Another Day, and an Interesting Message

Author: Yuki Chakara
Title: Another Day, and an Interesting Message
Location: The Den, deep inside the Cat’s Eye Nebula. Draco Dwarf Galaxy
Timeline: 10043 AF (After Fall)
Tag: Tsalagi Wahya
Content:

The day began like many before it. Yuki woke up next to the sleeping form of Aki, his beautiful mate. Leaning over, he snuggles into his mate’s soft dark fur, breathing in his scent as he enjoys the feeling of his warmth against his own white furred body.

Slowly Aki begins to stir as he feels the familiar sensation of Yuki snuggling against him, opening his green eyes to look into the golden eyes belonging to his mate Yuki.

“Why hello there” Aki purrs softly, yawning out after his greeting. Yuki smiles warmly and presses his nose to Aki’s, purring as he gives him a morning kiss “Good morning love, did you sleep well last night.”

Aki laughs softly as he wraps his arms around Yuki’s slender torso, pulling him against his chest “I slept very well. I always do when you are next to me. Shame we have work to do today, I would much rather continue laying here with you.”

Slowly Yuki extracts himself from the loving arms of his mate, sliding out of bed to stretch in the cool air of their room. The white furred feline prances over to the wardrobe, opening the storage unit to retrieve his tunic, as he gets ready for the day. All the while Yuki is getting dressed, Aki watches him with a little smile. Yuki looks back over his shoulder at the smiling face of Aki and mews teasingly “And what would you be staring at so intently”

Aki’s pointed ears perk up as he laughs “Something pleasing to the eye. So, how is the little project going, you have been working on it for so long.”

“It is almost coming to completion. There is not to many things that must be finished before the ship can finally leave space and begin it’s shakedown cruise”, Yuki says with a smile on his fuzzy face. “Now, while I go check on our little one, you finish dragging yourself out of bed and get dressed. We both have work to do today after all”, Yuki giggles as he makes his way out of the bedroom to go check on their child in the next room. Before he can make it to Sota’s sleeping chambers he notices his private computer terminal’s screen showing an incoming message waiting to be opened.

Yuki makes his way over to the terminal and sits down in front of the screen, as he opens up the communications relay it begins playing the recorded message. His soft furred ears perk up as he notices it is from his friend Tsalagi Wahya, the alpha male of the Skartesh people that have made their new home in the system neighboring the nebula that the Chakaran city ship is currently located in.


Reply to the Day of the Signal

As he finishes reading the message, he opens up the reply channel and sends a video message back, stating “Hello Tsalagi, its good to hear from you. It has been a while since we last spoke. I can imagine you have been as busy lately as I have been. To answer your question, I know not of any humans that live in that system. Our archives show no such group there, but its been a while since we last had a ship or probe out in that area. Our records are a bit outdated sadly and the humans do have a penchant for spreading out into the unknown rather quickly, so its not unlikely that they may have begun a colony out that far”.

Author: Yuki Chakara
Title: Another Day, and an Interesting Message
Location: The Den, deep inside the Cat’s Eye Nebula. Draco Dwarf Galaxy
Timeline: 10043 AF (After Fall)
Tag: Tsalagi Wahya
Content:

After Yuki transmitted the reply to his friend Tsalagi, he got up to resume the morning activities that he was distracted from. He gets up from his private computer terminal and heads over to his child's sleeping chamber. Yuki slowly opens the door to peak his head inside, the sound of gentle purry snores reach his twitching ears. Sneaking quietly into the room, he kneels down next to his child's bed. A smile spreading across his face as he watches his kitten sleeping, Sota's little fuzzy ears peaking out above the blankets he has wrapped around him as he sleeps.

Yuki leans over his child and places a kiss on the top of his head, giggling softly as he watches Sota's ears twitch about after. Leaning over his child again, he mews softly into his ears "Wake up little one, its morning"

Sota's fuzzy gray ears twitch again, the small kitten squirming about a little under the blankets before settling. Yuki just cant help but giggle at his child's actions, the older feline knowing that the little kitten is just faking being asleep "I know you are not really sleeping little one"

Sota pokes his head above the edge of the blanket, looking at his Fama and mewing in a little voice "How did you know Fama"

A little chuckle comes from Yuki as he smiles down at his child and gently pets his twitching ears "You still have yet to learn how to shield your thoughts little one, you where giggling rather loudly in your mind"

Sota pulls the blankets down low enough to uncover his face, a face that is cute yet currently pouting rather fiercely “Fama, reading my thoughts is not fair. That’s cheating!”

“I never said it was fair, now did I little one” Yuki says as he giggles. “Now, get your lazy little tail out of bed and get dressed. You are suppose to go with your Ohma to the archives so you can further your learning. Its intermediate algebra and music composition today, remember ?”

The little kitten gives another pouting look at that, Sota pipping up in a little mewing voice “But Fama, I want to go with you today to the shipyards so I can see your ship. You promised I could soon”

Yuki bends down to kiss his child on the top of his soft fuzzy head, saying in a soft reassuring tone “You will get to soon little one, but today the experimental coating is being applied to the hull so you wont be able to see much of anything with all the coating application devices attached to the hull. Right now my fancy starship looks like a caterpillar in a cocoon”, he giggles at the mental image that conjures. Sota starts giggling as well at the thought of a giant space caterpillar. He looks up at his Fama and throws his slender little arms around his neck, hugging his parent warmly “Okay Fama, just let me know when I can see it pwees”

Yuki wraps his arms around his child, holding him close and stroking the fur on the back of his head “Of course little one, as soon as the coating application is done I will even give you a tour of the ship”, Sota’s ears perk up at this and he snuggles against Yuki affectionately.

Slowly Yuki lets his child go, placing another kiss on his head before he gets up from the bed to leave the room “I must get going little one, make sure your Ohma gets up. Knowing him he has gone back to sleep already, such a lazy feline he can be in the morning”, he states with a giggle. A happy smile breaks out across Sota’s face, mewing as he watches his Fama leave the room to allow him to get ready for the day in private.


Below is the Reply to the second part of the Day of the Signal

As Yuki enters the main room and prepares to leave his family dwelling, he notices his private computer terminal’s screen is blinking again, indicating he had yet another incoming message. As he steps closer he can see it is another transmission from his Skartesh friend, Tsalagi Wahya. Yuki immediately opens the relay and begins watching the message, his ears perking up as he listens intently. As the message plays on, a smile breaks out across his face. The thought of going on an adventure would be most welcome and highly entertaining, but alas, the feline has far too much work that he must complete before he can leave the Chakaran fortress den.

When the part of the destroyed scout drone comes up, the data on the ship scrolls across the screen automatically. At the sight of this curious information, Yuki remembers something he had learned from some uploads he has had from the archives long ago. He quickly hits a key and sends Tsalagi a reply “Life has been most kind to me my friend, my mate and our child are most well. Healthy and more importantly happy, they are going to the archives later so Sota may learn math and music today. The little one would rather come see the ship I am having constructed though”, Yuki giggles heartily at that. “I wish you luck in finding the data core, may it still be in good working condition when you locate it. Sadly, do to obligations I have here and tasks that must be completed I will not be able to sojourn with you at this time.”

The sad look he has on his face at that last part lightens as he continues, “However, soon the new ship will be complete enough for it’s first shake down cruise. So if all goes well I may be able to come hunting with you for that ship you mentioned. On that note, I have gone over the data file on it. The design is most unusual, it has some similarities to vessels in our database. The power and weapon signatures for one, i have seen them before. However, the hull configuration is far different, i have not seen a design like this before. I would be careful my friend. Whoever this is, they have impressive technology." As Yuki finishes up the recorded message, he sends it in a direct relay before he closes down his terminal and stands up stretching.