Wow, another Subnautica story. I made it original and some stuff will be different. Of course, I will try to keep some parts accurate and nice. And not skip past details.
Oh also props to Grammarly for correcting a ton of errors I made.
Prolouge: A Light Heart in an Electronic Place.
The Aurora.
The electronic, slick vessel loomed in front of the Space Docks, a giant space station built in a ring around the earth. The Aurora was certainly not the biggest ship docked at this station, but it sure was much more beautiful than that other ship, "Bravo 584".
Still, the ship was just perfect. Many people streamed into the four airlocks near the front of the ship that had been opened. Some were denied for trying to enter with false information. Most were let in. Markus James was just another member of the Alterra crew. He was hired to help the Aurora on its maiden voyage.
Finally, Markus made it to the front of the line after three hours. He walked up to the guard at the door.
"Hello sir, may I please see some Identification?" the guard questioned in a calm tone.
"Sure, here you go," Markus said as he opened his PDA. His personal PDA was his prized possession, showing the many adventures and sights he had seen in the Alpha and Beta sectors. It had some fun games to play he downloaded off of MetaMiteGames and even logs of his three days stuck on Planet Cortex after they ran out of gas.
The guard checked the PDA information, then proceeded to smile. "Finally, an actual upper-class staff. Welcome aboard, sir!" he exclaimed as Markus walked into the airlock. After passing through it, he was greeted to a cargo bay labeled sector Epsilon.
Another staff walked up to him. "Hello sir, do you need any assistance?" she politely asked.
"Oh, yes! Do you happen to know the way to the Living Quarters from here?" Markus inquired.
The staff requested "What room number? I need to know which floor to direct you to."
Markus checked the official document on his PDA. "This file says... room 346. Where is that located?"
"Oh, on floor 56, down the hall to the right!" The staff responded.
"Ah, thank you! Have a nice day ma'am!" Markus thanked. As he began walking down some halls towards the elevator, he thought to himself: Man, everyone is so cheerful! I really picked a good job.
He soon arrived at the elevator. He clicked 53. 100 floors?! That's so many! he thought to himself.
Markus then arrived at the floor. He did exactly as told, went forward and took the first right. He read the numbers "339, 340, 341 . . . ah, 346!"
Markus entered to see four beds, one occupied. There were also four lockers next to the beds. According to the locker, Markus' bed was located in the back of the room, across from the occupied bed. He then saw the other person was awake, playing a game on his PDA.
Markus was shy with people he'd knew he'd have to stay with for a while, so he opened with a simple "Hello, sir."
The other man paused the game and looked at him. "Hello, roommate. How was your wait."
Markus replied with "Oh, long like it always is for these ships. Took three hours." He sat on the bed and pulled out his PDA.
The other man continued with "My name's Shawn Cross, and I'm guessing you're Markus James?"
"Yep, that's me," Markus replied. He started up a game called Block the Pipe. The game was a pretty average puzzle game, where you had to block the water flow.
"Hehe, nice to meet yah, Markus," Shawn stated. He too unpaused his PDA, continuing to play whatever the game was.
Markus laid there playing games for an hour before he finally realized it had been almost two days with no sleep. He knew he would need to start working within the next few days, so he finally chilled out for a bit. He lied down and watched some Videos other people uploaded to the Web. After watching a few funny videos on Epic Fails, Cats, and some other topics, he finally laid his head against the pillow and fell fast asleep. Little did he know, the trip wouldn't be as long as he thought.
Subnautica Update 84 on Xbox One - Subnautica
