Helion'Nuruodo
Character
A new world floated in front of them. Only recently discovered and marked as quite the enigma. Helion could feel something sweltering in his heart that told him their was something wrong with this planet. Though he couldn't quite place it. He and a small scouting party had been sent out to prospect the world for colonization, and for the most part, it seemed safe. At least from space. Normal gravitational pull, it spun regularly on it's axis, and had one star in the system which it orbited around in four hundred and one days. Helion sighed as he stared out the viewport.
It was truly wonderful discovering a world for the first time. It sent his head spinning with questions. What kind of fauna did it have, what were the locals like, what were the native species and what could he name them? He wondered all this and more as he stared down at the globe enraptured by it's beauty and mystery. It was an arid forest planet, with the winter's lasting longer then most. The oceans looked rather bland from here, the only notable feature a large monsoon spinning across the globes atmosphere.
Helion stopped looking out the viewport and resumed his task. The Chiss scouting party was scheduled to land within the hour, which left Helion with very little time. He raced to his quarters and put on the black armor with it's bronze pin that marked him as part of House Nuruodo. Truthfully the armor was little more than plastoid and straps, but it offered some protection. He grabbed a charric sub machine gun and placed it at his hip. He was a trained Chiss commando and as such would rely on his skills to not get shot more then the plastoid armor.
Even so, he was tasked with protecting scientist during this endeavor and was unsure how well they'd fair if things did hit the fan. But, it was a new planet. What could go wrong? Surely their was no hostile natives and anything that might be, well, Helion was comfortable enough in he and the marines prowess to keep the scientist safe. Their was only a dozen of them in total, excluding himself. Four scientist, eight marines. The mission was supposed to be a milk run. But even so, Helion was careful to make sure his men were alert and ready.
He exited his quarters and walked through the short metallic hallway towards the foyer. He was not surprised when he found all Marines ready in armor. They snapped to attention as Helion entered the room. He gave them a curt nod and then said earnestly
"At ease,"
They drifted back to whatever had been holding their attentions before and Helion walked to the cockpit. He eyed the terminal computer which piloted the self navigating ship and tapped a few buttons.
"Destination arrival in thirty minutes," The computer responded in a pleasingly calm female monotonous voice.
"Computer run scans one more time before our final descent," Helion ordered the device and it whirred in response.
He crossed arms and stared tentatively at the world. Something about it bugged him, but he couldn't figure out what it was. Maybe it was how peaceful the planet seemed... After fighting for so long, perhaps he had grown accustomed to the blood and forgotten what peace was really like... His attention was snapped away from the world as the computer chirped again.
"I've detected new geology structures, the world seems to have a series of underground caverns running through it,"
"How large is the extent of these caverns," Helion asked
"World wide," The computer responded simply.
Helion's first thought was that it was some sort of giant native creature, he quickly ruled it out. A creature that size would surely cause large seismic quakes. Easily detectable by the computer before him. No this was something entirely different. This was all natural or the planet had natives similar to that of his kin. Whatever the case was, perhaps whatever or whoever had made the caverns could be reasoned with, at least until the Chiss could find a way to exterminate them...
