The year is 2099. Humanity has expanded beyond our planet and people now reside on either Earth, or one of the handful of colonies spread throughout our solar system. Floating in space between these colonies, a space prison formally known as the M.S. Locke Facility houses inmates who have been given the ultimate sentence, although in lieu of execution, these individuals undergo cryosleep for an unknown period of time. The majority of the prisoners' stay in the facility boils down to their containment in a personal pod, and they are only taken out when they are a match to a patient, either on Earth or one of the sister colonies, in dire need of a transplant. Essentially, the inmate's life doesn't end without purpose as they give up bodily integrity to afford the recipient a second chance at life.
Unfortunately, disaster struck when the most recent team of doctors on rotation aboard the facility were prepping an inmate for said procedure. The undetected virus which had infected the inmate at some point in his life had an adverse reaction to the main cryosleep drug. The virus mutated, and an alarming growth occurred when the inmate was once more exposed to oxygen. It was then chaos ensued as the inmate started to come to his senses. He felt the deadly pain throughout his body, begging and screaming at the team of professionals around him to do something. They scrambled to sedate him, although not before he threw up blood on one of the doctors, the same one whose skin had been scratched in the struggle, exposing her to the virus.
A few minutes later, she too was dead. It didn't take long for the remaining team to call for an emergency evacuation, and in a matter of hours the small group of doctors were en route to Earth, along with the two corpses.
Presently, with no staff onboard the M.S. Locke to run routine checks, the inmates have slowly started to wake up...
Unfortunately, disaster struck when the most recent team of doctors on rotation aboard the facility were prepping an inmate for said procedure. The undetected virus which had infected the inmate at some point in his life had an adverse reaction to the main cryosleep drug. The virus mutated, and an alarming growth occurred when the inmate was once more exposed to oxygen. It was then chaos ensued as the inmate started to come to his senses. He felt the deadly pain throughout his body, begging and screaming at the team of professionals around him to do something. They scrambled to sedate him, although not before he threw up blood on one of the doctors, the same one whose skin had been scratched in the struggle, exposing her to the virus.
A few minutes later, she too was dead. It didn't take long for the remaining team to call for an emergency evacuation, and in a matter of hours the small group of doctors were en route to Earth, along with the two corpses.
Presently, with no staff onboard the M.S. Locke to run routine checks, the inmates have slowly started to wake up...
