Space Travel. Weekly Micro-fiction Contest: Prompt “Beacon” 250 words or less

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During the Argus’ journey to the Alpha Centauri star system, long-range sensors detected the emergency signal from the beacon of a space fleet’s escape pod.

The captain decided to change course to investigate the distress signal. To the amazement of both the captain and the crew, the capsule was similar to those on board his own spaceship. In the Argus’ logs, there were no records of any other spaceship in the area.

Unfortunately, the capsule crewman had perished. Its records indicated that he had been wandering in space for more than 10 years. The engineers of the Argus managed to recover very little of a damaged recording:

Stellar Log 5768. I’m Ensign Scott, our ship Argus was destroyed during the attack against the Centauri race...

No evidence of a race called Centauri was found in the search for historical records. The captain decided to continue the journey to the unknown star system, at a higher speed. Foreseeing a battle, he decided to issue a red alert and prepare for battle.

Effectively, arriving at the star fleet’s space station in Alpha Centauri, they were battling against a warlike alien race.

The captain decided to activate the system of self-destruction and lunge the enemy fleet, in an attempt to decimate the opposing forces. Not without first issuing a final order to designate one of the escape capsules to transmit what happened there to the Earth fleets.

On its way back, the capsule was inevitably attracted by a spatial anomaly.

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