"Oh my!"exclaimed Valerie as she got up, and got into the captain's chair.
She readjusted the controls.
"Now I just have to find out where in the Galaxy this ship could have taken me!"she exclaimed.
She looked at the screen. None of the stars matched any pattern she was familiar with. She looked for the closest one. The ship was soon orbiting around that star.
At least it's a place to begin with, she thought.
"I don't think it's any star that's been discovered yet!"she exclaimed, as she compared the background sky.
The star was a G-4, meaning there was a chance that there could be a habitable planet around it. It was a little colder than most of the stars that had habitable planets around them, but not very cold.
Which probably means somebody's already discovered it before, she sighed.
However, there was no mention of a G-4 star in this part of the Galaxy, in all her reference books. Even on her computer.
"Maybe it hasn't been discovered after all."she said, her excitement growing bigger. "There's really only one way to find out. I'll have to see if there are any habitable planets that are still inhabited. Only the closest ones should be inhabited. So I'll start from the inside out."she decided.
She found the innermost world. It seemed to be habitable. As she approached it more, she noticed that it actually seemed to be inhabited. Or rather, that it seemed to have been inhabited at one time. She looked through her history books. There was no mention at all about the planet or its star.
"I've made a great discovery!"she exclaimed. "An abandoned planet, from the looks of it. Nothing about it whatsoever, but it certainly was inhabited at one time. I wonder why that's so."she wondered out loud.
She looked at the screen, and looked at the surface.
"I'll land."she said. "Or maybe...I'll land."she decided. "It looks like it has a breathable atmosphere, anyway. Water, everything. Why...? Well, I'll find out soon enough."
She landed on what looked like must have been the administrative center of a city. Or at least the administration building of something. A school? University? No, there were no other buildings around. Maybe it was just...a library? Out in the middle of nowhere? Well, the planet was out in the middle of nowhere, wasn't it?