Carrier P5-7 Fail 💯 ✨

“Already did. No match. And… Mira, it’s moving.”

She suited up for EVA—a process she could do in her sleep now, though her hands trembled slightly as she clipped her tether to the hull. Dex stayed behind to manage the ship’s systems, his face pale on the comms display. Mira stepped out into the silence, her boots magnetizing to the Rocinante ’s skin, and then she pushed off toward the pod. carrier p5-7 fail

Mira slammed into the airlock and cycled through with shaking hands. The inner hatch opened, and she floated into the cabin, tearing off her helmet. Dex was at the controls, his face gray. “Already did

Mira killed the thrusters and let momentum carry them. The object resolved itself slowly: a pod. A standard emergency escape pod, the kind carried by civilian freighters and corporate shuttles. But this one was scarred—deep gouges in its hull, a shattered viewport, and a single, blinking red light on its exterior that pulsed in a slow, irregular rhythm. Not a standard distress pattern. Something else. Dex stayed behind to manage the ship’s systems,

Mira looked at the pod outside the viewport—at the woman’s frozen face, the cracked visor, the blinking light. And she understood.