Alone A Story Of Stars

Striders

SECTION 2

2107: Aboard the wreckage of LIGHTSPEED 1

I've always hated silence, everything about it just seems eree. But in space that's all anything is, silent. I haven't talked to anyone in about 7-8 years. SO silence is all I have know for awhile. I feel like sometimes I can see the wreckage of the other half of the ship in my dreams. I can almost feel and hear my crew, my friends screaming out to me. Though that impossible, the other half of the ship was out of sights within minutes.

I walk along the halls of my completely wrecked ship, I walk by my old crew's rooms sometimes. The empty echo of my footsteps gliding through the ship. I see the vintage rooms empty all there belongings all packed away. I cleaned their rooms a long time ago. I walk into the command center, and look through the archives and it's mostly full of logs and this such as that, but it also has some holotapes of my friends and I hanging out on the ship, or parties things like that.

I sometimes catch myself laughing at a joke Deven told years back or, sometimes talking as if the conversation is actually happening. Today I watched something I hadn't seen in a long time, the first day on the ship. We all unpacked our things and walked around a bit, I saw Deven when he could take things seriously for more that 5 minutes and Trista when she was shy and concealed, never really talking to anyone. I also watched the Christmas party we had a year back almost 3 days from the disaster. We decorated the entire ship. It was amazing. We had the TV monitor set to a fireplace. We had our vacuum sealed hot cocoa, with some crunchy pumpkin pie. I really miss it.

I turned it off and realised I had wasted about half an hour, but to me it's not really "wasted" it's more of used, because I feel, that my time has become seriously limited. I act like I always try to spend time carefully, I'm lying to myself that's far from the truth. I usually spend my days sitting in the observatory watching the stars as me and Trista used to.

But today feels different. I feel like today something big is going to happen, and it would be a nice change to the silence that is the ship. I have half of the food supply on this half of the ship though the rest is on the other half. But then again the entire supply was meant for 3 people meaning I have a decent amount of food. For a decent amount of time.

I walked through the ship to the command center, and looked at the map, I'm supposed to come into the orbit of a planet in about 3 days, but that's not really going to help my situation at all. But hell, itll give me a nice view as I die in the future so, that's a plus I guess. The planet is so densely covered in a light blue gas that you can't even see the surface, so anything could really be down there. But even as a giant blue monstrosity it's beautiful it's actually more of a whitish blue swirling together as like a beautiful hurricane.

Then something happened, that hadn't happened in a long time, the comms console started flickering. It was like I was seeing hope in a physical form. I rebooted the ship's command terminal. The ServiceLink logo lighted up loaded and brought all the ships systems that were available online. The lights of the ship all came on and the ship was once again a spark through space.

I wasn't really sure what to think at first. Could it be system glitch? Or something trying to actually contact me. I flicked it on, "Hello?" I said my voice a bit rough because I hadn't talked in like 2 years in fear of going crazy.

"W- s-- --u" It said.

"Please repeat?" I said in utter confusion.

"-e -e- yo-" It said

"Who are you, Identify yourself." I said trying to sound like I had somewhat authority.

"t-i---- a-- d----n" It said.