Alrik Fragment

2160, OTT

Arrival

Alrik Olafson released the safety restraints tha kept him strapped in. The Ark had stopped moving and the computer display flashed the words. “Automated landing sequence completed.”

He turned his head and saw Elkhart wipe his mouth and then his friend said. “We are here. We made it.”

Alrik got up and moved close to the view port to catch his first view of Nilfeheim. The planet that would be their home from now on. There was no way to return to Earth.

He and Alrik had seen Nilfeheim from space as they approached, they had seen images of the world taken by the survey mission but this was real.

There was a lonely mountain rising from an otherwise completley flat desert like surface that stretched into the distance.