Ship’s log, Commander Purpleen. Following the SOS signal, we came across a drifting technical ship. Inside, we found no signs of life, only six incomplete bodies, three of which were not in the ship’s morgue. Despite careful analysis, we did not find any recordings, except for a private diary of one of the crew members. Maybe decoding it will reveal what happened on board the Sugnom SUS?
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Data corrupted, decryption completed at 87% … Play recording?
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Day four hundred and thirty-six from the start of the mission, engineer Blueman’s logbook:
How is it that after months in hibernation, a person still wants to lie down in the proverbial “five more minutes”? Nevertheless, the awakening took place much too soon, the air delivery systems are not yet as efficient as they should be, so outside of private rooms we have to move around in suits. It’s fucking inconvenient, but what to do? Nevertheless, the premature recovery procedure is always a bad thing. The ship is said to have detected a lot of damage and errors. For now, we are to acclimatize and remind the muscles of what it means to act. Greensky is to prepare a list of works necessary to restore all components to full working order tomorrow. The worst part is that the coffee machine doesn’t work either. Damn it. Fortunately, the toilets and gravity are fine. The only thing missing is the flying g …
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Day two after premature awakening, engineer Blueman’s logbook:
Greensky must be completely crazy with these tasks! We are nine people, and each has a litany of things to do. Broken cables, communication problems between components, damaged switches … If it weren’t for the fact that we are in space, I would consider it a massive marten attack. But what exactly happened here? In my tasks, I have to manually transfer data, maybe I’ll find out something along the way. I also wonder where did so many leaves come from in the turbines?
Day three from premature awakening, Blueman’s logbook:
Unfortunately, some of the data that I was transferring between computers was irreparably corrupted, so we still don’t know what happened. In addition, I was delegated to the on-board gun. Cursed asteroids with no autocannon are …
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Day four from premature awakening, Blueman’s logbook.
What the hell is going on here? Not only has the light turned on three times today, someone has also found dead Orangeel! Something had cut him in half, and worse, his upper body was nowhere to be found! Mother, why the hell was he getting into this machinery? After all, everything worked there! Yellona promised to record bad news for his parents. For now, however, we do not have communication, so they will not find out soon about their son’s death …
Day Five From Premature Awakening, Engineer Blueman’s log.
Another body! Mother, it happened again! Poor Brownson, we found him incomplete too. Just what the hell cut him up in the electrics management room? Worse still, Dr. Cobwhite made it clear that Orangeel was not killed by the machinery because there were no signs of tragedy on it! Pinker believes that cosmic evil is among us! Normally, I would scold him for being overly imaginative, because he’s a B-class fucking geek, but what if he’s right? After all, there is no way to rationally explain it! I don’t think I will fall asleep today …
Day six from premature awakening, Blueman’s logbook.
The tension in the current situation began to spread to everyone. Everyone looks around nervously every now and then, everyone is afraid of being next. Worse, we started to suspect each other. Anyway, Greensky was following me so strangely that it was hard not to feel the chills down my back. Plus this sudden engine failure… Besides, I noticed that the air vents are loose. Does it matter or is it just my imagination?
Day Seven From Premature Awakening, Blueman’s logbook .
People started bouncing! Today, Neblacks convened a council in which he accused Greensky of being responsible for the deaths. I have confirmed that he has been acting weird around me lately, but that still doesn’t mean anything. Pinker shouted something about the virus and mutations, everyone started throwing accusations against others, a fight almost happened! In the end, this horror freak said that with this “cosmic evil” one of us and we have to throw him overboard. I called out it was crazy, Redward chimed in, but the others got excited. It fell on Greensky. Redward and I tried to stop them, but we couldn’t. Poor fellow doomed to die in a vacuum … God, forgive them if they are wrong …
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… this introduction and the murderer’s mother. You bastard! He had two children! Are you satisfied with yourself? Glad?! Poor Neblacks, he ended up like Orangeel and Brownson. The first time I encountered a corpse, instead of the upper parts of the body, there was only a protruding bone, impaled from another part, as if this death was some sick ritual … I was so shaken that I could not do anything … Doc and Yellon couldn’t stand it, they sent him to meet Greensky. I wanted to take off my helmet and just choke myself. Had it not been for Redward’s comforting words, I would have probably done so… Today I am unlikely to fall asleep, just like the last time. I don’t know if any of us can narrow our eyes at all …
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Dear God! It’s Redward! It was Redward all along! Or rather, it’s something pretending to be Redward! We were with Yellon and Cobwhit fixing the engine malfunction again, and this thing popped out of the vent, opened a huge mouth all over her belly, and a sharp tentacle pierced the doctor’s head! We stood dead, but when the monster split the body in one snap and ate the top of the body along with the suit, we ran like crazy! Yellon was keeping pace with me, but the damn thing got her! I was too scared to stop, her scream stopped so quickly … God, it’s only a matter of time before she finds me! I ripped off the railing, I won’t give up without a fight. I just hope … What’s that? Oh no! Ventilation! God no! No.
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ATTENTION! Damage to life support systems has been detected, wear protective clothing as soon as possible!
ATTENTION! Damage detected in the electricity management room!
ATTENTION! Damage to automatic handling of deck guns has been detected!
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