Strider looked around and saw no one to take his place.  It was only at that point he remembered he monitered everything remotely.  "Huh.  This whole intergalactic travel deal must've messed with my memory or something." he said under his breath as he closed the terminal and moved toward the officers cabinet.

He typed out a quick report on minor things he noticed running through the first sensor feeds.

SUB: Observations on oddities in sensor feeds.

Team,

Reading a steady electromagnetic field; almost mirroring earths.  Poles are opposite of earth.  Temperature is hovering about 40*F; but we are oceanborne and appear to be in the cooler area of the planet.  Aside from Biological Entity A-001 (The subject name he'd given their whale-ish life form for the time being) I read only small islands nearby, many with heavy feedback on metallurgical scans.  Either they're significantly rich in metals we know of on Earth; or they are pieces of wreckage from our unfortunate predecessors that were involuntarily forged into this new world.

Strider