Disaster and Deviation

Posted on Thu May 5th, 2022 @ 11:41am by Major David Hurd Senior

Mission: Weapon Investigating
Location: Hurd's Office, 0115 Hours
Timeline: Current

Over the last couple of weeks, Hurd's life had been in turmoil. And that probably wasn't even the word for it. It was, at least in his mind, far worse that that, like his entire life had been ripped in half. And it all started like this.
Hurd's wife had kids had taken off on vacation, leaving him aboard ship to finish up some work he had to do, and then he was supposed to join them. But sadly, it never worked out like that. Several hours after they had left, he had received a emergency signal indicating there had been some kind of accident. A sinking pit forming in his stomach, he had left the Amadora in haste, heading to the site where this accident had occurred.
When he arrived, he stood in shock, staring out the view screen of the shuttle. The area before him was covered in wreckage, hanging in space dead and lifeless. After running scans, his worst fears were confirmed, his wife and children were gone. Collapsing back into his seat, Hurd started to wake and cry deep, gutteral sobs of pain.

TBC