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Jesus Christ, it’s out. I don’t know why it went, but it spilled into the airlock and I hit the seal. Fuck. It’s not even…. I can’t believe I’m even.. still here. Ok. Shit. Let’s make this official. This is second mate Byron Tindler of the salvage ship Carrion’s Pass. We all came out of stasis two - was it fucking TWO, Jesus Christ - two days ago to the breach alarm. Standard procedure is to wake the bridge crew and primary engineers, but half of them were already dead. Whatever this thing is, whatever breached the hull, it… fucking ate them. God…. There was only scraps and blood left in the tubes.

I came to with klaxons blaring on the pod deck. People were running past, but I was still a little lagged from the hyper-V. I guess that saved me, because the captain, flight engineer… they all sped off towards the lift. That’s where it was waiting. I don’t know what it is.

There’s a lot of random shit out in the vacuum, and plenty of it will kill you outright. Whatever this is, it’s not only solid, but it seems to have a… will. You run into rocks out here, and some of it carries some nasty stuff, especially in the shipping lanes. But this…. It moves. It knew to look for us.

Whatever. We didn’t know what was going on. At first, it seemed like the breach was IN the lift, but then it came out of there and… fuck. It just sort of grabbed Lt. Kinney’s shoulder and squeezed until her arm separated from the rest of her. She screamed…. The shock wore off long enough to start running. I’ve been without shoes or a jumper. There’s blood everywhere. Shit. Ok, I’m ok.

I can hear it outside now. It’s banging on the hull. I’m not sure how it got in in the first place. It could just be a matter of time until it figures that out. I need to get the power back to the pod deck; see if anyone’s still alive. I gotta get a message out. I have to seal however that thing got in here…

Day 2. Salvage ship Carrion’s Pass, second mate Byron Tindler reporting.

Ironically, one of the best places to hide on the ship seems to be the bridge. There’s only one way in, and it’s the most protected physical space in the ship. I realized this while I configured the distress beacon to fire on a regular interval. Who knows how long we’ll be out here in the void before someone comes for us.

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