Space, the year A.D. 2222.
In the dark confines of space, a ship, the Conrad, floats effortlessly through the darkness as it grows closer to it's destination.
Inside the ship, the crew awakens. First to awaken is Captain Steve Tennison, and he is very hungry, and heads to the mess hall faster than anyone would expect from a person who was frozen for 2 weeks. The rest of the crew gets out of their cryotubes sleepily.
A few minutes later, the whole crew is eating breakfast. Emily Stennis, the navigator and first mate, asked ," Captain, what are we salvaging this time?" Tennison replied, "The remains of a strange craft found orbiting a moon called," Tennison looked at his wrist computer, "LV-426. It used to have a terraforming colony until 2179, when after a communications error and Marine investigation blew up due to damage to the processing station. No one knows what caused the communications error." "How do you know all of this stuff?" asked Carl Stuart, the pilot. Tennison said, "I find history interesting and I heard we were going there, so I looked it up. What's wrong with that?" "Nothing, Captain." "Dude, none of you have to be so formal around me, I'm not very strict, and you guys know that!" Tennison stated. He didn't like people being afraid of be reprimanded by him. To Tennison, his crew are his friends, yet, when they feel even the slightest bit threatened, they go all "Sir, yes sir!" on him. "Sorry, we forget. You remember how Captain Smeltings was," said Bob Robertson, the chief mechanic and co-pilot. Everyone shivered, because Captain Smeltings was the most strict person to ever exist. No one liked him. "Come on, let's go to the bridge."
