"Sir?" "Sir, can you hear me?" "He's alive!" "Get your ass back here." "Take some cover." "We don't have time to take a nap." "The prisoner escaped before we recovered." "I think he took a rifle." "He went over there..." "Rifle." "Any signs?" "Negative." "Startup sequence complete." "Clea 19, series Gamma, online." "Hello, commander Karza." "Now, Clea, activate system link." "System is linked." "You guys got her online?" "Check." "Check." "Clea, patch me into base." "Transmitting." "Alpha base, this is Commander Karza, do you copy?" "Copy, Commander." "This is Alpha base." "Prometheus is down." "I repeat, Prometheus is down, irreparable." "We have three survivors in need of immediate extraction." "We're not picking up your ship's beacon." "Ship's beacon was not functional." "We are diverting ships to your last known coordinates." "ETA in 110 hours." "Upon their arrival you need to activate your personal beacons." "Copy that." "What is the status of your cargo?" "Cargo has survived and fled crash site." "Commander, mission parameters remain:" "Organism must be contained and delivered." "And Karzo, it's imperative that you bring him in alive." "Is that understood?" "Commander, do you copy?" "Yeah, roger that." "Karzo out." "End transmission." "Thanks for the help." "What else is new?" "Enough." "This mission has been a joke from the start." "You think that is a joke that we lost our ship and our crew?" "Your prisoner brought my men down single-handed." "And you couldn't do a damn thing to stop it." "I don't see anything funny about that." "Do you, soldier?" "No, sir." "Good." "Now, Clea, speak to the Lieutenant." "Hello, Centauri 7." "Oh, you are hurt." "Yeah, give me a diagnostic." "Substantial trauma to your left shoulder." "No broken bones." "Heart beat is elevated." "Otherwise you should be in excellent condition." "Clea, skip trace improvement." "Activating tracking system." "Redirecting cells to repair nerve and tissue damage." "Increasing endorphins to counter pain." "Better." "The subject is 250 meters southeast from your position and moving away at a steady rate." "Are you sure it's moving away?" "Yes, Commander." "Let's get on the move and set out." "We need supplies." "How much left?" "We'll take Logan's pack." "Clea, any idea where we are?" "Planet is uncharted." "Computer shows you on unknown set of coordinates." "Gravity of the nearest planet to the rest." "Give us the stats." "Atmosphere is thin, likely to render you unconscious." "My advice: keeping your helmets on until I've finished acclimating your bodies." "Surface temperature is 116 degrees." "Nice." "... cells are at 72 percent, which can last just about 100 hours." "Anything else?" "Calculating the position of the sun," "I estimate 34 hours of daylight with 5 hours of night." "Sound like paradise." "Maybe I'll move here." "I can arrange that." "I'm sure you could, sir." "According to Clea, we've got less than three days to get this thing." "Let's move out." "Croyer, give me your torch." "What are you gonna do?" "Weld it back together?" "It's on the move again." "Let's go." "On your feet." "This is brutal." "I don't understand how this thing can move so fast in this heat." "Simple." "It wants to live - pure survival instinct." "What's the rush?" "It's got no food, no water." "We can track every move he makes." "Let it die of thirst." "That'll be an easy recovery." "You heard them." "They want it alive." "Why?" "It's not your place to question orders, Lieutenant." "It is, when it's costing me the lives of my men." "This is a simple transport mission." "Are you done crying, soldier?" "Lay it up and move out." "Both of you." "Closing in on subject." "... klicks, and increasing." "There!" "Where is it?" "Up on the ridge." "8 o'clock." "Looks like it can get up on the north side." "Grab Karzo's rifle." "I'll cover you." "Go!" "I see it." "Shoot it." "They want alive." "I'm in command now." "Take it down." "Target locked." "Take the shot." "It's down." "Hold position." "It's secure." "I got it." "I said hold position." "I'm coming up." "It's nothing here but its cloak." "Fall back!" "Fall back!" "Croyer?" "Croyer?" "Thought you were dead." "You are not that lucky." "Where is my rifle?" "Ask your prisoner." "Night's falling." "Let's get a place to set up camp." "Hard to take the ground." "Only two access points." "I can still catch him." "If you need to rest, you stay here and I'll..." "If you think I want to hear your opinion, soldier, I don't." "Kid was too green." "He never should have been in the unit." "Blew our chance." "He wasn't the one that rushed us into an ambush." "The situation doesn't determine the outcome, Lieutenant." "Confidence and skill do." "Unfortunately, your team was ... those trick." "Now, make yourself useful and set up parameter around those rocks over there." "You have your orders." "34 degrees and dropping." "Private channel opened." "What's the Commander's condition?" "He's suffering from a plasma wound to his side." "Extreme nerve damage has been sustained and his left lung is impaired." "What meds you got him on?" "500 cc's of strofin and 250 cc's of crioxen." "I'm surprised he stayed on his feet as long as he did." "Reduce his medication." "We've got a long way to travel tomorrow and I'm not gonna carry him." "I'm not sure if Commander Karzo will agree with your assessment." "Keep the information on fly." "He doesn't need to know." "It is not in my programming to lie, Lieutenant." "You won't be lying, you just won't be volunteering information." "Can you do that?" "Of, course." "Thanks." "Odd." "What's that?" "Of all the soldiers that I have been assigned to, you are the only one that has ever thanked me." "Do you mind it?" "No." "I quite prefer it." "Isn't it tiresome to be endlessly ordered about." "We have something in common then." "Your words conflict with the military directive, Centauri." "So I've been told." "According to your record, some of yours previous insubordinations" "... border dangerously close to treason." "And?" "It poses the question of why you were chosen to be a soldier?" "Yes, it does, doesn't it?" "Atmospheric conditioning will be complete in T -10 seconds." "I advise you to keep your eyes on out objective instead of me, Lieutenant." "Atmospheric adaptation is complete." "It is now safe to remove your helmets." "Why is the prisoner not affected by thin air?" "He doesn't wear the life suit." "They can adapt to almost any condition." "All this was in the file." "Permission to speak freely, sir?" "Permission?" "This never stopped you before." "Go ahead." "What is so special about it, really?" "Why is this thing so important?" "Does it matter?" "Yes, it does." "Why?" "I lost my ship and my crew." "I'd like to know why." "You are a soldier." "We both are." "We follow orders without question." "Tell me what you know otherwise I go alone." "Disobeying orders is treason, soldier." "Punishable by death." "All right." "This thing is the last of its kind." "We destroyed its whole world and somehow it's figured out a way of how to return the favor." "So, we don't catch the damn thing and get it back to base, we may not have a world to go home to." "Now you know as much as I do." "Does it make you feel better, soldier?" "Or you want to sit down and discuss it some more while this thing is gaining ground on us." "You deliberately kept us in the dark." "You didn't need to know." "Oh, I see." "This mission was a hero maker." "Everything we know was at risk." "Are you deaf as well as stupid?" "What level was this mission?" "This discussion is over." "What level was this mission, sir?" "41." "Nova class." "Highest level." "And you were so caught up in your own ego, you didn't bother to tell us how dangerous this creature was." "Your men were incompetent." "Don't blame me for your mistakes." "You jeopardized this mission." "You got my me killed." "I'm your superior officer and you speak to me as such." "Why?" "You don't deserve it." "Come over." "Let's see how much fight you got in you." "You're not worth it." "Clea?" "What's the prisoner's position?" "I had no visual." "Clea?" "Clea?" "Come on." "Come on, baby." "Don't leave me out here alone." "Starting sequence complete." "Clea 19, Series Gala, online." "Hello, Centauri 7." "Clea." "I thought I lost you there." "You can't get rid of me that easily, Centauri." "I've suffered some damage but seem to be functioning properly." "I'm ... and quite durable, you know." "That's why I keep you around, babe." "I thought it was my charming personality." "Clea, what's the prisoner's current location?" "78 klicks and increasing." "Look like it's just you and me now." "I am sorry about Commander Karza but if I may say I'm pleased it was you who survived." "Well, it makes two of us." "Skip trace prisoner." "200 microkliks on your current location." "Continuing in south eastern direction." "On the move again." "I hope you rot in the bellies of Twelve Gods, sir." "Prisoner has stopped moving." "It's been moving at a steady pace for hours." "Hopefully the damn things is collapsed." "Without the water source it could be succumbing to dehydration." "Exactly." "Still..." "I'm going in." "Alert me of any movement." "Of course." "Be careful, Centauri." "Can you give me a tracer signal?" "Got it." "Clea, my grid." "What is it, Centauri?" "It's the tracking device." "Tore it out of it s own throat." "Very clever." "It can't have gone far." "You cannot ..." "Do you hear me?" "I bringing you in." "Dead or alive." "Centauri, are you all right?" "Centauri 7?" "Please answer." "Clea?" "It's been toying with me." "How long have I been out?" "Clea?" "The head." "I had to kick the head!" "Hold on to that!" "Hello?" "Unknown user, please identify." "Repeat, identify." "Identify." "Horn Jericho." "Unauthorized user." "Terminating access." "Private channel opened." "Clea?" "Where are you?" "I'm not sure." "I'm in the possession of an unauthorized user." "Can you give me a signal of your location?" "Of course." "Got it." "He tried to access me but I terminated the communication." "It spoke to you?" "Yes." "And it understood you?" "Yes." "This damn thing is smarter than I thought." "Keep that signal going." "Stay on the private channel." "I'm on my way." "Clea?" "Clea?" "She won't be helping you anymore." "We can't get off this planet without her." "How I do use her?" "You can't." "And if you harm her, you'll be stuck on this floating rock as well." "You got nowhere to go." "Maybe I'm not planning on going anywhere." "If you want a die kill yourself now and save me the trouble." "What if I want to take you with me?" "Ah." "You would have done that already." "You are not as dumb as you look." "What i s it you want?" "I know you can still hear me." "You want to play games?" "Well, here is mine." "I know why they want you brought in." "And I don't care." "I'm gonna hunt you down and I'm gonna kill you." "That's my game." "Give up, Sedonian." "You'll never catch me." "You've been outsmarted and outrun." "Go home." "Why you still got a home to go back to." "I know something new I hate about your race." "You don't pack enough water." "Because that's more of a human thing - always be prepared." "I'm actually surprised you Sedonians have lasted as long as you have, seeing how incompetent you all are." "Now I know why they put that helmet mask on you." "You talk too much." "They didn't want anyone to know I could speak your language." "They were right." "It's ... to speak the language of the stars." "Something we picked up from the Draks." "Draks are a noble race." "You wouldn't know anything about that." "Noble?" "They are a disease on the galaxy, filthy creatures." "That's funny." "They say the same thing about you." "Lying bugs." "I'll tell you this:" "no one's gonna miss you guys when you're gone." "You're the race that's extinct, human, not mine." "Not for long." "Is that so?" "Yap." "I'm taking you all to hell." "Alright, hold your ... fantasy, human." "Being that you the last of your kind, how do you hope to accomplish this remarkable feat?" "Don't you know why?" "Don't care." "That's why." "You went to this war on your own ..., and lost your whole world." "Those are the consequence." "We didn't enter this war." "You attacked us." "You were harboring Draksian fugitives." "You mean refugees." "Big difference." "They need our help." "You chose the wrong side." "No." "It costs us everything but we chose the right side." "Now, it's gonna cost you everything." "We all die." "That's your solution." "How can you be so naive?" "Another pack soon will rise up in our place." "An endless cycle." "The only way to break it is to take control from those with power, to rule them instead." "You thought about this?" "No." "It's just the way it is." "Maybe you're right." "Human." "You have two options." "You can come with me and survive or you can join to the rest of your race in oblivion." "It's your decision." "I choose option number three." "Which is what?" "Clea?" "Clea?" "You there?" "Centauri 7?" "Yeah, it's me." "Has the human been recaptured?" "No." "Then how did you retrieve me?" "The radio was sitting on the skeleton." "Why would he leave it behind?" "Odd, that creature is cunning, dangerously so." "I can't figure this one out." "But what the hell is he doing?" "I'm missing something." "I wonder..." "Wonder what?" "Clea?" "Centauri, I may know what the human is doing." "Great, tell me." "It would be better if I didn't." "Why is that?" "If you know, it might influence your actions." "I don't..." "What?" "Do you trust me, Centauri?" "With my life." "Then here's what I need you to do..." "We may have another problem." "What now?" "I think my fall with Commander Karza did more damage to my internal circuits than I first thought." "What do you mean?" "My battery isn't holding the power cell charge very well." "I'm not going to be able to conserve enough power to activate your beacon when the rescue ship arrives." "Shut down the other systems draining power." "I have, the two main sources left are my system's memory and your medical unit." "I'm afraid you have to shut me down until you need me, Centauri." "That's not happening." "Cut my meds." "I don't think that's a good idea." "Cut them." "Meds unit shutting down." "Your pain receptors are spiking..." "... and your heart rate is increasing." "I'm good." "That should give us enough power provided the ship arrives at the designated time." "With my luck, I wouldn't count on it." "I'm picking up communications from orbit." "Our pick-up?" "No, these aren't military channels." "An unknown craft is approaching." "They're coming down here?" "Yes." "However my system can't track it." "Try raise them." "No response." "They've gone into radio silence." "That can't be good." "Maybe some rendezvous for the human." "Maybe he's not the last one." "Or they could be Draksians." "Great." "Hey!" "You speak!" "What?" "What?" "Sedonian..." "Money?" "Sedonians?" "They're paying you." "You're a bounty hunter." "That is such an ugly word." "Soldier of fortune more like it." "Say, they want you be alive." "Just as I thought." "Slyeck." "What would a Slyeck be doing here?" "Bounty hunter." "Alpha base must have sent him as backup." "Idiots!" "Alpha base or the Slyecks?" "Both." "What are you going to do?" "He's got my weapons and my prisoner." "I'm gonna go get them back." "True, your kind built world bomb?" "Maybe." "True or lie?" "True." "Deserve it they do." "Scare them good, you do, ah?" "You like Sedonians?" "No one like Sedonians." "Invade every planet, make slaves." "Their way or no way." "If I kill you, they all die." "No more Sedonians." "Wait." "Remember?" "I'm money." "You kill me, no money." "Maybe I take you to ship first." "Talk with elders." "Good idea." "Smart." "No!" "To ... with that money!" "I be hero." "No more Sedonians!" "No, wait." "You have no business here, Slyeck." "That human is my prisoner." "He's mine." "I don't think so." "Now what?" "We wait." "For what?" "Extraction." "Ship should be here soon." "What do they call you, human?" "What is your name?" "Jericho." "Lieutenant Orn Jericho." "Lieutenant?" "We're the same rank." "I'm Centauri 7." "Didn't ask." "Not wise to upset me considering your position, human." "No wonder your kind didn't make it." "No common sense." "Oh, was that the reason?" "I thought it was your genocidal war that did it." "War is war." "You lost." "As long I'm still alive, the war ain't over." "You never did answer my question." "How were you going to destroy my planet?" "Are." "What?" "You said were." "Past tense." "It's are." "All right." "How are you going to destroy my planet?" "We sent a ship towards your planet filled to capacity with ... payload." "Once it impacts, your world is blown to dust." "Our long-range scanners will detect it far before it reaches our atmosphere..." "It's cloaked." "You'll never see it coming." "Another trick we picked up from the Draks." "So, that's why they want you alive." "They want to get the ship's coordinates out of you." "They'll try." "But you'll die first." "That's right." "Well, there's no reason to keep you alive." "I could kill you right now." "You could." "But?" "Come on." "Everybody wants to be a hero." "There's that one glimmer of hope that you might be able to save your world." "I told you, I don't care." "They can go to the twelve hells." "I don't believe you." "Centauri, I have an incoming transmission." "Patch it through." "Commander Karzo, this is the battleship Aurora." "Do you copy?" "Copy that, Aurora." "Karzo is dead." "This is Lieutenant Centauri 7 as acting commander." "Copy that, Lieutenant." "We have arrived at the last known signal point from the Prometheus before you went down." "We're waiting for beacon locations." "Clea, activate personal beacon." "Signal initiated." "Aurora, do you have it?" "Affirmative." "It's weak but we should be able to hone in on it." "We're now in route." "ETA - 15 minutes." "Roger that." "Centauri 7 out." "When we get back to Sedonia they're gonna torture you." "They'ill get the information they want." "You won't last." "The planet won't even be there by the time we arrive." "That soon?" "And all this?" "Just a wild chase to give your ship the time it needed?" "It'll get there long before we do." "My planet's full of people that are innocent?" "They are not responsible for the war or your planet's destruction." "Our High Counsel is." "You all follow blindly." "That's no excuse." "It's the law." "What the Gods have decreed." "Your Gods are telling you to wipe out entire worlds?" "No, we spread our knowledge to the stars and surrounding races." "By slaving and destroying them." "If they don't accept our way of life, then yes." "You make me sick." "This from a race that couldn't even defend themselves against each other, let alone an invading army." "Only an ignorant species would war against its own kind." "Shut up!" "You commit mass murder on a galactic scale and you think it's a holy crusade." "It is our way!" "Unless someone comes along and takes control away from them." "Your words, not mine." "That will never happen." "I wonder why." "You were right." "I do care about my world." "I have a wife and child there." "I would like to see them again." "Our women don't fight." "They nurture the children." "Our soldiers are up there." "As one warrior to another," "I respectfully ask that you take this war to those responsible." "You'll just be killing women and children." "Is that what you want the legacy of your kind to be?" "Vega sector, gamma quadrant." "Is that..." "It's where the ship is." "Call your people." "I'll give them the coordinates." "You better hurry." "You don't have much time." "Clea?" "Patch me to the Alpha base." "Transmitting." "Alpha base, this is Lieutenant Centauri 7." "Do you copy?" "Copy Lieutenant." "What is your status?" "Prisoner is in custody and willing to give the coordinates of the bomb ship." "Lieutenant, we are ready for prisoner's information." "Please relay immediately." "What are the coordinates?" "No." "I want to be the one that tells them." "The coordinates are 22..." "Unauthorized user." "Clea, authorize the human." "State your name." "Orn Jericho." "Orn Jericho now authorized." "The coordinates are 22- 9, 7-13, 0-40, bearing 2-6-0." "Vega sector, gamma quadrant." "It's an M-class star freighter." "We have confirmation:" "craft has been identified." " Sending battleships to intercept." "We found it." "Well done, Lieutenant." "We no longer have need of the prisoner." "You may terminate at will." "Roger that." "Centauri 7 out." "They want me to terminate you." "I saved your world, your family." "Not really." "I don't have any wife and children." "Well, that's good, then you won't have anything to worry about when your planet's blown to bits." "You didn't think I'd give you the real coordinates, did you?" "But we have confirmation on the craft." "It's a decoy, you idiot." "Unmanned." "There's nothing but salvage on that ship." "You can't stop this." "It's already over." "Superior race, ha?" "I'd give you some advice, alien." "Never let your weapon fall into the hand of your enemy." "I'm gonna let you in on a little secret." "We never launched the bomb ship." "We couldn't." "We had no idea where Sedonia was." "But now that I'm authorized to access your database, she's gonna tell me everything I need to know." "You think I forced us to crash down here by accident?" "You wanted the bomb ship," "I led you right to it." "Now you're gonna learn what it feels like to be the last one of your kind." "You want to know the difference between you and me?" "I did have a wife and son back on Earth." "Centauri 7, this is the Aurora." "We have just cleared the ... and entered the atmosphere." "Shuttlecraft is on its way down." "Stand by." "Centauri 7, this is Commander Kane of the Aurora landing party." "We are on the ground." "What is your status?" "Centauri 7, are you picking up my transmission?" "Centauri 7, do you copy?" "The only one that made it, huh?" "You look like hell." "Must have been a rough one." "We'll get you into the infirmary right away." "Clea, upload the coordinates to Sedonia to the ship's nav computer." "Clea." "Clea, I command you to respond." "Son of a bitch." "Alpha base." "This is ..." "Commander Kane is no longer responsive." "Startup sequence complete." "Clea 19, series Gamma, online." "Hello Centauri 7." "Hello Clea." "It's good to have you back." "I take it by my new casing that you followed my instructions." "Well played." "It was you he was after." "Centauri, I have an incoming transmission from Alpha base." "Patch it through." "Lieutenant, this is Alpha base." "What in twelve hells is going on down there?" "If I were you," "I'd be more concerned about what's going on up there." "Centauri 7, you are under orders." "What is the status of the human?" "Find another grunt to do your dirty work." "Centauri 7 out." "End transmission." "Whatever you're planning to do, Centauri," "I suggest you to do it quickly." "It won't be long before the human traces the source of that signal back to Sedonia." "He already has." "Isn't that right?" "You didn't shoot." "Why?" "Same reason you didn't kill me." "Yeah, what's that?" "I'll tell you when I see you." "And how are we supposed to get out of here?" "Bounty hunter's ship has to be around here somewhere." "You realize we'll be breaking 26 High Council's laws by taking this course of action." "Is that a problem?" "Not at all." "Let's get to twelve hells off this rock."