Landing on the beach sounds like paradise. You found a nice spot of sand that did not have any dunes in it for a landing spot. While this puts you out of the distance to make it to the caves if you had to walk you could still enter the forest and find the clearing location.
The ship landed with a bit of a thud. While one of the landing thrusters went out while the ship was descending it was hardly noticeable as the ship has quite a few reductant systems that were able to overcompensate for it.
The bay doors opened and you grabbed the emergency shelter. Being able to truly sleep under the stars is something you could have only dreamed of while living in a dome your entire life. you were not going to pass up this opportunity by sleeping on the ship.
The beach itself had the whitest sand you have ever seen mixed in with areas of yellow the further up you go. Almost like someone came by once a week cleaned it. The rolling waves of the ocean gave off a sound of serenity giving your mind the kind of peace it has not had in years. The whole thing looked like someone spread white and blue foresting over a cake creating swirls to give it a depth look.
After some final tests, the computer reported back the air on this moon was more than breathable although it seemed it had an elevated risk of fires. There was 25% oxygen, 74% nitrogen, and 1% other trace gases that are not harmful in the amounts they were detected.
The computer reports back that the high tide cycle had just ended about an hour ago. You can still see how high the tide ended up making it onto the beach. With it already being late afternoon you decided it was getting too late in the day to go off on an adventure exploring.
You place the emergency shelter down just above the water line of the high tied and press a button for it to auto setup. While the shelter worked on doing that you took an hour-long stroll one way heading north up the ocean coastline taking in the views.
Afterward, you started to return as this moon has a long night cycle and then a day cycle. You went up into the ship to fetch some food cubes, spare blankets, and other objects. You then head back out and place them in the shelter.
Before it started to get too late you do a little bit of swimming. You found the buoyancy of the water to be somewhat unnatural. You could hear the computer through your wristwatch report back something like an above-normal level of ocean salinity of 44. Since earth’s oceans were no longer swimmable you never had any other experience to compare this to so you just nodded at what seemed like meaningless data to you.
After some time you returned and dried off the ocean water. As the day sank into the evening you started to fill the chill in the air. It was time to put something warmer on.
While it was tempting to have a real fire like you use to read about in adventure novels. It was starting to get far too late to go collect some firewood. This perhaps should have been a task you did earlier on while being distracted by the beauty of this place.
You ate a food cube for dinner and found yourself quickly passed out. The moon itself has a 36-hour time cycle. This meant you could get around 14 hours of daylight and 36 hours of darkness since the nights last longer.
While it would take some getting used to a 36-hour time cycle. You slept till the daylight woke you up. You quickly got dressed in more appropriate clothing to go hiking around exploring. Ate a food cube and packed some supplies in a backpack.
It was time to set off on an adventure to explore the beach and possibly other areas. Do you head back up north where you only slightly explore, head down south along the coast, or head west into the forest?
Content is written by @Enjar of @Enjargames. AI artwork was created using Playgroundai.
