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Empty space surrounded the dented, damaged ship, engulfing it in darkness as it drifted aimlessly along. It creaked miserably, every so often a spark escaping a massive dent. The hardly functioning shuttle hurled itself through the stars, by a stroke of luck avoiding any asteroids, and later, the floating debris of the destroyed spacebridge.
Inside the ship was a still form, lost in stasis. Shadows cast through the one window of the shuttle let light pass over a gleaming green paintjob from time to time, the outside space reflecting off the plating. The mech didn't stir once in the duration of the trip, the ship making certain of that. Instead he slept without interruption, while the pod drifted on, no sense of direction or destination.
By sheer coincidence, the shuttle found Earth, piercing the atmosphere and plummeting into a fall towards the hard ground. The impact left a great crater in the earth, and finally cut the last string of the ship's functionality. It laid, broken and useless, but it's cargo well in tact.
For some time, the world was still.
No life emerged.
But as systems rebooted, and functions woke slowly, a sliver of consciousness came into existence.
Blue optics opened and whirled for the first time in years.