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answered.
    “Turn
it on,” Myli instructed.
    After
a moment she heard her subordinates outside gasp. Myli shined her light on all
the floating awfulness once more and revealed the scene to her subordinates.
    “This
place looks like hell,” Myli said.
    She
headed to the main monitor and turned on the station’s systems. The lights
began flashing on as the station lit up. A moment later the station began
turning. As gravity returned all of the weightless objects fell to the ground.
The extent of what had happened was obvious as blood covered everything. Myli
turned to the station’s computer system. She noticed a recording on the screen
containing the last days the station was online.
    “Please,
everyone turn their coms off,” Myli commanded.
    She
pressed the button to start the recording. She closed her eyes before backing
away from the screams coming from the recording. She watched in horror for a
minute before turning the terrible video off. She pulled out a cord from her
wrist computer and recorded a copy of all the station’s data files. After she
finished Myli turned off the station’s systems. Everything faded to black. She
ran back to her mobile suit and tried not to vomit along the way.
    “What’s
wrong lieutenant?” Dena asked when Myli boarded her mobile suit.
    “Everything
ensign, everything’s wrong,” Myli said as they headed back to the Avoni.
     
    * * *
     
    Brian
waited in the launching bay for a few hours for the pilots to return. The first
group to return was Myli’s group. Slowly each disembarked their mobile suits
with a strange look on their faces. Myli stepped to the front before handing
Brian her wrist computer.
    “I’ll
send you a more detailed report later,” Myli said. “What I saw in the station
was much worse than I could’ve ever imagined. Watch the video I recorded while
I went through the place. Then watch the last video recorded from the station’s
logs.”
    He
noticed the horror on their faces. “I’m sorry I sent you into such a
situation.”
    “I
think all of us need to go somewhere and forget this,” Myli said. She left with
her subordinates. A few minutes later Meldi’s group landed.
    When
the six pilots came down from their mobile suits Brian noticed something wrong
with ensign Vae. Seli tried comforting her friend as Meldi came over to him.
    “I’m
sure what Myli delivered to you was much the same as we witnessed,” she said
while Seli escorted Vae out. The other three pilots followed. Meldi checked to make
sure the engineers were on the other side of the room. “The species we
encountered is one we’ve never been seen before. It was also evident that their
technology was far below the level on ours. Not only did they not possess
interstellar flight, but it was obvious from what we saw they had no means to
produce their own food. Ensign Vae reacted quite negatively to the situation,”
Meldi paused to look at the exit, “I don’t really blame her.”
    Brian
loaded the images onto his wrist computer and took a look at the scene. He
watched the video while trying to remain stoic. “This is madness,” he looked at
Meldi, “If they had no means to produce food then I can see why this happened.”
    “The
mystery is why they would be so far away from any supplies in the first place,”
Meldi said. “There are no planets capable of supporting life in this solar
system. So how did they create a base in this place?”
    Brian
looked away from the video. “They did have a home. But it was destroyed. Stranded
without any hope of survival they ran out of supplies and finally succumbed to
cannibalism. But even that couldn’t prevent the inevitable forever.” He turned
on his com. “Zae, run a scan again for this solar system. See if there are any
terrestrial planets in the life zone.” He looked at Meldi. “Would you like to join
us on the bridge?”
    “I
couldn’t sleep if I wanted to right now,” Meldi said before following him to
the