"Ever since my time on the Magog world ship," "I've felt lost, confused.." "I don't have answers but it's time I started asking the questions wherever they might lead." "Until I see you all again, know this, wherever my path may lead even in the darkest places" "I will carry you all in my heart, and you will light my way always." "That's the entire message." "I knew he was having trouble but I didn't think it was this bad." "The darkest places, I don't like the sound of that." "Me neither." "I say we track him down and drag him back here whether he wants to come or not." "Well he's a free ..... being." "He's made his will known" "Besides even if we wanted to find him, where would we look?" "Rev Bem can take care of himself and if he wants time to be alone" "I say we give it to him." "Yeah, easy for you to say." "Harper?" "Harper are you in here?" "No!" "Look I know you're upset but if Rev has to take off ..." "Rev promised me he'd find a way to get these Magog parasites out of my gut before they killed me." "He made me a promise and OOHH!" "Sit here, come on." "Take your medicine, come on." "It's not working." "Just lie down," "there you go." "Sinti!" "Don't let me go!" "Hang on to me Please!" "Code red." "Medical Emergency in machine shop 17!" "." "Dylan what's going on down there?" "It's the Magog larvae in Harper's stomach." "They're starting to hatch." "Come on Harper." "He is the last guardian of a falling civilization," "A hero from another time, faced with the universe and chaos." "Dylan Hunt recrutes an unlikely crew and sets out to re-unite the galaxies." "On the starship Andromeda, hope lives again" "Harper should be conscious in an hour or two, but I'm not going to lie to you it's not good." "Details Trance." "Well, the Magog larvae in Harper's belly have developed an immunity to the medicine we've been giving him." "They're not going to respond to any more doses." "Don't tell Harper that." "He has a week at most and then they're going to hatch." "That is just great." "Sinti..." "Harper?" "Sinti." "The Perseids of course if anyone can help Harper it's them." "Beka." "I'm on my way." "I should...." "You should rest, save your energy." "The Magog larvae what... whatever happens.... whatever happens..." "Don't worry Harper." "I won't let them hatch." "We're entering Sinti Space." "Andromeda, relay all our current information on Harper's condition to Technical Director Hohne." "Ask him for any help he can provide." "Beka take us in" "Ow!" "OW!" "Double ow!" "Harper I have been looking all over for you." "Liar." "You never have to look for anything Trance." "you always find what you're looking for pretty much right away." "Okay so I wasn't looking for you, but as your acting physician," "I figure that it's time you got some rest." "Uhh, uhn uhn uhn." "You never went to medical school Trance so you are not a regular doctor." "Huh." "Lucky for you I'm not a regular doctor, 'cause if I were you'd have been dead months ago." "All right, maybe, maybe, but I've got less than a week to live and I'd like to spend every second on finding a cure okay?" "Now where's that damn nanomanipulator?" "Thanks." "Hey look, ummm, thanks for everything, you know." "Now if you don't mind I could use a little peace and quiet." "Going." "Engineer heal thyself." "Technical Director Hohne." "Thank you for coming." "Harper will be very glad you're here." "Actually I should thank you for bringing this to my attention." "I've looked at young Mr. Harper's proposal for removing the Magog larvae, captain." "It's startling." "Ground breaking." "Cutting edge research with a willing fully interactive subject." "Mr. Harper's condition will truly preset us with an exciting opportunity." "Once in a lifetime." "Glad to be of service." "Now if you'll excuse us we mustn't keep our subject waiting." "Rekeeb the equipment." "Yes, the equipment." "Tell me again how brilliant he is." "Startlingly, uncompromising brilliant." "One of the greatest minds of the age." "And Harper's only hope." "Boom!" "No more baby Magog, miracle cure." "Case closed." "So you want to remove the larvae by folding space?" "Alice strings and tesseracts." "Astounding." "If we can work out the specifics of this technology we should be able to literally mold space and time to our will." "Yeah that's the general idea." "uhh frankly though I'll be happy if we can just extract my unwanted guests." "And uh you developed this technology by yourself?" "Well technically I uhh confiscated it from some very nasty characters." "The human allies of the Magog." "And their creator." "You better believe it baby." "They used it to walk through walls," "I'm gonna use it to walk through walls, only this time uh stomach walls." "Harper are you sure this is wise?" "You barely understand this technology, if it doesn't work...." "I know I know." "It'll twist me into an abstract painting." "Harper descending staircase." "Okay this isn't a joke." "No it's not, I know." "But the way I see it, Rommie, I got nothing to loose." "If you don't like Harper's plan give me an alternative." "I wish I could." "Then we have no choice but to let him go through with it." "And what if it doesn't work?" "What if we have to..." "Stop the Magog from hatching?" "To kill him." "If it comes to that" "I'll take care of it." "When you recruited the Maru crew" "I thought they were unreliable, unprofessional." "Harpers closer to me than any engineer I've ever had." "Practically closer than any crewmember that's ever served on me." "Like family." "They all are." "Hell, even Tyr." "We should have maintained military detachment." "Well Rommie we didn't." "We couldn't, they needed us and the truth is we needed them." "They're all we have." "There." "Maintain the power feed;" "let me know if there is anything else we can do." "Yes sir." "And transfer the specs for Harper's machine down to my quarters." "Rommie did you ..." "Rommie?" "Weird." "Battle stations!" "Battle stations!" " all crew man your battle stations!" "Stam?" "Thompson?" " Battle stations!" " Thompson!" " This is not a drill." " Thompson!" "Battle stations!" "Captain, all stations manned and ready." "elapsed time 3 minutes 27 seconds." "Too slow!" "Major Vance." "Kiley!" "Battle stations." "Kiley!" "Kiley!" "Dylan?" "ylan how did you get down here?" "This isn't deck ten." "Deck nineteen." "One minute you were on deck nine, nine the next you were 200 meters away, what happened to you?" "I was with our crew." "Our original crew and they were alive and they were on this ship." "It was Thompson I'm sure of it." "It was him, Stam, even Kiley Vance were all headed for battle stations." "Thompson only served with us for one battle" "I know Hephestus." "The Nietzscheans ambushed us and we were frozen in time." "He did die Dylan;" "I can show you the records if you want." "I know what I saw Rommie." "Then what are you suggesting?" "Time travel?" "Not just time that battle took place over 500,0000 light years from here." "Am I losing it?" "Maybe." "If I were it wouldn't be much of a surprise now would it?" "It would be consistent with the psychological effects of a great deal of stress." "That's an understatement." "Ever since hepehstus my worlds been in pieces." "You know if I were hallucinating how does that explain how I disappeared from your internal sensors Huh?" "Or how did I move 200 meters in just a few seconds?" "The problem is I wasn't programmed or equipped as a science vessel." "My expertise runs more along the lines of making things explode" "Rev Bem was our theoretical physicist." "Yeah." "He was also our ship's psychologist... but he's not here." "No he's not." "Harper is there a chance your machine is working already?" "I wish." "Why?" "Dylan experienced something strange on deck nine." "Oh and of course it's all my fault." "Well I hate to disappoint you but we've barely gotten started." "My stomach is killing me literally." "Dylan is the least of my problems." "I understand." "Let me know if you need anything." "How about a new gut, hold the Magog eggs." "Tell me you got it all figured out." "Not all but we've made a good start." "Observe." "You want to add a photonic resonator?" "We need it to maintain absolute control of the string rotations." "Aha because otherwise we'd end up playing Alice string roulette in the key of F." "in the key of F." "This may actually work." "must say, two year ago if you'd have told me that someday someday I'd develop a cutting edge application of string theory" "I'd have thought it as likely as a borillian meteor shower." "All right all right." "Look, the two of you at least pretend you're not having so much fun okay?" "Remember my life is hanging by a thread here." "An Alice string" "Oh see that's exactly what I'm talking about;" "science jokes." "Mr. Anasazi..." "Tyr?" "You need something?" "This is clearly not my quarters." "Harper?" "I sincerely hope that you and your excitable friends aren't involving me in your experiments." "ahh!" "Ahh!" "Ooh!" "Ahh!" "Magog eggs remember?" "ow!" "OW!" "Tyr I promise on my potential list of lab rats you are absolutely 100 % dead last." "Honest." "Did anyone notice that energy distortion?" "Puzzling!" "Hull breech in machine shop 17." "Hull breech?" "The machine shop is 50 meters from an outside bulkhead." "I can't seal it; my control over the airlocks has been disrupted somehow." "Come on." "Okay explain this." "Hello is somebody there?" "You're not supposed to be here." "Help!" "Help!" "Help me!" "Oh no you don't hang on Rekeeb!" "Please don't let me go!" "Hang on I got ya, I got ya!" "Oh please!" "Help meeeeeee!" "Help" "Whew!" "GO!" "Oh what?" "Lovely." "Ummm, I'm sensing freakiness." "He's uh some kind of robot." "Uh, he not just any robot Trance." "This is one of the killer robots from the Pax Magellanic that we fought over a year ago." "you think he's been hiding here this whole time?" "Not likely." "What did you do Trance?" "Hey I haven't done anything, I swear." "Okay then give me... a theory." "What's your best guess?" "Well I suppose it's possible that the Maru now and the Maru then have become connected somehow but if that were true there's only one possible explanation" "Space and time have become very messed up." "Finally!" "Can anyone hear us?" "Perfectly sir, however getting to your location is another matter entirely." "Every doorway on this ship seems to be set on scramble." "Guys we just ran into one of the Pax Magellanic killer robots ...from over a year ago." "Trance thinks that time and space have become distorted somehow," "I said it was just a guess." "the crewmen in the hallway" "Harper's tesseracting device, it has to be." "I told Rommie, it's not working yet." "Maybe it doesn't have to work now to affect now." "If the device you're building can reshape space and time it might also be distorting it." "from the time it was completed yes." "In the future." "Holy freaking Kali melons." "So when we finish the device and activate it it's gonna send out some kind of temporal shock waves." "Yes." "Backwards in time until now." "Temporal flux." "Oh Dear!" "Problem solved you've already stopped working on the device, now we can disassemble it." "Immediately." "I wish we could." "Unfortunately under the current circumstances finding the correct machine shop and I uh I uh took the liberty of uh assembling several miniature robots to begin the assembly process is going to be rather difficult... and I uh I uh took the liberty of uh assembling several miniature robots" "to begin the assembly process." "so it's building itself?" "Now that is just wonderful!" "Dylan we have a situation." "we certainly do." "No these disturbances aren't limited to the Andromeda." "What are you taking about?" "They're also happening on Sinti and with a far greater degree of intensity than here and if we don't stop them they'll tear the planet apart." "This keeps getting better and better doesn't it?" "Obs Deck again?" "!" "all right, we need a plan." "You!" "Come up with one now." "I assure you I'm trying." "There must be a mathematically predictable pattern to the distortions but so far it eludes me." "Chaos theory!" "And if you have nothing helpful to add, say nothing." "Scientist give me a headache." "They give me a stomachache." "What the..." "Intruders!" "No, no, no, no... uh this is all just a umm a spatial temporal misunderstanding" "Nietzschean, drop the gun or we'll kill you where you stand!" "What was that?" "Uhh, monsoon season on Gahanna I think." "you mean that door just opened to another planet?" "That can not be good." "Crap!" "Kalderans, move back!" "Deck 57?" "This should be deck 19." "This is like trying to pilot a slipfighter blindfolded." "I can't even connect to the ship's AI my core intelligence is spread out over six decks and right now its as scrambled as the rest of the ship" "Okay, okay." "Here's the plan" "We split up double of chances of success Hopefully we'll get to the machine shop, stop Hohne's experiment from finishing itself if not then maybe one of us can get to command." "And move the ship away from Sinti." "Yeah keep this thing from spreading to the planet." "Go!" "Going." "Ah, Dylan..." "Dylan?" "Dylan?" "why are there Kalderans on my ship?" "There shouldn't be Kalderans on my ship!" "There have never been Kalderans on my ship!" "Yet!" "You mean these guys are from our future?" "something to look forward to." "Oh come on!" "I am getting sick and tired of this cut and paste ship!" "Okay, here's the deal." "you will open onto the command deck and that is an order on three!" "One... two... three..." "Good at least were getting warmer." "Tyr!" "What going on?" "I was hoping you might know." "Nietchean give it up there's nowhere to run!" "Kiley!" "Captain Hunt?" "Hold your fire." "Sir." "Major Vance." "Report." " What's going on here?" " You first." "We were manning battle stations in response to the Nietchean ambush." "We fund him." "When he refused to surrender we opened fire." "And postponed asking questions indefinitely." "Captain none of these corridors lead where they should." "Everything... it's different" "I'll explain later right now I need to...." "Now what!" "?" "Kalderans." "Major hold off the Kalderans." "Tyr!" "Find that machine shop," "I'm headed for command." "Go!" "In Dylan Hunt we trust." "Kiley... it's good to see you again." "You heard the captain." "This defiantly does not look like the latrine, which I suppose, is a good thing." "Oh dear this is all my fault." "I never imagined the tesseracts machines side effects would be so disruptive." "I just wish I knew what we did wrong." "Not did." "Will do." "These events are emanating from the future." "Oh dear." "I wish you'd stop saying that." "Now don't you see?" "We're experiencing the distortions now, so that means we must have failed somehow in the future." "It's a classic predestination paradox." "The activation may be unavoidable destiny." "I don't believe in destiny and I don't even believe in density except in the hands of Perseids." "It's a compliment." "I believe in Seamus Zelazny Harper." "I cogito therefore I sum and I sum to cogito the damn machine right out of existence capiche?" "I do, I actually do." "You seek to defy fate through a sheer act of will." "Yeah baby you better believe it a man makes his own destiny." " Destiny." " Yeah that too." "Oh allow me." "Ok." "Oh my, I seem to have..." "Down here!" "Mr. Harper?" "Oh no!" "Oh no you don't, come on!" "Oh dear." "Don't move Hohne!" "I'm afraid I've never been very good at this sort of thing." "Mr. Harper.... oh good show, ahhh." "grab my shoulder, come on." "Yes." "Now on the count of three you're gonna climb up me, okay." "Yeah" "Ready?" "One, two three..." "Hang on, no!" "No don't, Dylan'll kill me!" "Come on, no don't!" "there was nothing we could do, it was fate, irrevocable destiny." "Bull it was bad luck, stupidity." "There's no such thing as destiny." "But the universe is entangled on a quantum level who's to say how one event is bound to another?" "Perhaps all thing are predetermined." "Al right... the only thing predetermined is that you are going to shut up, or I'm going to shove that chin in your mouth and shut you up." "Your human tendency toward violence..." "Pales in comparison to my human tendency not to give up." "We are gonna find that machine, we are going to make sure that nobody else dies because of it and nothing is going to stop us not even the laws of temporal mechanics." "Comprende?" "beyond all margin for error." "Good." "Now move!" "Fancy meeting you here.." "Is it just me or is there some kind of pattern to these jumps." "I've almost got it figured out, it's an inverse curve the faster we try to move toward our goal the more radical the jumps in time and space get." "So we give in." "Yes move at right angles toward our goal." "And let the tesseracts carry us in the right direction." "Rommie you have the helm." "This way." "Thanks." "Don't mention it." "You... you're me?" "Beka, Help!" "I can't get into this right now." "Later." "Trance, you will never guess who I just met." "a scary futuristic version of yourself?" "he went that way." "Behind You!" "Trance?" "!" "Beka..." "I forgot how beautiful you were." "uhh, thanks." "You're me  From the future." "More or less." "Did everything turn out the way it was supposed to?" "No." "Things are bad and there getting worse." "I made a lot of mistakes." "So are we going to loose?" "At best we are not going to win." "You know what we have to do." "Is it the only way?" "There is one perfect possible future but I have not seen it yet." "could someone provide me with a translation please?" "Beka I have to go but don't worry I'm not really leaving I'm just changing." "Everything will be okay you'll see." "where'd she go?" "She didn't go anywhere she grew up, she's me." "Let's go." "I want an explanation NOW!" "No you wouldn't understand." "Trance!" "Tell me what the hell just happened or" "I will drop you off at the next rock we find and leave you there!" "Beka if I tell you everything, it would be very dangerous for me, for you, for everyone." "but please believe me this a watershed event in space and time and if we don't handle this crisis exactly right things are going to go very badly for us." "Ok so that's why you changed places with your other self?" "To make sure things go right?" "Well I can't make things go right." "not exactly." "but I do know how they can go wrong because I've been there and believe me, you do not want to live that future no one does." "This is crazy" "I thought the past was immutable that it can't be changed." "Well it can't but this is not the past, this is the present and I can fix it so come on." "You can see probabilities right glimpse into the future?" "Sometimes." "Good." "Then you know what'll happen if I find out you're lying to me." "This is new." "Fight!" "Don't you carry a weapon?" "Yes!" "Good job Rommie." "I've got major disturbances all over Sinti and my mainframe is still out of commission." "Assuming manual control." "We've got plasma leaks all over the ship the conduits must be tesseracting." "Just give me enough power to reach escape velocity." "Rerouting." "Come on Rommie." "Come on!" "We're out of orbit." "Disturbances on the planet are abating, plasma leaks are approving critical levels." "Shut down the engines." "Done." "Plasma leaks are under control, vectoring away from Sinti at a steady 15 psi." "Problem one solved," "Now for problem two." "Uhh, take this." "Please I'm just a simple field researcher" "I can't do this." "Aaahhh!" "Rekeeb if I can do this so can you now come on." "Wait, wait I've been analyzing the radiation signatures of the tesseract events, perhaps there is a pattern." "Rekeeb this is genius." "I take back everything I ever said about you." "Now come on and shoot anybody you see" "What are you doing?" "Saving our butts I hope." "You've harnessed a tesseract field." "Yeah, thanks to those numbers you gave me this baby should lead us straight to the machine shop." "Come on!" "But those numbers were strictly theoretical if they're not correct you could be torn to pieces." "I'm already being torn to pieces." "Magog eggs remember?" "All Right." "All right." "If it makes you feel any better think of it like this you'll be participating in an exciting temporal experiment with a willing subject." "But if I am to be the experimenter how can I also be the subject?" "Like this" "This is not the machine shop." "No really?" "Harper?" "Thank God." "I was worried sick." "Harper." "Trance?" "It's me it's just a new me." "What the ..." "Temporal mechanics give me a headache." "Tell me about ahhhh!" "I'm telling you, one more like that and I'm gonna be the father of six baby Magog." "Follow me." "Follow you?" "We don't even know you." "I'm still Trance and if you'd like to get out of here alive I suggest you do as I say." "What..." "All right." "Machine shop." "Good timing Beka what..." "Trance?" "That... that is you?" "Right, last time, I'm Trance, basically the same person only older and Harper only has a few minutes to live so I suggest you focus on him right now." "The tesseracting machine is finished." "Good." "activate it take out the eggs and then you can destroy this thing once and for all." "Uhh, Dylan, uhh it's not that simple." "Hohne, he's dead because of this.... because he tried to help me." "The Sinti government will be furious." "Well whatever, we can't help what happened." "Maybe we can." "You did by being here." "How?" "The tesseracts, they've created a warp in space-time, one which allows a paradox, what we do here will reshape reality as we know it." "It can change the future or the past.." "what if we don't activate it huh?" "What if, ummm, what if we destroy it instead?" "Then the distortions will be cancelled out, I will return back to the future and my younger self will be restored." "And Hohne will be brought back to life." "But the Magog eggs in Harper's belly will hatch and he'll die." "On the other hand if he activates the machine he'll be saved but Hohne will be dead and we'll be stuck with..." "No one move!" "Don't be stupid." "Drop the gun." "Enough!" "Enough of this insanity, enough of the violence!" "Destroy the machine now or I'll kill everyone here and do it myself!" "Why aren't you listening to me?" "Hohne was the greatest mind of our age." "We have to save him." "Gee lay the stress on a little thicker why don't ya?" "Don't move, I have the gun you have to do what I say!" "Oh, no." "Not again." "Magog." "Did I come at a bad time?" "No I'd say you came at a very, very good time." "So Mr. Harper what do you want to do about the machine?" "I don't know, uhhh, maybe, uhh, maybe Rekeeb was right" "I mean I'm just a good looking, young, brilliant engineer." "Hohne ...." "Horne's a genius." "I mean if it's him or me he's the one that really matters." "Don't say that." "No its true Beka." "I mean he was one of a kind, he was the first one to commit to your new commonwealth and ... and he was my friend." "I can't just choose my life over his." "Let's destroy it before I , uhh change my mind." "Harper, if we destroy this machine you know what I'm gonna have to do." "What someone will have to do." "I made him a promise I'll keep it." "Thanks." "Just try not to enjoy it okay?" "There." "That's better." "Trance?" "What have you done?" "I saved Harper's life." "We're in orbit." "Disruptions?" "The spatial temporal effects of the tesseracts have ceased." "Good, contact the Sinti General Council, we'd better tell them what happed to Hohne." "Seamus?" "Rise and shine." "Ahhh, oooh, My aches ache." "Just be glad you're around to feel it." "The larvae?" "Gone." "Thanks to Trance." "Yeah at the cost of Hohne's life." "What's done is done." "Yeah I'm not so sure anymore." "The important thing is, Harper you're alive and as for the cost there's no way to change that, all you can do is earn it." "Harper pulls off his medicine dispenser." "There's no sign of any dead Kalderans or Magog, all systems are fully operational again." "Good." "What about Kiley?" "Gone." "That's too bad, she's a good officer." "Was." "Yeah." "That leaves only one last loose end." "What am I supposed to do with you?" "I don't know, keep me around I hope." "I'm trying to think of a persuasive reason to do that but I'm having trouble." "Because you don't trust me." "Trust is something you earn." "Then give me a chance." "I always knew you had your own plans, but I also knew that your plans and mine were basically the same peace, order, a better universe." "My goals haven't changed." "eka says the future you came from was a bad one." "One where things went wrong and you came back to set things right." "So?" "So tell me how saving Harper and loosing Hohne does that." "How does that set things right?" "I don't know if it does." "To tell you the truth, I didn't save Harper to change the past or the future for all I know I made things worse." "Then why?" "For the one reason that does matter." "Because Hohne is a stranger and Harper is my friend." "Well." "That's a change anyway." "What?" "Honesty." "But it doesn't answer your questions dose it?" "About what to do with me." "No, it doesn't." "But it's a start." "It's a start." "#argenta" "opera amatoriale senza scopo di lucro"