Posted by Gamemaster Matrix (GM) in Main Sim: Shuttlebay
As the team filed in, the would find a rather intense looking doctor scanning the pod. He looked back. “Lt Sural, may we open this please? From what I can tell, this man is stable, but fading. He will die in the next hour and I will not be held responsible.”

Upon visual inspection, the pod almost resembled a sarcophagus, how any human could survive was a mystery.

-Matrix

Sural entered with Reno at his heels, already unpacking the engineering tricorder. “Intriguing,” he murmured. How could anything like that survive near a black hole? What kept it from being pulled in?

“Nor will it be looked upon well were we to make undue haste and cause an incident that injures crew or damages the ship. “Reno, please scan the .. unit for any potential danger, radiation emissions and power supply.”
“On it chief like horns on a toad,” Reno replied, bringing the tricorder to life and making a slow circuit.
Meanwhile Sural used his tricorder to scan for a ‘door’ or way in. “Doctor, what is keeping this individual alive? Is it only, as some would say, serendipity, that brings us here at the moment of this unit’s failure?” While Sural was not a skeptic, as that would imply an emotional origin, he considered in this instance that it was not unwise to hold a doubting position - the odds of this happening were simply astronomical.
- Sural