Fiction:Theian/Wayward Sailors

In the remote regions of the Milky Way, a group of explorers stumbled across a wide-beam transmission. Standing on deck was a weathered man in his forties, wearing ragged clothes and short-cut hair. HThis was captain Elliton Grey, a former pilot for the Human Republic who retired to live as a space explorer shotly before the Thal invasion. He stood on the bridge of an old ship accompanied by six other bridge crew of varying backgrounds.

Elliton relaxed i nthe captain's chair and looked to Arayah Mills, a conn officer from the frontier colonies.

Elliton - Arayah, what have you found? Arayah - I wish I knew, but the translaters need time to decipher it; the language is completely new and does not entirely match common syntax orders. Elliton - In english? Arayah - I need tiem to work out what they are saying, if they are saying anything. Elliton - Oh-kay, any idea where it si coming from?

Helmsman Jonas - Estimated twelve light-years at bearings two-ten, elevation minus three-give degrees. Shall I set course captain? Elliton - Go ahead, let's see what we can find.

The ship primed its warp drives and jumped to a red dwarf star. Orbiting twice the distance between Earth and the Sun was a frozen planet. The signal was being emitted from on the surface.

Elliton gathered some crew members including field engineers, soldiers and scientists in the shuttle bay of the ship. They donned hazerouds environment suits to deal with a blizzard passing over the site, with winds traveling at over 70mph. Ice shards were bing thrown about, fortunately for the team theri suits came equipped with phasic shielding layered over the suit's material.

Elliton could feel the effects of the ice impacting on the shielding of the shuttle. He wondered to himself if it was better if he waited until the blizzard passed but on this planet that could be hours or even days. he activated a wall console on the bulkhead to get a clear look, the entire team was stunned to see a frigate-sized ship partially-buried in the ice. There was a jolt as the shuttle landed in the ice and elliton and his crew donned the final pieces of their environment suits and opened a side door to be confronted with a side-on blizzard. The shuttle had landed a few metres from the site and the team wasted no time looking for an opening.

The bulkhead itself had been damaged, places where it was intact were devoid of welding marks or panel divides. The hull was embossed with various large, swirling patterns. The crew found a gash in the hull that they could possibly enter through. One of the engineers set up a portable forcefield generator that extended around them to rptect the from the blizzard while the rest of the group primed plasma torches and began cutting away.