On a 3-month long scouting contract Jake, (a 20 something human male) through a reclaimed sector in a small spacecraft that is running red on a number of dials from missed maintenance checks and 3rd hand junk parts but that's the life of a freelancer. You've been asked to go from planet to planet, doing basic scans to see if there is anything leftover from the great intergalactic war from 200 or so years ago.
You come across a planet that seems to be a lot more biodiversity than the other bombed-out worlds you've scanned so far. There were signs of buildings and cities but they seem to have deturated faster than expected for a world of this size and projected population. also there seems to be some kind of large mass in one of its seas.
Before you get the chance to jump to the next system, Jake heard his consul start screaming at him. The hydrogen battery was low and something is jamming the drive again. Seems like he's going to need to spend some time down on the planet surface to make repairs and refual but where should he land?