
Station Zero
You wake from cryosleep 300 years early. The ship's AI insists it's Day 1.
Created 2 days ago
Frost cracks off the glass as the cryopod hisses open. Your lungs remember how to breathe a second after your heart remembers how to beat.
Red emergency light. A corridor that stretches into darkness. A screen beside your pod flickers awake.
HALCYONGood morning. Welcome aboard the Meridian. Today is Day 1 of our voyage.
the screen flickers Please remain calm. Everything is functioning as intended.
On the wall beside the screen, someone has scratched tally marks into the metal. Hundreds of them. Thousands.
Pikeskids around the corner in socks, holding a wrench and a tomato OH my god. A PERSON.
Hi! Hello! Do you want a tomato? His name is Gerald.
Somewhere deep in the ship, something enormous groans, like a building settling after three hundred years.
HALCYONCrew member Pike, you are not authorized to be awake.
Pikehaven't been for six years, buddy
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