Sample of Survivor Skills
Prologue:
Gliese 581
Eighteen months, twenty-three days, four hours:
928,081,020 km/6.2 Astronomical Units (AU) from Earth.
“Two minutes,” Sergi Lazaroff confirmed into the microphone in his helmet, responding to the warning he had been given.
He reached out and gripped the side of a long panel. While his spacesuit was bulky, he moved with ease in the zero gravity within the complex alien machine. He had attached a string of magnetic lights at regular intervals, and there were additional lights mounted to his helmet – but outside of their limited range, the interior was pitch black. Josh waited in the large gap created by whatever had struck the gateway, ready in case Sergi needed help.
A feeling of awe still struck him when he allowed himself to think abou
