Oswin Log. Eight hundred hours. It never truly sinks in how small you are until you're on the outside looking in. We've hit a pass between the Milky Way and Andromeda. You'd be surprised how much less emptiness there is between the neighborhoods of stars, but it's still quite empty... We can see it now through the display. Our galaxy. It's....so utterly breathtaking. Knowing one of those twinkles is where my mum is. A place that can be called home. Nothing but a flicker of light in this sea of darkness.... [a beat] [a laugh] How human of me. Amazed at being so small when all we obsess over is being so big. Nothing wrong with that, as small as I am even for a human I deserve to have a little bigness. Enough about that, I hope we find a colony soon. I need more eggs. Can't bake a souffle without real eggs. The powdered kind just isn't good enough, shoot me for having a bit of decorum. I think the others are just bitter I never share.
Oswin Log with an important announcement: I am a genius and everyone should be kissing my ass. Do you know how simple it is to juryprogram a faulty compressor? They all made it seem so complicated, but really simple when you layer it out. A few rerouted wires. Wham. Bam. No thank you ma'm. You'd think by this century they'd start giving women a little more credit around here? I could have full control over this space float in the matter of a day and pilot it from my cabin if I really wanted to go through the extra effort. Thankfully, I'm not a backseat driver. I am, however, a savior of souls.
That or maybe we just couldn't turn left for a while. Still. Annoying.
Oswin Log. Seventeen hundred hours. We've detected an impossible planet. Curious isn't it? A whole planet gone unnoticed. Not by the galactic records at least, perhaps by another union, but not ours. Mm. I wonder. You never hear good things about these. Mystery planets full of danger. We've tried reporting it, but otherwise it'll be passing right under our noses. I wonder what's down there. It can't be inhabited, not by anything sentient at least. That, or it's a group of shut ins. Hm. I kind of want to see what it has to offer, but we can't just change our trajectory. We need to make it to Midnight eventually and I have a hot date. Can't go gallivanting around mystery planets agitating the natives now can I? [muses] That'd be a fun date.
You should see this, mum. A whole untouched planet blanketed with snow. It looks beautiful from up here. I wish we could do a life scan, but it's just not one of those ships. Maybe it's for the better, maybe we've found something direly fascinating. On the brink. It all starts here. [a rumble] [gasps]-What was that? [muffled. -forces dragging- more muffled. -We have to-] [alarms start blaring growing louder and softer] [scuffled footsteps] [the click of a harness] You think we'll--[cuts out with a loud mechanical blare]
[audio echoes from a hollow surrounding] Hello?..... [breathes out shakily] Get yourself together Oswald. [clears throat] If anyone finds this, if anyone hears this. This is the Starship Alaska. We've crash landed on an undocumented planet in the Andromeda Galaxy, star system Atarax. I've rigged our ship to send a continual broadcast, but--[EX.TER.MIN.ATE. EX.TER.MIN.ATE]- [gasps] [rush of footsteps] [hitch of breath and a clatter. recorder skids across hard ground] [winces and footsteps scramble up. recorder scrapes off the ground] [footsteps.] [panting] [patting against something hollow] Oh come on...! [distant dalek noises] [door wriggling] [door giving. opening. closing]
[perpetual door banging] Make it stop...For the love of the maker, make it stop... [shaky breathing as the door continues to bang. couple re-fractured beamshots] I feel...strange. Numb is it. From the cold? [footsteps drag a little, the daleks grow quieter] Get yourself together Oswald. [a deep breath] [scratching at a panel before it gives and clatters to the ground] They're coming, they wont stop. The escape pod, it's....it's somewhere. But the forcefield, no, I'll have to find a way to disable it. Maybe I'll make it out once for all and then we can laugh and drink and it'll be fantastic story to tell all my mates. [laughs weakly] Hey remember that time when Oswin crash landed on an uncharted planet? Sole survivor of fifteen able bodied people? Master hacked her way into the arms of victory, saving no one? [a heavy sigh] [door opens] A genius she is... [slow footsteps] ... . .. . ... [gasps]- [EXXXXXTERRRRRMIIIINNNNAAATTTTEEEEEEEE] No... [recorder clatters off]
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