Ship crash

That body, now beyond repair, lay close to Stanislav's, and she watched the light fade from his eyes as she felt it dimming in her own. Between them, the feet of the monstrous Jason X stomped from the cargo hold. She tried to speak, to warn the rest of the crew, but only a gurgling came from her lips, much like the one that had come from Stanislav before he succumbed. Jason X had silenced them both.

“Disengage the cable attached to Black Star 13," Lieutenant Rogers ordered. “It should rip the tunnel away.”

“Sir, that will create a vortex in the cargo hold and suck everything inside this ship outside."

“Seal the door between the hold and the rest of the ship.”

"I can do that, sir, but the force of the--"

"Do it, and seal off that entire corridor.”

“The crew in section 27 will be sucked out, even if the rest of us-”

"Do it,” Rogers snapped.

"Sir, the cable is stuck, sir. We can't disengage."

"Engines full power, and apply boosters.”

It was a feeble attempt, too little, too late, and everyone on The Revival knew that. The gravitational pull of Planet #666 increased because they were much closer to the surface. If they had tried this when they first entered orbit, perhaps...

Lieutenant Rogers checked the controls. It was less than a minute to gravitational extinction.

Screams rang throughout the ship, filling the audio receivers of The Revivals com panel, and the bridge crew was surrounded by the sound of death. The hands of most of the bridge crew fell away from their crew stations while they listened to their crew mates being slaughtered.

“Engines are about to overload,” an engineer said, his voice flat with hopelessness. "We have no power reserves. What shall we do, sir?”

Lieutenant Rogers paused a heartbeat. “What we are going to do, corporal, is pray.”

The crew on the bridge of G7, increased by one as Emery Peterson had joined them, heard all that transpired. They had listened in stunned silence as the carnage ensued. And now they watched the monitors, as both Black Star 13 and The Revival left the gravitational orbit of Planet #666, picked up speed and dropped at a high velocity towards the dark planet's surface.

The Revivals crew was utterly and eerily silent. At least there were no orders being given, no commands followed, only the screams.

The G7 bridge crew heard a loud bang followed by a dead silence.

"Come in, Revival," Bill said. "Revival, come in. Are there any survivors?” Nothing.

Felicity had clicked into work mode, relegating her feelings temporarily to a back burner. She reached across the panel of readouts to scan the ship. "No life signs. No systems operational. The Revival is gone."

Everyone in the room, even the twerp, Emery, who normally couldn't keep his mouth shut, remained quiet while Bill kept calling for The Revival to come in.

     Jason X: Planet of the Beast - Prologue

She saw the remains of The Revival.

The ship was in a million pieces, littered across the barren landscape as far as the eye could see. This planet had no moon and starlight was not nearly enough to guide them. Each of the three had hand-held lights, plus additional lights at the front of their helmets, and all six lights barely licked the gloom. But the sight of so much rubble that had once been an enormous space ship that had held about one hundred and fifty human beings, one of them Fedor, was sufficient for her heart to sink.

The computer had identified the ship, but really it was the largest bulk or wreckage it pinpointed. She saw a piece that had part of one word still visible, where the hull had miraculously not burned up as it entered the atmosphere: evil.

     Jason X: Planet of the Beast - Chapter 2

What seemed clear to her was that whatever was aboard —which most of the crew called "he"—was a killing machine. It had devastated the entire one-hundred and ten-member crew so that when The Revival boarded her there was no one left alive, no one, but "he"—if it was alive to start with. With no vital signs recorded on Black Star 13 from the station, or from The Revival, London could only use her imagination.

    Jason X: Planet of the Beast - Chapter 4