Everyone looks lighter and breathes deeper.Talking about breathing, I’m aware of how many days of oxygen we’ve lost on this engine repair. Now, we surely don’t have enough oxygen to complete the whole journey. So the question is, whether the journey will be cut short, or someone’s life will... In which case I’m pretty sure that I’ll be the first one to go. Unless of course the captain thinks that my knowledge and experience of the ETB-encounter might still hold value to him or the corporation... I can only speculate about what the captain is planning. So far, there have been no orders as to cutting the journey short.“Will you assist me on the planet like before?” Kurt looks out the window as we approach the pink planet.“Yes.” I feel a bit like a kamikaze pilot by volunteering.Then again, if the captain wants me gone, he’ll get me gone no matter if I stay on the ship or not. No point in hiding. Besides, I enjoyed the outing with Kurt on the asteroid the last time. This time it’s a planet, which is even more exciting.The closer we get, it becomes more and more obvious that there’s a thin sphere of gasses covering the entire surface of the planet.“Do you think there’s oxygen on the planet?”“From here, the surface looks much like the surface of the moon—without any vegetation or other signs of breathable air.
