Ethan Lawrence, one of the youngest to graduate from the Academy and be accepted into the program within a few days of each other. He had had plenty of competition, there being many other graduates, as well as older candidates to choose from, but he had been chosen. It wasn’t the position he had been hoping for though...lab assistant. Anyone with even a few hours of experience in a lab could pull it off! It was an insult. Keeping track of who used what, what they were running low on, how project XYZ was doing, it was all so dull and boring but someone had to do it.<br/><br/>With everything that he hated about working on the ship, there were others that he loved...the constant alarms wasn’t one of those. As he slowly tipped a vial, careful to not spill its contents on either himself or the counter, the sudden alarm blaring nearly had the young scientist dropping the whole thing. This wasn’t even the first time this week they had had one of these drills. Pulling off his gloves and stuffing them into a pocket in his lab coat, Ethan hit the power down button on the wall as he left the lab on the way to his life pod.<br/><br/>When the captain’s voice rang over the PA system, Ethan expected a false alarm, or something along those lines, but the notice that this was in fact,<span style="font-style: italic">not</span>a drill had the scientist hurrying to his life pod. Gripping the sides of the seat until his knuckles were white, and holding his eyes closed, Ethan was nearly sick at the lurch caused by the pods deploying. It was only worse when it hit the water. Slowly getting to his feet, Ethan used the computer pad to first check the atmosphere outside. Air, breathable. Temperature, safe. He didn’t have a clue where he was, but at least the air wouldn’t kill him. Opening the hatch with some effort, he climbed out of the pod, only to be greeted with the sight of water everywhere.<br/><br/>He saw no other life pods, no other signs of life...this was impossible. All the pods had been deployed in roughly the same location so there should have been at least one nearby. Dropping back into the pod, Ethan used the comms to try and locate anyone else.<br/><br/>“Anyone else out there? This is…” He paused, taking a moment to look down at the badge pinned to his coat. “L753. Please come in.” He hoped that someone got the message.