[Anchorridge has received an urgent distress call from an unknown Sevcon Orbital Station situated near Saturn's rings.
The message comes in order.
It starts with a terminal header before becoming an audio message.]
(Terminal header): S.S.S. UMINOTANI ORBITAL STATION URGENT MESSAGE.
DIRECTED TO [RELAY 17, ANCHORRIDGE].
CURRENT STATUS: CATASTROPHIC.
ESTIMATED TIME TO FACILITY ERADICATION: 15.6 MINUTES.
(Audio Message, Unknown Crew Member): This is Station Uminotani, reporting urgent status. Communication is heavily damaged, we can only send to what we see.
Currently I only have a lock on Anchorridge Signal Relay 17, about ninety six thousand kilometers out. Relatively close, considering, well, space.
Gravitational systems are offline... Operational, but are in permanent capacitor memory purge, which I believe may be caused by an electrical short.
This whole station went to shit in like thirty seconds.
Some rock catapulted out of Saturn's rings and struck our core. I told you all having an exposed core module was MORONIC.
(mockingly): ooooh but it looks so cool having the orange reactor casing exposed oooooh
(yelling): IT'S RADIATION SHIELDING, NOT FUCKING STRUCTURAL!
Reactor is COMPLETELY inoperable, and we have like eight minutes of battery. Reactor fuel ignition spread down the liquid containment and now we are out of reactor fuel, core coolant, whatever the fuck liquid all the life support systems consume, and THE ROCKET FUEL THAT KEEPS UP FROM COLLIDING WITH THE RINGS!
All our comms are at light speed, since warp communication went out with the rest of the long range communication equipment.
By the time anybody hears this we're all going to be fucking seconds from death.
We don't even have emergency warps because it was "TOO EXPENSIVE TO BE JUSTIFIED"
[The sound of a camera arm being forcefully turned can be heard, but no video output has been sent for this entire message.]
DO YOU SEE THAT? THAT IS THE JUSTIFICATION!
(mockingly): Oh we have cloooninngg you're fiiiineeeee
YOU HAVENT BACKED UP MY MEMORY IN YEARS!
(P.A., in background): Uminotani-Ring collision in ten minutes. Emergency thrusters are currently INVIABLE.
(P.A.): Backup solid chemical propellant is EXPIRED. Please rectify.
Emergency Protocol A-15 Engaged. Control Lockout in five minutes. All command input will be disengaged at lockout. Please evacuate this station. Code Red.
[An alarm blares and you hear the crew member run from the comms panel, cursing to themselves. The audio slowly fizzles out, with a final inactivity cutoff notice before it cuts.]
ANCHORNET PING DETECTED. RELAYING TO CATDROID STARSHIP - [ DATA EXPUNGED ]. OPERATION - RECOVER SEVCON ASSETS.
ACTIVATING OVERCLOCKED STARDRIVE ENGINE. TERMINUS LESS THAN 2.3 SECONDS.