"When did the scanners pick it up?" Captain Frits asked.
"Three hours ago Captain, it has to be the Saxton, right?" First Officer Kile said.
"It's the same size and where is should have crashed, it's been hundred years and the world does not know what happened to her.." The Captain said as a wrinkled hand pressed a single green button on the console.
"Yes?" A staticky female voice asked.
"Get a shuttle ready, your going to the surface.." The Captain said...
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Haigan took a breath in has a vail of heavy darkness over came his eye sight, then he was blinded by a bright blue flash, "PSI online and suit uplink with Shuttle Engaged." A Robotic Female Voice said into Haigans ears as he opened his eyes to see the shuttle bay. The bays walls were flanked by rows of heavy seats with large bars above each row, Haigan sat on the far back of the left row as he was the newest Scout on the team.
"PSI's linked up everyone?" A rather grim female voice spoke in the room, the voice belonged to Sargent Goli who lead Alpha Team, the team Haigan was in.
"Yes Sargent!" The voices of the other team members said in the Team Com and as the last Male voice said Haigan spoke into the mic in his helmet, "Yes Sargent."
Haigan looked to the others in the bay, the rest of the team wore light Greg skin tight suits with rust coloured metal plates placed around the suit, thiner plates around the joints and heavy and thiccer plates around the chest and lower chest, the PSI suit weighed around 55 Pounds (around 24 KGs) that was without the tall blocky helmet that had a large visor with an armoured cover that had two silts for the wearer to see.
And everyone wore a small backpack that was attached to the suit, the pack showed a line of LEDs that showed the wears Heath to others, this was the HSS. This technology was invented in late 2156, most of the human species wore a cruder version of the PSI but the crew of the Alterra Space Station wore the Mark 5 version.
Haigan felt the shuttle come to a halt, then he heard a loud siren blasted in the bay as the ramp at the end of the bay lowed onto the dust...
•••
An Hundred years ago.
"CAPTAIN! The things have breached Engineering! They are... killing everyone!" The screaming voice of a girl echoed in Captain Nelson's mind as he set the new course into the Guiding Computer. He took in a raspy breath and looked up and out of the clear glass window in front of him, he saw the surface of Mars in the far left of the window then he saw the sun rising from the back of Mars as he felt the ships engines spark alive with a roar.
The windows view was only the cursed planet below after a few hellish seconds, the Captains rough and wrinkled face looked down at the consoles screen to see bold letters saying, "One Minute Five Seconds. Until impact.". His hand grabbed a small ball and spoke into it, "This is the captain... to all who survived, I'm sorry for what I did, I'm... sorry for all of this suffering I've caused, Long live Earth." The captains voice echoed in the sinking ship as he stared at the ever closer Red Planet, he looked at his hand, it's pale skin had drops of dry blood covering it, the captain had not showered in days.
The console screen now said, " Ten seconds until impact " the window only showed the landscape of Mars as the ship screamed down wards, "I'm sorry my Darling." the Captain said as the ship impacted the surface. The window cracked and shattered as a wave of reddish sand and dust flooded the bridge, the roof panels snapped off and flew forwards into the cloud..
•••
The mummified corpse of the captain layed in the dust for an hundred years before light showed his horribly disfigured face...