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Station Escape
An ACK-3D Demonstration
Slowly, ever so slowly, your eyes begin to focus as you awaken from the cold
sleep of cryogenic freeze. Every muscle in you body is screaming at you to stay
right where you are, but you know you need to move around to get the circulation
started. You shiver as your body temperature rises above freezing back into the
normal range for the living. Your head still hasn't cleared but it seems that
something is amiss. Nobody is here, at least in the field of vision you care
to try and see. Rubbing your neck you begin looking around the cryogenic lab.
Nothing, nobody, nowhere. Odd, the entire thawing process must have been
done by the central computer, but why? And then you hear it. The station's
alarm klaxon sounding the evacuation tone. Still groggy, you remember the
briefing before you went into freeze, "Should the station require evacuation,
the computer will automatically bring everyone out of frozen sleep."
Great, now you knew why you were awake and why nobody else was around. But
what the hell was going on! Why was the station being evacuated and why didn't
somebody at least stay to make sure the thawing process was okay?
AND WHY DOESN'T SOMEBODY SHUT OFF THAT ALARM! Your head was now throbbing to
every pulse from the klaxon, contributing to the overall feeling of someone
placing your head into a vise. Then, just as you felt like screaming, the
alarm silenced.
With renewed energy you begin making your way to the main shuttle bay, the
only means of escape from the orbiting space station. The corridors are empty
as you trudge along, still not fully recovered. Walking up to a computer
terminal, you stare at the writing scrolling off the screen.
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EVACTUATE.....EVACUATE.....EVACUATE
All hands are ordered to evacuate the
station immediately. Orbital decay is
emminent. Shuttle Two is standing by
for boarding.....
EVACTUATE.....EVACUATE.....EVACUATE
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What! Orbital decay? What in blue blazes is going on! The next screen stops
you cold and sends a shiver down your spine......
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Shuttle Two away. All shuttles
launched. Beginning station shutdown
according to evactuation protocol.
Shuttle Five non-operational and
left in shuttle bay.
Station will enter upper layer
of atmosphere in
2 Hrs, 0 Min, 23 Sec
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And then, while you read and reread the screen, the computer shuts the
terminal down and leaves you staring at nothing but static. ALL SHUTTLES
LAUNCHED replays itself in your mind over and over as your gaze falls from
the meaningless static of the screen down to the cold metal floor at your feet.
All shuttles, except for a non-operational number Five.
Slowly you look up and realize that you had to get to that shuttle, and you
had only two hours to do it or you might as well crawl back into your cold tube
and drift off into endless sleep.
A noise brings you out of your dreamy stupor. What was it? Are you really
alone here on the station? Now that you thought about it, didn't you notice
there were still people in the cryo-tubes? Should you wake them up or go on
alone? Why weren't they awakened as part of the evacuation proceedure? What
made the station go out of orbit? What if the parts needed for the shuttle
were not available?
Turning around, you begin to scan the cold metal walls of the station....
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Station Escape pits you against the clock in a race to try and repair the
one remaining shuttle before it's too late. Parts for the shuttle are available
if you can find them and get them to the shuttle bay to make repairs. You later
find that general mayhem occurred during the evacuation and certain systems are
not functioning quite like they should. In fact they seem to be trying to keep
you from your goal of escaping. Is there more going on than meets the eye?
Lary Myers
76004,1574 (CIS account)