Searching

Back at the ship there was a great debate.

“We should not go to the city! It’s too dangerous, how well will they accept non-merchants?” this was Earl. He was very adamant about this.

“We need to go. We have not yet learned all there is to know from this planet. Maybe they monitor the distortion in space and will know how close to here they ended up!” said Sue.

“Or if they received any transmissions from an unknown source,” chimed in Rob, “I don’t know how much the technology has changed since I left here.”

But in the end it was decided that they would go into the city since the good outweighed the bad. The trip to the city was not that bad but they were blown away by what they saw. It was huge - your stereotypical space city, awesome technology. Yes, they were gawked at here but not as bad as in the smaller settlement they had just came from. They quickly got lost but they asked random people they saw if they had heard of anything suspicious but they would not give them the time of day. Eventually they found a police station, but it took forever for them to get to talk to anyone but when they eventually did it went something like this:

“What is it?”

“We would like to know if you have heard any news of a couple of people from Earth they would be in a two story house.”

“Pardon?”

“We are looking for this girl’s parents, they and their house disappeared and we think they are on an Uxe class planet.”

“I haven’t heard about any place called Earth or any houses, so my logic tells me check with the military or another planet.”

It was disappointing and when they tried to contact the military they only got some crazy looks. They were outsiders and they had no rights on this planet. They were dismissed as crazy loons. They hung around for a few days to replenish they supplies on the ship but nothing of importance amounted from it. They enjoyed the planet. Lush green grasses, no pollution and you could get around town via “beam me up, Scotty.”