Chapter Two

Lazarus awoke wonderfully rested and started his daily routine. While in the cramped shower he finally came to a decision, he would risk it, he would try and enter the ship. Now that he had finally made a decision he started to relax a bit now. Not too much though, he needed to be alert if he wanted to survive. This was not the first ship he had entered though, god no, in his years working for AMSU he had entered dozens of ships, mostly human made ones and even one old Goauld Ha'Tek badly damaged in some forgotten battle ages ago but all that would be considered child's play to what he is about to undertake.

He took Dana out of orbit and flew closer to get a better scan of the ship and see if he could find a way to dock into or if he would have to get in a space suit and find another way in. It was proving quite difficult; the Ustrian ship was hard to scan as it was more advanced than current human technology. Not to mention his ship was not equipped with the best available tech, barely passable tech actually. With so many ships AMSU tried to make them as cheap as possible so the explorer class ships had older tech.

After many hours of scans and coming up with nothing, he was about to call it quits and signal headquarters when something on the scans caught his eye, one of the escape pods was gone and had left open a hole big enough for his ship. The scan had not pointed it out as most ships would not be able to access such a small hole but Dana just might fit.

He did some calculations and his ship would only just fit, he turned off the thrusters and let the motion push the ship toward the empty escape pod dock. It was a tentative few minutes as he got closer and closer until finally he wedged his ship in. It would be near impossible to get his ship out later but he was hoping he could get the Cruiser working and not have to spend another night in his cramped but loved little explorer.

Lazarus changed into his spacesuit as the escape hatch of the Cruiser was still open to space. His ship was smaller than the escape pods so he could open the top of his ship up and crawl over the top and into the Cruiser.

He looked around Dana for anything else he might need, he spotted his energy rifle hung up on the wall in case of defence. He slung that over his shoulder and tied his tool belt around his waist and made his way out of his little craft, making sure he closed it up when he was on the top.

He crawled over the top of Dana using his suits magnetic function to stick him to the ship so he would not drift out into space. He worked his way over the ship until he got to front of the ship and demagnetised his suit and pushed off, launching himself through a hatch connecting into the main part of ship

Luckily there was no security on the escape pod hatchway and he drifted safely in clicking a carabiner connected to his suit to a nearby handhold so he didn't keep drifting. As he stopped drifting he righted himself so he was only just floating about a foot above the floor and turned the magnetic boots back on dropping him the remaining foot. It seemed the ship still had power as the lights were on though. Weird. He stood and cautiously peered down the hallways leading to the escape pods, clear both ways. Even though the ship was ancient it looked almost brand new to him and way above the Empires tech standards.

Lazarus looked around for the controls for the escape pod, he couldn't see anything except two buttons, one green which he assumed was to open the door and another red which he assumed was for closing it afterwards if automatic closing did not happen. He tried to guess what the writing on the buttons meant but all he could tell was it was a beautiful language. If he was wrong and red was Manuel release his ship would be ejected from the dock and he would be in a ship with no a paddle so to speak.

He figured he had come this far he better press something, plus his suit only had a few hours of oxygen and he needed more time than that to explore the ship and he had to close the door to conserve the ships air supply if it was still on and working. He pressed the red button and first saw the outer door close leading to space close and then the inner door close which led to the escape pod bay. As soon as the pod bay hatch closed he felt the suit get heavy, the artificial gravity had kicked in once the ship was sealed tight again.

Lazarus took some air samples with his spacesuit and saw that the Ustrian life support was still incredibly working and was pumping oxygen into the ship. He tentatively popped his helmet off and took a breath of the good clean air with only a hint of spaceship recycled oxygen smell. He now knew something others did not, the Ustrians breathed oxygen just like humans. Maybe they were one of the seeded human civilisations the ancients created he thought.

All that he and the rest of humanity knew about the Ustrians were that they were an incredibly technological race that had once been in this galaxy and a few others but not anymore. So far humans had only found a few broken down Ustrian ships with little info about their race or culture but still working weapon systems and such which the humans would salvage.

He unclipped himself from the door and stripped off his spacesuit and tied on his bag of tools each explorer was given in case they found and entered another ship. As he started walking he brought his gun up into position, in case he needed it.

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Authors Note.

Hey everyone, thanks for reading this. I am still new at writing fan fiction but please review and let me know what you think or if I made any mistakes or even if you have any ideas. I already have next few chapters written out but I want to spend more time proof reading them