Starbound: A Space Odyssey 72 The Floran Colony 25

He looked at his PIPS and started to take out some items that he was going to equip.

The first part of the armor he took from his PIPS was the boot and pants that as a whole was the Leg Armor of the set. It was a mixture of hard leather and metal, the boot. As for the green camouflage trousers it was made using some kind of high resistant fabric.

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Name: Scavenger's Trousers

Type: Tier 2 Light Armor

Durability: 100%

Energy Storage: 200 UE

Energy Regeneration: None

Special: None

Upgrades: Temperature Protection Mod

Additional Description: The armor made of Tungsten given to the USCM soldiers that were tasked to act as explorers of unknown planets and also as vanguards in conflicts.

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After wearing both the boots and trousers, he retrieved the Breastplate piece of his set of armor, the black military gloves, and also the camouflage s.h.i.+rt with long sleeves from his PIPS. The s.h.i.+rt was made with the same fabric as the trousers, but the gloves were made with a harder and flexible type of rubber coupled with a fabric.

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Name: Scavenger's Breastplate

Type: Tier 2 Light Armor

Durability: 100%

Energy Storage: 500 UE

Energy Regeneration: None

Special: None

Upgrades: Temperature Protection Mod

Additional Description: The armor made of Tungsten given to the USCM soldiers that were tasked to act as explorers of unknown planets and also as vanguards in conflicts.

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He didn't realize before, but now that he started to wear the Armor set he started fell the effects of the Upgrade that was implanted in the Armor.

Even with the effects of the Life Support System of the s.h.i.+p, the temperature it was still rather low inside the stars.h.i.+p. Now, however, the Temperature Protection Mod that came with the Armor made John fell a low warmer and comfortable than normal.

The Temperature Protection Mod was an Upgrade applied to an armor that made possible for the user to use his UE to create some kind of invisible mantle around the user that could increase or decrease the temperature, depends on the situation outside.

John wore the green camouflage s.h.i.+rt, gloves, and then placed the metal Breastplate in top of the s.h.i.+rt, then he proceeded to take the Helmet piece of the Armor from his PIPS.

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Name: Scavenger's Helmet

Type: Tier 2 Light Armor

Durability: 100%

Energy Storage: 200 UE

Energy Regeneration: None

Special: None

Upgrades: Temperature Protection Mod

Additional Description: The armor made of Tungsten given to the USCM soldiers that were tasked to act as explorers of unknown planets and also as vanguards in conflicts.

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The Helmet was completely colored in green and had a forest camouflage pattern. The Helmet looked like a bowl with a flashlight attached at the side of it.

After he finished wearing everything he looked at himself in the mirror.

He looked almost like a Marine from old Earth, before the 100-Years Great War.

"Protector, we'll be arriving at our destination in 10 seconds." SAIL warned John that was occupied looking at few things in his PIPS.

[Well... I don't think I'm going to use weapons, so I might as well take a look later.] With that though he left the Captain's Quarter and walked toward the c.o.c.kpit.

He sat on the captain's chair and fastened his seatbelt.

"Protector, the s.h.i.+p will begin slowing down in... 3 seconds." SAIL warned John.

After the three seconds, John saw the light of the stars around him slowing down.

He clutched the armrest as his body was forced to go forward because of the momentum of the s.h.i.+p that was in high speed had begun to slow down.

The s.h.i.+p only stopped the Warp Jump after a few seconds.

When John looked once again at the gla.s.s the first thing that caught his attention was the planet in front of him.

It was a beautiful green planet with some blue places that was probably the ocean, rivers, and lakes.

But what really caught his eyes were the huge amount of stars.h.i.+ps in the planet's...o...b..t.

[What's up with those s.h.i.+ps?] John thought as he stared at the strange s.h.i.+p that had flowers and vines growing around it. [How could these plants survive in the s.p.a.ce? Why would anyone plant them around a stars.h.i.+p?] Uncountable questions popped out in John's mind.

"Hm?" He was shaken awake from his thoughts when the radar alerted John that a few s.h.i.+ps were approaching.

He glanced at the image of the s.h.i.+ps. There was 8 of them, Condor cla.s.s, they approached from every direction, they didn't leave any room for John to escape even if he wanted.

[Jamming signal...] John saw that his long-range communication system and also the FTL Warp Drive wasn't working.

The s.h.i.+ps stopped approaching once they were about 300 meters away from John's s.h.i.+p.

"Protector, there's a call incoming..." He heard SAIL's voice coming from the console in front of him.

"Accept it." He relaxedly leaned on the chair and waited for the call to go through.

"Greetingsss..." John looked at the holographic image of the person who called him. It was a middle-aged male Floran with a robust and tall body. His entire self emanated an air of strength and leaders.h.i.+p. "...we're Gaia'sss...o...b..tal Patrol Force and we would like to know who are you and why would you come to our planet."

The side doors of the s.h.i.+p that had surrounded John, opened and from inside he was able to see some big humanoid machines coming out.

[Mechas...] John stared at those machines that had power weapons in their hands and were all aiming at his s.h.i.+p.

"My name's John Connor." Answered John. "And I'm here because Peri invited me to come."

"Oh? So you are Miss Peri'sss guest." The Floran soldier said in realization. "I apologize about our rather... Aggressive welcome." The Floran embarra.s.sedly scratched his head. "You know, we are currently hosting a very important event and we can't allow anything bad to happen that could interfere with the event."

"It's okay." John calmly said. "Nothing bad happened anyway, you don't need to apologize."

"Thank you, mister." The Floran soldier bowed. "Now, you can park your s.p.a.ces.h.i.+p around the orbit, like the other s.h.i.+ps." The Floran pointed at the s.h.i.+ps that were floating around the planet.

"Thanks." John waved his hand in goodbye and controlled the s.h.i.+p to move it forward. The Mechas and s.p.a.ces.h.i.+p opened a breach for John's s.h.i.+p to pa.s.s through them.