Planet D472, System B435
"Hey! Geraldo! Look at this!" Dr. Nicole Remmington called out to her colleague. He came running over to her.
"What?" He asked and nicole pointed her flash light at the wall.
"Ever seen anything like this before?" She asked him.
"No, you?" He replied.
"I saw something like it in school, it was said to be some ancient script of a race of aliens that supposedly created man kind. Like some sort of gods or something. I thought it to be a bunch of nut-case bull shit." She said.
"You never know... The universe used to be so full of life but now its so desolate." Geraldo said. "Do you think you could read this?"
"Possibly... It would take me a few hours to decode though. We should just make a note of it and keep going." She said, then continued to walk deeper into the the cave. Nicole shined the flash light on the ground, thats when she noticed something odd about it. It rock below looked to be chemically eroded. "Geraldo, look at this." He stopped and walked over to see what she was looking at.
"It looks like it was eroded away by some sort of chemical." He said.
"Yeah, exactly. Any idea as to why that is?" She asked him.
He shook his head and said "Havent a clue, lets just keep going."
"Right," She said with a quick nod.
The cave they walked in was a perfect circle and the sides were completely smooth. No doubt this was done by some other life force. They walked forty yards or so when they came across a large crater. The murky grey light that was filtered by the thick atmosphere leaked in through the darkness and spread out across the grey desolate landscape. Huge rocks jutted up around the crater and continued forward in paralell lines.
"Looks like an impact crater, looks like we're going to have to slide down." Geraldo said and stepped down. He slid down the side with his arms out to keep his balance. Nicole went right after he did and almost ran in to him at the bottom. Fortunately he jumped to the side before the two could collide. "Jesus Nicole! Watch it!"
"Sorry!" She exclaimed.
"Come on. Lets go." He said waving his hand and turning to go toward the center of the crater. The huge rocks that jutted up from around the crater look like sky-bound spirals with the same if not similar scriptures they saw on the sides of the cave earlier.
While Nicole was marveling at the rocks Geraldo said, "Nicole... I think you may want to look at this..."
Nicole walked up behind him and asked "Wha... My god..." Her eyes widened as she looked upon it. Something that looked like a large stone gate. It towered over them ominously standing as tall as forty feet in the air. Blood red scriptures like that on the rocks and on the sides of the cave were etched into the dark black stone.
"We need to report this back to the colony." Nicole said.
"Right." replied Geraldo.
3 weeks later, USS Valkyrie
"Its been a week since we picked up the artifact and about a week after the colony discovered it is when everything went down hill. The murders, the suicides, everything! Something isnt right about this captain..." Constantine said to the captain. He didnt appear to be listening, more like spacing out.
"Why are you so concerned about it, Miss Constantine? I thought you were supposed to worry about the ship and nothing more."
"Sir, My concern is about the well being of the Valkyrie and the crew alike. Something isnt right about this whole operation..." She said.
"And what are you suggesting, Miss Constantine?" He asked staring at the holographic monitors around the bridge.
"We need to shut this whole operation down, the planet crack, everything." Constantine said darkly. The captain chuckled and pushed up his glasses.
"Miss Constantine, go back to your post. And I dont want to here about this again, do you understand?" He said. He stared at him angrily with out answering then turned to walk out of the bridge.
"Fuck you very much." She murmured.
"Excuse me Miss Constantine, did you say something?" The captain asked. She just ignored him and walked out of the bridge and back to the officers barracks.
