Prolouge

This morning our boss had stuck his chubby little face into the main office and bellowed. Bellowed with more noise and more aggression than you would expect from such a small individual.

"Are you boys and girls aware that if one of you so much as steps on the wrong rock this whole planet is likely to come crashing down beneath our very feet!? That means that every single one of us will be turned into forgotten space debree and your whole mission will be the failure that results in the death of humanity!" 

Not the best wake up I assure you, but it was made a little better as by the time he'd finished his little number he was rather red in the face. It took an awful long while to get the whole hilarity of it out of my head before what he had said had even the slightest bit of an affect on me.

Later on however the severity of those words really did hit a note in me, probably not the one he was aiming for but a note all the same. What if the whole place did come crashing down, what if someone did cause the entire planet to just fold in on itself or something? Casually I'd stepped toward the air vent, slipping into the state of the art space suit with my name "DARREN" plastered across the front. Personally I thought it all a little pointless, the name tags i mean, im sure with all the little accsesserys plastered all over them that everyone on this hunk of rock can tell who's is who's. As i clipped the breathing apparatus securely around my mouth and turned on the air i pushed the vent firmly open and wandered out onto the rock solid surface of the barren planet proto-type.