Into the Blue Chapter 1

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This fic takes place just over two years after Serenity (BDM) and has the established couples of Simon/Kaylee, Mal/Inara, Zoë/OC and Jayne/River.

A/N: Okay, here we go folks. The next installment of my “Allanverse”. This story takes place three months after my previous story, Out to the black.

Thanks again Chris for the beta…

Into the Blue

Chapter One – Discovery

Office of the CEO – Blue Sun Corporation - Londonium

The CEO was not in a good mood. The memo in his hand was just one of the causes of his foul demeanor. Alliance patrols had found a derelict ship near Boros, or more precisely, part of a ship. Upon investigation, it was found to have various Blue Sun components and serial numbers. The problem lies in the fact that the parts were four hundred years old.

The research department had taken five days of computer searching to find the original parts orders buried deep within the company archives. Unlike most corporations, Blue Sun really never threw anything out, not even parts orders from Earth that was. It wasn’t like the files took up any real space. Just a file on a long ago nearly forgotten data stick.

Further digging had revealed that Blue Sun’s founder had requested the parts just eight months before the exodus left Earth. Further digging in the archives revealed a message sent to the exodus ships just before they were out of range of reliable communication.

Allan Bryant, the company’s founder had built a ship. One with it’s own cryo chamber. Six months after the exodus had left. So did Bryant, on a course following the exodus ships. The message was a warning. If Allan Bryant was seen in the new system in one hundred years, he was to be arrested on sight for treason.

Bryant had been careful, the CEO read. Bryant had released a computer virus that had nearly wiped out all record of his ships construction back on earth that was. Unknown to