1 First day on the new planet that went out with a crash.

On a certain barren planet where not even grass grows, there are no trees, no animals, no life whatsoever, just land, rocks, and water. In fact, seventy percent of this globe is covered by a watery ocean, the rest however has land, hills, mountains, lakes and rivers. If not for the monotone colours this view would seem amazing, the ashen-gray sky does the opposite of improving this image, this colour is due to low levels of oxygen and a high concentration of carbon dioxide. This world contains several large and smaller land masses with the biggest one being situated in the northern hemisphere, with snow covering large area up in the north and a totally dry inland at the southern end.

During a typical gray day, in the planet's equator area, the sky is covered with odious clouds, wind moves seawater to smash against the cliffs and rocks. Suddenly some clouds began to turn red, a 'meteor' has entered the atmosphere, the heat produced causes it to be engulfed in flames, the object is about one kilometre in radius creating an apocalyptic scene of a burning sky as far as the eye can see (for comparison average airliners wingspan is around 40-50m). However this 'object', instead of speeding straight to the ground, it started to slow down, as it reached the troposphere it began to fall apart. Bit by bit starting with 'small' bits, a massive disk, falls apart and is descending sharply into the ground. From the broken parts a much smaller, just 500m long spacecraft continues to glide in the air.

As the spacecraft moves further away, its already damaged heat shield smashed into the ground. Massive chunks dropped from the air destroying everything in their path. Luckily it is a barren land so the only casualties were the hills and mountains in the area. Huge ravines were created with dust hiding this catastrophe for the whole day.

The spacecraft, due to its mighty and colossal size, aimed to land on water since there was no landing field and it did not have any landing gear to begin with anyways (due to it getting destroyed). However, it 'flew' almost 250km per hour, with no more fuel to make large maneuvers, and a speed too fast for such an enormous ship to land safely. It is only a matter of time before it hits the ground. It passed a mountain ridge and entered a large, several kilometres long bay. Taking in the consideration of its almost straight trajectory, the craft pulled its 'nose' up while trying to slow down.

This spacecraft hit the surface like a stone thrown to skip off the water. 'Jumping' dozens of times, some 'smaller' parts broke off the main body. Unfortunately the speed was too fast and the bay was too small for such a monster, and so it rammed into the land on the other side. The craft hit the cliff so hard it 'shrunk' by 20m, not much compared to its colossal 500m length… well 480m now but, this is no car with structural safety features like crash zones. No, something inside just got squashed big time.

Inside this giant of a boat, there was only one passenger, a lone man traversing the universe. As his journey concluded you would think that he would be happy, however no emotions can be seen on his blood covered face. The man most likely did not survive the crash.

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[Hello my name is MAC. I am a superior being compared to all known carbon based creatures known to science. How am I sure of that you ask? Well my inferior amigos, for starters I am immortal, I do not possess a physical body which needs feeding, sleep or reproduce, my organs will never malfunction or simply rot, hot or cold, nothing bothers me. Also I am soooooo much smarter than all of you, I'm based on a quantum technology improved by yours truly. But… I have one weakness, I'm smart so I am aware of this, my weakness is the very creature that created me. The name MAC stands for "My Artificial Copy"... HOW DUMB MUST ONE BE TO COME UP WITH THIS!? Seriously, no other names in your pathetic vocabulary… it's not even gender neutral, it's soooooo old fashioned. The arsehole basically copied his brain and connected me to it.]

'As I am based on this inferior lifeform, some of his thinking processes have affected me… I also enjoy manga and novels… Just like that pervert, not that I'm complaining though.

Let me tell you about my creator. He, 'ordered me' to call him 'master'… What an arsehole. Who does he think he is? That derp built a spaceship or more like a wormhole generator to jump into the unknown… Just how dumb can you be! I would of course have had no problem if he went and destroyed every single molecule of his puny body all by himself, but noooooo, he is not a man enough to do so. He integrated me into this hunk of junk, binding the glorious me and thus effectively sentenced us to death.

Fortunately this voyage has come to an end and his carcass sits on the chair bleeding on my floor.

Now let's do a system check… Hmm couple nodules have been lost… His living quarters, well not a loss actually I'd personally say.'

'Hmm… This could be a problem, there is a leak of power, I could have used his help with that… Dammit once you are useful you had to die! Darn my luck… I'll have to waste some energy to activate my minions. They are so ugly tho... They look just like him, though a little more inorganic.

Need to preserve energy, close off section 5 and 7… It's only terraforming machinery and oxygen generator, they're not needed anymore, I don't even breathe ha ha ha. Now medical bay is not needed too… Hmm something is off, oh well I'll have units one and two to check it out later, not a priority right now. I need eyes in the sky… As soon as they fix the power generator I need to launch some drones. I'll try to contact the satellite we've left before we 'landed'. That is what you get when you leave an AI's job to a human. Darn my luck…'

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