We Need a Plan

Mars Base Alpha, Section D, Commander’s Office August 22, 2062 at 8:04 AM (Greenwich Mean Time)

“Dan’s vitals are stable, and transferring him back here would be the ideal situation,” said Doctor Kim Homansky. “But without the Surgical Assistant online, I think treating him locally is the best bet.”

Lieutenant Kristie Raleigh leaned back in Commander Evans’s chair and exhaled loudly. The commander had been unable to return to Mars Base Alpha since the meteor shower two days earlier; all travel between bases had been suspended until Alpha’s power issues were completely resolved. Adding even one additional person to the fragile life support system before the engineers stabilized the power generation grid could cause another set of ...

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