A Cosmic Mystery

C11 - A Cosmic Mystery

ID Input ...... Russell, Maxwell T.

Location ..... Sageh Orbit, Sera Station

Status ......... Confused, worried

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Something about this whole situation was... off.

The message was in a type of code that Neville came up with... at least as far as I knew.

Also, there actually wasn't supposed to be anybody on Sageh--it was an endangered species world. All of the animals that couldn't adapt to the constantly changing conditions of Terrus were moved here to keep them alive.

There were no people there as to not interfere with the natural way of things, and so everything was observed from a station in orbit named Sera.

So basically, there shouldn't be anyone sending any signals from the surface.

But for some reason there was, and that's what was important.

I flew around to the bright side of the planet and headed towards the space station. I still had to get permission to go down there, and maybe they had more information for me.

"...Enter your code," someone said through the coms.

I put in my identification code and they granted me access to board the station.

I flew around to the docking side of it and flew in. As I was getting closer to it, I realized just how big it really was. It was probably a mile tall and half a mile across.

I was greeted by two security guards as I landed and opened the hatch.

"Oh boy," I thought, "what did I get myself into this time?"

I opened the cockpit and stepped outside.

"It's good to see that someone came to our rescue," I someone else say. It wasn't either of the guards though, because neither of their lips moved.

"Uhm, yeah.." I said, confused.

I looked around and behind me, and then the same voice said, "Down here you idiot."

I looked down and saw an officer, but she was probably only 3 and a half feet tall, as opposed to my 5' 9". No wonder I didn't see her.

"O-Oh, yes, hello! It's nice to meet you, ma'am. Are you guys having trouble with anything?"

She sighed.

"Yeah, we've kinda got a problem that we don't understand. For some reason, the planets force field won't shut down, and we can't get any decent signal out. So everyone back home thinks we're fine, when in reality we're trapped here and there's a strange signal coming from the surface!"

Just add it to the pile lady.

"So you're cut off from the rest of the universe, and there's something down there?"

"Exactly."

"Is there any way I can help?" I asked.

She thought for a moment and then looked over at my ship.

"That a four?" She asked.

"Yes, ma'am."

A grin stretched across her face.

"Perfect. That thing has different shielding than the rest of our ships, and our ships can't get through the field. The exact same kind of shield extends around the base as well."

"Really? How does that work?"

"Do you know any quantum science, soldier?"

Oof.