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Escape from Sol 2 prologue

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Gas escaped from the pod. It was partly crushed from the landing on the unknown planet. It most have had a thick atmosphere and was a rocky one. Inside the asteroid belt. Either Sol 2 or Sol 3. I opened my eyes. And indeed the crash had done its toll on the small craft. The main computer was down. I would have to rely on self experimentation to figure out which planet I was on. 
I reached my tail over to pulled down on the leaver. A small shaft of yellow light drifted in. I began to uncoil myself. My rough skinned dull blue tail poked out the pod. Within half a second it recoiled back in "Ow!" I shrieked in pain. "Hot, so hot!" I pulled the tail up to my face. It nearly got melted by the heat. This planet clearly suffered a greenhouse effect. I was on Sol 2. 
I could never understand why the apes of Sol 3 though of this planet as beautiful. It was a nightmare! 
It was unbearable coiled up inside the small pod. My long body was designed for slithering down corridors of a space port, not rolled up in a escape pod. The pod was designed for ape use, not my kind. The Drakians. But when we were forced to scatter from colony on the moons of Sol 5, we had no choice. The Drakian command ships have very little fire power when used to colonize. My kind are fairly peaceful but underestimate the determination of the apes. Their will power are is more powerful then the gravity of a black hole. 
I guess I am trapped inside here. Oh in case you were wondering my name is Shkeer Dax. I am former member of the Drakian nursery colony on the moons of Sol 5. I am aged at 79 Sol 3 years, yet do to Drakians having life spans lasting well over 500 Sol 3 years I am but a youth. I weigh 100 kilograms on Sol 3, 85 here Sol 2 due to the planet being slightly smaller, I am 6 meters long and still growing, I could easily reach a size of 40 meters. I have five cybernetic upgrades to physical form,my eyes are enhanced with color vision and light and shadow, skeletal rigid ness in low gravity to keep from long term physical deformities and limitations, increased reflexes, speech translators, and cybernetic arms, something Drakians lack. My rough skin is like that of a shark on Sol 3 and in a pale blue, my Dorsal feathers are mixed orange and yellow though a greenish tint has been more noticeable in the past decade. 
From now one I will no longer narrate, so please enjoy: 
Escape from the Solar system!
I wanted to do some original writing. 
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