[System ERR]

Having been prematurely awoken from his cryo-slumber by the emergency protocols built into his suit. Derick thought the blast shields of his small Mining Frigate were locked into place. Once the cryo induced mind fog cleared and his eyes regained their vision he noticed that instead of the inky blackness of space pin-pricked with millions of points of light, the vast expanse that lay before him was the darkest pitch black you could imagine with the only illumination coming from the orange glow of the navicom screen blinking in front of him.

Something was wrong, terribly wrong. Where were all the stars? He pondered this question for a moment before turning his attention to the navicom and the message that its orange phosphorus display was blinking with urgency.

[System ERR]

Somehow it had failed and without it he had no way of knowing where he was, how long he had been asleep or how to get back to a sector of space with stars. Inhaling deeply at the thought of being alone in a mysterious sector of dead-space with no way of getting home Derick passed his hand over a panel of switches and slowly checked through the rest of the ships systems. In doing so the rest of the cockpit began to show signs of life as the various systems began waking from their long period of low power operation.

It became apparent after a few minutes of checks that the only system in a state of error was the navicom but that didn't make sense. In the case of any of the ships systems entering an error state the pilot should be awoken from cryo-slumber and if that had happened then why was he in some unknown part of space with no stars, no nothing, no light source of any kind.