On the edges of Wild Space, lies an independent outpost, situated on an isolated desert-covered planet. While traveling back from a mission from your Clan, you suddenly begin to experience lots of comm interference. Between bursts of static, a series of tones begin to play through the interference, followed by an SOS. If you try to scan for life signs, you find abnormal, sporadic life signs. Intrigued by these events, you decide to investigate the outpost.

In 500 words or more, describe what you find. The competition will be judged on the fiction rubric.