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The warning lights blinked of the impending crash landing. The crew wasn’t near them in the bridge. They were in the hyper-sleep chamber in the belly of the ship to protect them from the crash landing. The ship was heading back from Kenois, an astroid that came into orbit of Jupiter recently. When a passing astroid had a ditress signal coming from it. The ship was programmed when on auto piolet, if it registered any ditress signals on any mass that it passed, it would automatically land there. After the crash landing, the crew awakend thinking their on Earth. They find that they are still far from Earth. The crew is filled in and goes to investigate. They find a Orbitus, code 34-179. The ship looks like it’d been there for days. It was a passanger shuttle. Usually from bases on astroids, planets, planetoids and such. As they approached they looked at the gloomy ship and noted that there were no lights coming from any of the windows high up.
“Power failure?” Cadet Rags said arming his weapon.

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