Creative Writing: Asteroids

Heart pounding, I was powerless as I watched the fleet fly right into an asteroid field. Asteroids aren't much of a problem if you know where they are, but if they take you by surprise without your shields raised, they can do a lot of damage. One ship went down, all hands lost. I jolted awake, covered in a cold sweat. Would the horror of that fatal mistake on my map always haunt me? Maybe that's why I got the border planets. Not because it was a great honor, but that the general wanted me out of his hair. Sighing, I slowly opened my eyes in the freezing cold chryo chamber, as Sim, my safety bot, started beeping up a storm. At first, I didn't think much of it, he always beeps like crazy when I wake up. But, as I gazed out of the frost covered