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Percival Phoenix and the Strangers from Afar
From the surface of a small planet, uninhabited by any sentient life and given only a cursory name by a single deep space exploration team before they moved on to chart bigger, more study-worthy phenomena, a signal pulsed forth at intervals. Like the heart of a hibernating animal, it was faint, slow, and unheard. For many years, it waited.
Until one day, by chance, a large ship, itself possessed with a kind of strange, alien life, found itself within range of that heartbeat.
Saturnus IV was a planet that supported life, though none of the sentient variety; animals roamed its forests, plants grew lush and green. But the area that the signal had emanated from was in the middle of one of its largest strips of barren land -- a place where little grew but scrubby alien brush, and little moved but small, unimposing invertebrates.
It was this vast expanse of rock and sandy soil that the away team would be sent to investigate.
[If the current thread consists of more than 3 or 4 people, don't sweat the order too much and just post as it makes sense. Feel free to make up details about the holosimulation setting, like... idk, lizards or alien skeletons.]
Until one day, by chance, a large ship, itself possessed with a kind of strange, alien life, found itself within range of that heartbeat.
Saturnus IV was a planet that supported life, though none of the sentient variety; animals roamed its forests, plants grew lush and green. But the area that the signal had emanated from was in the middle of one of its largest strips of barren land -- a place where little grew but scrubby alien brush, and little moved but small, unimposing invertebrates.
It was this vast expanse of rock and sandy soil that the away team would be sent to investigate.
[If the current thread consists of more than 3 or 4 people, don't sweat the order too much and just post as it makes sense. Feel free to make up details about the holosimulation setting, like... idk, lizards or alien skeletons.]
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The spider, meanwhile, had climbed up to Lash's elbow. Unconsciously, she gave it an idle tap or approval before continuing to look around. "And another thing! You two stop fighting right now and..." wait why was she ordering them around, she wasn't in charge at this mission. "..and I don't know just stop fighting it's making my ears bleed." Whaaaaat.
"Is anyone else getting really hot?" She took off her coat and slung it on the elbow that was currently spider-free. "I feel like a headache coming on."
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She actually couldn't finish that thought. Instead, she moved up past Lash, making sure to be on the non-spider riding side. "Look, we've got to hurry. Who knows what will be lurking out here after dark? It's not like I can ask any of you to save me, " she said, furrowing her brow a second after. Why had she said that?
"... Since you'd probably also be under attack and we'd all be occupied. Then I'll never make it home for dinner."
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In the instant before Zouichi's visual field went black, he pressed a small black button on the communicator in his hand, a perfect twin of the one he'd once given to Howard. A text-only communication.
Coordinates, and a single word:
NEUTRO