1 00:00:00,493 --> 00:00:04,705 With their miniscule families, humans are often forced to rely on a "state" or a "nation" for support. 2 00:00:04,848 --> 00:00:06,878 Pity them. 3 00:00:07,064 --> 00:00:09,644 Than-Thre-Kull Anthropology Text Approx. C.Y. 7956 4 00:00:13,614 --> 00:00:14,300 Range to target? 5 00:00:14,766 --> 00:00:16,282 Fifty light seconds and moving away. 6 00:00:16,370 --> 00:00:17,153 Get me a heading. 7 00:00:17,227 --> 00:00:21,399 Getting. 040 minus 20 degrees. 8 00:00:25,185 --> 00:00:28,434 Maintain contact with the Castalian fleet. On my mark, come about 80 degrees. 9 00:00:28,989 --> 00:00:29,350 Mark. 10 00:00:29,550 --> 00:00:30,471 Mark. Mark. 11 00:00:32,579 --> 00:00:34,825 The Castalians are finally engaging the enemy. 12 00:00:36,257 --> 00:00:38,791 It's up to them now. All we can do is watch. 13 00:00:45,298 --> 00:00:46,856 Ah, crap, that's one fish down. 14 00:00:47,527 --> 00:00:48,273 Two fish. 15 00:00:48,865 --> 00:00:51,027 Red fish, blue fish - it's a freakin' fish fry. 16 00:00:51,068 --> 00:00:53,463 The Castalians aren't deploying countermeasures. They're being decimated. 17 00:00:53,500 --> 00:00:57,799 This is stupid. These water-breathers are hopeless. 18 00:01:04,886 --> 00:01:05,291 Missiles away. 19 00:01:05,805 --> 00:01:07,291 There, now. Objective destroyed. 20 00:01:07,412 --> 00:01:08,574 Damn it, Tyr. 21 00:01:08,991 --> 00:01:09,882 Andromeda, report. 22 00:01:10,025 --> 00:01:12,372 The enemy destroyer was eliminated, 23 00:01:13,110 --> 00:01:18,470 but Castalian casualties are still high. 5 of their ships are down, the planet was bombarded. 24 00:01:18,514 --> 00:01:19,592 That's a LOTTA sushi. 25 00:01:20,170 --> 00:01:22,193 It's *NOT* funny, Beka. 26 00:01:22,690 --> 00:01:24,156 Pretty darn funny from here. 27 00:01:27,111 --> 00:01:33,278 Look, if you're all finished insulting our allies, might I remind you that the point of 28 00:01:33,391 --> 00:01:35,794 these training exercises... is to improve their morale, not destroy it. 29 00:01:35,828 --> 00:01:40,600 Look, Dylan, if you think Aquaman and the Silver Surfer here, are gonna help you stop the Magog 30 00:01:40,693 --> 00:01:44,260 you may as well start basting yourself with steak sauce now and avoid the rush. 31 00:01:47,602 --> 00:01:48,439 I dunno. 32 00:01:48,499 --> 00:01:50,890 Aquaman. Silver Surfer...? 33 00:01:52,130 --> 00:01:55,667 Did you people ever go to school? No classical education whatsoever. 34 00:01:55,724 --> 00:01:56,660 Rommie, 35 00:01:57,152 --> 00:01:58,409 how many target drones did you deploy? 36 00:01:58,465 --> 00:01:59,402 Five, why? 37 00:01:59,449 --> 00:02:03,006 I'm reading an unidentified object. It just threaded its way through the entire Castalian fleet. 38 00:02:03,095 --> 00:02:06,050 And they didn't stop it? What a complete surprise. 39 00:02:06,739 --> 00:02:10,388 Dylan, the bogey reads as a modified Alacritous Missive courier vessel. 40 00:02:11,505 --> 00:02:12,381 That's a High Guard ship. 41 00:02:12,448 --> 00:02:13,314 And it's hailing us. 42 00:02:14,241 --> 00:02:14,840 On-screen. 43 00:02:15,928 --> 00:02:20,021 This is Lieutenant Jamahl Rodriguez Hernandez Brown. I'm looking for Captain Dylan Hunt. 44 00:02:20,398 --> 00:02:21,601 This is Dylan Hunt. 45 00:02:21,784 --> 00:02:27,094 Oh, wow. OH, WOW!, Broat is gonna SPIT that I found you first! I mean, uh,... I'mroat sorry, SIR! 46 00:02:28,784 --> 00:02:30,343 What is this all about, Lieutenant? 47 00:02:30,822 --> 00:02:34,685 I have a message for you, sir. It's from your fiancée, Sarah Riley. 48 00:02:35,533 --> 00:02:38,224 My fiancée has been dead for more than two hundred years. 49 00:02:38,375 --> 00:02:40,936 Yes, sir. I know, sir. It's a very old message, sir. 50 00:02:42,809 --> 00:02:43,659 Permission to come aboard, sir? I've been out here a long time. 51 00:02:43,719 --> 00:02:46,237 I think the Castalians are targeting me. 52 00:02:46,827 --> 00:02:47,165 Rommie? 53 00:02:47,202 --> 00:02:50,418 One pilot, no passengers, defensive weapons only. He looks clean. 54 00:02:53,001 --> 00:02:54,489 Bring him in and keep him under guard. 55 00:02:56,413 --> 00:02:57,986 Send that message to my quarters. 56 00:03:01,756 --> 00:03:02,680 Hello, Dylan. 57 00:03:03,997 --> 00:03:07,705 I probably shouldn't be doing this. 58 00:03:07,886 --> 00:03:11,076 I argued myself out of it a dozen times, but I wanted you to know 59 00:03:13,456 --> 00:03:15,082 ...I survived. And I did as you asked. 60 00:03:15,986 --> 00:03:17,280 I got on with my life. 61 00:03:18,202 --> 00:03:19,484 I got married. 62 00:03:21,153 --> 00:03:22,758 We have a good life... 63 00:03:29,855 --> 00:03:31,199 ...More than that. 64 00:03:35,349 --> 00:03:45,357 Dylan, it's bad out there. 65 00:03:47,548 --> 00:03:49,927 But knowing you'll be back someday 66 00:03:51,127 --> 00:03:52,454 to make things right helps. 67 00:03:54,516 --> 00:03:56,645 So I just wanted to say "Thank you". 68 00:04:00,084 --> 00:04:01,507 Be well, Dylan. 69 00:04:04,610 --> 00:04:06,702 I wish you every happiness. 70 00:04:13,241 --> 00:04:14,724 Do you want me to play it again? 71 00:04:16,621 --> 00:04:18,213 No, that'll be all. 72 00:05:18,553 --> 00:05:20,140 She was a remarkable woman. Yes. 73 00:05:23,998 --> 00:05:26,870 She, uh, she was. 74 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:30,233 Rev Bem is in hydroponics. Do you want me to... 75 00:05:30,323 --> 00:05:32,933 I don't need counseling, Rommie. I'm fine. 76 00:05:33,946 --> 00:05:34,710 You don't look fine. 77 00:05:34,775 --> 00:05:36,431 Then have Harper check your visual sensors, 78 00:05:36,435 --> 00:05:40,894 because that was the best message I could have gotten. 79 00:05:44,154 --> 00:05:46,626 I mean, after all this time I can stop worrying about her. 80 00:05:46,801 --> 00:05:47,844 She's OK. *WAS* OK. You know what I mean. 81 00:05:48,529 --> 00:05:51,912 Send the, uh, Lieutenant to my quarters. I have a few questions I want to ask him. 82 00:05:59,696 --> 00:06:06,992 It's called Terazed. It's the fourth rock out from a yellow dwarf at the ass end of the Triangulum galaxy. 83 00:06:08,329 --> 00:06:09,450 Excuse my Vedran. Excused. 84 00:06:10,705 --> 00:06:11,939 I've never heard of Terazed. 85 00:06:11,970 --> 00:06:14,228 Who has? They get more visitors on Gehenna. 86 00:06:14,371 --> 00:06:21,401 Anyway, as far as I know, we're the last refuge of the Systems Commonwealth. 87 00:06:21,986 --> 00:06:23,174 Uh, we've got a conclave, triumvirs, a Home Guard - everything but the Vedran Empress... 88 00:06:23,215 --> 00:06:28,155 One planet coming through the chaos intact. How? 89 00:06:28,196 --> 00:06:35,295 Beats me. I wasn't there. But my great-great-great-great-grandparents were. 90 00:06:35,315 --> 00:06:37,398 They were war refugees - from here, mostly. Survivors from the Andromeda Ascendant... 91 00:06:37,434 --> 00:06:42,955 And from the Starry Wisdom. And their wives and their kids and their cousins and their uncles and... 92 00:06:43,506 --> 00:06:49,189 well, Sarah Riley rounded up anybody who's ever even heard of you and settled them on Terazed. 93 00:06:49,478 --> 00:06:50,953 And we've been waiting for you ever since. Waiting for him to do what? 94 00:06:52,055 --> 00:06:58,289 Restart the Commonwealth, of course. Sarah Riley said you'd be back, and she was right. 95 00:07:25,322 --> 00:07:26,360 Beka, status. 96 00:07:26,637 --> 00:07:30,058 This isn't a slipstream route, it's a rabbit hole. How do these people get mail? 97 00:07:30,628 --> 00:07:33,834 Jamahl says Terazed's hard to find. It's why they've survived all this time. 98 00:07:34,059 --> 00:07:38,744 Yeah, sure, that explains everything. No chance they've been left alone because... 99 00:07:38,966 --> 00:07:39,609 they're a bunch of cannibals or killer robots or... Harper! 100 00:07:39,650 --> 00:07:44,215 What?! You gonna say I'm wrong? Come on, every single High Guard remnant 101 00:07:44,266 --> 00:07:46,475 we've encountered has been psychotic, evil, or both. 102 00:07:48,324 --> 00:07:49,779 Present company excluded, of course. 103 00:07:49,810 --> 00:07:50,402 Of course. 104 00:07:50,431 --> 00:07:52,626 He has a point, Dylan. Once bitten...you know. 105 00:07:52,708 --> 00:07:58,009 I - I mean, I'm just saying that we shouldn't get all kissy-huggy-smoochy-woochy just because... 106 00:07:58,047 --> 00:08:01,797 ...we like the cut of their uniforms. Point taken. We'll go in with our eyes open, but we *are* going in. 107 00:08:10,516 --> 00:08:14,929 Assuming normal cruising speed. I'm detecting a Sol-like system with 12 planets, 1 inhabitable. 108 00:08:16,442 --> 00:08:19,466 Uh, guys? We've got company. They look like warships. 109 00:08:20,581 --> 00:08:23,224 Oh, I knew it. I knew it! We're surrounded... ...thirty-six slipfighters. 110 00:08:23,248 --> 00:08:24,514 Pull yourself together, Mr. Harper. 111 00:08:24,574 --> 00:08:26,862 Oh, sure, take your time. Don't shoot at them or anything. 112 00:08:26,903 --> 00:08:28,501 Dylan, they're moving into formation. 113 00:08:37,829 --> 00:08:40,874 It's not an attack. It's an honor guard. 114 00:08:40,938 --> 00:08:41,960 Incoming message. 115 00:08:42,007 --> 00:08:42,737 On-screen. 116 00:08:43,708 --> 00:08:46,508 Captain Hunt, welcome. 117 00:08:47,269 --> 00:08:50,610 I am Rakel Ben-Tzion, first Triumvir of Terazed. 118 00:08:50,911 --> 00:08:55,138 We've taken the liberty of sending Argosy Squadron Alpha to escort you planetside. 119 00:08:56,410 --> 00:08:57,956 I hope you like marching bands. 120 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:05,732 Andromeda, analysis. Is the Madame Triumvir a killer android or not? 121 00:09:05,795 --> 00:09:07,264 Who cares? What a babe. 122 00:09:07,290 --> 00:09:08,631 Stop being so predictable. 123 00:09:08,759 --> 00:09:11,145 Intercepting planetary communications and analyzing. Free press. They're talking about a local election. 124 00:09:13,226 --> 00:09:19,602 From all evidence, Terazed seems to be exactly what it seems to be: 125 00:09:19,769 --> 00:09:21,243 a peaceful, productive democracy. 126 00:09:21,302 --> 00:09:22,482 Your Commonwealth. 127 00:09:24,464 --> 00:09:25,532 Take us in. 128 00:09:38,716 --> 00:09:43,150 Ok, it's official. I like this place. I liked the conclave, I liked the Grand Plaza, 129 00:09:43,211 --> 00:09:47,150 and I *really* liked all those Home Guard lancers lined up for my personal inspection. 130 00:09:47,253 --> 00:09:48,882 I'm glad you enjoyed the parade. 131 00:09:48,949 --> 00:09:51,699 Well, even the aerial displays... it was all a little overwhelming. 132 00:09:51,896 --> 00:09:57,386 Well, if it was up to me, there would have been midtoks and elephants. But expenditures like that... 133 00:09:57,442 --> 00:09:59,038 ...have to be approved by the full counsel. Well, maybe next time, Madame Triumvir. 134 00:09:59,367 --> 00:10:01,807 Please, call me Rakel. 135 00:10:02,265 --> 00:10:03,371 And you can call me Dylan. 136 00:10:03,401 --> 00:10:04,841 "Dylan" it is. Which is the furthest? 137 00:10:05,221 --> 00:10:08,857 The most distant world in the new Commonwealth? 138 00:10:09,601 --> 00:10:11,892 Well, distance is relative in slipstream. Why? 139 00:10:11,962 --> 00:10:15,447 I want to go there. Do you know, I've never been off this planet? 140 00:10:16,257 --> 00:10:17,764 Well, I think we can arrange a trip. 141 00:10:20,650 --> 00:10:24,722 Dylan, may I steal you away for a moment? Privately. 142 00:10:24,748 --> 00:10:33,198 Ooooh. Oh. Oh, Ok. Ok, this is where you, uh, you get him away from us so your pals there can, 143 00:10:33,229 --> 00:10:33,901 uh, whip out laser mind-probes and crack our skulls open, huh? Am I right? 144 00:10:35,002 --> 00:10:37,847 He's sweet. Paranoid, but sweet. 145 00:10:37,913 --> 00:10:40,106 It's, uh, been a tough year. 146 00:10:40,214 --> 00:10:44,878 Yeah, my crew's used to having the other shoe drop. And frankly, so am I. 147 00:10:47,494 --> 00:10:48,400 Dismissed. 148 00:10:51,611 --> 00:10:57,723 Five minutes. Draw your weapon if it makes you feel better. But there are some people I want you to meet. 149 00:11:00,516 --> 00:11:01,470 Five minutes. 150 00:11:07,819 --> 00:11:13,068 Ladies and gentleman, it is my great privilege to present...Captain Dylan Hunt. 151 00:11:13,962 --> 00:11:16,661 Dylan, the descendants of Sarah Riley. 152 00:11:24,303 --> 00:11:26,970 Captain, I believe you've met Lieutenant Brown? 153 00:11:27,233 --> 00:11:28,410 Yes, I have. 154 00:11:28,770 --> 00:11:29,653 Excuse me a moment. 155 00:11:30,367 --> 00:11:35,555 Really the whole Andromeda Association wanted to meet you, but Madame Triumvir said that 156 00:11:36,044 --> 00:11:37,617 ...there wasn't a room big enough in the whole city. Jamahl, you're descended from Sarah? 157 00:11:37,700 --> 00:11:40,558 I'm her great-grandson, cubed. Nine generations, direct line. 158 00:11:40,608 --> 00:11:41,416 And all these people? 159 00:11:41,597 --> 00:11:45,419 These are her kids' kids'.... kids' kids' kids' kids 160 00:11:45,495 --> 00:11:48,286 but this is nothing. You should see the Society of Starry Wisdom. 161 00:11:48,330 --> 00:11:49,822 There were that many survivors. 162 00:11:49,877 --> 00:11:56,365 There are survivors and the families of those who didn't make it. Lieutenant Refractions of Dawn 163 00:11:57,076 --> 00:11:58,308 must've had a thousand descendants, but then she was a Than. This is unbelievable. 164 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:00,514 I just had my genealogy downloaded. Do you wanna see it? 165 00:12:00,548 --> 00:12:02,420 Yes. Yes, I would like that. 166 00:12:02,969 --> 00:12:06,644 Lieutenant, are you monopolizing the guest of honor? 167 00:12:06,786 --> 00:12:10,246 No, ma'am. At least I didn't think that I was. 168 00:12:10,301 --> 00:12:11,265 Madame Triumvir. 169 00:12:22,479 --> 00:12:23,212 Rhade! 170 00:12:23,413 --> 00:12:24,287 I tried to warn you. 171 00:12:26,521 --> 00:12:30,975 I hate to barge in on such a historic event, but I couldn't get away from my staff meeting. 172 00:12:31,109 --> 00:12:35,592 Not at all, Admiral. Dylan, this is the commander of Terazed's Home Guard, 173 00:12:36,142 --> 00:12:37,888 Admiral Telemachus Rhade. 174 00:12:38,336 --> 00:12:39,106 Rhade. 175 00:12:39,269 --> 00:12:41,486 Captain. It's an honor. 176 00:12:50,366 --> 00:12:55,442 I've heard of Nietzschean genetic reincarnation. I've just never seen a documented case. 177 00:12:56,296 --> 00:12:58,608 It's quite rare, but it does happen. 178 00:12:59,322 --> 00:13:04,627 My own father had almost identical DNA to a Kodiak alpha... Suleiman. 179 00:13:05,481 --> 00:13:10,947 And according to legend, one day Drago Museveni himself will be reincarnated and reunite the Nietzschean people. 180 00:13:10,991 --> 00:13:12,521 Come on, Tyr, what are the odds? 181 00:13:12,708 --> 00:13:17,675 My own first officer reincarnated on a planet settled by my fiancée? 182 00:13:18,670 --> 00:13:24,040 The chance of a specific human DNA combination reoccurring is approximately 1 : 3x10 to the fifteenth power. 183 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:27,062 Telemachus Rhade isn't just any human. 184 00:13:28,530 --> 00:13:31,692 He's the product of sixteen centuries of selective breeding. 185 00:13:32,041 --> 00:13:36,628 Homo sapiens invictus have the same number of chromosomes as unmodified homo sapiens. 186 00:13:36,772 --> 00:13:38,752 Yes, but a smaller sampling. 187 00:13:39,627 --> 00:13:45,868 No Nietzschean carries the gene for astigmatism, acromegalia, arterial sclerosis. 188 00:13:46,197 --> 00:13:48,994 You combine that with extensive safeguards against mutation and what you've got is... 189 00:13:49,053 --> 00:13:51,234 ...And the odds are STILL in the trillions. 190 00:13:52,159 --> 00:13:53,469 It's a big universe. 191 00:13:53,532 --> 00:13:55,169 Yeah, and a bigger coincidence. 192 00:13:56,014 --> 00:13:59,483 You know, I don't trust coincidences... especially ones named Rhade. 193 00:13:59,513 --> 00:14:01,677 You should never trust any Nietzschean. 194 00:14:05,751 --> 00:14:07,156 Except me. 195 00:14:09,836 --> 00:14:14,511 And while the Vedran Empress was the System Commonwealth's titular ruler, 196 00:14:14,881 --> 00:14:22,201 actual authority was exercised by three elected triumvirs, which is still the case in Terazed today. 197 00:14:22,289 --> 00:14:27,423 But, as with the original Commonwealth, the triumvir's power was not absolute. 198 00:14:27,814 --> 00:14:33,985 The people also elected a tricameral legislative body called a Conclave. 199 00:14:34,016 --> 00:14:38,794 That is why there must be a general election if Terazed is going to sign Dylan's charter. 200 00:14:39,302 --> 00:14:45,153 Yeesh. Gimme a nice simple dictatorship any day. Then, at least when things go wrong, you know who to hang. 201 00:14:46,082 --> 00:14:49,854 You're just saying that because you've never lived in a democracy. I think free elections sound like fun. 202 00:14:49,914 --> 00:14:55,843 Please! There is no such thing as a free election. Inexpensive, maybe - occasionally. But free? Never. 203 00:14:56,014 --> 00:14:56,557 Harper, you're so... 204 00:14:56,604 --> 00:14:59,006 ...Cynical? Jaded? Realistic? 205 00:14:59,047 --> 00:15:02,317 No, I was going to say "...cute when you're paranoid." 206 00:15:03,246 --> 00:15:07,072 Wait a minute. That's a compliment. You're trying to distract me. 207 00:15:08,209 --> 00:15:12,249 You know how this election's gonna turn out, don't you, Trance? Come on, spill it. 208 00:15:12,300 --> 00:15:15,539 Everyone knows how the election's going to turn out. It's a slam dunk. 209 00:15:15,693 --> 00:15:21,110 They've been waiting generations to rejoin the Commonwealth. I can't imagine them going against Dylan. 210 00:15:21,513 --> 00:15:27,862 Yeah? Well there's nothing wrong with a little insurance. I say I jack into their VR matrix and, uh, rig a few tallies 211 00:15:27,890 --> 00:15:32,172 stuff some ballot boxes. Hey, it is a time honored system. 212 00:15:32,329 --> 00:15:35,099 It's an integral part of the democracies I've read about. 213 00:15:38,403 --> 00:15:40,080 Fine. Fine. 214 00:15:41,988 --> 00:15:43,716 But I woulda made a great king. 215 00:15:45,257 --> 00:15:50,403 It doesn't have to be a long speech. You wouldn't have to write it yourself. I have people for that sort of thing. 216 00:15:51,321 --> 00:15:54,995 Would your people really care what I have to say? I'm just a stranger here. 217 00:15:55,567 --> 00:15:57,076 You're much more than that, Dylan. 218 00:15:57,460 --> 00:15:58,504 You're a legend. 219 00:15:59,325 --> 00:16:05,786 And, uh, if I may be so bold, an extremely charismatic and attractive individual. 220 00:16:06,337 --> 00:16:08,035 Who better to champion this referendum? 221 00:16:08,357 --> 00:16:11,700 Why do we even need to do this? I thought the outcome was assured. 222 00:16:12,778 --> 00:16:18,902 The truth is, there's a strong isolationist movement on Terazed. 223 00:16:19,778 --> 00:16:22,927 We have a good life here and some people don't want to send their sons and daughters 224 00:16:23,022 --> 00:16:24,492 ...away to die in your war. Well, then the war will come to them. 225 00:16:24,550 --> 00:16:26,273 Then you have to tell them that, Dylan. 226 00:16:27,035 --> 00:16:33,351 Because right now the election is too close to call and I could use your help. 227 00:16:42,563 --> 00:16:43,790 Nicely done, Captain Hunt. 228 00:16:45,199 --> 00:16:47,642 Your speech was very impressive. 229 00:16:48,543 --> 00:16:52,505 Thank you. I'm, uh, not much of a politician. I'm just a soldier. 230 00:16:53,170 --> 00:16:55,167 Don't underestimate your powers as a leader. 231 00:16:57,918 --> 00:16:59,283 Do you have a moment? 232 00:17:09,060 --> 00:17:10,143 Do you have a moment? 233 00:17:10,591 --> 00:17:13,740 For my best man? Always. 234 00:17:14,305 --> 00:17:16,903 About that. 235 00:17:17,910 --> 00:17:18,657 There must be better candidates. 236 00:17:18,705 --> 00:17:20,100 What about Refractions of Dawn? Best man? Best insectoid hermaphrodite. 237 00:17:20,151 --> 00:17:28,973 You know, it just doesn't have quite the same ring to it, does it? 238 00:17:31,544 --> 00:17:39,537 Look, there is no one on this ship... Hell, there's no one in the known worlds that I trust more. 239 00:17:42,151 --> 00:17:43,594 I want you at my side at my wedding. Think you can take me? 240 00:17:44,747 --> 00:17:45,423 Magog. 241 00:17:49,878 --> 00:17:51,121 Yes. 242 00:17:57,094 --> 00:17:59,665 Yeah, "best insectoid hermaphrodite" sounds a lot better. 243 00:18:02,790 --> 00:18:03,900 Commander? 244 00:18:10,863 --> 00:18:11,542 Rhade! 245 00:18:11,571 --> 00:18:12,714 I tried to warn you. 246 00:18:14,553 --> 00:18:15,493 Dylan. 247 00:18:17,466 --> 00:18:19,147 I asked if you wanted a drink. 248 00:18:21,824 --> 00:18:24,524 I suspect you wanted to ask me something else. 249 00:18:29,076 --> 00:18:34,712 My ancestor, Gaheris Rhade. Here on Terazed, he's something of a hero, 250 00:18:34,994 --> 00:18:38,862 you know, a loyal Commonwealth officer, dead in that first terrible battle. 251 00:18:39,181 --> 00:18:42,353 I lost a lot of good people that day. 252 00:18:42,404 --> 00:18:49,797 The Nietzscheans tell a different story. That he betrayed the Commonwealth. 253 00:18:52,008 --> 00:18:54,020 You're the only person alive who knows the truth. 254 00:18:54,052 --> 00:18:57,076 You know, I, uh, I think I'll take that drink. 255 00:18:58,112 --> 00:18:59,259 You were there. 256 00:19:01,446 --> 00:19:02,919 At least tell me what happened. 257 00:19:08,683 --> 00:19:09,989 Tell me what he did. 258 00:19:15,525 --> 00:19:23,915 He tried to warn me. For what it's worth, he tried to warn me about the rebellion, and by the time I listened, it was too late. 259 00:19:26,495 --> 00:19:28,522 So he was a hero after all. 260 00:19:29,875 --> 00:19:32,416 That means a lot to me. Thank you. I just wish we weren't on opposite sides. 261 00:19:35,199 --> 00:19:36,697 So he was a hero after all. That means a lot to me. Thank you. 262 00:19:37,459 --> 00:19:38,763 I just wish we weren't on opposite sides. Opposite sides of what? 263 00:19:39,542 --> 00:19:40,689 I thought you knew. 264 00:19:41,222 --> 00:19:42,868 I'm opposed to the Commonwealth referendum. 265 00:19:43,350 --> 00:19:44,661 But you are Commonwealth. All of you. 266 00:19:45,114 --> 00:19:47,902 Terazed has been waiting for this day for three hundred years. 267 00:19:48,301 --> 00:19:53,778 And we're still here after three hundred years. Because we haven't let the chaos out there touch us. 268 00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:55,316 Because no one knows we exist. 269 00:19:55,386 --> 00:19:57,150 Yeah, for now, but that will change sooner or later. 270 00:19:57,267 --> 00:19:58,914 The later the better, as far as I'm concerned. 271 00:20:00,067 --> 00:20:01,608 You have powerful enemies, Captain. 272 00:20:01,955 --> 00:20:03,439 So do you, Admiral. 273 00:20:07,471 --> 00:20:11,660 The Magog are coming. You can't deny them out of existence. 274 00:20:11,788 --> 00:20:12,367 No, but I can keep us out of their crosshairs. 275 00:20:13,423 --> 00:20:19,634 I'm sorry. It's my duty to protect Terazed and I'm not going to let anyone compromise that. 276 00:20:21,431 --> 00:20:24,013 You should see the armaments they have stockpiled. 277 00:20:26,382 --> 00:20:29,398 Dozens of shrike fighters just sitting in hangars. 278 00:20:29,759 --> 00:20:35,539 Janus light attack drones, Oracles, Centaurs. 279 00:20:35,879 --> 00:20:37,726 But you know what it is that I really want? 280 00:20:38,066 --> 00:20:40,222 An avatar unencumbered by cleavage? 281 00:20:41,451 --> 00:20:46,283 A real crew. I used to have 800 lancers stationed on me. 282 00:20:46,455 --> 00:20:48,539 Yes, and I can imagine the eavesdropping potential. 283 00:20:48,708 --> 00:20:55,712 I never eavesdrop. I monitor. For security purposes. And besides... oh no. 284 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:57,477 What is it? 285 00:20:59,361 --> 00:21:00,835 The election results just came in. 286 00:21:03,774 --> 00:21:09,321 Dylan, they voted against your restored Commonwealth. We lost. 287 00:21:11,659 --> 00:21:12,802 That's just great. 288 00:21:23,289 --> 00:21:25,286 You can't just leave. My people need you. 289 00:21:25,407 --> 00:21:27,131 Well, that's not what they said yesterday. 290 00:21:27,180 --> 00:21:30,306 They were misled - misinformed. You can talk to them. 291 00:21:30,466 --> 00:21:33,261 I already did. I don't have any more time to waste here. 292 00:21:33,420 --> 00:21:35,815 Dylan, you're not wasting your time. I promise. 293 00:21:35,827 --> 00:21:37,141 I can call another election. 294 00:21:37,205 --> 00:21:39,439 Yeah, in a year. I read your constitution. Your hands are tied. 295 00:21:39,633 --> 00:21:42,634 Not necessarily. I can declare a planetary emergency. 296 00:21:45,042 --> 00:21:50,922 Under what cause? Rakel, I appreciate your efforts, but I have three years to build an alliance against the Magog. 297 00:21:51,114 --> 00:21:53,790 When things start to get serious, your people will change their minds. 298 00:21:54,143 --> 00:22:00,127 Please. A day or two - that's all I need. Don't give up on us now. 299 00:22:00,509 --> 00:22:03,710 Talk to him. Talk to Rhade. 300 00:22:15,192 --> 00:22:19,592 I didn't realize this "basketball" was so violent. 301 00:22:20,168 --> 00:22:24,188 Perhaps there is a more productive way to express your disappointment. 302 00:22:24,364 --> 00:22:26,831 Give it up, Rev. I'm NOT going to talk to him. 303 00:22:27,532 --> 00:22:34,977 Why? Because Telemachus Rhade's great-great-great-grandfather betrayed you? 304 00:22:35,046 --> 00:22:42,846 No! Because Telemachus betrayed me. He broadsided me by campaigning against the 305 00:22:43,029 --> 00:22:47,100 restored Commonwealth. Rev, you know what? I'm getting a little tired of... 306 00:22:47,134 --> 00:22:52,330 being stabbed in the back by Rhade's. Perhaps. But maybe you should try to 307 00:22:52,693 --> 00:22:53,748 see things through his eyes. Oh, please! 308 00:22:53,824 --> 00:22:58,928 Telemachus Rhade was wounded twice defending Terazed against Kalderan raiders. 309 00:22:58,956 --> 00:23:01,538 Well, you know, then maybe I should give him a call, huh? 310 00:23:02,026 --> 00:23:08,025 Dylan, one of those raids resulted in the deaths of thousands of people. 311 00:23:08,455 --> 00:23:13,055 The isolationists are not evil. They are merely afraid. 312 00:23:14,389 --> 00:23:19,102 Code Blue. All hands report to Command. Magog swarm ships have been sighted in the outer system. 313 00:23:19,186 --> 00:23:21,132 You have GOT to be kidding. 314 00:23:23,941 --> 00:23:24,857 Andromeda, report. 315 00:23:25,140 --> 00:23:28,461 Four unknown targets with rad signatures identical to Magog swarm ships. 316 00:23:28,722 --> 00:23:33,618 Terazed's sensor satellites just picked them up doing a fly-by of the fifth planet 317 00:23:34,188 --> 00:23:38,994 Hello, Fate... God... whoever...I just want to officially note it on my personal record 318 00:23:39,138 --> 00:23:43,213 that, uh, mentally, I am not ready for another round of Magog-a-Go-Go. 319 00:23:43,306 --> 00:23:46,230 Focus, Harper. Nothing's buried itself in our hull yet. 320 00:23:46,355 --> 00:23:48,568 YET. Three little letters, so much pain. 321 00:23:48,624 --> 00:23:50,175 Trance, get the Home Guard commander on-screen. 322 00:23:50,223 --> 00:23:50,804 Getting. 323 00:23:53,155 --> 00:23:55,421 Admiral, there are four Mago swarm ships in the outer system. 324 00:23:55,577 --> 00:23:56,844 I know. You led them right to us. 325 00:23:56,857 --> 00:23:59,737 A: That is not true, and B: We can point fingers later. 326 00:23:59,782 --> 00:24:03,423 Right now, I'm launching everything we've got, and it's not going to be enough. 327 00:24:04,111 --> 00:24:04,668 I need your help. 328 00:24:04,777 --> 00:24:05,752 That's why we're still here. 329 00:24:06,767 --> 00:24:12,222 I'm transferring Triumvir's Honor Guard to your command - ships and lancers. 330 00:24:12,995 --> 00:24:15,968 Beka, best speed to the outer system. Tell the triumvir's fighters to... 331 00:24:15,999 --> 00:24:18,435 Captain, what's going on? My pilots... 332 00:24:18,553 --> 00:24:23,147 Your pilots are responding to a military emergency, and if you've got a problem with that then get off my Command Center. 333 00:24:27,052 --> 00:24:38,406 Attention. Attention. All hands report to battle stations. 334 00:24:38,458 --> 00:24:40,408 You. Assist on fire control. 335 00:24:40,452 --> 00:24:42,123 What are you doing? He's in my Honor Guard. 336 00:24:42,253 --> 00:24:45,674 Your troops are training in a High Guard simulator. It's time to put that training to use. 337 00:24:46,033 --> 00:24:48,549 Unless, of course, you wanted to invite the Magog in for dinner? 338 00:24:54,956 --> 00:24:56,143 Eighty light-seconds, Captain. 339 00:24:56,172 --> 00:24:57,162 Deploy fighters. 340 00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:57,643 Understood. 341 00:24:57,678 --> 00:24:58,699 Aye-Aye. 342 00:25:07,053 --> 00:25:09,370 Here we go, baby. This is the one. 343 00:25:11,466 --> 00:25:13,727 You can't just go in there blasting. What about casualties? 344 00:25:13,771 --> 00:25:15,078 Magog casualties? 345 00:25:15,121 --> 00:25:17,024 Our casualties. Those boys out there. 346 00:25:17,034 --> 00:25:18,404 They're guardsmen. This is what they do. 347 00:25:18,424 --> 00:25:20,819 Captain, the swarm ships appear to be moving off. 348 00:25:21,226 --> 00:25:22,578 Vectoring away. Three-one-two degrees. 349 00:25:22,604 --> 00:25:24,627 Magog scampering? That's too easy. 350 00:25:24,761 --> 00:25:26,060 Hey, I like gift horses! 351 00:25:26,175 --> 00:25:27,049 Full sensor scan. 352 00:25:30,442 --> 00:25:32,190 Break it off. We're standing down. 353 00:25:32,231 --> 00:25:33,250 What? Are you serious? 354 00:25:33,299 --> 00:25:34,597 Come on! At least let's blow one up. 355 00:25:34,617 --> 00:25:35,493 They're leaving! 356 00:25:38,723 --> 00:25:39,597 Standing down. 357 00:25:41,260 --> 00:25:45,481 Dylan, one of the fighters is pealing off. It's chasing the Magog. 358 00:25:45,674 --> 00:25:46,552 And it's hailing us. 359 00:25:47,695 --> 00:25:51,069 Lieutenant Brown reporting. I've engaged the enemy, sir. 360 00:25:51,194 --> 00:25:53,554 Return to the Andromeda, Jamahl. We're breaking off pursuit. 361 00:25:53,572 --> 00:25:55,242 I can take 'em, Captain. Just give me the word. 362 00:25:55,288 --> 00:25:56,447 The word is "No". 363 00:25:57,820 --> 00:26:01,161 I'm not some outworld hick. I'm the one who found you, remember? 364 00:26:01,192 --> 00:26:05,549 I said "Stand down". Do you copy, Lieutenant? 365 00:26:07,714 --> 00:26:12,946 Tyr, I want covering fire... point defense lasers. Andromeda, plot an intercept course. Harper, bucky cables at the ready. 366 00:26:36,085 --> 00:26:37,009 Nice shot, kid. 367 00:26:37,088 --> 00:26:39,579 Uh-oh. He's headed straight for that piece of junk. 368 00:26:42,941 --> 00:26:45,553 Jamahl, pull up! Reverse thrusters! 369 00:26:45,872 --> 00:26:47,141 Amateur. 370 00:26:54,699 --> 00:26:57,609 Andromeda. Andromeda, do you read me? Condition's critical. 371 00:26:57,656 --> 00:26:58,673 Get him back now! 372 00:26:58,708 --> 00:26:59,817 That is our objective. 373 00:26:59,867 --> 00:27:01,181 He's in an uncontrolled spin. 374 00:27:01,242 --> 00:27:03,473 We're within 500 thousand kilometers of the slipfighter. 375 00:27:03,745 --> 00:27:04,513 Launch harpoon. 376 00:27:04,550 --> 00:27:05,303 He's losing it. 377 00:27:20,477 --> 00:27:23,014 Gone. He's gone. 378 00:27:26,967 --> 00:27:32,266 Beka, get us out of here. Trance, take the triumvir back... 379 00:27:32,283 --> 00:27:33,293 ... to guest quarters, please. But, I... 380 00:27:36,378 --> 00:27:39,642 ... Thank you. I'm sorry. 381 00:27:41,537 --> 00:27:46,853 Andromeda, I want a full analysis of that debris - electromagnetic, spectrographic, hell - get me a breathalyzer test on its pilot. 382 00:27:46,897 --> 00:27:47,424 What's up, boss? 383 00:27:47,549 --> 00:27:50,555 Swarm ships come out of nowhere, do nothing, then leave for no reason? 384 00:27:51,415 --> 00:27:52,834 Magog don't sightsee. 385 00:27:52,894 --> 00:27:57,916 Dylan, those swarm ships...the rad signature was correct, but the one Lieutenant Brown destroyed... 386 00:27:58,053 --> 00:28:01,262 ...it had no pilot. Also, no slip drive and no weapons. 387 00:28:01,417 --> 00:28:02,227 A drone. 388 00:28:02,295 --> 00:28:04,376 No. It's a dummy. 389 00:28:04,397 --> 00:28:09,500 There's more. Analysis of the debris indicates the vessel was constructed in the local star system. 390 00:28:09,719 --> 00:28:14,544 That attack didn't come from the Magog world ship. It was launched from Terazed itself. 391 00:28:22,212 --> 00:28:22,990 You sure about that? 392 00:28:23,037 --> 00:28:29,610 I've checked and rechecked and double-rechecked the trajectories and... 393 00:28:29,690 --> 00:28:31,060 the Magog swarm ships came from Argosy Station Terazed. The Home Guard's command center. 394 00:28:31,243 --> 00:28:32,996 And Telemachus Rhade's home base. 395 00:28:33,038 --> 00:28:37,026 Have Triumvir Ben-Tzion meet me in my quarters immediately. 396 00:28:41,225 --> 00:28:42,496 That poor child. 397 00:28:43,722 --> 00:28:44,786 He was one of Sarah's. 398 00:28:44,834 --> 00:28:45,587 Yes, I know. 399 00:28:48,180 --> 00:28:53,678 Maybe Telemachus was right. It is too dangerous. Maybe I should just let him take over. 400 00:28:58,309 --> 00:29:00,322 Let him take over? 401 00:29:01,809 --> 00:29:03,102 Rakel, what's going on here? Something's happening down on Terazed. 402 00:29:03,468 --> 00:29:10,955 I can't reach the High Council. Second Triumvir Cooper is "in conference". 403 00:29:11,662 --> 00:29:13,554 Cooper never confers with anyone. 404 00:29:13,898 --> 00:29:14,717 Andromeda? 405 00:29:15,935 --> 00:29:19,468 Communications channels to Terazed are still open, but none of the government offices are responding. 406 00:29:19,637 --> 00:29:20,529 Communications freeze. My sources on the ground tell me 407 00:29:20,562 --> 00:29:24,909 they're mobilizing the Home Guard. There are troops on the street in the Capitol. 408 00:29:24,941 --> 00:29:28,903 So you're saying Telemachus faked that attack so he'd have a reason to mobilize his troops. 409 00:29:28,987 --> 00:29:30,561 And now he's mounting a military coup. 410 00:29:31,792 --> 00:29:37,431 This is my fault. I should have been ready for this. But I didn't want to believe the reports. 411 00:29:37,485 --> 00:29:38,414 What reports? 412 00:29:39,973 --> 00:29:44,838 My operations department intercepted a number of coded transmissions from Telemachus's secured line, 413 00:29:45,638 --> 00:29:48,245 including one right before the fake Magog attack. 414 00:29:48,863 --> 00:29:49,684 Launch commands. 415 00:29:50,932 --> 00:29:54,745 I can't believe Rhade would do something like this. He's loyal as a dog. 416 00:29:57,580 --> 00:29:59,057 Yeah, maybe. 417 00:30:05,481 --> 00:30:09,887 Troops in the street, the triumvirate held incommunicado. Gaheris Rhade destroyed the Commonwealth once. 418 00:30:09,931 --> 00:30:12,440 I'm not gonna stand by and watch another Rhade destroy it all over again. 419 00:30:12,519 --> 00:30:13,829 So, what are you going to do? 420 00:30:13,894 --> 00:30:20,401 The same thing General Sani nax Rifati did 6000 years ago. I'm gonna get the military out of the republic. 421 00:30:20,868 --> 00:30:23,615 Time to give Telemachus Rhade a little history lesson. 422 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:36,547 I told you before. Pessimism is not a survival trait. 423 00:30:55,265 --> 00:30:58,142 Dylan, incoming message from Admiral Rhade. 424 00:30:58,720 --> 00:30:59,591 On my way. 425 00:31:03,198 --> 00:31:04,744 Andromeda, on-screen. 426 00:31:07,004 --> 00:31:08,010 We have to talk. 427 00:31:08,777 --> 00:31:10,538 I would call that an understatement. 428 00:31:11,074 --> 00:31:13,834 What the hell's going on down there? You've got troops in the conclave. 429 00:31:13,925 --> 00:31:16,160 I can explain everything. Let me come on board. 430 00:31:16,222 --> 00:31:18,779 You and the Third Lancer Regiment? Not likely. 431 00:31:18,779 --> 00:31:20,618 I can't argue with Mr. Anasazi. 432 00:31:20,793 --> 00:31:23,594 No lancers, Dylan. Just the two of us. 433 00:31:26,778 --> 00:31:28,222 Andromeda, hold transmission. 434 00:31:28,284 --> 00:31:29,284 Transmission held. 435 00:31:30,832 --> 00:31:32,352 If we can manage to bring him up... 436 00:31:32,432 --> 00:31:33,516 Clear the deck. 437 00:31:34,676 --> 00:31:35,527 Dylan, no offense, but... 438 00:31:35,567 --> 00:31:36,658 I know what I'm doing. 439 00:31:37,068 --> 00:31:38,623 I strongly doubt that. 440 00:31:39,620 --> 00:31:42,315 Let me stay. Maybe he'll listen to his triumvir. 441 00:31:42,337 --> 00:31:44,467 This isn't a debate. I have questions and... 442 00:31:44,492 --> 00:31:47,677 ... I'm gonna get answers. Now get off my deck! 443 00:32:04,834 --> 00:32:07,302 Andromeda, activate screen. 444 00:32:07,356 --> 00:32:08,824 Transmission reestablished. 445 00:32:09,854 --> 00:32:11,716 Admiral, about that meeting you wanted... 446 00:32:13,216 --> 00:32:14,692 ...permission granted. 447 00:32:20,897 --> 00:32:21,388 Status. 448 00:32:22,467 --> 00:32:24,369 He's outside the door, Dylan. And he's alone. 449 00:32:25,269 --> 00:32:26,009 Is he armed? 450 00:32:26,146 --> 00:32:27,500 One High Guard force lance. 451 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:30,443 Let him in. Initiate privacy mode. 452 00:32:30,527 --> 00:32:30,973 But Dylan... 453 00:32:31,126 --> 00:32:32,997 Don't start with me. 454 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,615 I understand why you did it, Dylan. Believe me, I do. 455 00:32:44,765 --> 00:32:45,928 You've got this all wrong. 456 00:32:46,008 --> 00:32:48,877 Do I? I know how important that election was to you. 457 00:32:48,906 --> 00:32:52,352 You know, last I looked, I wasn't the one with troops in the streets. 458 00:32:54,011 --> 00:32:54,916 Is that how you want to play this? 459 00:32:55,062 --> 00:32:56,759 I am not playing at anything. 460 00:32:57,645 --> 00:32:58,513 Neither am I. 461 00:33:11,311 --> 00:33:13,631 Rhade! Listen to me! 462 00:35:08,243 --> 00:35:12,627 You could have killed me. You didn't. Why not? 463 00:35:13,406 --> 00:35:19,126 Same reason you didn't kill me. Because we both know who the real criminal is. 464 00:35:28,784 --> 00:35:34,575 Ceremonial visits to the shipyard, coded transmissions on her private line, 465 00:35:34,981 --> 00:35:37,320 and cargo manifests in her brother's name. 466 00:35:37,549 --> 00:35:41,129 If the information your A.I. uncovered is true, she's been planning this for months. 467 00:35:41,628 --> 00:35:45,653 She knew that her scouts would locate me eventually and bring me to Terazed... 468 00:35:46,081 --> 00:35:50,912 And instituted a contingency plan in case it didn't go her way. 469 00:35:51,558 --> 00:35:53,501 Think you can verify this evidence independently? 470 00:35:54,235 --> 00:35:58,152 Terazed is with free press. It's hard to hide things. It's harder to fake them. 471 00:36:02,196 --> 00:36:09,608 Rommie could falsify data like this easily. Hell, if I wanted to, I could make it... 472 00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:17,580 look like you were behind the whole thing. And then you'd get everything you wanted, wouldn't you? 473 00:36:18,112 --> 00:36:21,488 The isolationists would be disgraced. There'd be a new election. Terazed would join the new Commonwealth. 474 00:36:21,622 --> 00:36:22,914 And you'd go to prison. 475 00:36:24,785 --> 00:36:29,032 As cost-benefit ratios go, it's got a lot to recommend it. 476 00:36:30,380 --> 00:36:37,371 Betray an innocent me, gain the world, and lose... lose what, Mr. Rhade? 477 00:36:39,103 --> 00:36:41,249 It's what I would do. 478 00:36:42,769 --> 00:36:45,060 All right, let's end this. 479 00:37:12,616 --> 00:37:15,814 Triumvir Ben-Tzion, you're under arrest. 480 00:37:18,553 --> 00:37:22,593 Dylan, please. We want the same thing. 481 00:37:23,312 --> 00:37:26,340 No, we don't. 482 00:37:56,803 --> 00:38:02,036 Eternal life grant unto him and may perpetual life shine upon him. 483 00:38:18,955 --> 00:38:21,526 I think I finally understand what happened to my ancestor. 484 00:38:23,660 --> 00:38:27,375 Good. So do I. 485 00:38:29,850 --> 00:38:33,699 And tell your Aunt Connie it is fine with me if she wants to give you away, 486 00:38:33,753 --> 00:38:40,302 but I am not going to salute her if she insists on wearing pink taffeta. And I... Come. 487 00:38:45,663 --> 00:38:47,175 About this best man job. 488 00:38:47,265 --> 00:38:48,574 Uh, yes? 489 00:38:48,616 --> 00:38:52,690 Does it always involve drunken bachelor parties and half-naked dancing girls? 490 00:38:58,643 --> 00:38:59,831 Pretty much, yeah. 491 00:39:01,995 --> 00:39:06,122 Hmmm. In that case, I accept. 492 00:39:06,382 --> 00:39:10,078 Good. I'm glad. 493 00:39:11,442 --> 00:39:18,499 Thank you, Dylan. It's an honor to serve with you. And an honor to be your friend. 494 00:39:27,968 --> 00:39:29,510 Did I do the right thing, Rommie? 495 00:39:30,601 --> 00:39:32,078 Throwing it all away like that. 496 00:39:33,786 --> 00:39:37,872 You mean by arresting Rakel Ben-Tzion instead of Telemachus Rhade. 497 00:39:38,499 --> 00:39:39,059 Yeah. 498 00:39:41,686 --> 00:39:46,014 I try not to dwell on what's right and what's wrong. It slows my processors. 499 00:39:49,675 --> 00:39:54,344 Still, one innocent man convicted, one guilty woman set free 500 00:39:54,506 --> 00:40:00,707 in exchange for a fleet, a crew, the ability to protect Terazed and a thousand other worlds from a genuine horror. 501 00:40:02,545 --> 00:40:05,211 One act of betrayal to save the universe. 502 00:40:07,566 --> 00:40:10,210 It seems a small price to pay, doesn't it? 503 00:40:14,375 --> 00:40:15,968 Be well, Dylan. 504 00:40:18,707 --> 00:40:27,685 I'm doing my best, Sarah. I'm doing my best.