I Echorus was supposed to be a second Earth some kind of paradise brought to you by the best scientific minds in the universe Yeah, right You know wonder they called it Echorus big planet-sized dream that came crashing down They had no idea what they're in full I wanted Pure and simple I don't know a lot of crazy on my time. I mean but Echorus that was next level If you couldn't find food you died you couldn't find oxygen you died If you couldn't find shelter from storms you died No, she was an engineer Zeno engineer. She was sent with the team to terraform the place, so Yeah, she was there when it all went now The other guy is they left as soon as they could but not mo that wasn't her style. She was in like money What the rest of us people died on Echorus all the time, you know you just tried not to think about it What happened to her was no accident no way Oh The journey to Echorus was brutal it was four light years from earth 30 trillion miles and two years in long sleep I mean talk about jet lag We were the first cohort we were the first wave cowboys You know it was a whole new planet was unreal In reality kicked in Oh, they open up egress to prospectors when all the terraforming went So I signed on as soon as I could She offered to drop with us. She won't show us around like it was at her apartment or something Well, I figured she just wanted to see how we do in the first drop It was like going back in time and seeing the earth a million years ago So trees the plants the animals they're from earth. I mean the bio team had adapted the months at terraforming me but Jesus Christ It does your head in a first Outside the zone it was different People always think that we had a bunch of advanced tech up there, but we had nothing we'd spend everything just trying to get there We're like cave people and spaces those first few drops If we needed shelter or tools or something, but we had to make it ourselves I barely made it back to the Dr. Belaide that first time. Yeah, I got better of course I mean Mo taught me she she taught me how the old shouters find oxygen But the best things she taught me was you got to respect that planet Not fear. She was smart. I mean cocky as hell, but look She'd been part of the terraforming group, right? So she knew the planet inside now. I mean literally right She spoke about it all the time. You know I've got the feast on terraforming and wasn't gonna work And about falling in the feast exotics. I'm just saying Doesn't it feel like a coincidence that they declared the planet Uninhabitable just when they discovered the most valuable material in the universe Weird day. Hey, I ain't complaining. I did okay out of it The exotics that killed the terraforming Screwed with the enzymes and then again, they changed everything. I mean without the exotics They'd never would have been a first cohort Because it was all about the exotics you find them You sell them back at the station get more gear go back down find more drop Survive and repeat On Icarus a Handful of exotics would get you a new suit a radar a rifle But on earth It would buy you anything you wanted No, I talked about her a mum and a brother all the time Kind of life she could give them thanks to the exotic she had found she didn't stay because she needed the money she'd made her money She stayed because she loved it we all did was addictive She was addicted The second you felt comfortable on the surface you take your eye off the mission clock and That's how people died You know it happened all the time. Oh, you're like People missy window to get back to these ship and then there was no way to get back to the station and that was it Never see them again They died that's a sure The drop started off fine None of us had ever been to that part of the planet before not even mo prospecting an unfamiliar area as I hated it But there was always more exotics and then discovered areas so None of us knew what to expect not back then a mo She's like a maw to a flame You need a notice you'd wandered off If you're asking me if I feel guilty for what happened to me I'll do We look for her as long as we could That you know there's a big storm coming and you don't hang about for those ever The bear attack is my guess The forest before I mean anything could have It wasn't an accident Mo didn't come back because she didn't want to come back She knew she couldn't go home not after what happened to that planet and the path she had played in it Look Mo didn't want to die she She was right where she wanted to be Ma How you guys You got a drop in your butt Sorry, I'm in touch my bad so I say I'm fine Today is my last drop I wish there may be if the terraform we had worked you could have been here Not what people could have been here I See you guys Thank you You know I'll see you guys soon You