The 13th Jump, or was it ?
05 Aug 2021Maecsen
Exacting space retribution is not something for the light hearted, it may come as a shock to most of you, but sitting in the flight seat of my DBX was NOT where I was wanting to be.. I had left My carrier, The Rhea back at the bubble on a whim, an itch you can not help but scratch, Professor Pahlin assured me that 5000 Light years out, was more than enough to allow him to start working on my drives since that was the chief reason for me to seek him out. I was not prepared however for the want to continue, once I started hitting Neutron star after Neutron Star, I came to, in Colonia wondering how that actually happened... like a fever, the 'bug' to explore, what is just beyond the next jump. I digress, The Rhea, yes.. my home, was scheduled to rendez-vous with me in Colonia, after spending some downtime in a deep space system, having only 13 jumps left to Colonia, it went ...missing... I hate not being aboard when it jumps.. Just in case.. But I've already mentioned that.
Having not arrived on it's expected ETA, I set out at 1200 hours towards it's last know location. Once there, no sign of it, of course the jump wake had long since degraded, but there was no debris, nobody, nothing.
Not sure what to do from there, I returned to Colonia, hoping that somehow it would be there. and it was...
as I jumped in, scanned for the myriad of FC's in the system, I was so happy to see it show up on my Nav panel. I headed straight for it, once in range of the Comm link is when things started to really get weird.
Instead of my Traffic controller's voice over the comms, the automated response system was running, requesting docking and letting my auto-dock take it from there, I rapidly scanned for life signs and tried my Captain on her personal line.. nothing, no response. No life signs aboard my Carrier, no one.
I sit in my cockpit, wondering what to do.. life support seems to be functioning... but there is no life to support. No one home
Disembarking...
Addendum: I will be keeping a voice log as I go and inspect the carrier to see if I can find what happened to my crew.