A journey into the unknown. While waiting for rescue... Part 1

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Some time nothing happened. We stood silently and watched the midnight sky.

And only a couple of hours we saw in the dense layers of the atmosphere a flash of flame and black smoke, accompanied by such a roar that to my ears seemed about to burst an eardrum.

And then on the planet's surface rushed the remnants of an exploded spacecraft.

Thought it was a huge crater, similar to that formed during a tornado that spun a huge explosion shards of twisted metal, drifting towards us...

We instinctively dived to the grass, knowing that it is unlikely to save us from certain death, but fortunately for us, the trajectory of the funnel under the force of gravity has shifted towards the forest.

We were out of danger, although some small fragments of the body, under the action of centrifugal forces detached from the rotating funnel and is scattered in different directions.

An Orgy erupted that affected us, and we literally went numb, ended as abruptly as it started.

The silence pressed on his ears, confused thoughts in my head. We had no idea what had happened, the remains of whose ship has fallen by about a mile, did some in this battle, can we count on the help or we have no chance for salvation?

As soon as it became quiet, the commander suggested at the crack of dawn to send a search team to the crash site the wreckage of the spaceship and ordered the radio operator to try to contact the crew, whose visit we so desperately need.

To sit still waiting for any news was above our forces, and Arthur went with the search party. Better than being in the dark about what happened to the fallen ship.

To the place of falling of fragments we got in relatively quickly and started to inspect.

The area where the wreckage fell, looked pretty depressing...

Fallen, mutilated, burnt grass, charred remains of dead birds and small animals not managed to hide in the shelter... - all this caused a sense of anxiety and despair.

Unfortunately, not we've learned so much. All we found was covered with a thick layer of soot, burnt with heavenly fire.

Among, mangled by the explosion, pieces of metal we found the remains of the pilot is deformed in a fire suit. Of course, he was dead, and who he was, and where, and what happened to his ship, we have failed.

But in a jacket under the suit we found a patch that was able to identify the astronaut with the spaceship from the planet from the hostile inhabitants of this planet. It gave us hope that those who came to us for help, will not suffer greatly, so there is hope that sooner or later they will come back for us.

To our great regret, we had nothing to learn.

By placing the corpse in one of the shallow craters, we sprinkled it with earth, after which he returned to the camp and reported their findings to the commander.

The camp was not good news, bond with our friends until the installation has failed.

Then we joined the rest of the team, engaged in the organization of the camp, and made it before dark.
It was decided to deal with the ashes from the remains of his ship. Work moved quickly, and by the end of the day is almost over.

Soon the camp was declared a retreat.

To be continued...