For the next ten minutes the conversation raged as to why exactly there were three moons in the sky. It was clear to everyone that they had crashed, but why, and where they were was a mystery.
"Maybe we crashed en route?" One man made out. Nicole snorted at the man's ignorance.
"And happened to fall upon a habitable planet that none of the probes picked up?" She said sarcastically. The man flashed her a look of anger.
"All right then, you seem to have the answers, what do you think happened?" The man shot back.
"I don't know, I need to check some things," Nicole said. The man was about to say something when another woman spoke up.
"Maybe they changed our destination last minute - I mean didn't one of the other locations have moons?" She said almost desperately.
"Yeah, thats it!" The man said clinging onto hope. "Maybe we got sent to Eris, or Haumea instead."
"Maybe" Nicole said lying. She knew that it wasn't any of the others as she had studied the planet's descriptions, but if it helped calm people for even a few hours then she'd take it until there was time to get real answers.
Nicole looked over at Tim and grabbed a couple of bags. He had already done the same and was looking around the jungle canopy.
"We should get going right? First step of landing survival training and all that" she said and nodded back at her.
"She's right, we can discuss the situation once we are a bit more settled." Opening the bag he pulled out a small plasma riffle and checked it over before cycling a charge through the chamber.
"Listen up people, everyone grab a bag. We are heading out to find camp. Remember the training, we are looking for fresh water, and an open space so we can have good line of sight. The jungle looks pretty thick, so lets take it slow and not loose anyone." The crew started to reluctantly pick up all the bags
Tim looked up at the sky, and just made out the sun through the canopy. "For now lets assume the sun is north, we will head that way."
They clambered through the jungle for nearly 2 hours before the stumbled across a suitable spot, a small clearing next to a slow moving deep river. There was a ripple of excitement within the group, none of them had ever seen in real life that much running water, and Tim had to control the group from diving straight in.
"I realise this is exciting, but we have no idea how much daylight we have left. We need firewood people, I suggest half you scavenge around the edge of the forest and try to find anything relatively dry. The rest of you clear this area of the debris so we have some where relatively comfortable to make camp. Spanner, test the water for impurities before anyone jumps in."
After half an hour the groups had collected a considerable amount of fire wood, and Spanner tested the water to find it was as pure as anything they could have possibly hoped for.
After Tim finally admitted that he was happy with the make shift camp a number of the crew practically threw themselves in the river to clean off and cool down. Soon the crew in the river were slashing each other, laughing and joking around. It was damn hot in the jungle so Tim couldn't really blame them.
Some of the crew preferred a bit more privacy however, and with a word of warning from Tim not to go to far they disappeared off to separate parts of the river. Nicole was one of them, and finding a secluded spot she stripped out of her stasis suit and moaned in delight as she sunk into the cool, fresh water.
Floating in the water for about 5 minutes she suddenly became aware of someone watching her, and slowly she stood up and walked out of the river pretending not to have noticed. She went over to her stasis suite that she had hung over some of the larger boulders that dotted the edge of the river and picking it up dipped the garment into the water, cleaning the remnants of the stasis fluid off.
"It's not nice to stare you know" she said looking directly over at Tim smiling. He was semi hiding behind a large rock, watching her as she washed off.
"Sorry, I didn't want to interrupt but could help but watch. You can understand though right, I've not seen a woman naked for 30 odd years." He joked as he came out from his viewing point and strolled over. Nicole noticed the bulge in his stasis suite, they left little to the imagination and she liked what she was looking at.
"Well, you've seen me naked so it's only fair I get my turn..." She said smiling up at him, he was taller than she was by a few inches. Tim watched as she slowly unbuckled the front of the suite, before she tugged it down off him. In moments he was stood there naked in front of Nicole, now his cock was free it stood semi erect as Nicole looked down at it.
Without a word she grabbed one of his hands and led Tim into the cool water, he couldn't help but stare at her pert arse as it disappeared beneath the surface of the water. Tim groaned in delight as he sunk into the cool water, Nicole pulling him over to a deep pool on the bend surrounded by large weathered boulders.
