Serenity. It was everywhere on this moon. From the smallest ice chip to the ray of one of the two stars. Azure, pink-tinged sky is very clear today, unusual clear – no a single floating cloud.
Hascosay - a world full of tranquility, but also of silent danger. Only madmen can try to conquer and colonize this icy world. For all its serenity, Hascosay kills with its icy breath anyone who lands on it. While the frozen ocean is nothing but a pure desert with arctic climate, a couple of not very large continents have complex mountain systems that include vertical cliffs, deep gorges, canyons, and underground labyrinths. Due to being a distant world in the Tau-61, Hascosay's equator couldn't change climatic conditions on the moon, but there are intense volcanic belts and geothermal hotspots that managed to melt ice and snow and increase the local temperature to make life there comfortable for the majority unexplored life beings.
Suddenly the serene sky was cut off by something that looked like a slowly falling meteor, but it wasn't a meteor, but an unfortunate “Sabre” that was shot down by Auxesian and Council pilot in the upper atmosphere. The ship was close enough to begin its descent through the atmosphere taken by gravity. The shield managed to take the friction of the atmosphere but was completely disabled because of the damage received in combat. The ship was rapidly approaching the surface, one of the canyons.
- Katya, hold tight! I will try to slow us down with vertical engines, but it's hard when the main ones don't work! - Leo shouted, trying to shout out the alarming sounds of the ship and rolling steering wheel in panic. - I don't want to become a pancake, do something! - Katya yelled back. - Dammit, we won't have time to break! I release the air breaks, - and Serre he frantically pressed a few keys, launching vertical engines that pilots use to control landing and takeoff from the surface, and several curved flaps made for breaking ship using air. The ship outside made an awful rude whistling and creaking sound. - Leo, I can see a canyon, over there! - Katya pointed a finger towards zigzag dark line on the surface, - This is our chance to buy few more seconds!
- I don't like this, but let's dive!
A minute later wounded and smoking “Sabre” approached the edge of the canyon actually slowing down. Just as the couple was getting excited about landing successfully, the ship hit a rock with its wing and completely broke its left wing making the ship roll like a barrel and fall down. The canyon was way deeper than it looked and the light from above was almost invisible as the bow of the ship pierced the icy bottom and fell into the cave, knocking all parts of the ship out.
Katya and Leo screamed with fear until they crashed into a stone wall, causing a rockfall behind them.