09-15-2024, 06:20 PM
==Hydish and Kiernan==
Unknown to the two officers, while they inspected the Life Support system, one of the pods had opened behind them. The occupant, groggy from hibernation but alerted to the intruders by their voices, had quietly stumbled from their pod and was moving towards them.
From behind, still unseen and until-then, unheard, a gruff voice spoke out in an authoritarian, if tired, voice.
"Step away from the machinery and put your hands up."
If the two turned, they would find themselves facing a Human male in his early fifties, with salt-and-pepper hair, a graying beard, and a 22nd-century plasma pistol levelled at them, finger resting on, but not tightening around, the trigger.
"Who are you, and what are you doing aboard my ship?"
Unknown to the two officers, while they inspected the Life Support system, one of the pods had opened behind them. The occupant, groggy from hibernation but alerted to the intruders by their voices, had quietly stumbled from their pod and was moving towards them.
From behind, still unseen and until-then, unheard, a gruff voice spoke out in an authoritarian, if tired, voice.
"Step away from the machinery and put your hands up."
If the two turned, they would find themselves facing a Human male in his early fifties, with salt-and-pepper hair, a graying beard, and a 22nd-century plasma pistol levelled at them, finger resting on, but not tightening around, the trigger.
"Who are you, and what are you doing aboard my ship?"