RAIN

Onboard the Stellar-Dart V, a ex military drop ship converted by scavengers for planet hopping and short WH jumps (worm hole jumps). On route to Delta B-2347

Hey mac , you grew up here right?

Yep!

Ah man don’t be shy, do tell what’s it like?

Fine, back when it was home we called it Savera. It was mainly a desert planet, dry with a underground water system, we’re talking 70 meters underground, not much in the way of indigenous life, few bugs scores with a poison stinger give you a rash but your boot would see them dead. The biggest thing was a kind of dog sized thing with a hard scaled shell we called them Sniffs, great sense of smell, very hard to sneak up on and just as hard to kill. We made life in scattered areas under environment domes, each one was family ran small farm like sites, for as inhospitable as the planet was with its dry heat it was rich in mineral growth, at least under the domes. It was a hard life but good and honest….

What went wrong?

I don’t think we know to this day, but I’ll tell you what i know…

It was midnight in the middle of the fourth cycle, a rumble shook the very planet, every dome woke up, the radio comms were buzzing with questions, a second rumble came about a hour later, the ground split open, canyons formed and several domes failed as generators were swallowed by sink holes.

Damn those things are huge, sounds bad man!

Yes.. Then the rains came, you could here the screams even when come were turned off, this wasn’t just water falling from a new sky, this was acid, acid strong enough to melt the Steelcreat the homes were made of, so flesh and bone didn’t stand a chance.

As we left orbit the planet was covered in great storms….

Wow man I’d heard roomers but, well just glad you got out….

Right you two no more history lessons, get prepped we are about to reach orbit.

Hey, why are we here Skip? Can you tell us now?

Simple enough, 3 years ago a group of eggheads came here to reasurch, 6 months ago they stopped sending reports, 2 months ago a Doctor Samms broke silence and called for help.

WE ARE THAT HELP..