5th of January 3302, scanning PRU AESCS NC-M D7-192 A 3 A for almost three weeks now with very little signs of hope.
Sometimes I get some help from others but it is not enough for this airless piece of rock..
The abandoned settlement eludes our eyes.
Saturday morning I got some help from old times friend Cmdr Goliat, who disappeared under the radar couple of months ago.
Sunday morning we were to scan the area of south pole and 40 minutes into the flight Goliat spotted something between some high peaks, it looked very promising, so we started our descent and a minute later there was an abandoned settlement before our eyes.
Boy, we were so happy. We jumped into our SRVs to look for any information, maybe even possibly survivors, when fully blown Federal Corvette appears out of the blue, before we managed to get to our comms they destroyed our drives with a railgun and deployed ground forces. As we are explorers, we did not have any weapons, so we just gave up.
Then this guy comes, with a face like a potato you put in old sock and smash good few times against something hard, calls himself Mister C.
He said that Goliat will pretend to be a renegade, and will broadcast a message, that he has kidnapped me and will ask for a 50 tonnes of clean, unmarked low temperature diamonds.
If we will not cooperate, then he will attack our home system station Maskelyne Vision with enhanced type of Unknown Artifact, which is completely resistant to new materials developed by Sirius Corp and more deadly than ever, damaging station’s life support module, that will very likely put thousands of lives at risk.
Every few hours they were pushing commander Goliat to the terminal and asking him to communicate with people who could possibly meet Mr C’s demand. All the time there was one of his “soldiers” next to me with a plasma rifle aimed at my head, in case Goliat has any “stupid ideas” as they said. We did not see Mr C’s after that, but I overheard one of the guys calling him Clonerski.
That was the longest two days in my life. Monday noon they started looking bit nervous, making Goliat send more messages about getting the ransom quicker, we did suspect there are other pilots on their trail, as our location before all this was roughly known.
Then they just suddenly packed their gear and left, we managed to free ourselves and start calling for help.
And then just like this there was Cmdr O_Grzechu with fresh supply of
cold vodka oxygen, and other pilots, and we all lived happily ever after
