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Mission Log: Daily Status Report Inbox:0/0
User: 0005424-C Connection: Unconnected
Location: Unknown Sector
Time: 45:00

Navigation and the technical team have informed me that we are in an unknown region of space. All attempts to triangulate our location have failed; all signals sent have failed to make contact. Even now as I'm writing this briefing our systems show no connection to base, so I am unsure if HQ will receive this. I intend to save this message for posterity and re-forward when connection has been established.

There was an major error with our IDD coordinates due to a rapid spike in the radiation levels of an asteroid 1,000 clicks within our radial vector. Main systems and life-support are still operational, all damage reports are negative.

Tech Lead Niyar has evidence to suggest the energy from the asteroid kinetically charged our power cells to amplify the IDD's course, and that we are an immeasurable distance from any catalogued constellation.

After being presented with the data, I've concluded that we have only two logical plans of action. We must find a planet with the components to recharge our power cells in order to make multiple IDD jumps until we reach familiar territory, or locate the asteroid that boosted our power and jump to our previous coordinate in one go.

I have instructed my crew to work on locating the object as well as a suitable planet for components and supplies. The attachment I've included is our last known coordinates and the coordinates we attempted to travel to, in hopes you can project a direction to send search and rescue vessels.

Message Delivery Failed. . .



The ringing in his ears became unbearable, as he was hunched over on the ground grasping his head. He knew covering his ears would accomplish nothing, but the pain pierced through reason and all he was left with was instinct. His shoulders and arms began to burn with exertion as he pressed his hands against his ears with all the strength he had. It grew louder. He fell to his side, rolling over to his back just before his entire body went numb. Hands falling to his sides he lay there in silent torment as the only thing he could feel was the pain in his head.

What is happening to me, he thought as his eyes darted in every direction. Unable to close his eyes or move his body, it was the only thing he could do to cope with the pain.

. . .Never fails, he heard himself think, every time I get a haircut some bullshit happens to me. He tried to remember the last time he had gotten a haircut, as if to prove to himself he was right, but he couldn't. Was he losing his memory?

Baseball. Yeah, that's right. He started to remember. He was walking home from baseball practice. They had been playing into the night, when the coach called the game and sent them home. He had stopped walking when he noticed a strange star in the sky. Not only was it bright neon-green, but it was twice the size of the surrounding stars. And growing larger by the second. He remembered that he was going to record this unusual star on his phone, but before he could the ringing had started. His eyes looked over to his side, and he saw his phone on the sidewalk screen-down. Everything was bathed in green light, as his eyes shifted from his phone to the sky in a frantic search of the source. It wasn't hard to find.

It had grown to four times the size of the moon, which had been full that night but now completely hidden by the electric green sun in the skyline. Although the light was almost blinding, he found that looking directly at it didn't hurt his eyes, and he realized that the ringing had almost gone away now. And also he felt. . . cold. He could move now! Relief washed over him as he sat up, and zipped up his jacket with shaking hands before shoving them in his pockets. Eyes fixed on the phenomenon above, his mind raced with a thousand questions. What was that thing? What just happened to him? Was this thing the cause of this episode? He had never had any type of problems like this before. Never had a seizure, or experienced anything like that ringing thing before. Hell, he's never even passed out before. It must've been this thing that caused it, there was no other answer that could've made sense.

His legs felt wobbly as he stood after what seemed like hours, reaching over to retrieve his phone on the way up. Whatever this thing was, it was heading straight for the city, and he had no idea what that could mean. This is the end, he thought to himself. We're goin' out just like the dinosaurs.

Nah, that ain't gonna happen. He heard himself reply in his mind, but it wasn't something he thought. He felt panic slowly build up his spine to the back of his neck as his identity began to split into different voices.

Well, whatever's happening, it's not gonna be good. I gotta get out of here before that thing hits the city!

What about the people? What about my parents! I gotta go warn them before it's too late! He argued in his mind as the voices of his true self became departmentalized into their own personas.

There's no time, that thing's gonna level the city before I even get close. The panic that was seizing control melted away into a sea of euphoria, a feeling like he had never before experienced in his life. It was like that feeling when you are almost at the brink of a major realization, as if he was so close to understanding something so profound that he knew it would change everything he had ever known forever. It was this feeling that took over now, as ten voices chattering away became 100 and that became even more. The symphony of madness danced in his head as the massive orb in the sky exploded outwards as if the atmosphere burst it like a water balloon. He saw the wave of energy streak out in all directions stretching into the horizon, as all the lights in the city began to die - starting at where the impact would have been and reaching out all the way to and passed him, just before he felt the gust of hot air crash into him. Stumbling backwards, his euphoria turned into vertigo as the world went black.