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Echos of Dispair
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The crew of the UNS Odyssey stared in silence as the barren planet loomed larger in their viewport. Captain Mara Ruiz couldn’t shake the cold dread that had settled in her gut since they received the distress signal—a garbled, nearly incoherent message from the UNS Horizon, a mission that had been declared lost five years ago. Their landing was rough, the planet’s unstable atmosphere buffeting the