"Mom, that Picard captain is awesome!" Sebastian beamed, he and his mother were watching an old movie. "Meeting alien, venturing the stars, i want to be like him! the greatest captain in the galaxy!"

She patted Sebastian head. "I'm sure you will.."

"Mom, when you go outside, i want o go with you? pretty please.."

His mother smiled at him

"Hey!" 

Sebastian heard someone calling for him, he looked around, but no one was there beside her mother. Suddenly everything became blurry.

"Mom?" he called as she slowly fade away. 

"Hey! you over there!" the voice getting clearer

"Sebas!" a girl called for him.

Sebastian snapped out from his reverie. The girl not far from him was calling him over the intercomm while gesturing at their Chief.

"What are you doing!? stop dawdling, we have work to do!" scolded the chief over the intercom while violently waving his torch at Sebastian as if he wanted to threw it at him.

"Sorry.."

Sebastian glanced at the stars once more and then continued with patching the starboard which where damaged by an asteroid. As one of the maintenance crew, he already been outside several times, but he couldn't help kept marveling at the vastness and beauty of the stars every time.

After working for hours, they were given some time to take a break. Sebastian and the girl were on their way to the mess hall to have some meal, when he passed a monitor, it played the same recording everyday.

"We must work together, one day! when we reach our new home-" said the lady in the monitor as Sebastian passed it. Sebastian stopped to listened at her. "our future.. no, humanity future is-"

"Sebas?" the girl called him.

"Ah! sorry.. come on Enid." He continued heading to the mess hall and the girl followed him.

Arriving at the mess hall, he stared at the calendar. It's been 325 years since human left Earth, their old home which was no more. They were on their way to a planetary system called Luxia, which would took more than thousands of years. They knew that they would not be the one destined to reach there, but it's their duty to preserved humanities and became the pillars for the future like their predecessor.

Sebastian sighed, he recalled 3 year ago when he just joined the maintenance crew, a series of malfunction almost doomed their endeavour. The most catastrophic was the malfunction of the artifical gravity system which fortunately they able to rectify by using spaceship's horizontal side thruster.

Then few days ago, during 25th of December celebration, they had their last meat food because there were no more lifestock left alive. While they could still atleast grew some fruits, algae and vegetables, everyone were frustated and began losing hope.

2 days later, Sebastian and his fellow maintenance crew were maintaining the power generator, which in really bad shape and in dire need of new parts, when he noticed a small object flew above them. It disappeared in the blink of an eye, Sebastian shook his head, thinking it must be his imagination.

Suddenly there was a loud bang and everything flew away. Sebastian able to clinged on to the pipeline, but most of his colleagues were not so fortunate. After everything stop ricocheting, he flew to check on one of his colleague who was floating nearby, aside from a few bruises, he was fine. He looked up and noticed a pool of blood forming on Enid's head. he quickly jumped to her and brought her down. She was unconcious.

"Enid!" Sebastian tried to woke her up as he laid her on the floor

The chief approached him "how is she?" after seeing the wound, he tore his a towel and use at as a bandage.

One of the mechanic informed the chief that the generator was still operational but something prevented it from powering the thrusters

"That's impossible!" The chief flustered. "Check again!"

The chief ordered Sebastian to brought Enid to the infirmary, while he tried to contact the bridge to inquired about the situation, but an announcement were made calling for all humans to gathered to the nearby mess hall or emergency shelter block.

Sebastian arrived at the infirmary, it was crowded, so many were injured. One of the doctor told him to placed Enid in one of the beds. The doctor strapped her on the bed and treated her head. Sebastian stared at the monitor, he was appalled, there was an unknown spaceship docked beside their ship.

The unknown spaceship detached and then slowly moving beneath their spaceship. He heard another announcement, the captain was requesting the president to present at the bridge.

"Father.." Sebastian murmured. He left the infirmary and quickly went to the bridge. On the way, he passed several block and noticed everyone were terrified watching the monitor.

Sebastian arrived at the bridge. He saw his father standing next to the captain, conversing while watching the monitor; the unknown spaceship now latched under their ship. Sebastian approached his father.

he was surprised to see him there, "Sebas! what are you doing here?"

"Sir president!" shouted one of the bridge crew, "they're contacting us!"

They heard hissing voice from the comm. "Ussaolss fruss! Soss fass loss wortss garbitianss!" it sounded rather excited. A moment of pause "hurss.. soss fass-"

Then, another with heavier voice cuts them off. "Foss sass ursvusess ? Savurss selss dross osss doss vustonass"

"Uvess.." 

They then turned off the transmission.

The bridge was silent, everyone looked at each other, mortified. then there's a loud thump, Sebastian felt his body was getting heavier and slowly landed on the floor. The gravity had been restored, but he was puzzled because their ship weren't rotating and it a bit heavier than usual.

The captain ordered one of the crew to contacted the chief and inquired if they had resolved the power issue, Sebastian's chief responded that they hadn't and that he too couldn't figured it out how.

"Your order, sir?" The Captain asked Sebastian's father.

"I.. maybe, we- we should try to communicate with them, telling them we are not hostile."

"How about we send symbols or pictures?" one of the crew member suggested.

They heard a beeping sound. The bridge crew said "They're contacting us again!"

"Hurss, Wess are Garbitianss, Wess meanss noss amuss, Wess are the Feusstess"

Sebastian was bewildered, so does everyone else there.

"Did.. they spoke our language?"