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Ryley
After my heavy work and heavy overdose of coffee, I had just sat down to take a quick nap, when an alarm, a jolt, and an explosion signaled my start into my journey to 4546B. A stunning jolt shook the ship. All the cleaning equipment fell to the hallway as the bulkhead snapped from the doorframe. What in the world? This was supposed to be a phase-gate constructing mission, not an emergency training! I quickly took a look around, confused, when a booming voice echoed:
"Attention. Hull failure imminent. All personnel abandon ship."
My emergency bag, which I always thought was stupid that we had to carry those when flying to uncharted planets, became my savior now. I quickly grabbed my emergency bag, which was filled with an all-climate suit, waterproof underwear, and goggles. Chaos ensued around me, and the PRAWN bay compartment almost squashed me. People ran around all over, panic engulfing everyone. Various voices, all panicked, shouted around me.
"What the hell? Didn't tell us this might happen!"
"Captain? Captain!"
"Help! Door's locked!
"Get a repair tool!"
"PRAWN bay's stuck! Help!
Before I could do anything, my instincts took over and I ran to the lifepods. As panic engulfed me, I think I might've pushed a PRAWN worker or two into a fire on the way to the lifepod station, but frankly, I don't it would've mattered. The fire was all over the place despite the automatic sprinklers, in normal circumstances, would put out any fire. But this situation was far from normal. At the station after a run that seemed so long, I saw Keen take lifepod 19, and I strapped myself in lifepod 5 and pressed the launch button. The tight sensation of gravitational restoration pulled me down. But then and the distress signal radio transmitter was torn off from the lifepod and the secondary system panel broke off, hit me in the head, and knocked me cold.
3 hours later
I woke up, dazed from the crash. Why was it so hot? It was like a nice summer on the first vacation I ever had in 2356C… Something was too hot around here… what could be? I asked myself. Let me think… If I could just open my eyes… It was kinda too hot… And It's red… It was fire! I had a massive headache, worse than ever. Groggily, I pushed myself toward the fire extinguisher. It was heavier when you were just knocked out. I grabbed the nozzle and put out the fire. My home is not going to be on fire while I'm in it, though the smoke remained after I rebooted my PDA.
"PDA, reboot."
The familiar jingle of the Alterra loading screen appeared in my PDA.
"Alterra!"
"You have suffered minor head trauma. This is considered an optimal outcome. This PDA has now rebooted in emergency mode with one directive: to keep you alive on an alien world. Please refer to the databank for detailed survival advice. Good luck."
Why would machines need humor? Now let's see what we've got here, shall we? I took out my underwear and the ACS(All-Climate Suit), and goggles. I climbed up the ladder and see the vast, vast ocean that covers the whole planet, with the burning Aurora on the distance, and the azure ocean unmatching beautiful for such a devastating planet.
"The Aurora suffered orbital hull failure. Cause: unknown. Zero human life signs detected."
"Zero human life signs detected"
"Zero human life signs detected"
"Zero human life signs detected"
"Zero human life signs detected"
Wha… how… why…
Zero? Zero human signs?!
I felt dizzy as I finally understood that help… would not be coming to me.
I wouldn't be expecting a ship to come and rescue us.
This is well outside Alterra space.
I might have to stay here.
This might be my home.
I'm done.