The Film Co-Operative

Logline:

An elite search and rescue team investigates an abandoned shuttle that crashed into their station only to realize it didn’t arrive alone.

Synopsis:

An elite search and rescue team investigates an abandoned shuttle that crashed into their station only to realize it didn’t arrive alone.

After a routine mission into a mine uncovers evidence of corruption and foul play, Chief Master Sergeant Josh Johnson leads his team in the investigation of the shuttle “Pop-Eye” that crashed into the station, DISS-10, they’re staying on for biohazard decontamination. The repair crew gets the patches installed, but are forced to call in a proper salvage and repair team.

They get into Hanger 18 and cut open the Pop-Eye. Her entire interior is coated in sparkling Black Sand, much like the mine they just came from, some spills onto the hanger floor.

Commander Thomas Harris watches the video feeds of the team from the control room. He gives the order to enter.

The members of the team are immediately on edge about the whole situation, but understand they have a job to do. They split up to search for the crew and any evidence of what happened. The Sand seems to have a mind of its own – it moves of its own volition, enticing them to go deeper into the shuttle. Two of the team find a uniform-clothed skeleton in the galley, another body is found near the crew’s quarters. 

Down in the cargo hold, a third body is found, but before they can extract it the Sand attacks. It forms into a giant wave to swallow the team members whole. They escape, but have to move the corpses to the morgue for examination. As they head out, Johnson finds the captain’s video log. His download is interrupted by corrupt files and must manually record the videos on his helmet cam. 

They watch in horror as the scientific team, whom the Pop-Eye was sent to supply records, discovering the Sand, and their slow demise due to “supply-chain issues.” One by one, the scientists are horribly killed until they are eventually found by the Pop-Eye’s crew. They take the bodies onboard and head back to their station, but are turned away due to the hazard they’ll create. They are sent – at gun point – to DISS-10 for the same reason as Johnson’s team. 

As Johnson plays these video logs, the members of his team are sent to medical holding. They describe what happened, unknowingly helping to spread the Sand around DISS-10. Johnson finishes recording the logs and hurries to get off the Pop-Eye just as the Black Sand springs its trap: to consume life. 

Room by room, Black Sand emerges to eat everyone aboard. Johnson can only listen to the screams until he himself is consumed as well. But it’s not over – the salvage and repair team arrives and is met by a disturbing silence coming from DISS-10.