Alien: Covenant Page #2

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Permission to leave

without him, sir?

Welcome back, Danny.

Thanks.

Alright, that's me done, Tee.

Alright, I'm following you in.

Please have a cold beer ready

for the weary traveler.

You got it, darling.

I will draw circle..

Faris, Faris? Put it...

What the.. Did you

guys just see that?

What did he just say?

Tennessee, do you read me?

Tennessee, can you read me?

Tennessee. You alright?

What in the f*** was that?

I don't know.

Coming in. I'm coming in.

A rogue transmission loss, probably.

Your helmet must have picked it up

because you were so far out.

Past our communication buffers.

Is there audio, Mother?

Collating. A moment.

I reoriented the transmission,

Captain Oram.

Gotta be an echo,

instruments took a lot of damage.

Been happening every 46 seconds...

ever since we got here.

That's f***ing John Denver.

That's "Take Me Home,

Country Roads".

You gotta be kiddin.

No, I never kid

about John Denver.

There is geometric data too.

Mother, please track the signal

to its source.

Working.

Source of transmission located.

Signal originates

in the sector 87.

Right ascension 47.6

and a declination of 24.3

from our current location.

She appears to be a main

sequence star lot like our own.

But old, very old.

Five planets.

Wait. Look at that.

Planet number four.

The planet number four is

square in a habitable zone.

Prime candidate, in fact.

0.96 G's at surface,

oceans, land mass.

High likely hood of a

living biosphere.

That's beyond the most optimistic

projections of Oriage-6.

How did we miss this?

We scanned the entire sector.

Ricks, how far is it?

She's close.

Little jump.

A few weeks.

Wouldn't even have to go

back into hyper sleep.

And how long is it gonna

take to get to Origae-6?

Seven years, four months.

That's one

hell of a sleep cycle.

Sir, I think it's safe to say

that none of us are too keen

on getting back to

one of those pods.

Maybe we need to, um..

Take a closer look.

Any objections?

Okay, Ricks, let's..

Let's try to course and

take a closer look.

Yes sir.

Captain, can I talk

to you for a second?

Are you sure about this?

How do you mean?

We've spent a decade

searching for Origae-6.

We vetted it, we ran the simulations,

we mapped the terrain.

- It's what we trained for.

- I understand.

And now we're gonna

scrap all that...

to chase a rogue transmission?

Think about it.

A human being out there where

there can't be any humans.

A hidden planet that turns

up out of nowhere...

And just happens to be perfect for us.

It's too good to be true.

Too good to be true?

What do you mean by that?

We don't know what the

f***'s out there.

Maybe we just missed

the planet, Danny.

This is a monumental risk

not worth taking.

I'm not committing to anything.

I'm simply trying to navigate the

path as it unfolds before us.

And this has the potential...

to be a better habitat

for a colony.

It has the potential.

We don't know that.

By the way, this crew nobody...

Nobody wants to get

back in the pods.

Right?

And that was a human voice

in that transmission,

And it's our responsibility

to investigate...

It's our responsibility to protect

the 2,000 colonists on this ship.

Hey.

I'm not free climbing here.

I need ropes,

and I'm using ropes.

This is good judgment,

based on all the data available.

You understand?

As your second I need to protest.

Officially.

Officially?

Okay, Danny.

I'll put it in the log.

You're dismissed.

I'm cycling through

every channel...

but we're getting a lot of

interference and white noise.

Some high frequency echos.

Do you hear anything?

Just the continuing signal

from our friendly ghost.

Let's bring us in

the closer orbit.

And prepare the lander.

Rolling progress,

commencing circular rotation burn.

Tox levels, withing tolerances..

It's one hell of a

strong ionosphere.

Yeah, I see it.

Hey, you ever done

lander drop before?

F*** you.

Faris, looks like a plasma

storm in the thermosphere.

We got something like 250 kph.

That's gonna be a

motherf***er to fly through.

Yes, I'm afraid so.

Communication will be spotty if

the storm is electromagnetic.

It will be safe to land?

Depends on what you call safe.

T minus Twenty seconds.

So let her rip.

Alright.

Preparing for orbital mode

over signal position.

Now, Mother, please

coordinate lock sequence.

Understood.

You're clear to

launch Lander one.

Alright, here we go.

Launching...

Together. Three.

Two.

One.

Lander run released..

And away they go.

Looking gorgeous from up here Faris.

It's a good thing you're driving...

and not the old man.

Hey, little less to the

old man, sweet tits.

Hey, language, language.

- Be respectful there, sugerdad.

- I can hear you.

She started it.

Ricks can talk about your tits,

if you want.

Some's very secured

in our relationship.

I deal with my wife's tits.

Let's maintain focus.

Everything looking

good down there?

Yeah, we are good.

Expect to hit exosphere in five.

You might wanna hold on back there.

It's about to get rough.

I hate space.

This is why you need to do yoga.

- Hold it, Faris.

- I got it.

Recommend the mission to abort..

Faris.

Can you get her up?

We lost comm.

Oh sh*t.

Failure in thrusters

three and four.

- You got it?

- Yes.

Stop asking if I've got it,

I've got it.

Here it is.

Sh*t.

You guys alright?

No.

Landing sensors engaged.

I don't like this terrain.

We got smooth water over there.

- I'm gonna put a sound amp. wave.

- Okay.

Contact.

Engines stopped.

We're down.

Bars.

Lander one, are you reading me?

Roger that, that was

one hell of a landing.

Yeah, we are having some

trouble reading you.

Is there anyway you can

try to boost the signal?

We may have hit something

when we were down in water.

If you can hear me,

I am gonna go, check up

damage in the hull plates

and then I will check the uplink.

Alright, let me know how it looks.

Over..

Confirming atmospheric

composition.

Here you go, big guy.

Oxygen, 19.5%.

Ankor.

Nitrogen, 79.4%.

Cole.

Rosie.

Barometric Pressure 15.4 PSI.

Ledward.

Everyone set?

Let's go, let's move guys.

- Come on guys.

- The air feels good.

Faris, if you got me?

- Yeah, loud and clear.

- All clear Serg.

Okay, we are gonna keep expedition's

security protocols in place.

Keep those doors locked and sealed.

Okay?

Yeah. Copy.

Will do.

Y'all have fun.

Walter, how far

do we have to go?

The signal source

is 8 km west...

but at considerable elevation.

Sergeant Lope...

Let's go find our ghost.

Nice place for a log cabin.

Jake would have loved this.

Hey, Danny.

It's not such a bad

landing site after all.

We get the housing units

right over there...

Civic complex beyond the burn.

We've got access to fresh water.

We might have a spot

for colony right here.

We'll see.

Oh, woman...

yay of little faith.

He is insufferable.

It's worse when

he's happy, right?

This is wheat.

Believe me, I know wheat.

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