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By the time you manage to put on a vacuum suit and traverse the hanger, the drone has already opened the habitation compartment, laying out its contents in a neat column.
You see assorted supplies and survival equipment, sparse but remarkably well-maintained.
You find radiation-hardened data stores next – a small archive of video and text.
You check the corpses last. Pale skin and frost-covered eyelashes peak out behind copper-toned helmets. Homogenous facial features, characteristic of a cloned crew-lineage.
Their hands are tight. Slowly, with as much fine motor control as you can muster, you pry their fingers open.
They each hold palm-sized trinkets of varnished hardwood - smoothed and treasured like old river-rock. A constant reminder of the home they once possessed.
>OBSERVE. View the data stores only. Submit your dead crew for genetic sampling.
>MAINTAIN. View the data stores only. Submit your dead crew for genetic sampling and trawl them for their lineage-memories.
>COMMIT. View the data stores first. Submit your dead crew for genetic sampling, trawl them for their lineage-memories, and attempt to synchronize them with your current body.
[Here's a data sheet of the carrier - don't worry too much about the stats for now - they'll be explained a little later]
