Quagga was so exited about the mission that she could hardly get to sleep. Finally falling asleep, she dreamed happy dreams. Until Quagga awoke with a start at the sound of the alarms. Snapped from her reverie, Quagga ran to the bridge. The engines were failing and she couldn't figure out why. Caught in its gravity well, it looked like she was either landing or crashing on this planet. And this planet caused even more confusion. She shouldn't be anywhere near it. They would never find her this far off course unless she could contact someone.
Quagga tries the comm unit - not working. She then tries to launch an emergency beacon - nothing. Systems failing, she has no choice but to guide the Etosha down for an emergency landing. She'll try to fix the ship's systems once she's safely down. She picks out a landing site. But every time she tries to guide the Etosha there, it starts to get wildly uncontrolable until she returns to her original course. It was almost like the ship "wanted" to land at a certain location. As the ship came in for a landing, Quagga noticed the glint of metal a short distance away. When the landing was complete, every system on board shutdown.
That metal she had seen on the way down gave her an idea. Quagga put on a set of sleeveless coveralls and boots, picked up a tool bag, and opened the hatch manually. She stepped into the afternoon sun in a beautiful savanna scene. The nearby animals, skittish at first, soon accepted Quagga's presence, probably because they properly sensed that she was not a predator. Quagga walked briskly towards where she thought the metal object lie. She wore skin tight, white coveralls with generous cleavage, both front and side; and black boots made of a semi hard cloth. She wore nothing beneath those items.
Quagga thought she knew what had happened. She had noticed that this system was listed as "Access Forbidden - Navigation Hazard" before system power went. The most likely reason for that was that this system probably had been "mined" by some military during some war centuries ago. And this system was just too far off the "beaten path" to justify the expense of removing the mines. Such mines could destroy a ship, disable a ship in space, crash said ship into the local star, or land the ship on a planet for some purpose. That wouldn't explain how she reached this system. But once she disabled the part of the mine near her, she could use the ship's computer to determine that.
Unfortunately for Quagga, if such a mine system existed here, it had little to do with her landing on this world. Nor did she know that this world was something of a hunting reserve, where the prey was not any of the indigenous life, but rather young, attractive women like Quagga. Had she known that, she would have brought a weapon along. Instead, she walked hopefully towards where she had seen the glint of metal.
((OOC: WOW! I can really be long winded sometimes.
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