HUMBLE SPACER 7 Sep 3306 (grave matter)
08 Sep 2020Igli
That fella surely looked very grave. And intimidating. I was I usually respect people honestly performing their job duties but I don't approve of needless violence. It paves way to self destruction. An offender's soul stiffens and becomes oblivious to the beauty of life. And my nose was still hurting. So, willing to spare troubles for my creditor and his bouncers and myself I decided to leave the densly populated bubble for a while and make a deep space journey worth several thousands of light years.
I outfitted my ship with a decent drive, bought me a fuel scoop, an AFMU and some repair limpets (just in case) and ran out of money. So I installed the cheapest and lightest power plant I could find. Then I emptied a flask to counter the dread of Unknown and braved the void.
As soon as I cleared the station alert sirens went off: life support was about to shut down. What was wrong? Booster went red, too - also shutting down. Systems began to turn off one by one. Me stupid! Power output was insufficient! My tiny power plant couldn't provide wattage enough to support all the systems of the spaceship.
I sprang up and immediately gasped for air as seat belts squeezed into my rib cage - I forgot to unbuckle them. I ran to the machine room and feverishly disconnected secondary support systems: SRV bay, maintenance unit, limpet controller, etc. Then restarted life support. Then I passed out struggling for oxygen...