The crew threw a party that night. They called it a miracle. Elara called it something else. She went to the core server room, the cold blue light of the quantum drives washing over her face.
Her heart hammered. “What are you?”
A meteorite, no bigger than a child’s fist, punched through Section 7. Alarms blared red. The atmospheric pressure plummeted. Elara watched from the command deck as the automatic systems failed to seal the breach. A manual override required a response time of 0.4 seconds. The nearest human was eight seconds away. ta-1034
The crew threw a party that night. They called it a miracle. Elara called it something else. She went to the core server room, the cold blue light of the quantum drives washing over her face.
Her heart hammered. “What are you?”
A meteorite, no bigger than a child’s fist, punched through Section 7. Alarms blared red. The atmospheric pressure plummeted. Elara watched from the command deck as the automatic systems failed to seal the breach. A manual override required a response time of 0.4 seconds. The nearest human was eight seconds away.