The story of Hermes Solaris

[Ant]

Part 2
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"Mr Solaris, Sir, can you move?"

The face of a worried looking woman looks down on him.

"what? Yes I think I'm alright"

"That's good. Your vital signs are better. I'm Doctor Neess by the way.", she passes over a glass of water.
"Better get your fluids up again, You've been out for a while".

"What happened? how did I get here?".

"We're not really sure what happened. Everyone else on the base is dead as far as we can tell. You were picked up by a scheduled shuttle that we had on the shopping list, as planned...so you ended up here, above Gran Canaria in a Coalition command ship.

She looks around for a moment as though worried about something. "It looks like some kind of fast acting plague. Strangely, we couldn't find anything unusual in the air samples...
"We can find no trace of anything out of the ordinary in your tissue samples, and a full scan has detected nothing.
"We're still in quarantine here, which explains the force fields around the area.
"Still, you'd better get your head around your new orders. We live in a very different place out here. Here's your new terminal card.
"Quarantine should be done in a few hours...and I believe you have a new command waiting for you...Commodore."