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Chapter 1 - Lost in Space

I woke up, still half asleep as I was sitting upright in my chair. The lights in my orbiter were turned off and all I could see outside through the glass was pitch black nothingness.

My eyes had a hard time focusing on anything around me, everything seemed blurry and distorted, even more than usual. But it wasn't just the eyes that caused this distortion.

The connection to my Warframe seemed more intuitive then Normal. It seemed even more intuitive than being in my own Body at the Moment which confused me.

After blinking a few times I was able to look out the window of my Operator Chair. A black void of nothingness staring back at me,

but there was something else.

Outside, only slightly lit by the emergency lights I could slowly see something as my eyes adapted to the darkness.

Floating giant masses of debris that came from my ship and all kinds of tech parts that were once connected to it had now been scattered around.

I could even look outside into what looked like deep space, a big hole that punched through the outer hull straight up till the transference room leading my eyes, only illuminated by the emergency lights ahead.

"Operator, your Awake, that's the best news I got in a while" Ordis voice suddenly spoke in my head. His voice was unusually quiet and didn't sound as hyperactive as it normally would.

I couldn't answer him directly because of my incredible headache but after some time of concentration I formed a Word. 

"Status?" I asked into the emptiness of my tiny coffin.

I didn't get an immediate response, instead he seemed to waite a bit until he answered.

It was like he had to think about his answer, something unusual for Ordis.

I began to feel uncomfortable, something really bad must have happened if even Ordis wasn't in a good condition.

He finally started speaking again.

"The orbiter has suffered severe damage, many systems are not responding or are malfunctioning. I can't pinpoint where we are at the moment, there aren't even any stars to calculate our position the old fashioned way around, which should be impossible on its own." He said and sounded incredibly confused and disappointed in himself.

Ordis always wanted to be the most helpful Cephalon you could ever have on board your ship, so something like this must have really hurt his Ego.

I tried to sit up and look around to inspect my surroundings more closely, but as soon as I made a move to lift myself up from my seat I felt a stinging pain running down my neck as I tried to do so and set down again.

The pain didn't keep me from standing up though, it was the shell of my operator chair, which didn't budge, not even a tiny bit to let me out into the open.

I started to hyperventilate and thanks to the sudden adrenaline spike, I could finally form a coherent sentence. 

"Ordis, why does my Somatic link-shell not open up?" I asked Angrily into the open and with a good amount of panic.

Ordis seemed to take his time again to find the right words.

A shiver ran through my Body, as I thought about what could have possibly happened to me.

"There is no easy way to say this Operator... I had to seal your shell shut while we were in transit, otherwise you would have been blown away with the rest of the USESLESS JUNK." Ordis explained himself, but his voice was still too quiet for my taste.

"Right now, there would be no use in going out anyway Operator, as the oxygen needed for your FEEBLE BODY to properly function has escaped into the Void of space"

he continued as his volume grew back up slowly.

I looked around and noticed that indeed, pretty much the whole interior of the room was missing.

That also explained why breathing felt so much harder right now.

"And the damage? What else is not functional?" I asked concerned.

"All power from the reactor has been down since the jump, The battery's will last for months, but only for life support purposes and my lowly existence" Ordis answered with a hint of humor.

This gave me some relief, at least I could live a little longer.

I then remembered that a Warframe and a Pack of Kubrows were in the Liset, my landing Craft, as all of this Spacial Interferenz stuff began and started thinking. 

„Ordis, can you pinpoint the Liset, I remember it being disconected from the Orbiter as all of this started, maybe it is still functioning and able to rescue us" I asked hopefully.

"Negative Operator, the connection between us has been completely severed after everything went dark. But before that, there was a sudden spike of Energy emitted around the landing crafts last confirmed position" he said after a few seconds.

He seemed like he hesitated to continue but eventually did. „I think it's best if I show you what happened, before we lost contact with the Landing Craft."

Before I could say anything about that suggestion, a holographic screen appeared directly in front of me and started playing back footage, recorded by one of the Orbiters cameras.

The footage showed how the Ship was traveling through Space. Rhino and a bunch of Kubrows got transported into the Liset, sleeping in their Hybernation-pods, after which she started her undocking process.

Suddenly a big bright tear in space appeared right in front of us that got bigger and brighter by the second. I saw how it suddenly split up into lots of smaller splintered fragments which flew past our Orbiter at an incredible speed.

Then something hit us from behind that send the camera flying into another direction and then... blackness.

Now I had a theory about what happened here. We were sucked into a Void Tear, which spitt us out somewhere else.

I had seen something similar happening to the Zariman but this time at a much Smaler scale and Spontaneous, not provoked like the last time. 

Ordis probably noticed it as well and confirmed my theory.

"I'm afraid that we are stranded in some unknown part of space, I do not know where we are nor am I able to receive any signal, anywhere." He explained further.

After internalizing all of that and the adrenaline slowly leaving my system, I began to again feel really tired. My head was hurting even more then before and everything just felt numb.

"Operator you seem exhausted, maybe you should go back to sleep for now, I'll wake you once something happens." Ordis suggested after noticing my change in behavior.

And he was right, there was nothing I could do right now to help myself or anybody else and the Imense Internal suction force that pulled me towards my Warframe won as I fell into it, to powerless to do anything about it.

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