User blog:I am that guy/Spark of Life

-Baltic League Caelmare Center of Operations, Codename: Hancock-

Commodore Kaznizki swiveled his chair back and forth in Hancocks spacious command deck. He found himself doing a lot of that in the days since the "Vindicator Incident", as it had come be known by League personnel. His mind had been through countless possibilities several times over, and every time left him with three questions for the little answers he found. It all came back to that archipelago.

In the days following the battlecruisers loss, five drone had been sent out. Every one of them "loss connection" at roughly 75 kilometers from those islands. Someone was there, and didn't want anyone snooping where they didn't belong. He had become convinced that it was a "someone", i.e. human, there - unless some random alien race just happened to use human measurement, or measurement that line up perfectly with humans.

Kaznizki had just scoffed at that notion when he - and everyone else on the quiet command center - was startled by a sudden, wailing signal. Technicians and officers scurried to make sense of it all, their data relaying to the master holo. Moments passed, and the main map shifted, zooming in on the aforementioned archipelago. A single green dot blinked slowly on one of the larger islands. Numbers swirled, then stopped, beside it, and a name and face appeared.

"Sir", the chief operations officer gasped incredulously, "it's a embug."

Kaznizki grinned, then nodded. Embugs, officially "Emergency Location Determining and Tracking, some, something, whatever", are small chips inserted near the base of the skull in many League personnel. It was intended to make SAR a whole lot easier, but the system was incredibly complicated and plagued with technical issues: like how the bug had to activated manually, with a distinct set of neural commands. Hard to do that if your dead or incompacitated. Eventually the program was shut down, and many (including Kaznizkis, which was an experience he did not want to repeat) were removed. But alas, it seems they missed a certain Lieutenant Markus, helmsman of the Baltic League Battlecruiser Vindicator.

"Save that location and coordinates to every hardrive and backup we can spare", Kazizki commanded, "we can't lose this data."

"Sir", one of his staff members, a Commander, started, "are we going to do what I think you want to do?"

Kaznizki smiled, "Possibly". His response prompted several confused looks from the lower ranking officers. Kaznizkiz eyes circled the room, his smile gone, then stood.

"Record orders for the fleet: prepare armament and engines, be ready to enter battle formation in eighteen hours. We have received an embug transmission from a crewmember of the late Vindicator. It is originating 121 km from Vindicators last transmission, so we will go, and come Hell or high water, we will get our man, and bring him home. Hancock clear."