Alien: Covenant Page #3

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Right ascension 47.6

and a declination of 24.3

from our current location.

She appears to be a main

sequence star lot like our own.

But old, very old.

Five planets.

Wait. Look at that.

Planet number four.

The planet number four is

square in a habitable zone.

Prime candidate, in fact.

0.96 G's at surface,

oceans, land mass.

High likely hood of a

living biosphere.

That's beyond the most optimistic

projections of Oriage-6.

How did we miss this?

We scanned the entire sector.

Ricks, how far is it?

She's close.

Little jump.

A few weeks.

Wouldn't even have to go

back into hyper sleep.

And how long is it gonna

take to get to Origae-6?

Seven years, four months.

That's one

hell of a sleep cycle.

Sir, I think it's safe to say

that none of us are too keen

on getting back to

one of those pods.

Maybe we need to, um..

Take a closer look.

Any objections?

Okay, Ricks, let's..

Let's try to course and

take a closer look.

Yes sir.

Captain, can I talk

to you for a second?

Are you sure about this?

How do you mean?

We've spent a decade

searching for Origae-6.

We vetted it, we ran the simulations,

we mapped the terrain.

- It's what we trained for.

- I understand.

And now we're gonna

scrap all that...

to chase a rogue transmission?

Think about it.

A human being out there where

there can't be any humans.

A hidden planet that turns

up out of nowhere...

And just happens to be perfect for us.

It's too good to be true.

Too good to be true?

What do you mean by that?

We don't know what the

f***'s out there.

Maybe we just missed

the planet, Danny.

This is a monumental risk

not worth taking.

I'm not committing to anything.

I'm simply trying to navigate the

path as it unfolds before us.

And this has the potential...

to be a better habitat

for a colony.

It has the potential.

We don't know that.

By the way, this crew nobody...

Nobody wants to get

back in the pods.

Right?

And that was a human voice

in that transmission,

And it's our responsibility

to investigate...

It's our responsibility to protect

the 2,000 colonists on this ship.

Hey.

I'm not free climbing here.

I need ropes,

and I'm using ropes.

This is good judgment,

based on all the data available.

You understand?

As your second I need to protest.

Officially.

Officially?

Okay, Danny.

I'll put it in the log.

You're dismissed.

I'm cycling through

every channel...

but we're getting a lot of

interference and white noise.

Some high frequency echos.

Do you hear anything?

Just the continuing signal

from our friendly ghost.

Let's bring us in

the closer orbit.

And prepare the lander.

Rolling progress,

commencing circular rotation burn.

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