The Man in Cap

[Nightfall]

Chapter Two.

Not far from the field of engagement...

Silence...
A life pod drifts slowly to the outer perimeter of the former battlefield. Now it's a debris field of capital ship remains, pieces of fighter craft and various unexploded ordnance waiting for the unwary.
Jamie had just enough time to hit the eject button before the supernova mines exploded blinding him and rendering him unconscious. Escape pod lights glimmer for the last few seconds until they turn off for the last time as a short-circuit caused by the explosion shuts down most of the power grid. The beacon stops functioning rendering the pod completely silent.
Jamie wakes for a second to somehow realise the Darkness that engulfed him was not a good sign. "Uhhh!" Pain. "My head, my arm! D*mn, my everything hurts!" More pain kicked in as he thought "Wait a minute, why is it so dark?"
He tried to move his hand when a sharp spear of pain got through half his body. He remembered, the Devastator, the fighterbay, supernova mines, had five... "Eject! yeah! Have I succeeded?" he thought "I probably did, don't believe death may hurt so much! I can't see a d*mn thing!" and then it hit him "Novas! Must be blind!" and then another thing he realised... there were no steady beeps of the rescue beacon. "D*m why did you have to fail on me?"
"Who would find me? Friend? Foe? Or would I drift forever in space like a ghost ship - better say ghost escape pod?" he thought as he fell back into the bliss of uncounciousness...