Starbound: A Space Odyssey

After dumping all his Crystal Erchius Fuel at a reasonable place away from the facility, John and Lenny returned to the building and cautiously found an open door so that they could enter.

With the white pistol on his hand and a flashlight on the other, John illuminated their path on those completely dark corridors.

While slowly walking, they saw bloodstains in the ground and wall, corroded holes in the floor and bullet holes all around them.

It was sight that showed the battle that happened in such place.

But there not a single sight of a body.

John was feeling strange as they walked deeper into the facility.

The closer they got to the Overseer's office in the middle of the facility, more signs of the fight were present around them.

They were following the fastest route they found by taking a look at the maps they found around.

After taking a look at the map, John became doubtful that this building was a simple mining facility. The doubts came after seeing how the facility's layout pretty much resemble the standard layout of prisons.

Looking back, John remembered the big fences around the facility and this pretty much confirmed that this place wasn't an usual Mining Facility, but something more, something that apparently Letheia was trying to hide.

"Stop." Lenny stretched his arm in front of John.

"What is it?" John asked while reading his gun.

"Look." Lenny pointed in front of them with his flashlight.

John saw what Lenny wanted him to see as soon as the flashlight focused on that specific spot.

It was a body, a pink humanoid body.

"Moontant..." John's face became grim, "There an Erchius Horror in this moon."

"Probably, but I don't so." Lenny said, "An Erchius Horror and an Erchius Ghost at the same planet? There might have been an Erchius Horror here, but I think it died, and most probably was killed by the Erchius Ghost. I don't know, just a hypothesis."

"It might be true. There's a lack of information about Erchius life forms such as Erchius Horror, Erchius Ghost and Moontants. Nonetheless, we must tread more carefully from here onwards."

...

After walking for a few minutes they finally reached the Overseer's Office.

On their way here, they found multiple bodies belonging to Moontants, but they were all dead bodies dropped on the floor.

There was Moontants, but no other type of body beside those pink monsters.

Once the door of the office was open with the combine effort of John and Lenny, they were greeted with the sight of a sparkling clean office, without a single bloodstain or bullet hole, like the situation outside.

The room was filled with computer screens and other technological devices, but what caught John's attention was the appearance of some of the devices.

John approached what appeared to be a fridge and opened it.

There some cans and other food inside.

John took a soda that was at the fridge's door and looked at it.

"Take a look at this." John approached Lenny that was also investigating the room.

"What? A BuzzCoke? What's so special about the soda?" Lenny confusedly glanced at the can in John's hands.

"No the soda in itself, here." John showed a few things written at the can, "Fabricated at the year 1748ATP. Do you see it now?"

"You were right." Lenny was shocked for a moment, "This soda is from 79 years ago..."

"Yes, this place was probably abandoned around 1669ATP." John put the can down at the Overseer's table in the middle of the room, "This mean that those spaceships out there came after this place was abandoned. They were crashed down by something or someone...I can only think of the Erchius Ghost."

John looked over the Overseer's table and saw the personal computer at the top, "We should not stay here for too long, let's get what we can and leave."

Lenny nodded his head in acknowledgement.

John crouched by the table and soon found the CPU of the computer.

Without hesitation he grabbed it and placed on top of the table.

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Lenny glanced at what John was doing and asked, "What are doing?"

"I'm going to take this computer's HD with me. There might be some info about what was happening here." John answered with a frown while he tried to figure out how to open the black box that was the CPU, "It's not like there's power in this abandoned facility after 70 years. Rather than finding a way to power up and take the information using my PIPS, is easier and faster to just take the HD with me. I just need to figure out how to open this thing..."

"Just crack it open with your dagger." Lenny said, "Is not like you want anything else beside the HD."

"You're right." John chuckled and took the dagger, the Dark Wraith, from his waist.

The blade easily cut through the steel box, and soon enough, John created a hole large enough for him to see the components inside.

He took the flashlight he placed over the table and illuminated the inside.

"I think is this..." With the dagger in one hand and the flashlight in the other, John retrieved the HD from inside the CPU.

"Let's go? This place is giving me a bad feeling." Lenny commented in a low tone.

"Yes, let's leave." John sheathed the dagger back and took the pistol on top of the table.

"Finally." Lenny gleefully said.

...

Back at John's spaceship.

Forge, Saito, John, Peri and Lenny were all at the Crafting Room.

John was closely watching as Forge connected the HD they found at the facility in her PIPS.

She tapped at the holographic screen in front her, trying to crack the security system in the HD, but she simply wasn't skilled enough.

"I just can't..." Forge shook her head and looked at John, "I have no experience in hacking or computer science. The security in this simple component is simply huge, there might be some pretty important information inside it."

John sighed, "Then we should find a specialist to crack the security measures..."

"I knew it wouldn't be that easy." Lenny casually said as he drank a mouthful of alcohol that he got from God knows where.