Horrible Discovery

I awoke in a sea of shrapnel and flames

Charred remnants of my hull are

What's left of ship that I called home

Sifting through the rubble

Seeing what we can salvage to survive

A binary sunrise greets the horizon

As I climb to my feet

What world is this?

We'll find a way

Follow me, I yell through the fog

Though my words seem hollow

And fake in this atmosphere

Must be safe enough to breathe

If my mind is right and I'm still here

We wander for miles through wastelands

And forests filled with trees

I fall to my knees

The ground is damp and arid at the same time

Where the fuck are we?

A desolate planet that no one from my world

Has ever seen except for me

But how can I lay claim when no one will ever hear from me?

We're urged to press on, a desperate search for resource

A futile attempt at finding foreign life

The skyline seems surreal

I can't believe my eyes when I see structures rising from the fields

Could this be it? What we've been searching for?

Hostile or friendly, my thirst is too great to ignore

A glimmering complex unfolds

I run to the first building and burst right through the door

I fear I'm not alone

I hear voices from below

A dissonant flow of energy, a silence overgrown

Brotron, scan the scene for lifeform signatures

If there's somebody in here, make yourself known!

They taught me to believe nothing's as it seems

Shut your fucking mouth

I hear something in the distance

It sounds like some sobbing and tears

Is there somebody inside of here?

Is that a human I hear?

I open up the door

(This can't be, there's humans in here)

(Locked in cages, stacked floor to ceiling)

(Huddling for warmth, dying of disease)

Is this what I feared?

Something that my eyes wished they'd never seen

Experimentation, sickness and famine

Suffering all around me

Some unknown force is doing this

These are my people

What's going on in here?

There's got to be an explanation for all of this

This place is a fucking nightmare

Raped and destitute; devoid of hope

These are my people

How wrong we were to ever come here

The world must know of this atrocity

Relay the message, oh, universe, please, hear me

A force descends upon us from above

My world fades to black as I'm taken alive