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You wake slowly, feeling a dull ache and pressure surrounding you. The claustrophobic sensation is becoming all too familiar of late but doesn’t seem to fade this time.
Red, strobing emergency lights bring some clarity to the situation.
You find yourself strapped to the command seat of the observation bridge, the other stations empty and unpowered. The silhouettes of various crew members drift slowly past the forward view ports of the observation deck, backlit by sparse starlight.
Assessing your situation, you gingerly rub your aching chest and neck and shake your head slightly, trying to clear the fog. You begin to organise your thoughts, attempting to piece together logically the circumstances you find yourself in.
Your helmet has not automatically deployed, but your seat restraints have. G-shock would explain the bruising and whiplash but that would mean inertial damping and grav-plates have failed. Emergency power management seems to have defaulted this area to life-support functions only which could only mean one thing…
Shipwide power failure while under acceleration.
How could this have happened? Why is your memory blank? Last thing you can remember was lying down to sleep last night. Today’s simulation was meant to be important but you were… interrupted? Attacked while leaving the system? Why can’t you just remember?!
Your unlucky crewmates only had repurposed mess hall seats at their stations with nothing like the built in safety restraints of your command station. To your dismay, they've been left to drift in a state of disarray, unconscious and potentially injured.
You centre your thoughts, your mind is your best asset and you will think your way out of this. You’ll start by prioritising:
>Yourself. The first step in any emergency is to remove yourself from danger so you can safely assess the situation and find a solution. <span class="mu-b">[Trait: By the Book - recommended option.]</span>
>Your crew. Their wellbeing is essential to solving this situation and it’s your responsibility to ensure it over all else.
>Your ship. Even if you aren’t the captain (yet), this ship represents life for billions of souls and your duty demands you ensure its survival above everything.
>Write in. Perhaps a combination of the above.
