem relating to the Odyssey, but I wrote it in such a way that only people who played the game could tell what it was relating to. I couldn't find my final draft, so this is the newest one I have on my hard drive from the class awhile back.
This is my first story to be posted here, I'm not sure if it is right or anything, so I hope I did the right thing.
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It was 2065, Earth time. The tide of the war had turned. The Voinians were attacking a distant planet named Verral Prime, a great beautiful planet. The Earth Government had sent ships to defend it, almost all hope was lost, all UE ships had been destroyed. The only hope left to save the planet lay in the hands of Dash Riprock, who was a fighter pilot and was in deep training with the UE.
On the pleasant morning of 2065, Dash was informed that he must travel to Verral Prime and defend the planet from the Voinians. After getting ready, he jumped into his Lazaris Pod and zoomed off into the atmosphere, destined to Verral Prime.
Upon arriving at Verral Prime, he engaged in harsh combat for weeks, competing and destroying Voinian hulks. One by one the evil Voinian ships were reduced to burnt out wrecks floating through space.
Once done fighting, which lasted weeks, he started the journey home. Unfortunately, a little way after passing Thoso, his ship was attacked by mysterious alien ships buzzing blue flames. He engaged them, he was out numbered 10 to 1. The fight was over in minutes, leaving him with engine failure. The alien ships sped away just as quickly as they had mysteriously appeared. He was forced to land on an ominous planet.
After opening the hatch, he found a completely deserted planet, a rocky and barren world. Upon further searching he discovered the remains of a old abandoned space ship a short distance from his stranded aircraft.
A mixed feeling came through him, to disassemble the abandoned space ship and relocate the parts on his ship or leave immanently and head back to his ship. He picked the first one, oblivious to the threats to mankind.
He quickly disconnected the components and carried them back to his pod. After he finished mounting and connecting the stolen components to his Lazaris, he readied for liftoff. Just as he boarded his pod, he noticed weird creatures slithering towards him at alarming speeds, apparently coming from the ship that he stole components from.
They chased him all the way through to the end of space to a distant nebula. Then, finally, they stopped. He was left, without fuel, drifting through space. Finally, stranded for months, he reached a planet. It was unknown to him, so he made a cautious landing. He discovered that monks lived there and that they were peaceful. After a period of negotiating, discussing the problems at home, wars, evil and such, he and the monks decided to take an ambassador to earth to bring peace and settle distant threats. He was warned of the dangers but stood defiant. The pirates were to attack them.
After leaving the planet of the monks, pirates soon caught up to them and they engaged in combat. The monk was surprised that Dash didn't know about the magic the monk had. So the monk decided to use it to speed up the ship and get out of there. It worked well, they easily out ran the pirates so they stopped chasing them.
After more traveling, they needed to take a quick refueling stop. They stopped at a planet in control of the UE. The UE people were happy to see them, and celebrated. Soon, the monk and Dash were on their way again, to Earth.
As they prepared to enter the atmosphere, the Bush administration tried to shoot them down. As they continued to fly to Washington DC, the Bush administration continued to try to shoot them down, but the attempts were futile to stop peace. They were soon caught off guard, and destroyed.
Upon reaching the president, the monk greeted him with charm, to bring peace. The president agreed and so it happened. Unfortunately, the monk's charm cannot change the whole galaxy and there are many areas of space that remain unexplored, and mankind remains oblivious to all the threats, and opportunities that lurk there...
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unnecessary.