Ghost Ship

Crash Landing

It's quiet in the vacuum of space, cold, dead, and silent.

It's so quiet that you can faintly hear an engine running as the captain, in a last-minute small rocket, approaches his spaceship. His ship is perfectly equipped for long-distance space travels with its own greenhouse, kitchen, top-of-the-line med bay and weapons system on top of what every other smaller spaceship should have. All this combined made it a big spaceship, to say the least, but compared to the other spaceships that NASA has been sending out these days?

They made his ship borderline minuscule in comparison, it would have been like comparing a single drop of water to a small pond but to give the captain some credit, he didn't have too many options due to him only recently getting the role of captain just recently. Although he did look the part with his almost all-grey spacesuit which would of made him almost blend in with the vacuum of space if it wasn't for the small tints of tussock on the suit and the patches on the sleeves to further confirm that he works in NASA's new spaceship program, Cozmos, and he's, in fact, the captain if it was not already obvious from his crew wearing the classic white spacesuits.

When his pretty pathetic last-minute rocket, finally arrived, he strolled into the airlock before oxygen was released into the room, allowing him to be able to take off his helmet, the doors leading to the hallway of the ship whooshed open, giving the captain the indication to leave but he already knew that, after all, it wasn't his first time in space, this was his one hundred and one time in space, he's even got the badge to prove it. He marched into the hallway with the cockiness that being the captain of the ship would give you as he strolled through the hallway, he felt like something was off, something was wrong but besides the every so often "hello captain" or "morning sir" from the couple crew mates scattered throughout the hallway would say too excitedly, there was nothing that he could see that was wrong besides this weird gut feeling. He began to skim through the windows and open doors scattered around the hallway, but he still couldn't see anything inherently wrong so before he pushed this feeling down, he decided to touch the walls first as maybe that's the issue.

The walls felt sterile and cold, too cold, so cold that the captain jumped when he felt how cold it was, to say it was cold was an understatement, it was icier than anything but in the end, the captain chose to push this gut feeling down and just chalk the walls to being so cold because of that fact that they were in space and the crew mates being too happy as if they had too much coffee to drink, after all, the ship's kitchen did had a coffee maker from what he remembered but still he's never remembered those walls being that cold. Nevertheless, the captain marched forward until he arrived at a door at the end of the hallway, the spaceship helm. It was fitted with a top-of-the-line communication system, a user interface, allowing you to control the flight path which is displayed as a 3D map in the centre of the room along with being able to control the thrusters and engines however they need voice and facial recognition from the captain to activate either of them.

NASA of course added one more thing to the spaceship as well, some of the best artificial intelligence they have ever created, also known as the ARG-05 or as the captain calls him 'ARGOS' who's usually just on one of the main screens in the room even though if he wanted to, he could go onto every screen on the ship if he wanted to. The captain only had to take one step into the room before ARG-05 immediately notices him and greets him with the most monotone "Hello Captain, how are you today?" he has ever heard, it nearly caught him off guard but after a second or so, he replied to ARG-05 with a "Hello ARGOS, I'm doing just fine just a little jet lagged" ARG-05 change his face on his screen before saying "I'm sorry to hear that captain" and changing his face back to the default one.

The captain goes towards the 3D map in the middle of the room and just as he goes to touch the start button mission, the captain snaps out of his flashback with his hand shakily hovering over the cancel mission button as you can hear his heartbeat going a mile a minute as he heavily breathing over the map. It was almost as if he was having a panic attack, but he does have a fairly good reason to be in such a panic with his once crystal clear astronaut helmet being filled with this bubbly mysterious green liquid which is containing his skull, brain and just very faintly his eyes. The captain himself doesn't even know why or how he is still alive as before it happened, he was knocked out cold and ARG-05 had to come to his rescue which to give ARG-05 credit would of being very hard to help someone who's inside of you because despite there being a crew of 60, they were all missing or worse dead.