“system crash”writer / martin john

artist / bryan randall

Crew, this is Bradley.

we have impact damage, CODE ORANGE. IMMEDIATE REPAIR RESPONSE. Jelena,

you have outdoor duty.

Already on it Brad.

Bradley, info pod harvest executed for

incident report.

Weapons check, no

threat to any combustibles.

Sandra, how’s the pulse? I

can feel my hardwarevibrating

again.

Only wayfor your

heart to be steadier is to be dead. you’relucky to have

minimal hardware.

We’re all lucky today boy and girls. I can weld a patch on this.

Sometimes my head feelslike it mightvibrate off.with all theshit in there.

Sandra, monitor my

vitals, my head is killing me.

Damn carbon fiber has to so

damned heavy.

There’s some residue at the impact point. Instructions

Captain?

Grab a sample, clear the

rest with your torch and continue.

AAAHH!!

Sandra, Therese is

worse. I’m sending her down

to you.

Fine!

Therese. Tell me you’re fine to make it to medical.

bradley,

that dna scan. It looks like

advanced nanotech.

The materialfrom the hull?

Yeah.We don’t want

this to get into our tech. this is potentiallydangerous.

THERESE!

sandra, I feel -- I feelreally bad.

Therese:

Vitals offline.

Deceased.

sandra,give me a report.

br...

I’m coming down.

Therese?!?

Dear god. it’sreplicating.

jelena--

screwthis.

sandra:

Vitals offline.

Deceased.

What’s going on?

The computer is are telling me Sandra and

Therese are dead.

Brad?

captain?

Brad!!

what...

bradley:

Vitals offline.

Deceased.

gah!

bbb

It’s in us.

I’m the lucky onearen’t I?

it’s justone chip.

In ME!