The Dead of Tomorrow

Player Characters
David 'Dai' Bush
Joseph Connelly
Isabella Everitts
Tadim 'Tac' Cromwell

As the moon travels through the farthest reaches of space it's current trajectory takes it through a red mist which does not conform with any known nebula.

In this Episode...

Dai wears a hat...	Isabel doesn't wear a hat...	And something blows up...

PC's are all in Main Mission, Isabel and Tac assisting Professor Bergman in trying to identify the composition of the Red Mist.

Commander Koenig "We will pass in the Red mist in two days time, we need more information. David, prepare Eagle 5 for immediate lift-off, I want your team to do a thorough scan of the mists, we need to know if there is any danger."

The crew of Eagle 5 shuttle to the Hanger Bay, and moments later Eagle 5 launches and proceeds to the edge of the mist.

Initial scans are inconclusive so Isabel launches a probe. Nothing.

To test any effect on organic matter Isabel launches a probe containing spore samples. After a while scans come back negative, but with an echo, as if there were two probes. To test this another probe is sent out, and like before a double signal is received back.

Dai then picks something up on the general scanners... it appears to be an Eagle!

After confirming with Paul Morrow at Main Mission that no other Eagle has been launched Dai attempts to remotely control the Eagle, and is successful, but is surprised that it appears to be Eagle 5, there own ship!

Commander Koenig advises caution, he suggests they board, but leaves final decisions to Tac.

Isabel suggests downloading the ships logs first, which they do.

Log entry...

Breakaway day 37
... Eagle 5 launched to investigate Red mist

... Scans reveal nothing of harm, Eagle 5 returns to Moonbase.

Breakaway day 40
... Eagle 5 launched to make planetfall with unknown planet that has appeared in the Red Mists.

Breakaway day 41
... Eagle 5 departs planet on return route to Moonbase Alpha

Breakaway day 43
... remote logs accessed.

Isabel "So this Eagle is ours from six days into the future."

Dai docks onto the future Eagle. Tac & Joseph done spacesuits and cautiously enter. The pod is empty, but appears just as it should. Joseph opens the cockpit door and sees the two pilots, Dai and Akiko, slumped in their seats, so immediately calls for Kai to come over.

As he turns around, so does Tac to be confronted by the horrific sight other themselves, all other crew of the Eagle 5, but their faces are withered and gaunt with age. The aged Tac reaches out, but Tac steps back.

Aged Tac "Necrosis... Necrosis..."

The aged crew members disappear!

Joseph "Necrosis... that is what the guy in the crashed pod on that asteroid said a couple of weeks ago."

Kai comes aboard, but the crew in the cockpit have also gone.

They all return to their own Eagle and start back to Moonbase, Kai remote piloting the second Eagle, but before they reach the moon the second Eagle vanishes. Upon reaching Moonbase Alpha they are ordered to remain in quarantine.

The following day several crew members, including Sandra Benes, witness their own twisted aged images. Sandra is extremely distressed and taken into Medical. As whatever is causes these beings to appear is obviously not contained the Eagle 5 crew are released back to normal duty.
 

As the day progresses more of these aged doppelgangers appear causing fear throughout Moonbase Alpha.

Isabel and Professor Bergman continue to analyse the data from the probes.

On the 3rd day since encountering the Red Mist the moon enters the mist. Tac and joseph are in main Mission when, as predicted by the Eagle logs, a planet is detected on the scanners.


To be continued...