Starset (BASED ON “Back to The Earth” BY STARSET [funny, right?])
— No Pairing [First POV For Transmissions, Third] —
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Warnings: So, like, if you hate First POV, sorry not sorry? Also, this is a nameless and genderless character. Character Death. Also, space.
Documentation Log 001: I have just arrived at Station NXXtiXXs earlier this afternoon. The atmosphere was ruined by the electrical storm brewing in the current path, so we had to detour around the asteroid belt to get here. The gravity was zero, till we started coming closer to the station. They said it would be like the moon, and they were wrong. The gravity is a lot lighter, considering the gravity on the Earth is 9.81 m/s^2 and the moon is 1.661 m/s^2. I wish I learned that while I was in the academy. Ah well, shame on me, then. I measured the gravity on the station and the metre said that it was .61 m/s^2. .01 m/s^2 lighter than Pluto. I really did love that planet, I was sad to see it not be classified as a planet in the Sun’s system. I was actually a researcher in Pluto. But the program thought otherwise. I was sent to NXXtiXXs to check out some communication issues between the Station and the Earth. We’re at least 2 ⅓ light years away from what was called my ‘home’. I’ve been told to stay at the station until the communication was fixed. There were other people sent to help, but I have yet to see anymore ships dock on the landing pad. I’m actually very tired, despite how far and how fast I got to the station. Maybe sending me out in the morning would have been the best time to send me, instead of 2000 hours Earth Time. It’s currently 650 hours. Time is a different thing on this station and it’s very interesting to learn. Well, off to bed with me. Hopefully I don’t hurt myself trying to get around the station.
Documentation Log 002: First day on the job, I actually didn’t hurt myself while I was sleeping. It has passed 6 hours on Earth, making it 1400 there and 000 here. It’s a ten hour difference. All my station-mates are fully awake despite it. Guess they never grew out of the time. I just received a message that I’m all alone for this job. It’s upsetting to be the only person on this job, considering that the base said there would be at least 5 other people with me going on this ‘mission’. I never liked the base besides my Pluto job. I just worked on repairing some of the electrical equipment needed to transmit. I guess they never bot word that holograms are now a thing on Earth. Huh. Strange. But no matter, I hope that I got it to work.
Video Log 025893 sent from NXXtiXXs to Earth: Status Failed.
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Hello to anyone that can hear me, I am Jxxx Kxxxx, aboard Station NXXtiXXs. I am trying to reach contact to Base Mxxxnxxaxx Fxx. We just had an electrical fire in the Kitchen quarters, and we are in need of desperate need of help repairing the quarters. Again, my name is Jxxx Kxxxx aboard Station NXXtiXXs requesting repair crews out to the Kitchen quarters for an electrical fire.
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Documentation Log 004: I just have received word that there has been a fire on board, and the fire extinguishers are not working. Probably because of how old they are. I have a mini in my case but I only need it if I’m in immediate danger, but I’m not. I’m located on the other side of where the fire is, and now there are several people staying in my quarters. Nice. Just was also told that we need to put on our Oxygen masks because of the increased CO2 levels in the Station itself. Hopefully nothing goes wrong.
Documentation Log 008: The CO2 has gone down and everyone has returned to their original quarter spaces. Finally some peace and quiet. Thank the asteroid belt. Apparently the fire has gone out because of the cold that was sweeping in. Also received word that three people have been sucked out into space because of the massive hole that was in the wall. I feel bad, because they were actually people I knew, not because of Pluto, but of us being in some classes together in the academy. I wanted to get to know them but they were sent to NXXtiXXs before I was. Shocker.
Holographic Transmission 06594 from: NXXtiXXs to Earth: Status Complete.
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Jxxx Kxxx: We have a problem.
Pxx Yxxxlxxg: What’s the situation on NXXtiXXs?
Jxxx Kxxx: Funny you should say that. We’re have an evac.
Pxx Yxxxlxxg: Evac? We haven’t been alerted of it-
Jxxx Kxxx: I’m not the only person on board that has a hologram Pxx! Listen, prepare the landing pads on the base, there are at least [unintelligible number]
Pxx Yxxxlxxg: [sighs] Alright.
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End Holographic Transmission 06594.
Documentation Log 015: Everyone is being evacuated from the Station. There has been combustion between the Oxygen pipes and the Gravitational settings have exploded. There is too much gravity on the Station and the air is filling up with the Atmosphere gasses. It’s becoming very hard to breathe as I write this. I didn’t manage to fix the wiring to get any transmissions to Earth, but I did manage to get one hologram message to my squad leader on Earth.
Documentation Log 016: Everything is blinking red. Failed engines on the escape pods. I just hope that we don’t crash-
End of Documentation Logs.
The blaring lights faded and the lights in the escape pod have been turned off. The ship was merely holding onto the nuts and bolts that held the sheets of metal together. Piece after piece of metal tear off nearing the Earth’s Atmosphere. The gravity causing the entire pod to catch fire. The heat was immense to the people on board. They had no way of communicating to the base where the pods came from. More pieces of metal continue to fly off and become space junk that will orbit the Earth along with the satellites, People in the escape pods begin to fly out, this includes Jxxx Kxxx. Poor soul. The body weight of this person is so immense, he begins to choke and catch fire. It burns.
Eventually, the person crashes into the ground, making a nice and deep crater for the archeologists to scavenge for any remains of the people that were sucked out of the pod. It crashed landed into a hunk of trees near by, the person apparently landed in a park. Bystanders stood around as police, EMT’s and firefighters check out the scene. Someone had called for a domestic disturbance in a nearby neighbourhood and this was what they were talking about. New crews eventually reached the scene and began interviewing people on what they had saw, some even live. EMT’s hauled off Jxxx Kxxx, giving nearby enforcement for the medical examiners to start their autopsies. It was a tragic day. Everyone wanted to go home, and they eventually did.
Autopsy Report: JXXX KXXX
Age: XX
Sex: X
Cause of Death: Unknown
Notes: We have hauled in a space engineer, Jxxx Kxxx. He was found in xxxxxxxxxxx park, just along xxxx street. Clothes were shredded, face and entire body was burned. Some of the locals were reporting that they saw a big fireball in the sky. People came down hard and burned the nearby grass and make some big craters in the Earth’s surface. Jxxx was covered with dirt and grass when he landed.
Audio Log 0695873: Jxxx Kxxx Autopsy
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Examiner 1: This is the body of Jxxx Kxxx. The I.D. badge had been disintegrated in the fall from what appeared to be from the sky, according to the locals. [Examiner 2 chuckles behind the recording] Hey, pipe down you. From what the locals have told us, they said that they saw a fireball coming from the sky, so enforcements were called along with us. We found a number of bodies in xxxxxxxxxxx park, they are all on the slab; waiting to be examined, but this person was the one we got our hands on first. There are multiple burn marks on the body, most being third degree, a couple second and first. Multiple scratches on the arms, neck, and torso. They do not appear to be self inflicted.
Examiner 2: We also found a log book with Jxxx. We have read them all, it had apparently been recently active before and during the descent. There were some logs missing, we have lead to believe that they went missing because of the impact on the solid ground. The logs that we have will be typed up for later when we hand this in for the examiner’s office.
Examiner 1: Thank you Kxxxxx. Now, let’s begin with the actual autopsy. Would you mind turning on the camera? [A faint click of a nearby device turns on] Thank you.
Examiner 2: Yeah, hey Exxxxx, you might want to stop what you’re doing…
Examiner 1: Is there a possible- Oh. My. Good. God. [Metal clanking is heard] Jxxx? Put down the scalpel-
Jxxx: Where the hell am I?!
Examiner 2: Jxxx, you need to listen sweetie. Just put down the scalpel and we’ll tell you where you are. [A few seconds of silence] That’s it. Just lower it onto the tray you got it from. [Metal clanking is heard once again.]
Jxxx: Where am I? Why am I dressed in nothing but a towel?
Examiner 1: You’re in the morgue. We WERE going to cut you open and see a cause of death-
Jxxx: [yelling] YOU WERE GOING TO CUT ME OPEN?!
Examiner 2: We thought that you were dead. You have multiple burn marks and you fell from the sky in a pod with several other people who we know were pronounced dead at the scene. It’s our jobs to tell how people have died. We’re morticians.
Jxxx: What happened to the other people? How did they die?
Examiner 1: Well, we haven’t got the slightest clue, seeing that you are the first one we’re examining right now!
Examiner 2: Exxxxx, maybe you should stop talking, this person is very concerned about what just happened and-
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And that’s it for me on this story! I had a lot of fun writing it! If you want, you can actually listen to the song on YouTube, because this song is completely inspired by how I portray the song in my mind. The link will be right here.