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The Intrepid was a Sleeper class vessel. Before slipstream, galactic travel was only possible by simple faster than light engines, and these really screwed with relativity and caused the physicists to have another look at their so-called laws. Unfortunately, even at these speeds, travel to another star system could take months. Sleeper class vessels were equipped with suspended animation chambers or "stasis pods", that would slow down the metabolism of the occupant to the point that six months worth of faster than light travel would seem like a long nap. With the development of slipstream, suspended animation was no longer needed, as the vast galactic distances could be travelled in a much shorter timeframe.
Spacers tell many stories to those they meet on their travels, just like the stories of ancient Earth mariners. One such story involves the Intrepid. The ship left Pluto Station with a full contingent of passengers in suspended animation, and a cargo hold full of low priced alcohol. Her destination was Chilian, a journey that should have taken two months. Six months later, the ship was found adrift at the edge of the Spiraq Asteroid Field. The Space Corps. salvage team found every single stasis pod deserted, yet the entire cargo was still there. The stasis pods were working as they should, and according to the black-box, none had been opened since leaving Pluto. Also, the black-box did not reveal any other information of use to the investigation. There was no signs of forced entry to the ship, no damage internally or externally, and the security recordings in the black-box showed that no one had entered or left the ship. One minute the passengers were there, the next they weren't.
To this day, exactly what happened aboard the Intrepid is unknown. There have been many similar incidents, but all have been proven as hoaxes. The event is so bizzare, that in all honesty, the galaxy doesn't want to know what happened incase the logic behind it is so amazing that it causes the universe to spontaneously implode. Also, considering that the story has been passed down through generations of spacers, no one's entirely sure whether the events were suspicious at all. Some believe that the unexplained events were glossed over to mask Space Corps. incompetance, and that the stasis pods failed so the occupants spent two months getting pissed on cheap booze before dying of starvation. These people are boring and have no imagination.
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Spacers - Refers to the bums that cruise around the galaxy fueled on nothing but the cheapest Mangorian Whisky and telling tall tales to the very naive and/or stupid.
