Please Pardon the prolonged story, but I really really can't express quite how exciting this little trip of mine was.



After making a Ground Vehicle I set off exploring the surface of Omicron looking for drones to kill and resources to gather so that I could eventually construct a means off the planet.



After some fruitful searching I ran across two towers in relative close proximity and decided to test my luck. With my Weapons armed and ready to fight I took my GV into battle strafing and dodging turret fire in an attempt while whittling down it's defenses. One turret.. Two turrets.. They started to fall to my fire but as luck would have it, the last two remain turrets got a lucky shot in and hit my generator. The next thing I know I'm flying sideways in the air doing a sort of roll before landing in a lake while still taking heavy fire. My proud steed was no more.. A shell of it self the entire mid section was destroyed. No power, No emergency supplies, No Oxygen.



Still under fire and now stranded halfway across the planet I did the only reasonable thing. I grabbed my trusty rifle and charged headfirst at the remaining turrets hopping to get out of their cone of fire before I was killed. Luck was on my side. I was able to dodge the incoming fire and finish off the remaining two turrets and plunder the towers for what treasures lurked within.



My elation was short lived however. I was half way across the planet. I was down health thanks to the ground fight after my GV was destroyed, and, worst of all, I had less than half a tank of O2 left. The only thing I new for certain was that suffocation was in my future. With a certain amount of resignation to my fate, I checked my bearings on the map and started my way home as I slowly ran out of gas.



Eventually I was able to pick up on my bases signal and I had hope... I was still 1KM away but home was there. I could practically see it. Along the way I was chased by Drones, attacked by Otyughs, and stalked by a pack of Arachnids. One by one my enemies fell but so to did my health and every moment spent fighting was another moment of wasted O2. Still, I plodded onward trying my best to take the most direct course home.



Just as it seemed like I might just get out of this alive, it happened. I ran out of Oxygen. With what little energy I had left I threw caution to the wind and I ran. My vision blurred, my muscles ached, and my head pounded. I was fading away... Death by asphyxiation isn't something I had planned on encountering on this mission. I would not go down like this.. not by some rookie mistake. The world was dim but still.. I struggled forward my lungs burning.



There! My base! Just another 70 meters. Desperately I used a medkit to buy myself failing body few seconds more. Struggling on I made it to my door. My health nearly gone, I stumbled in to the gentle hum of my base, and collapsed at the foot of my O2 Station.



I tell you this... the hiss of O2 filling my tanks was the most beautiful sound I have yet heard. I was Stunned. I was near death but I was alive.

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