Welcome to the Facility

[Ash]

Welcome to the Facility

The crackle of dust aginst the hull was the only sound remained for a moment as Tristan gave up his futile attempts to deploy his nanobots. His scanner was fried and he'd been drifting for over an hour.

The unxepected reboot of his HUD had surprised him and it was routine for the ship to do so if an electrical surge should threaten to fry the systems. Except it wasn't a reeboot, seconds turned to minutes and it became apparent that it wasn't coming back online. It wasn't long before a passing substance cloud drifted onto his path, after some minor bombardment the scanner was hanging off the hull by it's wiring and not even the auxiliary would kick into power.

It was ironic that he had thought such a mission was too good to be true. A simple expeditionary into the less known 'Luneburg' system to prospect an average sized desert planet, but for a more than double a weeks pay. Tris was hasty to take up the mission, but still felt uneasy as his time in space had not been for more than a month. And so he lay there floating, the distress beacon would surely have been activated and a recovery crew would soon be on their way. He only feared the ridicule from his colleagues when he climbed down the disembarkment ramp at Essen with the burden of failing his first non-combattant mission.

For a few minutes he waited in silence, listening to the dust hiss over the cockpit window, and slowly, but surely, slipped into sleep.

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