Dark Between Oceans

Survival is just the beginning. Being a ship kid is meant to be easy; cruise around the galaxy, explore a few planets, chart some asteroid belts, race cargo palettes through the ship’s freight system. It’s all fun and games until we stumble across an alien wreck, that’s when I’m kicked out of stasis/sleep to find my home under attack, my friends being eaten. I try to save them, but all I do is make things worse. And now... now I’m floating in an escape pod, the power fading, the cold invading my bones. Alone. Waiting to die. But there are worse things than death. And they’re coming for me.