[ WP ] Mythological stories are just an attempt by ignorant humans who watched and described from their point of view the advanced humans/aliens with their scientific gadgets , space ships , weapons , etc . Pick your favorite mythological story and/or character ( s ) and turn it into a science fiction story .

`` What do you mean, interdicted?'' Paige waited for Sithis' translation matrix to relay her words. 
 
 His mane shook in what Paige suspected might be a chuckle, his loose gray fur undulating in zero gravity. He spoke, his somewhat sibilant voice incongruous from his vaguely Simian appearance. The translation matrix, a small pin on his lapel, began speaking in a neutrally accented form of American English, a stunning little device that had her engineers champing at the bit to examine. One of her bridge crew, Hanson, perched across the room, observing but unarmed, so as not to startle their visitor. Her comms specialist, Pfleuger, hung nearby, still tightly wound. He'd vomited recently but insisted he could handle this. The four of them were in the large aft airlock where Sithis had been admitted, after he'd scared most of the crew shitless by banging on the hatch with one of his tools. Fifteen million miles from Mars, no one had been expecting a Trick Or Treater. Six Marines waited in the adjacent equipment bay, on her order. 
 
 `` There was a blockade at a gravimetrically neutral point, between your homeworld and your moon. There sat a Peacekeeper fleet, placed around the time that several of your factions fought a territory war over the least populated continents. Before that, Oranni tradesmen and scouts visited your world often, often taking humans as slaves, or as pit fighters. Humans have been feared and revered as the deadliest combatants in this galaxy for several hundred years. The fleet is intended to prevent further capture of your people.'' 
 
 `` You're kidding.'' 
 
 `` If you mean to imply that I am speaking in jest, please do not misunderstand. The interdiction fleet is not for your protection. It is for that of the rest of the space faring races. Human xenophobia and savagery is unparalleled in the known universe. The Peacekeepers greatly feared Human development of faster-than-light travel. If they knew you and I were speaking of this, I would be harshly punished.'' 
 
 `` What happened?'' 
 
 `` I mistake the context of your question.'' 
 
 `` What happened that caused them to place the interdiction fleet?'' 
 
 Sithis shifted uncomfortably, his eyes elsewhere. `` It is not spoken of.'' 
 
 Paige leaned to catch Sithis' evasive eyes, and fixed him with a steely stare. Her aura of command was palpable, no matter what species you were. `` Speak of it.'' 
 
 Sithis considered for several long moments. He exhaled, and spoke softly. `` There is a region, near where you commonly launch your spacecraft. During your colonization war, it was a common landing for slavers and joyriders. They would often find isolated craft traversing your equatorial oceans, and stun the crew and passengers into submission, taking them all. Later, blockade runners would even take your flying craft. Human slaves remain contraband of a most lucrative order of magnitude.'' 
 
 Paige's eyes narrowed as she parsed his words. `` They took the ships? The watercraft?'' 
 
 `` No, just your people. The craft they would leave behind or atomize.'' 
 
 Hanson gasped, and Pfleuger was nearly agog, coughing. Paige waved them to silence. `` There is more to this.'' 
 
 Sithis met her gaze with sadness. `` Yes.'' 
 
 `` Tell me.'' 
 
 `` One of the captured groups were.. especially vicious. They fought to commanding victories in the arenas. In groups, as single fighters, they could not be defeated. Their brutality knew no match. Before a very prestigious fight on an orbital pleasure station, they.. escaped.'' Sithis paused, his voice growing quiet. `` They slaughtered every sentient on the station. A few attempts were made to board and retake the station, but even at a technological disadvantage, the humans rebuffed the Peacekeepers. Ultimately, the entire station was destroyed. Even so long ago, the story is still passed on in whispers. The Peacekeepers maintain the record of the incident as a warning.'' 
 
 Paige glanced at Hanson and Pfleuger. Hanson was back to his usual unflappable self, a tight bundle of control. Pfleuger looked as if he'd just learned how magnets work. `` Hanson? You get all of that?'' 
 
 He shook his head almost in disbelief. `` If there was n't an extra-terrestrial telling me the story, I would n't believe it. But at this point..'' He spread his hands. `` Nothing is off the table.'' 
 
 Pfleuger spoke up. `` Where is the interdiction fleet now? His translator used the past tense, when he talked about it.'' 
 
 Sithis looked at him, replying directly. `` It may have been destroyed. I did not see any indicators of it after I fled my orbit around your homeworld. There were others, word of the incident will spread quickly. If you are truly the only Humans left in this system, you will be targets. Without Peacekeeper protection, the less scrupulous traders will surely attack you to ensure there is no opposition in mining this system for its wealth. The Peacekeepers would reluctantly recognize and enforce your claim, as this is your home, but without them, you are surely dead.'' 
 
 Paige turned to Hanson. `` Have Masterson send his least scary Marine to wait here with our guest. We're headed to the bridge. Pfleuger, you wait here.'' She reached down and thumbed a button on her bodycomp, her wrist display lighting up as it dialed the XO. 
 
 `` Yes, Captain?'' 
 
 `` Bring the A and B reactor clusters online, begin thrust checklists. We're abandoning our current nav plot, we need to get to Mars a lot sooner than we'd planned. Get the superloops deployed and start charging as soon as you have a plot that works, send it to me as soon as you've got it.'' 
 
 `` Thrusting now will use up our fuel for the return trip to Earth, are you sure?'' 
 
 `` Secure your comm.'' 
 
 He blinked, reached out of view and came back with an earpiece. She waited while he switched audio to it. `` What's going on?'' 
 
 `` We ca n't go home, Earth is gone.''
