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Tue 5th Jul 2022 01:27

Dhaab 2

by Khadyr Sabah

Nothing was going easy on this trip, and something told me our mission was just starting. We had to go to Dhaab 2 in order to get the system up and running again. We had tw0 option. One was by foot, using the tunnel, and the other was by snow crawler. We chose the latter. We had to move the snow crawler over a small road through the canyon. Shamus drove the crawler and of course we got stuck in the snow. How he ever got is drivers licence let alone his pilot's license is beyond me. It took some effort to get the snow crawler back on the road again. After that we helped Shamus navigate so we would get stuck again. We ran into an abandoned snow crawler parked on the side of the road stuck into the snow. Because of the fierce conditions, the blizzard still ravaging, we decided to move on and let the abandoned snow crawler be.
 
After a few hours we arrived at Dhaab 2 and disembarked at the garage. To our suprise we found out that dr. Farra wasn't with us. For some reason he apparently stayed behind on Dhaab 1. But there was no time to dwell on that, we had to move on and find the mainframe. Before we left for Dhaab 2 Dr. Farra gave Armand a copy of Dhaab 2 station on his tabula. When we walked on the station appeared to be abandoned. It looked like everybody had tried to leave the station in a hurry. There was garbage, boxes and suitcases all over the place. We also saw unreadable scribblings on some of the containers and also on a Zero G shuttle. We saw two man inside. Armand end Anjil went inside to find out that the two man were dead. According to the information on Armand's tabula the scribbling had something to do with DNA sequences on atomic level.

Talking to Moses Umbara about what happened on Dhaab 2, he told us the station was in the same state as they found it. To our surprise he also said that if we wanted more information we should talk to Anjil. Turned out that Anjil was a member of the Red Hyena's and worked for Moses. How was that possible. Well there was no time to get into that. We had to press on. Armand found the way to the control room and after starting up the reactor, the mainframe came to live again and so did the power. Shamus, not a very good pilot but an excellent datajin, found in the stations logs that Dhaab 2 was flooded with a type of radiation called The Shanzidar Sequence, and causes to kill all organic matter. No wonder everyone wanted to get off the base in such a hurry.
 
We also wanted to leave but found out that the conditions outside were to horrid. Because of the blizzard the temperature outside now dropped to -100 Celsius. Because only I was rugged, it was to risky for the rest to go outside. We decided to wait out the storm. In the meantime we could check the rest of the station. We went through the airlock to entered the Laboratory. The Laboratory was empty and nothing of value was left. When Shamus got cose to the airlock he suddenly fell ill. I did find a strange object. When I approached it, it suddenly came alive. It contained some sort of hologram of a scientists called Timon Gehmet. He was trapped in this hologram, but told us some interesting things about the station.
 
At the station they worked for a man called Borna Jalet to create a medicine that could cure all diseases. But that wasn't enough. He wanted to make something that made a person a invincible fighting machine, the perfect soldier. This led to the production of a serie of nanites. Timon Gehmet said that Shamus got sick because he was infected with these nanites. Probably it was a mild infection, with no consequences. Probably ..... what if Shamus turned into an invincible fighting machine.... I shook of these thoughts and listened futher to what Timon Gahmet was telling us. He was very eminent that these nanites should never leave this planet an should be destroyed.
 
I decides to search the laboratory some more. Maybe we could find out more about what happened here. I suddenly had the feeling that that I was being watched. As I turned around I saw two bended figures looking at me. When I tried to look at them closer they disappeared quickly.
 
We searched the system further and found that the nanites are practically indestructible. Timon put in a fail-safe. An injection that could kill the nanites. Looking through the files we also came across a photo of Borna Jelet. Wtf.... we stared right into the face of ...... Dr. Yussuf Farra.
 
We went back to the snow crawler to get some sleep and wait out the blizzard. Hoping and praying that when we wake up Shamus was still his old self.