Hurtling through space at a speed of forty-five thousand kilometers per hour had seemed terribly exciting to Nadya when she first joined the Space Program. Nowadays, she found pod drops almost relaxing.

Recording № 512. Day 1735 since I left Hare Bay. I changed the settings of this recorder. If I don’t enter the password at the exact time of Jade’s death three days in a row, everything will be erased.

A truth was hidden somewhere on this planet, and Nadya was going to find it. “How did we end up here?” she asked herself, as she was entering the drop pod .  “We boarded the Phoenix MK II spacecraft