CHAPTER 1

Above an alien planetary pinkish-orange planetary horizon, three humans wear futuristic anti-gravity exo-suits. As one free fall, he gets a glimpse of the planet above the humans to see an intergalactic spaceship burning and falling from the upper atmosphere. The dropship explodes, causing debris to be scattered across the skies, engulfing the free-falling exo-suiter. The human helmet was impaled with a debris shard, killing him instantly.

The other two kept free-falling to the planet below; they see an ocean and large landmass, consisting of a vast beach. Beyond the beach is a vast jungle. Finally, one of the personnel sees a giant alien-like infrastructure.

The exo-suit's AI informs the two humans that they had reached sufficient miles in the air to deploy their parachute. One person successfully deploys their parachute; however, the other exo-suit parachute fails to open, causing him to tumble to the ocean below.

After five minutes of descent to the planet, the personnel in the exo-suit detach the parachute as she was close enough to land safely in the ocean. As she tries to swim to the beach, the current overpowers her control, especially when the exo-suit does not allow much mobility to swim. The wave pushes her against the rock knocking her unconscious.

An hour later, the personnel woke up on the beach. The human gets up and staggers to a rock that is high enough for her to sit. The exo-suit AI alerts the human through the helmet's heads-up to show that the piece suits the leg. Next, the human looked at the area where oxygen was escaping the exosuit. The human presses a few holographic buttons on the computer keypad on the forearm, activating the emergency repair. The suit repair foam seals the breaches in the suit.

The human again punches a few more holographic buttons in her suit to test the amount of oxygen in the air. The holographic heads-up display (H.U.D) estimated 15 minutes to analyze the atmosphere. The human looks around and observes the surroundings. The human looks over the ocean and sees a large planetary on the horizon with three moons in the sky.

The human looked around and saw the crash site of her intergalactic ship falling from the atmosphere. Again the human presses a few buttons in her holographic forearm computer to activate the proximity GPS signal of the other aliens descended with it. The H.U.D Indicates two GPS signals. One is very faint as it is out of unknown territories in the ocean. There was no way the human figure would venture out into the sea on the alien world. The only option is to trek to the other GPS signal, which was at least 3 miles up the beach.

After a 30 minute hike up the beach to the other GPS signal, the human finds one of her counterparts lying lifeless. It quickly makes its way to the body and activates the life sign monitor on the suit. The suit reads a flat-line, only confirming its observation that it is the only survivor. Suddenly the exosuit's AI informs the human that the atmosphere was breathable with slight condense gases in the air. It was a relief that it could take off the exo-suit as the suit was almost out of the air it breathes. Not only that, but the environment was also able to sustain human life as the climate was 110 degrees.

The human takes off their helmet, revealing that she is a female human in her mid-twenties. She has cinnamon skin, rust-colored hair, green eyes, thick lips, and a lovely nose. Her name is Dr. Joilee Reyna James. Joilee takes deep breaths and finds the air is dense to breathe but not enough to suffocate her. Her body needs time to adjust to the climate.

Joilee removes the rest of her exosuit until she has nothing on but a catsuit. The catsuit was made of interwoven fiber technology to help the human body adapt to the changing climate. The catsuit showed that she was a curvy buxom beauty.

Joilee removes the micro-computer from the forearm of the exo-suit called a Palmer. It is a compact supercomputer that is the size of a modern-day android phone. It had a super-high-speed data processor called the solarium processor.

The Palmer has a 3000 terabyte processor and 5,000 terabytes for massive data storage. The device was made of gold and titanium and was nearly indestructible. The casing protected it from physical abuse, electromagnetic pulses and even was waterproof. This computer could link the satellite to the subspace communications beacon in the planet's orbit.

Joilee activated the GPS of her ship to locate her ship's crash site. She looks at her position on the holographic map. The ship had crashed in a dense forest that was tropical-like. She looked in the direction of where the ship crashed, and she could see plumes of smoke 50 miles away. Her ship was a three-day walk from her position. She decided to head towards the GPS distress beacon.

During her three-day journey, Joilee experienced the planet's cruelty when it came to the weather. The day and nights were short as they ran a 7-hour cycle. Although the hours of the day she experienced rapid climate fluxes, some hours of the day were sweltering. Temperatures reached 120 degrees during the daytime. At night, it was at least 40 degrees with rainstorms that appeared without warning and were frequent. The dense forest provided excellent shelter against extreme high winds; however, she still had to find accommodation.

After an exhausting three-day trek, she finally made it to the crash site. Unfortunately, she only says half the ship intact as the other half was the vessel's bridge that fell into the ocean. Much of the ship's remnants were still on fire; however, not as much as heavy rain settled the flames enough for safe entry.

After climbing through the vents of the ship, she finally ended up in the cargo bay. The part of the ship's supercomputer was still intact. Joilee gave a retina scan to open the doors. She grabbed a futuristic survival backpack and filled them with freeze-dried rations that were enough for a week. She accessed the weapons locker and caught a futuristic 9 mm that is called the Punisher. The weapon holds a clip with 50 bullets and has a fire rate of 3 shots in one trigger squeeze. She had equipped herself with a titanium dual sonic edge machete with a poly carbon handle. This was to help her cut through the dense jungle foliage. She also grabbed a slim analyzing data card that is attached to the back of the Palmer. It would allow her to analyze plant samples for edibility.

Her next step was to access the workstation where a dead EGC personnel was lying lifeless. She moved the body, synced her Palmer to the ship's core computer. Finally, she ran a ship diagnostic and found out that the ship's communication systems were still functional.

"Thank God!" Joilee replied.

Joilee was still capable of sending a subspace message to the beacon satellite above the planet. However, the ship indicated that it was going through a core meltdown within an hour of her arrival. The blast radius would be 7 miles.

She accessed the ship's records about the planet. She downloaded the data, mainly the terrain map up to 1000 miles of terrain from her position. Soon after, she began to record a message that would send via satellite. She saw the magnetic interference was substantial. She boosted the communications signal to as high as it could go to cut through the distortion. Once she somewhat got a more robust call, she pressed the holographic record button.

Palmer Video Entry Log: July 1, 2459, C.E.

Dr. Joilee Reyna James

Three days ago, the Interstellar space ship "The Oldumare" was destroyed above Sierra Alpha Prime. After being in orbit for only a few hours, an energy source that originated from the planet's surface destroyed the ship. The escape shuttles that accompanied six personnel, including myself, were knocked off course and crashed on the surface. I am the only survivor. The ship is not safe for me to stay here. I have two hours before the ship's atomic core will go Chernobyl. I have to get as far away from here as possible as the blast yield will destroy a seven-mile radius. Luckily the Captain of the ship was able to release multiple subspace communication satellites before impact. I am going to investigate the energy source that the Oldumare scanned before it was destroyed. Maybe if I can disable whatever attacked us, it would be safe for a search team to rescue me. I'll keep a frequent record of what I see during my journey.

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Soon after, Joilee made her distress call and finished syncing her Palmer. Joilee exited a broken ship through the cargo bay doors. Her Palmer indicated that her energy reading was 30 miles west from her position. She decides to head in that direction with extreme haste. With only 20 minutes, she had to clear seven miles to avoid being caught in the blast radius.

With every breath she took, it was hard for her lungs to adjust. She did not fathom that the dense air would wreak hell on her lungs. Joilee knew it was either to push her lungs to the limit or to vaporize. The clock moved to 10 minutes, and she was only two miles before she reached the blast zone. Even though she needed to be three miles away, she pushed until she was 5.7 miles.

Finally, Joilee collapsed because she could not push anymore. It was only 30 seconds until detonation. Joilee found a trench that had a rock formation that would protect her from flying debris. She curled up in the fetal position waiting for the evaporating blast. Once the countdown expires, a massive explosion follows a flash of light.

After the debris and dust finished settling, Joilee burrowed herself out of the dirt and debris. She looked around and saw miles of forest cleared. It was a miracle that she survived. Her environmental catsuit has tears in various places, and she had open cuts as well. Joilee 3000 terabytes of data from the Oldumare and recalibrated the satellite to scan for the energy signature of the weapon that destroyed The Oldumare.