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The original was posted on /r/hfy by /u/Justanotherfluffy on 2024-04-09 17:34:00.

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In pilots training there is one thing you never forget.

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In survival training there is one thing you never forget.

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In the military academy there is one thing you never forget.

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Dont panic.

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Tearing my eyes open i can already tell that everything was wrong, dead crewmates and officers strewn about the bridge. The electrical’s flailing about with sparks. The smell of burning flesh. The sound of whatever surviving equipment failing. The numbing feeling in my appendages.

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And all i can think about.

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Is how cold it is.

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And with an instant everything fades away as my lower ambulatories blind me with an intense pain, i look down to see im trapped by a metal beam that has impaled me. The purple blood from my ambulatory slowly oozing out of the wound.

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I look around me in an attempt to find anything to stop the bleeding, only to find one of my upper appendages has melted with the interface infront of me. Panic drives me stupid as i rip the appendage off the metal in moment of shear terror, as it leaves a good 2 inch chunk of flesh behind on the console. I stop and take a moment to calm myself.

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How the hell did this even happen. It took less than 5 seconds for us to go from a routine system scan to crash landing on an alien planet 12light years from the nearest explored system. And another 48 from the nearest station.

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I guess it doesnt really matter how. Atleast not right now. What matters now is how im going to get out of this mess. Looking around me i find im at the nav console, Dal ‘Anak is dead 2ft infront of me. Poor fellow mustve been flung into the wall during the crash. The console infront of me is blaring red with something. “Danger. Reactor meltdown in 30 minutes. Please engage safe guards immediately”.

Oh so help me lords above.

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Panic begins to flood my mind as i look around me to try and figure a way to remove the mangled metal from my lower ambulatory. Better yet. To stop the bleeding if i do remove it. I find the emergency aid kit on the side of the console infront of me and dig through it to find something to help. How i wish i hadnt skipped med training now. I finally find some thermal cauterizers and a numbing injector. Popping the cap and stabbing the injector into my lower ambulatory i slowly try to pull it off the beam. Removing it might be the dumbest thing i could possibly do right now, but time and space leave me no choice as i pull out my lower ambulatory from the metal beam i rush to cauterize the wound to prevent me from bleeding out, with purple blood soaking my appendages i slowly pull myself away from the seat.

There has to be other survivors.

I move to try and find the captains console only discover a badly mangled machine. With no other choice i must exit the ship. Calling out to any other survivors. Limping out into the hallway outside of the bridge is like seeing a scene from a bad terror vid. Only instead of laughing at the clearly fake blood and the lame attempt at a scare with a gory scene. Instead its real blood with real body parts and real guts. The scene wrenches my guts and i turn to expunge my stomach contents. I quickly head in the opposite direction of that horrific scene to try and find somebody or an exit.

The halls and rooms seem to blend together as destroyed plating and unfortunate crewmates litter the ship. Nobody has responded back to me despite calling out more times than i can count. I suddenly happen upon….. natural light? I slowly limp my way towards the opening and im suddenly blinded with the sight of a vast endless landscape of tall needle like plant-life covering the hills dotted with imposing mountains and all coated in a thick layer of frozen water.

I push myself to exit the ship through the clear cut hole in the ship. And trek a small distance before turning around and seeing the ship in its current state i freeze in horror at the shear destruction that has occur.

The HVSS Distant Horizons corpse lays split in two across this desolate landscape, on an alien world.