The survey
team floated out of transport 2 toward the crater. They spread out to cover the greatest area
with their equipment active and transmitting a real time stream back to the
transport that relayed it back to the station.
Due to the lack of gravity, all of the team was using jet packs. The jet streams caused loose ice to blast out
in various directions, clouding visibility.
One of the
survey team headed to the bottom of the crater.
He looked down and noticed something very curious. “There is some kind of hard, smooth surface
down there.” He reported “And there is something that looks …” He hesitated “It
is not right.” He focused his camera on the surface below.
The image
showed 6 gold circles approximately 10cm across in a roughly 1 meter circle.
“The surface
looks to be smooth, either metallic or ceramic.” The surveyor reported.
He slowly
approached the circle, descending toward it and panning the camera around
looking for other features. His feet
gently contacted two of the gold circles.
The surveyor
was instantly vaporized in a huge flash of blue light. The force of the explosion pushed the other
surveyors back.
“What the
hell was that?” The transport pilot shouted into the radio.
One of the
surveyors responded “We just lost a team member in what looked like an
electrical explosion.”
“Oh shit!”
the pilot responded. He punched the
radio button to the station “Albatross station, transport 2. One of our survey team just exploded. Sending the video record now.”
“Transport 2
please repeat your last transmission.” Lt.
Xi was confused “Did you just say your survey team exploded?”
The pilot
repeated the transmission.
“Stand By
transport 2. And don’t let anyone else
near that surface.” The command was clear.
Beginning of Story
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