I woke up after about 10 hours of sleep and had a light breakfast of nutritional fluid that I still have stored in my suit. I pull on a cable and float up the keel of the ship up to a large door.

Suddenly I realized a wee little bit of information that may be incredibly important. The FUCKING DOOR HAS A MOTHERFUCKING ALARM! I then proceed to punch the wall with a great deal of force which then leaves me spinning and floating away from the door in a gloriously uncontrolled fashion.

Sadly my suit does not have a Reaction Control System installed so I will have to remain moving in this fashion until one of two things happen. I can hit a wall or cable which would be pretty painful or I can be found by another human being which is honestly not a probable option.

After about a minute of not moving a muscle while spinning and floating out of control, I tried to remember the EVA lessons I took before working on the ship. I can’t remember a thing. Wait no, I remember one thing, I can spread myself out to decrease my rate of rotation! I proceed to spread my limbs out and as expected, my rotation rate slows down considerably.

I look at my surroundings and I realize that by random chance I am moving in a direction that has no cables to grab onto. As I may have said before, the reactor room is massive. Each reactor being a cylindrical shape with a length of 300 meters and a diameter of 200. The room, in order to fit four of those monstrosities has to be at least 300 by 400 by 400 meters in size. Of course, by my suggestion, it is a bit larger than that so it comes to a cubic room with the side lengths being 400 meters.

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Unfortunately I’m moving about .1 meters per second so it may take a little over an hour for me to reach the other side of the room.

After about 20 minutes have passed, I have realized something very important. Changing the rate of rotation while floating is surprisingly entertaining! I started to play around with it and I ended up doing a little dance while floating through the reactor room.

~”pffft”~

I hear this on the com and I freak out a bit. I spread eagle and look back towards the door. At the door I see a person in an EVA suit at the entrance pointing a finger and laughing at me!

~”What do you want!”~ I say over the comms.

~”What are you doing?” ~The masculine voice answers, obviously holding in another bout of laughing.

~”Nothing really” ~I answer. I begin to formulate a lie to prevent myself from being labeled as a stowaway.

The person finally calms down.

~”Don’t you worry Mr. Stowaway, your secret is safe with me. I’ll come and go every once in awhile so it is a pleasure to meet you!”~

And with those suspiciously friendly words he turns around to leave.

~”Ah wait!”~

He turns to look at me.

~”What do you want?”~ I say, hoping for some salvation.

~”Nope, have fun!”~ He says with some mirth as he leaves the room.

I sigh to myself and wonder what the hell that guy is thinking about. I also realize that I have another 40 minutes of floating to do so I buckle down to perform another rendition of “The Nutcracker, Space Edition!”

The 40 minutes passes quickly and I am now really close to the wall. I begin to calibrate my rate of rotation so that I can hit the wall facing it.

FUCK! I yell, as I timed it wrong and I am now floating in another random direction because of the very elastic collision I just had with the wall.

It seems like this is going to take a while.