The game begins as the protagonist, Richard, recovers consciousness after a shuttle crash on the moon.

You were miserable after the shuttle crash, and you couldn't keep up with your studies.

That thought had been gnawing at him since they'd left the shuttle crash.

When I first saw him, he was just a scared boy wounded from a shuttle crash.

Between the shuttle crash and the problems in my own division, I'm usually needed in about fifteen places at once.

Obviously, he thought with irritation, the wrong person died in the shuttle crash.

Memories of the shuttle crash flashed across his mind.

"I'm expecting some urgent news about a shuttle crash."

"A shuttle crash is about the only thing that would match those parameters."

"You're saying that none of your stations recorded a shuttle crash?"