NTSV Seeker - Recovered Document

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//To: Captain S, NAS Kepler
//Foreward:
Good day Captain. An additional artefact was recovered from the submarine NTSV Seeker on its expeditionary voyage to the depths of Kepler-11 c. It appears to be a personal note left by the vessel's Life Support Specialist.


 

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This is the last will and testement of Mike Spike. To my beloved Alexa, I leave you everything. Make good use of it and take care of Noah. You've given me everything, and in return I do the same. To my son, Noah, I leave an inheritence of 5000 credits to be collected on his 18th birthday. Go make me proud, and have a fantastic life. Lastly, I leave 50,000 credits to my family on Pluto. Dad, im sorry I wasn't the son you wanted me to be. Alex, Samantha and George, be there for each other come what may.

Im going to be blunt, I'm not much of a writer. I never paid enough attention in school or cared enough until today, and by Racht, I still scribble like a schoolboy. I hope these scribblings provide you with enough proof that there is absolutely nothing worth digging for here. This is not a place of honour, where some alien civilisation celebrated its acomplishments. There are no esteemed dead, lost treasures or anything of value in these sunken depths. This place is a tomb built to contain something best forgotten. The seabed is its coffin lid, and the vast ocean above the soil. If you made it this far, theres still time to turn back. You can return to the surface, forget about this place. I know its in your nature to be curious, which is why im going to lay out exactly why you should turn back:

1. What lies in those depths is the reason the sub is bottomed out on the sea floor.
2. It isn't something that you can just "take" or "destroy".
3. It will kill you.

The first dive team found it while exploring in the ruins nearby and took it back on board with them, not realizing the danger. It got out, started to take crew members one by one. We tried to contain it to the fore compartments but it spread like a wildfire. It got to Central Command and they messed up the dive planes in a panic, and we smacked into the seabed. Thankfully, I think the flooding stopped the spread. Its still lurking back there, im sure of it. Theres water in compartments one through seven, and I haven't had any word from the rest of the crew. I shut the hatch to my compartment as soon as we bottomed out. Then I heard the engine crew screaming and pounding against the hatch to try and get it open. Its silent now.

Its just me, alone in a wrecked submarine, with my air supply slowly ticking away. The atmospherics expert, killed by a lack of air. If you're looking for tips on how to survive it, the only advice I can give you is this:

Kill your senses.

Im going to try and use the escape hatch, with the emergency diving gear. Its not designed for this depth, but its better than nothing. Wish me luck, Racht knows I need it. 

-Ensign Mike Spike, Life Support Officer, NTSV Seeker

This letter, coupled with the other artefacts lends some credibility to some existing theories. A second and much larger expedition will be required to exhume it, assuming the theories are correct. Official explaination for the disaster will be changed to something less likely to arouse suspicion. It seems luck managed to kill two birds with one stone for us.
-LT CMDR Brian Higgins, Kepler-11c Director of Subsea Operations