Hull breach!
03 Mar 2020Nerys Nymei
Yesterday my hull breached.Yes, it was my fault. I decided to land on a small planet because I was tired and I didn't feel like sleeping in the void. But I misjudged the descent speed. The gravity was higher than expected, so the ship crashed into the ground.
Luckily my shields were up. Not because I had remembered to raise them before landing, oh no. Just by sheer luck. So I bounced like a rubber ball instead of exploding. When finally I disengaged the engines, I found myself in the middle of nowhere, at night, in a deep canyon of a planetoid with a name made mostly of random consonants, losing air from my hull and scared as shit.
I deployed two limpets to seal up the holes, then I decided to check the damage personally: with the SRV I made a circle all around the ship.
The hull seems ok. I am worried for the power plant but there is nothing I can do for it at the moment.
It's cold down here and I feel very alone. I am more than one thousand light-years from the closest human being. I hope I won't have nightmares tonight.