Remnants and Fallout

[arvg]

Setting the controls exactly as directed by the computers, the Resurgency blasted into cruise, his hands triggering the Engine-Kill at exactly the right moment. Stepping back and locking the console. If anything disturbed the ship, it was set to rouse the command crew immediately... not that anything could.

He looked up and out of the windows at the vastness of nothing.

They were in the middle of nowhere... and the nearest CD wasn't due to be constructed for another millennia.

He saluted the Admiral, as he made his way below decks, sliding down the companionway, tucking the baseball cap into his pocket, as he lined up with the last of the engineers and crew that were getting into the stasis pods.

"This thing is going to defrost me, on the other side, Doctore?" He asked, patting the pod skeptically.

"Get in," XiaoBei commented, still smoking, as he pushed the young pilot into the chamber, sliding the hatch closed and sealing him inside. Other officers and crew were doing the same. The Admiral taking her pod as well.

In a moment they were all inside, as the ship switched into power save mode, and the tanks began to fill...

"uh... Doctore?" Alvarez said as he began to panic, the liquid rizing up at a rapid rate... "Doctore?" he screamed just before it filled his mouth and nose... frantically he tried to hold his breath, as the liquid suffocated him... and just when he couldn't hold it any longer, he gasped for air and took in a lung full of the liquid...

CRACK

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