"Found this in a damaged section of the methus diagrams." "It's in two parts." "Show me part two." "Okay... this doesn't seem" "Like something we want to happen." "To me, this looks like, uh... a line of defense, or... some sort of giant," "Awesome braking system." "The vedrans, man, they sure like to think big," "Even when their tech didn't work." "A braking system for what?" "Something with incredible mass, like trance." "You think?" "The vedran sun, trance's sun," "Coming to join tarn vedra once and for all." "Well, mr." "Harper," "There are a lot of people on those eight planets." "And trance is the star attraction." "Yeah." "Damn water pirates." "They're going to keep this up" "Until we're out of fuel." "You're risking our lives far too much." "You call this risk?" "Oh, you're right." "50,000 gallons of water" "Delivered under fire for free." "That's not risk." "It's death by bleeding heart." "Wells are drying up all over our system, rhade." "What are you going to do?" "People are dying." "This is not our system." "Our place is anywhere but here." "I feel for the people, i do," "But i can't commit suicide in their defense." "Am i right?" "The only way to make this work" "Is to fix that blinking sun," "And i do not know how to fix a sun." "Who's watching the bar?" "New girl's got it." "You have a visitor- Your old pal, sembler." "Sembler?" "He's really mad and he wants his bar back." "He was supposed to stay dead." "Deal with him" "After you deal with this." "Fix what's wrong with that sun." "Meanwhile, we've got" "Eight planets to evacuate." "Hunt here." "Captain" "Andromeda, i am only in the mood" "For good news." "I am detecting extreme proton radiation" "From the outer edges of the seefra system." "Spectral interference is rising." "How is that good news?" "Show me." "We've got an incoming." "Temperature, mass," "And speed," "They're growing..." "exponentially." "What is that?" "A reminder that we are always" "In the wrong place at the wrong time." "Trance's sun... and she's headed right for us." "The universe is a dangerous place," "But in our future," "My crew and i fight to make it safe." "I am dylan hunt," "Captain of theandromeda ascendant," "And these are our adventures." "Don't tell sembler where i am." "Understood." "Or where i am." "Okay." "I mean" "The thing i mean, is, about sembler," "You've got to understand, he's" "My buddy!" "Man, i've been looking for you." "So is master thux." "Now, you remember him, don't you?" "Thux... thux?" "He found out that we faked my death." ""We?" W-Wait a minute." "I don't see how this has anything to do with me." "I'm going to offer him this bar for my life." "What?" "No way!" "This bar is worth way more than your life." "No offense." "And you gave it to me." "It's mine." "Those were our terms." "Those terms are changing." "Finally, i'm home." "It's my other self." "Dylan, this is my radiant body," "Passing by" "To take its place by tarn vedra." "Yeah, the vedrans made the seefra system" "To stop it at the right location." "So that tarn vedra can be reborn." "The machine's not working, trance." "Your sun won't stop" "Where it should," "Which means" "It will destroy everything in this system," "Including tarn vedra." "Trance?" "Trance!" "Trance?" "Andromeda, prep med deck!" "Hang on." "I'm picking up a massive photon release" "From the edges of seefra." "I'm kind of busy here, rhade." "Head towards it." "It'll break up communications" "Between the attackers." "Or burn us to a crisp." "Not very nietzschean, but i like it." "Hang on." "Okay, r.F. Interference rising." "They'll lose communication in three... two, one... firing away." "Ah... bye-Bye, bad guys." "Okay." "Let's quench some thirst." "Look at that." "I know." "What the hell is that?" "That's exactly what it is... hell." "Harper!" "I want harper!" "Harper." "Thux... buddy." "I see you're still on the all-Protein diet," "And you brought your girlfriends." "Ocham sembler... where?" "Uh, name rings a bell... but, uh... last i heard, he was worms' meat." "No, he lives." "I guess, if you want to call that living." "I want sembler." "No sembler... you die." "Come!" "Nice seeing you." "He's gone." "And i get the distinct impression" "That giving him the saloon," "It ain't going to do the job." "You've got to hide me, seamus." "Oh, no, i've got better things to do," "Like, uh... oh, yeah, living." "Hey, now, we're pals, right?" "What about the burberry twins?" "Don't look at me like that, and nice try." "The burberrys weren't twins." "Were they?" "What about the skooze races?" "All right." "All right, fine." "I know a place." "No one'll find you," "But not another word about the skooze races." "'Skooze me." "Andromeda, what's trance's temperature?" "Trance's core temperature" "Is 991 degrees." "991?" "Why's it fluctuating between 90 and 110?" "Probability" "Is she's retaining heat to protect you." "Trance." "I hope you can hear me." "I know you don't mean us harm," "But the truth is," "If you don't get better... you're going to kill all of us." "Hello?" "Orlund?" "Orlund?" "Who goes there?" "Hey, big guy." "It's me, harper." "You mind pointing that thing" "Somewhere else?" "Harper... welcome to my corner of the planets." "Tell me, how is dylan?" "He is my captain, my hero," "My mentor, my ideal." "He is everything i aspire to be," "Everything noble and brave." "He embodies the spirit of adventure." "Orlund." "This is sembler." "He needs a place to hide out for a while." "Not for long, just until, uh... what is this place?" "A vedran-Built passage to the other eight planets," "And i am its keeper." "These doors take you straight to other planets?" "How?" "You wouldn't understand," "But, from here," "You could hide anywhere in the whole system." "Techno." "Our curse." "Actually, it's most likely" "What's going to save us all." "How does it work?" "Well, these crystals" "Are the keys." "Harper." "Dylan?" "Dylan?" "Harper, i need you onandromeda." "Trance has fallen ill." "Trance, the princess... is in danger?" "Her temperature's at 1,400 degrees." "Get those crystals up here." "Maybe they can reduce her fever." "Good idea." "We can use them as beam-Splitters." "Reflect the energy back into itself." "The crystals!" "Uh, one second, boss." "Harper, what's going on?" "I don't think we'll be getting" "Those crystals any time soon, boss." "R.F. Interference" "From the vedran sun." "Signal is breaking." "Harper, i need those crystals." "Signal lost." "Comm terminated." "I can't hear him." "Can you hear him?" "I can't hear him." "What have you got?" "The spectrum fluctuation" "Is caused, i believe," "By trance rejecting herself" "Trying to stop or slow down" "The approach of her sun." "Somewhere inside," "At her core, probably," "She's protecting you still." "And it's killing her." "Andromeda," "Locate beka and rhade." "Locating." "Trance cannot win this battle." "Visual contact with themaru" "Is not possible" "Due to high photon radiation." "Audio contact in three..." "two... dylan, i've located them." "Dylan,we've delivered the water, and we're on our way back now." "No, you're not." "We're not?" "Why not?" "Because now i want you to pick up something hot." "Well, we're in the right place for that." "There's some kind of solar plume" "That's causing all this interference." "That's exactly what i want you to get" "And bring back here." "The plume?" "Not all of it." "Just scoop some plasma." "Use magnetic containment." "Hook it up to a probe." "Okay, so you're going to send the specs on that?" "You'll figure it out." "Uh, okay." "No problem." "I don't have time to explain, beka," "But trance's life" "Hell, all of our lives depend on it." "So don't argue." "Just do it." "Hunt out." "It's been a pleasure talking to you, too." "Man, for being so smart," "Vedrans sure make things unnecessarily complicated." "What would dylan do?" "What would he do?" "Something heroic, unexpected," "Counterintuitive, brilliant." "I got nothing." "Took the words right out of my mouth." "You know, this would go faster with two." "I'm not going to" "Help you commit suicide," "And/or kill me in the process." "You know, if we don't work together," "We're going to die in this place." "You still don't get that, rhade?" "I get the part about dying, beka." "Let's just say, because of a recent turn of events," "My nietzschean side has come front-And-Center." "I am talking about self-Preservation, rhade." "You're talking about saving everyone," "Dylan's plan" "Evacuate all the planets to seefra-1." "Let me tell you something" "Very soon, it's going to be every man for himself." "If andromeda finds a way out of here," "I say we take it," "And not worry about the rest of the system." "Mm, now you're starting to sound nietzschean again." "You don't understand... matriarch." "I find it difficult, beka." "Difficult to say," "To believe," "To reconcile within myself." "Her internal temperature" "Has reached 2,200." "External is 652," "Being held at 250" "Due to cryogenic containment." "Captain," "I have an intermittent hail from harper." "Harper, talk to me." "Oh, finally." "I jacked into the vedran system to get a signal out." "I'm still waiting on those crystals, harper." "Don't hold your breath." "Sembler took them and he locked us both in here," "Me and orlund, both." "Sorry, boss." "Doyle is on her way down." "Hunt out." "Find those crystals." "I loosened it." "I know" " Pure, unadulterated harper." "I get the "unadult" part." "Come on, dylan needs us." "He needs me?" "Yes, even you." "Like i need a knife in the head." "Come on, we've got to get those crystals." "Trance." "Come out of there." "But i will destroy the ship." "But our sister has come home." "You have waited." "So has she." "So long." "Come." "I could help you find the crystals." "I'm attuned to them, hypersensitive." "This may put you in harm's way." "I am ready to serve at your side, captain" "Make adventures," "Make brilliant plans to save the princess." "This is serious stuff, orlund." "You have to understand that." "Understood." "Yeah, well, there's understanding" "And there'sunderstanding." "I understand." "Good." "The crystals are nearby." "I can feel them." "Hey, hey, hey, hey." "Lesson number one- Pick your fights." "Wait." "Is that a fight?" "Let's find out." "I already don't like you." "Thux, you fool." "Don't you know who he is?" "Lesson number two" "Keep your mouth shut." "Thux, i have a proposition for you." "What did you say?" "You can't push him like that." "Don't you know who he is?" "He's dylan hunt." "Oh, really?" "Yeah." "Yeah, it's me." "Uh-Oh." "Leave him alone!" "Lesson number three" "Oh, who am i kidding?" "Are you alive?" "Are you animals?" "This man needs a med-Tech!" "Dylan will get us out." "How do i travel between planets?" "And where do i put the crystals?" "That would be where the sun never shines, pal." "That's rude." "There's a way out." "There must be." "A vent shaft," "A corrupt guard... of course." "The daughter." "Thux has a nubile daughter." "I seduce her..." "she sneaks us a weapon." "Thux doesn't have a daughter." "There's always a daughter." "Even if he did," "Why would she hang around a prison?" "Your problem, my friend, is hope." "There's always a way." "Dylan has a plan." "I know it." "No." "No, don't." "No, no!" "Please!" "I don't know anything." "Hey, if you want him, you have to deal with me first." "Right." "You're just resting, right?" "If it wasn't so dangerous," "I'd say it was beautiful." "We have to see it as part of trance." "Then trance may kill us all." "Rhade, that's enough." "Trance, our trance," "Is a gentle, kind soul" "Who's been our friend for years." "Your friend for years." "Try extending your loyalty" "This much past your own skin." "I used to overextend my loyalty." "Now it extends as far as it needs to." "I'm here to save trance's life." "What the hell are you doing?" "I'm here to protect you." "Bringing us around." "Bearing one-Three-Six, and slowing." "You find that amusing?" "I find that downright funny." "What's the status on the magnetic probe?" "We have to get significantly closer" "Before we can launch." "Well, yes." "I asked if it was ready." "It is." "What?" "From this point on," "Our radiation exposure and heat exchange" "Become critical." "Yes." "Why are you telling me what i already know?" "Because i want you not to do it." "Does this, by any chance," "Have anything to do with drago museveni?" "Until i have proof otherwise," "You are the female progenitor" "Of the nietzscheans." "You must be protected at all costs." "So, what, you want to start calling me "grandma?"" "I cannot allow you to risk your life." "We're saving trance." "That's what we're doing." "Not if it endangers your life." "Understand me, beka." "This goes against my conscious will." "Trance, this is andromeda." "Can you hear me?" "Yes, andromeda." "Your temperature is not diminishing." "I can feel it rising." "Internal temperature, 2,805 degrees." "External, 712." "That's not the problem." "It is for the cryocapsule." "If you continue at this rate," "It will not be able" "To accomplish heat exchange." "I don't feel like i have a fever." "I feel like i'm... i'm splitting into pieces." "Does it hurt?" "I hope that beka and rhade are okay." "And that their mission will be a success." "I know that they'll do the best they can." "That's all anyone can ask for." "Sometimes, that proves to be insufficient." "But it's not polite to say so." "Hull temp nearing the red." "That's the way we like it." "Beka" "Steady as she goes." "Hey, what the" "I cannot let you sacrifice us." "No one tells me how to make my choices." "Reconnect me to my power supply." "You have a greater duty." "Okay, let me get this straight." "You see me as queen mother nietzschean," "Is that right?" "You are matriarch, yes." "So you're, like," "My subject, my vassal?" "Without me," "You wouldn't be, is that right?" "Also true." "So, i'm the queen," "And you're some cheap spinoff of my dna." "I wouldn't go that far." "You have to do what i say, right?" "Telemachus rhade, out of majorum by rhade" "Is that true?" "Yes, matriarch," "If you order it, it is true." "Okay, then." "Consider yourself ordered." "Give me control of my ship." "We're going to launch that probe" "And return with what trance needs to survive," "And that's final." "These people are terrified." "Yeah, well, doom and destruction have" "A way of bringing that out in people." "How are we supposed to find dylan?" "And the crystals, don't forget." "Let it go, will you?" "Haven't you ever made a mistake?" "Not one that threatened nine planets" "And millions of lives." "Doyle, as hot as you are," "You do nothing for my self-Image." "Find the crystals." "That'll make you feel better." "Master thux" "Wants to see all strangers." "Does thux thuck his thumb, you think?" "It's a pothibility." "Thankth." "Theriouthly." "How do you feel?" "The doctor says i'm well enough to punch you in the face." "Ha!" "That's the way." "A well-Timed joke to lighten the spirit." "Yeah." "Did you see..." "does thux have a daughter?" "You know, it, uh... it never really came up in our conversations." "But... he does have the crystals." "Dylan." "Yeah?" "They took sembler." "He was here before you arrived." "That's not good." "Okay, follow my lead." "Right." "I know what i'll do." "I'll- Orlund" "Mm-Hmm." "Yes?" "Look at me." "Okay." "Now, listen to me." "Okay." "Follow... my..." "lead." "Follow your lead." "Don't talk." "Okay." "What have you done to him?" "That was a good job," "But you still didn't follow my lead." "I didn't?" "No, but that's what i was counting on." "Sembler." "Sembler?" "He's dead." "That's not possible." "Damn it." "Okay, we have to go." "He's dead?" "He can't be dead." "You wanted adventure, now you got it." "Come on." "They killed him." "Why?" "People like that always find a reason." "And people like us?" "How do we keep going?" "This is not how i thought it would be," "This adventure thing." "This is war." "People die... family, friends, innocent bystanders" "It happens." "This happened to you?" "Yeah, beka, rhade, harper... even trance," "We've all lost someone precious." "And you continue, despite the loss?" "Because of the loss." "Right." "So we escape." "It was too easy getting out." "There was no alarm, no pursuit." "Thux wants us out" "So we'll lead him to the chamber." "Of course." "The crystals... are in this direction." "See, you catch on fast." "You're going to do just fine" "With this adventure thing." "Yeah?" "Yeah." "Hull temp is critical, i repeat, critical." "Almost in position now." "Just a little closer." "Get ready to fire the drone." "I've lost control." "Damn it, beka!" "Fire the drones." "Do it now!" "Drone is away and on course." "Reroute all power to attitude thrusters." "Done." "Okay, steady... got it." "And now we're on our way to pick up the drone." "Drone has entered the solar prominence." "I've lost contact." "That's normal." "There's too much electromag." "You should be getting a signal in about four, three, two... got it." "The drone is returning." "Did it get a plasma sample?" "Reading indicates... yes." "Yes, we did." "Okay." "Trance, here we come." "I just hope we're not too late." "And you... loyal subject," "Thank you for coming along for the ride." "I wouldn't have it any other way." "A girl could get used to that." "I may never get used to it... but it is my duty," "Even if dylan himself interferes." "Trance, i cannot contain" "Your temperature much longer." "Andromeda, you have to help me." "I'm so cold." "That cannot be." "I'm freezing." "Warning." "The cryocapsule is failing." "Warning." "The cryocapsule is failing." "Warning." "The cryocapsule is failing." "Am i dead?" "Not dead, no." "I was freezing and burning up at the same time." "Two sides of the same thing." "The unity of opposites." "I remember that." "There are many things you will remember," "When we are together again, sister." "I don't think i can join you." "We offer you joy everlasting... a beginning, an end." "Oh, i wish i could remember." "Tell me again, what will end?" "All that you love." "No dylan, no orlund." "And no crystals." "You know, if we split up," "We might cover more ground." "Gotcha." "Be safe." "The crystals... i think they're..." "in here." "All the way over to the left." "Back in that corner." "Right." "Okay." "You stay here and watch my back." "Your back." "Right." "Got it." "Good." "I'm serious." "You stay right here." "Watch my back." "Nothing else, okay?" "Okay." "Your back." "Nothing else." "Yeah." "Yes!" "Well done." "My back." "That's doyle." "Stay here." "Watch his back." "His back." "That's harper." "I have to get their attention." "Stay here!" "Stupid!" "Think!" "What would dylan do?" "Okay." "Maybe i better go." "Kill him!" "You'll die slowly." "I'm not scared." "Oh?" "How about now?" "Ah!" "Okay, now i'm sacred." "Thux!" "Think before you hurt him." "Just let him go, and we'll talk," "Otherwise, you will lose everything." "This is my town now," "And in my town," "We play by my rules." "Didn't see that coming." "No one tells me what to do." "Listen, thux, you can still walk away from this, okay?" "You just let us go, and we'll let you live." "See that?" "I love that." "Even in the face of death" "Silence!" "Thank you." "I'm going to count to three," "And by two," "You drop the crystals," "Or, by three... you'll be dead." "Just standing up here, guys, okay?" "All right... crystals going in the bag." "Here you go." "You win." "I'm not half the man you think you are." "I'm still counting..." "and, by three, you die." "One... two, three!" "Heel." "Oh, thux, thux," "Thux." "Doesn't it just suck when the bad guys lose?" "Not working, huh?" "Hey, don't look at me." "It's kind of cute when they turn on you." "Uh... yeah, this show has gone to the dogs." "Andromeda, status on trance." "I am detecting microfractures" "In the cryocapsule." "At those temperatures," "Micro can go macro pretty darn fast." "She'll burn a hole through the ship." "Then it's time to move her out of here." "She'll die in space." "No." "Space is her natural environment." "Andromeda, launch pod." "Ready here." "All right, give her lots of room." "We're fooling around with solar activity." "Sending you an intercept vector." "Got it." "And... launching." "Time to impact?" "20 seconds." "You think maybe we should move back a little?" "I mean, we're dealing with an event" "Of unknown magnitude here." "I'm with you, mr." "Harper." "Andromeda, move us away, full speed please," "And advise beka." "Moving and advising." "Good luck, my princess." "It is not in our nature to fight one another." "I remember now... everything." "I wanted to help" "My dear friends." "Their fate is not your concern." "I can't believe that." "I will not let that be so." "You have been around organics too long." "It has changed you." "Only for good." "Come back to us." "The nebula demands it." "No." "Dylan's fate is irrelevant to ours." "I will not believe that." "That is your choice," "But it does not affect the final outcome." "It will only affect your own punishment." "Oh, no." "We've killed her!" "She's tougher than you think." "E.M.P. Wave coming fast." "You might want to hold onto something." "What?" "New guy." "Rebooting." "We're back up." "Beka, status?" "Well, we're fine." "What about trance?" "Could she survive?" "Only one way to find out." "Let's go get her." "Dylan?" "Ah, trance." "Welcome back." "It's good to be back," "Thanks to all of your efforts." "Well... we did it because we love you." "Yes, i can see that." "But what about the future?" "I thought that was your department." "But i want to know your thoughts, your feelings." "We'll survive, trance," "As long as we're all working together." "How about you?" "You okay?" "I remember, dylan..." "everything." "Well, that's good." "That's the best news i've heard in a long time." "You were warned about me." "Yes, i was." "Tarn vedran sun... your sun." "We'll stop it in time." "We'll find a way." "Yes, i'm sure we will... but that's not what i mean." "Not what i mean at all."