*Actionette* Unwelcome Discovery part 2

"Thats just it, theres NO structural damage that I can detect to the shipANYWHERE, its just as if the engines been burning non-stop for 150 years""Maybe we should check the rest of the ship...." Kara said "Though I gottaadmit, this is giving me the creeps!"Jay nodded, and headed for the door. "Damn thing wont open...can you give mea hand" he said, Kara, switched to hard light, and togehter they pulled thesliding doors apart from each side, and shone their shoulder lamps downopposite ends of the corridor. "Gravity's out in this section too.." SaidKara, switching back to soft light to compensate, "Life supporttoo.." she said again, as Jay lumbered through in his cumbersome EV suit."Ok..." Jay said, "Fun....lets head for the drive room, see if we can find out what happened here.."
They moved along the navigation deck's corridor, Jays mag-boots slowing him down with every step  when Kara stopped. "Whats that?" she said, squinting to see in the light. Jay looked up, and aimed his shoulder lamp where his friend was looking, catching a shoe floating in the gravity-less environment. "Just a shoe.." Jay said.
"Yeah..." said Kara "UGH!!!"
"What?!" Jay asked, concerned
"ITS A SHOE ATTACHED TO A F***ING  CORPSE!!!!, IT JUST PASSED THROUGH ME...thats it im going hard light..." she switched to hard light, but now susceptible to gravity she floated to the ceiling.
Jay grabbed the body, it was unrecognisable as anyone Jay or Kara had known, but was obviously female. Jay checked the I.D card hanging off the belt  "Holy shit...Kara you should see this..."
"I just had a close enough look thanks!"
"She looks.. but...its..Ensign Garley.. "
"Sarah?...no...she ...she used to go drinking with us, you had a thing for her!"
"I DID NOT!" Jay replied "Well..maybe a little" he ran a scanner over his ex-colleagues floating corpse.
"noooo......" he mumbled. "That's...IMPOSSIBLE"
"What?" asked Kara, trying to stop herself floating up through a ventilation shaft in the ceiling. "Well, according to this scanner she died of old age, and..to look at her I'd believe it but.....but she was younger than me! she was 19 for gods sake!"
"Look!" Kara said "Theres another up here, scanning this corpse from her vantage point on the ceiling she shouted down to Jay. "Lt Ramirez....cause of death, old age..Jay, he was 27"
Jay tapped his EV suit's comm unit and spoke directly with the Phoenixe's computer. "Kelly, can you access the Ulysee's AI?"
"connecting......" came Kellys voice "please wait"
Kellys voice was replaced by that of the Ulysee's AI. "Welcome to Quinn, how may I be of assistance."
"Quinn..this is Lt Cmdr Chrysler and Ensign McGellan of Blue Dwarf, we used to be assinged to this ship"
"Welcome back Lt Cmdr, Ensign," replied Quinn, a slightly more advanced machine than Holly was.  
"I need to ask you a question...what happened to the crew"
"The Ulysees crew are all deceased"
"How"
"All hands died from old age, ...my power levels are low, permanent shutdown imminent"
"Quinn, the oldest crew member was 48, Commander Tucker, the chief of security, how can they all have died from old age?"
"Ship chronometers show 153 years have passed since leaving space dock on Janurary 14th 2103. much longer than the average human lifepsan"
"Quinn, its Janurary 29th, 2103 now, its only been two weeks" Kara said looking at Jay confused expressions on the faces of both pilots. 
"That does not compute..ships chronome...." 
"Sorry Jay" came Kelly's voice "He lost power, I cant re-establish the link"
"Kara" said Jay "Lets get the hell out of here..."
"thats the most sensible suggestion I've heard since I joined the 'dwarf" she replied 
 
   
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