David Chambers scanned the wreckage of the Barrow, every inch looking for survivors, knowing full well there were none; he had arrived just too late. He had seen the monstrous vessel and its horde of smaller fighters depart into jumpspace without so much as a jumphole, just carving their way into it. He was lucky, he thought, to have survived this. Equally, though, he was unlucky not to have died with his brothers and sisters, defending his home.
Something caught his eyes; the signal was weak, very weak. But there was still life here, one pod, scarred but not destroyed. Chambers tractored it in, setting course for the Texas jumphole, he went into his ships cargo hold to check the passenger.
The pod was blackened as if a shot had passed close by, clearly it had done some damage to the pod but not enough to destroy it outright, this meant the person inside would be alive, but for how long? David had no knowledge in first aid, but he knew a man who did.
He didnt dare enter New York, the chances of being spotted were too high, especially given the data he had on board and so he headed for California there to reach Colorado via Ontario. All the while he was checking the pod, it was degrading at a fast rate, and David only hoped that he could get to Ouray in time.
Almost as important was the data his flight recorder had gathered, clear visual shots of whatever these things were, what little data he could gather from there movements, and most importantly of all, the moment when they had slipped into jumpspace without aid. That was probably the most frightening thing of all, that they could come and go as the pleased, without using standard methods.
Nearly 2 hours later, David finally received clearance to land, radioing a message directly to MedBay. He was met at the hangar by a trauma team who opened the pod. David watched as they gently brought the occupant out, clearly already wounded when he got in, he was suffering more so now. David turned away, in his hand the datachip his own ship had created, he needed to speak to the boss about this.
