1 00:00:17,083 --> 00:00:18,752 No trace of anything, 2 00:00:18,851 --> 00:00:20,687 nothing alive, anyway, 3 00:00:20,787 --> 00:00:22,222 kalderans, humans... 4 00:00:22,322 --> 00:00:24,023 Nothing. 5 00:00:24,124 --> 00:00:25,725 Just tell rommie to look out for anything cold, slimy, 6 00:00:25,825 --> 00:00:27,394 and hostile towards all known forms of life. 7 00:00:27,494 --> 00:00:29,262 Rommie, are you inside the ship yet? 8 00:00:29,362 --> 00:00:31,631 I'm entering by manual override. 9 00:00:31,731 --> 00:00:33,733 There isn't enough power to drive the door. 10 00:00:33,833 --> 00:00:35,234 Just as well, 11 00:00:35,335 --> 00:00:36,803 or you'd set off their self-defense systems. 12 00:00:36,903 --> 00:00:38,438 The kalderans would've sprung any trap by now. 13 00:00:38,538 --> 00:00:39,839 One would hope. 14 00:00:41,608 --> 00:00:42,875 Okay, harper, I'm inside 15 00:00:42,975 --> 00:00:47,013 and looking for the power coupling. 16 00:00:48,782 --> 00:00:50,117 Got it. 17 00:00:50,217 --> 00:00:52,452 All set on this end. 18 00:00:52,552 --> 00:00:55,054 Let there be light. 19 00:00:57,991 --> 00:01:00,193 These hands have been touched by god... 20 00:01:00,294 --> 00:01:02,296 Not to mention a few other things. 21 00:01:06,733 --> 00:01:08,101 Rommie... 22 00:01:08,201 --> 00:01:10,870 What the hell happened over there? 23 00:01:10,970 --> 00:01:13,473 Small-arms fire. 24 00:01:13,573 --> 00:01:15,274 Explosive decompression. 25 00:01:15,375 --> 00:01:17,544 What didn't happen? 26 00:01:17,644 --> 00:01:19,446 Who would be stupid enough to raid a kalderan ship? 27 00:01:19,546 --> 00:01:21,615 Kalderans are vicious, brutal, no sense of humor. 28 00:01:21,714 --> 00:01:23,249 Stupid, all right. 29 00:01:23,350 --> 00:01:26,320 They left the evidence in plain sight 30 00:01:26,420 --> 00:01:28,155 instead of dropping it into the nearest star. 31 00:01:28,255 --> 00:01:29,756 Which brings me to my next question, 32 00:01:29,856 --> 00:01:30,424 actually, more of a proposition... 33 00:01:30,523 --> 00:01:32,392 no. 34 00:01:32,492 --> 00:01:33,693 Dylan, we need supplies. 35 00:01:33,793 --> 00:01:35,562 It's not salvage with dead aboard. 36 00:01:37,897 --> 00:01:39,499 My avatar has run a systems diagnostic 37 00:01:39,599 --> 00:01:40,834 of the kalderan ship. 38 00:01:40,933 --> 00:01:42,169 It reveals evidence 39 00:01:42,269 --> 00:01:43,537 of forced entry and internal damage 40 00:01:43,637 --> 00:01:44,604 consistent with a running firefight. 41 00:01:44,704 --> 00:01:47,106 In addition, 42 00:01:47,206 --> 00:01:48,442 the vessel is missing one slip-pod. 43 00:01:48,541 --> 00:01:49,842 It jettisoned just prior 44 00:01:49,943 --> 00:01:51,511 to comprehensive systems failure. 45 00:01:51,611 --> 00:01:52,679 So there may be survivors. 46 00:01:52,779 --> 00:01:54,581 Rommie, download the mission log. 47 00:01:54,681 --> 00:01:56,183 It might give us a clue to what happened. 48 00:01:56,283 --> 00:01:57,283 Retrieving mission logs. 49 00:01:57,384 --> 00:01:59,619 It was recorded in kalderan. 50 00:01:59,719 --> 00:02:01,555 I'll provide a real-time translation. 51 00:02:01,655 --> 00:02:05,559 The mission has been of limited success, 52 00:02:05,659 --> 00:02:08,261 as the much-hated-blood-enemy refuses to take part. 53 00:02:08,362 --> 00:02:10,663 "The much-hated-blood-enemy"? 54 00:02:22,709 --> 00:02:23,410 Stop. 55 00:02:23,510 --> 00:02:24,544 Andromeda, 56 00:02:24,644 --> 00:02:26,679 replay the last two seconds 57 00:02:26,780 --> 00:02:27,947 at quarter speed, 58 00:02:28,047 --> 00:02:29,416 top right quadrant, center and zoom. 59 00:02:31,150 --> 00:02:32,552 Let me guess. 60 00:02:32,652 --> 00:02:35,121 That would be the much-hated-blood-enemy? 61 00:02:35,221 --> 00:02:37,624 No, that would be a vedran. 62 00:02:37,724 --> 00:02:39,959 A vedran? 63 00:02:40,059 --> 00:02:41,294 Gone from the universe 64 00:02:41,394 --> 00:02:42,462 since the fall of the commonwealth? 65 00:02:42,562 --> 00:02:44,697 No one's ever seen a live vedran. 66 00:02:44,798 --> 00:02:47,467 No one but me. 67 00:02:50,470 --> 00:02:52,906 He is the last guardian of a fallen 68 00:02:53,005 --> 00:02:55,041 civilization, a hero from another time. 69 00:02:55,141 --> 00:02:56,743 Faced with a universe in chaos, 70 00:02:56,843 --> 00:02:58,445 Dylan hunt recruits an unlikely crew 71 00:02:58,545 --> 00:03:01,280 and sets out to reunite the galaxies. 72 00:03:01,380 --> 00:03:04,617 On the starship Andromeda, hope lives again. 73 00:03:53,833 --> 00:03:55,401 I still can't believe 74 00:03:55,502 --> 00:03:57,069 we're looking for an actual vedran. 75 00:03:57,169 --> 00:03:58,738 It's been hundreds of years. 76 00:03:58,838 --> 00:04:00,239 302, to be precise, 77 00:04:00,340 --> 00:04:03,510 ever since tarn vedra was cut off from the slipstream. 78 00:04:03,610 --> 00:04:05,344 Tarn vedra, 79 00:04:05,444 --> 00:04:07,346 the seat of the systems commonwealth, 80 00:04:07,446 --> 00:04:09,348 the source of moral authority for the high guard, 81 00:04:09,448 --> 00:04:10,717 and my home. 82 00:04:10,817 --> 00:04:12,352 Do you think the kalderans 83 00:04:12,452 --> 00:04:14,020 found a way to slip to tarn vedra? 84 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:15,388 Unlikely. 85 00:04:15,488 --> 00:04:16,890 Even if they found a way in, 86 00:04:16,990 --> 00:04:18,691 I doubt they could find their way back out. 87 00:04:18,791 --> 00:04:20,560 The vedrans are a formidable people. 88 00:04:20,660 --> 00:04:21,928 According to the logs, 89 00:04:22,028 --> 00:04:23,697 the kalderan ship was returning from ral Parthia. 90 00:04:23,797 --> 00:04:25,031 Ah, ral Parthia. 91 00:04:25,131 --> 00:04:26,766 I've been around the moons of nibia 92 00:04:26,866 --> 00:04:28,368 and through perdition's flame, 93 00:04:28,468 --> 00:04:30,236 but I've never heard of the place. 94 00:04:30,337 --> 00:04:32,238 Ral Parthia was a planetary nature reserve. 95 00:04:32,339 --> 00:04:33,740 It was open to visitors from all over the commonwealth. 96 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:35,875 Some vedrans, they loved it 97 00:04:35,975 --> 00:04:37,977 even more than tarn vedra itself. 98 00:04:38,077 --> 00:04:39,779 Maybe a colony of vedrans was trapped there after the fall 99 00:04:39,879 --> 00:04:41,247 with the warders. 100 00:04:41,347 --> 00:04:42,916 Warders? 101 00:04:43,016 --> 00:04:46,052 They were like caretakers, rangers. 102 00:04:46,152 --> 00:04:47,654 Most were human. 103 00:04:47,754 --> 00:04:49,856 They're the ones who maintained the planet. 104 00:04:49,956 --> 00:04:51,324 Rommie, 105 00:04:51,424 --> 00:04:53,326 if the kalderans stumbled across ral Parthia 106 00:04:53,426 --> 00:04:54,827 and captured a vedran... 107 00:04:54,928 --> 00:04:56,530 Well, vedran or not, it took a slip-pod. 108 00:04:56,630 --> 00:04:58,197 Maybe it went back to ral Parthia. 109 00:04:58,297 --> 00:05:00,534 Maybe we should go there and find out. 110 00:05:00,634 --> 00:05:02,469 What about the kalderan ship? 111 00:05:02,569 --> 00:05:03,837 If someone comes across it, 112 00:05:03,936 --> 00:05:05,739 they'll know just as much as we do. 113 00:05:08,107 --> 00:05:10,042 That's a good point. 114 00:05:20,654 --> 00:05:21,888 Well, that should 115 00:05:21,988 --> 00:05:23,690 keep the kalderans' next of kin wondering. 116 00:05:23,790 --> 00:05:25,491 For which I am sorry, 117 00:05:25,592 --> 00:05:27,159 but if that was a vedran, 118 00:05:27,259 --> 00:05:28,928 it is my duty as a high guard officer 119 00:05:29,028 --> 00:05:30,763 to find her and protect her. 120 00:05:30,863 --> 00:05:32,532 It didn't look like she needed much help 121 00:05:32,632 --> 00:05:34,033 from anyone. 122 00:05:34,133 --> 00:05:36,670 That's not an assumption I'm willing to make. 123 00:05:36,769 --> 00:05:39,138 If the vedrans are still out there, 124 00:05:39,238 --> 00:05:41,307 we need to know. 125 00:05:41,407 --> 00:05:43,076 We, huh? 126 00:05:52,419 --> 00:05:54,220 We're ready to transit to slipstream. 127 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:55,722 Wait. Do you mind? 128 00:05:55,822 --> 00:05:56,723 The slip to ral Parthia 129 00:05:56,823 --> 00:05:58,124 was always one of my favorites. 130 00:05:59,859 --> 00:06:01,327 It's all yours. 131 00:06:01,427 --> 00:06:02,962 After you. 132 00:06:09,535 --> 00:06:11,004 All right... 133 00:06:12,805 --> 00:06:14,507 And here we go. 134 00:06:38,665 --> 00:06:40,032 Welcome to the ral system. 135 00:06:42,368 --> 00:06:44,170 I'm picking up several kalderan ships 136 00:06:44,270 --> 00:06:46,038 dispersed throughout the ral system. 137 00:06:46,138 --> 00:06:48,675 Cruisers, tenders, even ore processors. 138 00:06:48,775 --> 00:06:51,044 Beka. 139 00:06:51,144 --> 00:06:52,679 How long until they pick up the slipstream event 140 00:06:52,779 --> 00:06:54,013 and come looking? 141 00:06:54,113 --> 00:06:56,282 The nearest ship is a cruiser at 1.8 light minutes. 142 00:06:56,382 --> 00:06:58,417 Ral avar's a gas giant, two minutes out. 143 00:06:58,518 --> 00:07:00,052 Take us in perpendicular to the elliptic 144 00:07:00,152 --> 00:07:01,387 and dash into orbit when we've closed. 145 00:07:01,487 --> 00:07:02,656 That'll keep us out of sight. 146 00:07:02,756 --> 00:07:04,023 Rommie, get trance. You're both with me. 147 00:07:04,123 --> 00:07:05,624 Another field trip on the maru? 148 00:07:05,725 --> 00:07:07,326 We've got c/r codes from the kalderan ship. 149 00:07:07,426 --> 00:07:08,595 With any luck, 150 00:07:08,695 --> 00:07:10,196 they'll think we're on a supply run. 151 00:07:26,078 --> 00:07:27,914 I've got the missing slip-pod, 152 00:07:28,014 --> 00:07:30,983 but there's a kalderan outpost about a hundred kilometers away. 153 00:07:31,084 --> 00:07:33,019 Tell them we're dropping defoliants and plasma cutters. 154 00:07:33,119 --> 00:07:34,854 Defoliants and plasma cutters it is. 155 00:07:34,954 --> 00:07:36,355 Bastards. 156 00:07:36,455 --> 00:07:38,357 Strip-mining the planet and reducing it to ash. 157 00:07:38,457 --> 00:07:40,293 Probably just to spite the vedrans. 158 00:07:40,393 --> 00:07:41,627 Why would they do that? 159 00:07:41,728 --> 00:07:43,229 Destroying ral Parthia 160 00:07:43,329 --> 00:07:45,231 is their way of erasing tarn vedra forever. 161 00:07:45,331 --> 00:07:47,200 We're cleared to land, 162 00:07:47,299 --> 00:07:48,601 but there's some kind of operation underway. 163 00:07:48,702 --> 00:07:49,702 We're to drop our shipment and leave. 164 00:07:49,802 --> 00:07:51,437 We will, 165 00:07:51,537 --> 00:07:54,473 just as soon as we get what we came for. 166 00:08:12,158 --> 00:08:15,128 The slip-pod from the kalderan ship. 167 00:08:15,228 --> 00:08:17,063 It's been here awhile. 168 00:08:17,163 --> 00:08:18,765 The ground's cold. 169 00:08:18,865 --> 00:08:21,500 The kalderan sensors aren't as good as ours. 170 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:23,870 Their operation may be a search for this pod. 171 00:08:23,970 --> 00:08:26,272 Or a search and destroy. 172 00:08:26,372 --> 00:08:28,274 Something you want to tell me? 173 00:08:28,374 --> 00:08:30,710 Nothing you don't already know. 174 00:08:33,579 --> 00:08:35,481 Rommie, does that look like... 175 00:08:35,581 --> 00:08:38,150 Dylan, wait. 176 00:08:44,123 --> 00:08:46,726 They've got force lances. 177 00:08:46,826 --> 00:08:48,828 So do we. 178 00:08:59,973 --> 00:09:00,973 Fall back. 179 00:09:01,074 --> 00:09:02,375 Defensive fire only. 180 00:09:12,885 --> 00:09:15,121 Do you think they're warders? 181 00:09:15,221 --> 00:09:16,789 It's hard to say. 182 00:09:16,889 --> 00:09:18,791 The uniform's changed since I was here. 183 00:09:18,891 --> 00:09:20,859 Of course, it has been over 300 years. 184 00:09:22,461 --> 00:09:24,363 All right, 185 00:09:24,463 --> 00:09:25,598 time to force a surrender. 186 00:09:26,933 --> 00:09:27,934 How do we do that? 187 00:09:28,034 --> 00:09:29,435 By drawing a line in the sand. 188 00:09:45,417 --> 00:09:46,019 Hey! 189 00:09:46,118 --> 00:09:47,153 Weapons down! 190 00:09:47,253 --> 00:09:49,756 Stay where you are. 191 00:09:52,025 --> 00:09:54,793 Captain Dylan hunt of the high guard. 192 00:09:54,893 --> 00:09:56,295 We're on the same side. 193 00:09:56,395 --> 00:09:57,730 High guard? 194 00:09:57,830 --> 00:09:59,766 She didn't mention anything about a high guard. 195 00:09:59,866 --> 00:10:03,803 No, I don't imagine that she did. 196 00:10:08,841 --> 00:10:09,809 Andromeda? 197 00:10:09,909 --> 00:10:10,977 The kalderans, 198 00:10:11,077 --> 00:10:12,578 six ships headed this way. 199 00:10:12,678 --> 00:10:14,580 They may have detected our wake in the atmosphere. 200 00:10:14,680 --> 00:10:15,882 Take us deeper. 201 00:10:15,982 --> 00:10:17,750 Adjust a.G. Fields to compensate for the pressure. 202 00:10:17,850 --> 00:10:19,252 Being crushed 203 00:10:19,351 --> 00:10:21,254 under the weight of ral avar's atmosphere 204 00:10:21,353 --> 00:10:22,955 is the least of our worries. 205 00:10:23,055 --> 00:10:24,590 We've fought kalderans before. 206 00:10:24,690 --> 00:10:26,158 They're tough, not invincible. 207 00:10:26,258 --> 00:10:28,327 It's not the kalderans that have me concerned, 208 00:10:28,427 --> 00:10:30,896 it's our captain hunt and his friends, the vedrans. 209 00:10:30,997 --> 00:10:32,398 Ah, those guys. 210 00:10:32,498 --> 00:10:34,300 News flash, they're on our side. 211 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:35,534 Are they? 212 00:10:35,634 --> 00:10:37,770 Or would they simply expect us to be on their side? 213 00:10:37,870 --> 00:10:39,605 You're splitting hairs. 214 00:10:39,705 --> 00:10:41,340 Not at all. 215 00:10:42,908 --> 00:10:45,945 Dylan is attempting to exert his will on the universe. 216 00:10:46,045 --> 00:10:47,814 He doesn't need 217 00:10:47,914 --> 00:10:50,649 quasi-mythical creatures to justify his position. 218 00:10:50,749 --> 00:10:51,784 They're not mythical anymore. 219 00:10:51,884 --> 00:10:52,751 If anything, 220 00:10:52,851 --> 00:10:53,886 the vedran presence will weaken him. 221 00:10:53,987 --> 00:10:56,022 They'll make him look like a pawn, 222 00:10:56,122 --> 00:10:58,290 and before we realize it, he'll be one, 223 00:10:58,391 --> 00:11:00,426 and we along with him. 224 00:11:00,526 --> 00:11:02,228 So you don't trust the vedran agenda, 225 00:11:02,328 --> 00:11:04,097 even though they're the good guys? 226 00:11:04,196 --> 00:11:06,499 I don't trust any agenda veiled in secrecy, 227 00:11:06,598 --> 00:11:08,034 vedran or otherwise. 228 00:11:08,134 --> 00:11:11,237 Count on you to find the cloud around the silver lining. 229 00:11:11,337 --> 00:11:13,606 It's called faith, tyr. Have some. 230 00:11:19,612 --> 00:11:20,579 Dylan, 231 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:21,780 kalderans. 232 00:11:23,816 --> 00:11:24,850 Take cover! Come on. 233 00:11:24,950 --> 00:11:26,019 Come on! 234 00:11:26,119 --> 00:11:27,186 Move it! 235 00:11:41,267 --> 00:11:43,802 So what do you say, truce? 236 00:11:43,903 --> 00:11:45,338 The kalderans 237 00:11:45,437 --> 00:11:47,340 are trying to kill us, too. 238 00:11:51,944 --> 00:11:53,179 Truce. 239 00:11:58,451 --> 00:12:00,453 Rommie! 240 00:12:00,553 --> 00:12:01,487 I'm on it. 241 00:12:07,726 --> 00:12:11,197 Kalderan depth charges are entering the atmosphere. 242 00:12:13,632 --> 00:12:15,534 [ Harper ]: Aren't we supposed to be hiding? 243 00:12:15,634 --> 00:12:17,035 We are, proactively. 244 00:12:17,136 --> 00:12:19,037 What does that mean, exactly? 245 00:12:19,138 --> 00:12:20,973 It means we're being pragmatic 246 00:12:21,073 --> 00:12:22,975 and refusing to respond to their obvious probes. 247 00:12:23,075 --> 00:12:24,143 Shut up, 248 00:12:24,243 --> 00:12:26,145 and we'll tell you when to worry. 249 00:12:26,245 --> 00:12:28,881 Okay, just checking. 250 00:12:42,461 --> 00:12:44,396 Move! 251 00:12:45,764 --> 00:12:47,032 Trance... 252 00:12:47,133 --> 00:12:49,001 Make sure she's okay. She took a pretty hard fall. 253 00:12:53,105 --> 00:12:53,739 I'm fine. 254 00:12:53,839 --> 00:12:54,473 My team... 255 00:12:54,573 --> 00:12:55,708 sit still. 256 00:12:55,808 --> 00:12:57,310 The sooner I give you a clean bill of health, 257 00:12:57,410 --> 00:12:58,410 the sooner we can both get out there and fight. 258 00:13:00,646 --> 00:13:02,848 Come on. 259 00:13:42,988 --> 00:13:44,723 Dylan, 260 00:13:44,823 --> 00:13:46,392 kalderan reinforcements inbound. I'm trapped. 261 00:13:49,762 --> 00:13:51,297 Oh, no, you're not. 262 00:13:53,065 --> 00:13:55,167 Nice. 263 00:14:09,915 --> 00:14:10,749 Does that hurt? 264 00:14:10,849 --> 00:14:12,851 That's fine. 265 00:14:17,689 --> 00:14:19,425 More kalderans. I've got to... 266 00:14:24,396 --> 00:14:25,764 by the empress. 267 00:14:34,006 --> 00:14:35,274 Whoa, whoa, whoa. 268 00:14:42,448 --> 00:14:44,483 Rommie, is that a... 269 00:14:44,583 --> 00:14:47,453 Yes, and she's teleporting somehow. 270 00:14:50,623 --> 00:14:53,025 My god, a vedran. 271 00:14:53,125 --> 00:14:55,528 Come on. 272 00:15:00,666 --> 00:15:02,168 Whoa, whoa. 273 00:15:21,753 --> 00:15:23,622 That's vedran blood, her blood. 274 00:15:23,722 --> 00:15:25,223 She saved us. 275 00:15:34,500 --> 00:15:36,235 Dylan, I can't tell you 276 00:15:36,335 --> 00:15:38,737 exactly how the vedran managed her teleportation trick, 277 00:15:38,837 --> 00:15:41,940 but I am picking up residual zero-Point energy emanations. 278 00:15:42,041 --> 00:15:43,742 Dimensional travel. 279 00:15:43,842 --> 00:15:45,211 So she's tesseracting. 280 00:15:45,311 --> 00:15:47,413 Obviously, tarn vedra has made significant progress 281 00:15:47,513 --> 00:15:48,914 in the last 300 years. 282 00:15:49,014 --> 00:15:50,249 Obviously. 283 00:15:50,349 --> 00:15:51,583 Rommie, 284 00:15:51,683 --> 00:15:53,252 do you think that's how they cut themselves off 285 00:15:53,352 --> 00:15:54,253 from slipstream, 286 00:15:54,353 --> 00:15:55,754 a massive tesseract? 287 00:15:55,854 --> 00:15:58,157 Tarn vedra hiding in a shadow universe? 288 00:15:58,257 --> 00:16:00,492 It's not impossible. 289 00:16:00,593 --> 00:16:02,028 We'll worry about that later. 290 00:16:02,128 --> 00:16:04,030 Right now, that vedran is wounded and alone 291 00:16:04,130 --> 00:16:05,531 in hostile territory. 292 00:16:05,631 --> 00:16:07,065 We need to find her. 293 00:16:07,165 --> 00:16:08,534 Hey... 294 00:16:08,634 --> 00:16:10,436 What happened to the kalderan ship? 295 00:16:10,536 --> 00:16:12,705 It was destroyed. 296 00:16:12,804 --> 00:16:15,073 Don't worry. No one else will come. 297 00:16:16,808 --> 00:16:18,244 Thanks. 298 00:16:18,344 --> 00:16:20,779 Maia, the vedran is hurt. 299 00:16:20,879 --> 00:16:22,781 Now, we can help her, 300 00:16:22,881 --> 00:16:24,783 but only if you take us. 301 00:16:24,883 --> 00:16:26,052 Okay. 302 00:16:26,152 --> 00:16:27,686 I'm taking them to the caves. 303 00:16:27,786 --> 00:16:29,187 Summon reinforcements, 304 00:16:29,288 --> 00:16:31,723 and keep the kalderans at bay. 305 00:16:31,824 --> 00:16:32,824 It's this way. 306 00:16:37,996 --> 00:16:40,233 How long has the vedran been here? 307 00:16:40,333 --> 00:16:41,733 Since the fall. 308 00:16:41,834 --> 00:16:43,735 The fall of the commonwealth? 309 00:16:43,836 --> 00:16:45,737 Since autumn, nine months ago. 310 00:16:45,838 --> 00:16:47,739 So she came from tarn vedra? 311 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:49,241 She never said. 312 00:16:49,341 --> 00:16:51,377 I never got to know any of the others. 313 00:16:51,477 --> 00:16:54,247 There's more than one? 314 00:16:54,347 --> 00:16:56,515 Let me show you something. 315 00:17:06,692 --> 00:17:08,727 They were caught in an ambush, 316 00:17:08,827 --> 00:17:11,129 killed in battle with the kalderans. 317 00:17:13,131 --> 00:17:15,033 Buried in the traditional circle... 318 00:17:15,133 --> 00:17:17,169 female in the center, 319 00:17:17,269 --> 00:17:18,837 the males surrounding her 320 00:17:18,937 --> 00:17:21,773 as a symbolic guard force as she passes to the afterlife. 321 00:17:21,874 --> 00:17:23,976 Only there's no grave in the center. 322 00:17:26,878 --> 00:17:28,214 Maia, who is she? 323 00:17:28,314 --> 00:17:29,982 Her name is uxulta. 324 00:17:30,082 --> 00:17:31,917 When her herd was killed, 325 00:17:32,017 --> 00:17:35,253 she had no choice but to come to us for help 326 00:17:35,354 --> 00:17:36,455 to protect her. 327 00:17:36,555 --> 00:17:37,656 Just protect her? 328 00:17:37,756 --> 00:17:38,990 That's all. 329 00:17:39,091 --> 00:17:40,726 She gave us force lances. 330 00:17:40,826 --> 00:17:41,994 She showed us how to use them. 331 00:17:43,829 --> 00:17:45,230 We were on patrol 332 00:17:45,331 --> 00:17:47,232 when the kalderans found her 333 00:17:47,333 --> 00:17:49,301 and raided our settlement. 334 00:17:49,401 --> 00:17:51,069 She tried to stop them, 335 00:17:51,169 --> 00:17:52,938 but there were too many of them, even for her. 336 00:17:53,038 --> 00:17:54,506 So the kalderans waited for their chance 337 00:17:54,606 --> 00:17:56,008 and they took it. 338 00:17:56,108 --> 00:17:57,343 Smart. 339 00:17:57,443 --> 00:17:59,745 No sooner does she return from that, 340 00:17:59,845 --> 00:18:01,246 but she's wounded 341 00:18:01,347 --> 00:18:03,215 in another battle with the kalderans. 342 00:18:03,315 --> 00:18:04,750 I've failed her twice. 343 00:18:04,850 --> 00:18:06,585 You didn't fail. 344 00:18:06,685 --> 00:18:08,454 The job's just not finished. 345 00:18:08,554 --> 00:18:11,357 We'll find her, Maia, and we'll help her. 346 00:18:18,464 --> 00:18:20,366 The kalderans are on the move. 347 00:18:20,466 --> 00:18:21,867 I can hear them. 348 00:18:21,967 --> 00:18:23,702 Half a klick away and closing fast. 349 00:18:23,802 --> 00:18:25,203 How can you hear that? 350 00:18:25,303 --> 00:18:27,406 Oh, I'm an android. I'm full of surprises. 351 00:18:27,506 --> 00:18:29,875 Rommie, stay here. 352 00:18:29,975 --> 00:18:32,811 Check the first wave and wait for my signal. 353 00:18:34,813 --> 00:18:36,749 Let's go. 354 00:18:36,849 --> 00:18:38,517 After the fall, 355 00:18:38,617 --> 00:18:41,219 most of the tourists managed to get off-world, 356 00:18:41,319 --> 00:18:43,221 but some of them stayed, 357 00:18:43,321 --> 00:18:45,857 along with the warders. 358 00:18:45,958 --> 00:18:48,361 So you're descendants of the original warder service? 359 00:18:48,461 --> 00:18:50,829 Like my mother and hers before that. 360 00:18:50,929 --> 00:18:52,931 You don't sound very happy about that. 361 00:18:53,031 --> 00:18:56,869 When I was young, I wanted other things. 362 00:18:56,968 --> 00:19:00,406 The work we were doing here seemed pointless to me, 363 00:19:00,506 --> 00:19:02,341 but my family felt otherwise, 364 00:19:02,441 --> 00:19:05,678 and my options were obviously few. 365 00:19:05,777 --> 00:19:07,680 Somehow, it's fitting 366 00:19:07,779 --> 00:19:09,682 that the vedrans would decide to emerge 367 00:19:09,781 --> 00:19:11,183 on my watch. 368 00:19:11,283 --> 00:19:13,018 What's fitting 369 00:19:13,118 --> 00:19:15,020 is that they showed up 370 00:19:15,120 --> 00:19:17,623 after the kalderans arrived. 371 00:19:17,723 --> 00:19:19,658 We've been fighting for two years. 372 00:19:19,758 --> 00:19:21,694 We'd almost lost before the vedrans came. 373 00:19:21,793 --> 00:19:23,696 Now, for the first time, we've got hope again. 374 00:19:23,795 --> 00:19:25,831 They just made your hope more realistic. 375 00:19:25,931 --> 00:19:27,533 No, it's more than that. 376 00:19:27,633 --> 00:19:29,267 It's difficult to explain. 377 00:19:29,367 --> 00:19:30,702 You don't have to. 378 00:19:30,803 --> 00:19:32,704 I grew up on tarn vedra. 379 00:19:32,805 --> 00:19:34,706 Yeah, I was surrounded by vedrans 380 00:19:34,807 --> 00:19:36,208 all the time, 381 00:19:36,308 --> 00:19:38,210 and I was in awe of them. 382 00:19:38,310 --> 00:19:39,745 The archives say 383 00:19:39,845 --> 00:19:42,381 that the vedrans made gifted high guard officers. 384 00:19:42,481 --> 00:19:44,383 They were more than gifted. 385 00:19:44,483 --> 00:19:46,385 They were superior beings. 386 00:19:46,485 --> 00:19:47,620 Superior? 387 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:49,287 They made us believe 388 00:19:49,387 --> 00:19:51,289 that we could be better than we were. 389 00:19:51,389 --> 00:19:53,225 They made us feel invincible. 390 00:19:53,325 --> 00:19:54,660 It's strange, though. 391 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:56,328 The vedrans seem to have reemerged, 392 00:19:56,429 --> 00:19:58,063 but they didn't contact you, 393 00:19:58,163 --> 00:20:00,732 you found out by accident. 394 00:20:00,833 --> 00:20:02,668 They must have had their reasons. 395 00:20:02,768 --> 00:20:04,303 They always did before. 396 00:20:04,403 --> 00:20:05,804 Of course. 397 00:20:05,904 --> 00:20:07,873 More blood. 398 00:20:14,513 --> 00:20:16,949 We're on the right trail. 399 00:20:22,855 --> 00:20:24,823 The kalderans seem to be pulling back. 400 00:20:24,923 --> 00:20:26,325 I think they've lost us. 401 00:20:26,425 --> 00:20:28,360 I'm picking up two dozen inbound missiles. 402 00:20:28,461 --> 00:20:29,662 Targeting us? 403 00:20:29,762 --> 00:20:31,497 No, but the energy release 404 00:20:31,597 --> 00:20:32,965 from their passage through the atmosphere 405 00:20:33,064 --> 00:20:35,400 will heat localized pockets of free hydrogen 406 00:20:35,501 --> 00:20:36,902 to over 100 million degrees Celsius, 407 00:20:37,002 --> 00:20:38,170 enough to induce a nuclear fusion reaction 408 00:20:38,270 --> 00:20:39,505 in the atmosphere. 409 00:20:39,605 --> 00:20:41,306 And turn ral avar into a small sun. 410 00:20:41,406 --> 00:20:43,208 Oh, we'll definitely feel that in the morning. 411 00:20:43,308 --> 00:20:44,710 Andromeda, take us out, maximum speed. 412 00:20:44,810 --> 00:20:45,711 Belay that. 413 00:20:45,811 --> 00:20:46,678 Impact in three minutes, 40 seconds. 414 00:20:46,778 --> 00:20:48,113 If we remain, we'll be caught 415 00:20:48,213 --> 00:20:49,715 in the exploding planet's shock wave, yes? 416 00:20:49,815 --> 00:20:51,016 Exactly. 417 00:20:51,116 --> 00:20:53,151 Andromeda, hold for my command. 418 00:21:02,828 --> 00:21:04,497 She has to be here. 419 00:21:04,597 --> 00:21:06,932 Maybe she's further inside, 420 00:21:07,032 --> 00:21:09,234 toward the... 421 00:21:10,268 --> 00:21:12,605 Toward what? 422 00:21:12,704 --> 00:21:15,708 There's a laboratory of some kind. 423 00:21:15,808 --> 00:21:16,875 She forbade us to enter it. 424 00:21:16,975 --> 00:21:18,043 I don't know what it's for. 425 00:21:18,143 --> 00:21:20,045 Then it's time to find out. 426 00:21:20,145 --> 00:21:21,947 Dylan, we've got company. 427 00:21:22,047 --> 00:21:23,181 Copy. 428 00:21:23,281 --> 00:21:24,983 Fall back to the maru and prep for evac. 429 00:21:25,083 --> 00:21:26,652 Dylan out. 430 00:21:26,752 --> 00:21:28,554 The bad guys are closing in. 431 00:21:28,654 --> 00:21:30,356 Maia, you find that vedran. 432 00:21:30,456 --> 00:21:31,890 Trance and I will take up defensive positions. 433 00:21:31,990 --> 00:21:32,525 Go. 434 00:21:36,795 --> 00:21:38,964 10 seconds until contact with the shock wave. 435 00:21:39,064 --> 00:21:41,232 Seven...Six... 436 00:21:41,333 --> 00:21:43,301 Five...Four... 437 00:21:43,401 --> 00:21:45,236 Andromeda, all ahead full. 438 00:21:45,337 --> 00:21:47,205 Ride that wave. 439 00:21:57,082 --> 00:21:59,117 Riding the reaction's edge. 440 00:21:59,217 --> 00:22:00,419 Where their sensors can't see us. 441 00:22:00,519 --> 00:22:01,587 You could have told me. 442 00:22:01,687 --> 00:22:03,221 What, and ruin the surprise? 443 00:22:03,321 --> 00:22:04,723 You're picking up some very unamusing habits 444 00:22:04,823 --> 00:22:05,724 from Dylan, 445 00:22:05,824 --> 00:22:07,059 you do know that? 446 00:22:07,158 --> 00:22:09,728 However, if they can't see us run, 447 00:22:09,828 --> 00:22:11,529 they can't see us kill them, either. 448 00:22:11,630 --> 00:22:13,098 Andromeda, you heard the man. 449 00:22:13,198 --> 00:22:14,266 Bring us about 450 00:22:14,366 --> 00:22:16,101 and prepare to unload a full missile strike 451 00:22:16,201 --> 00:22:17,736 right up the kalderans' scaly tailpipes. 452 00:22:36,254 --> 00:22:38,757 You know what the vedrans are doing here, 453 00:22:38,857 --> 00:22:40,459 don't you? 454 00:22:42,995 --> 00:22:45,097 You know if we find tarn vedra. 455 00:22:45,196 --> 00:22:46,865 I don't know any more than you do. 456 00:22:46,965 --> 00:22:48,233 But you've seen the future. 457 00:22:48,333 --> 00:22:49,902 I've seen a future. 458 00:22:50,001 --> 00:22:52,605 Trance, I need to know if I'm doing the right thing 459 00:22:52,705 --> 00:22:54,172 pursuing this vedran. 460 00:22:54,272 --> 00:22:56,174 After all, if she had wanted my help, 461 00:22:56,274 --> 00:22:58,777 I have to believe she'd ask for it. 462 00:22:58,877 --> 00:23:00,713 We're not just talking about this mission, 463 00:23:00,812 --> 00:23:02,147 are we? 464 00:23:02,247 --> 00:23:03,782 And you're not just trying to pursue 465 00:23:03,882 --> 00:23:04,916 a wounded vedran, 466 00:23:05,017 --> 00:23:05,550 you're on a quest 467 00:23:05,651 --> 00:23:07,052 to find a place 468 00:23:07,152 --> 00:23:08,920 that you thought remained only in your mind... 469 00:23:09,021 --> 00:23:10,255 home... 470 00:23:10,355 --> 00:23:11,924 but that's the thing about quests, 471 00:23:12,023 --> 00:23:13,591 they're not always about the destination. 472 00:23:13,692 --> 00:23:15,727 That's right. 473 00:23:15,828 --> 00:23:18,163 In the big picture, it's always about the journey, 474 00:23:18,263 --> 00:23:19,698 but close up, 475 00:23:19,798 --> 00:23:21,767 right here, right now, these vedrans need our help. 476 00:23:21,867 --> 00:23:23,001 So it doesn't matter 477 00:23:23,101 --> 00:23:24,436 if they've asked for our help or not. 478 00:23:24,536 --> 00:23:27,405 No, it doesn't. 479 00:23:27,505 --> 00:23:30,075 Dylan, a lot changes in 300 years. 480 00:23:30,175 --> 00:23:32,244 There may not be a place for the vedrans, 481 00:23:32,344 --> 00:23:33,745 not anymore. 482 00:23:33,846 --> 00:23:36,848 Then I'll make one. 483 00:23:37,816 --> 00:23:38,517 Trance! 484 00:23:38,617 --> 00:23:40,151 Look out. 485 00:23:58,970 --> 00:24:00,438 Dylan! 486 00:24:00,539 --> 00:24:01,707 Maia, stay back. 487 00:24:01,807 --> 00:24:02,775 She's alive. 488 00:24:02,874 --> 00:24:03,608 Huh? 489 00:24:03,709 --> 00:24:04,510 She gave me this. 490 00:24:05,477 --> 00:24:07,813 Run! 491 00:24:49,187 --> 00:24:50,689 Help us. 492 00:25:00,698 --> 00:25:02,200 It's all right. 493 00:25:08,373 --> 00:25:11,409 Captain Dylan hunt, the Andromeda ascendant. 494 00:25:14,746 --> 00:25:16,714 We're here to help. 495 00:25:18,716 --> 00:25:20,118 Rommie, we've got her. 496 00:25:20,218 --> 00:25:21,620 Give us an exit 497 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:23,288 30 meters from my position. 498 00:25:23,388 --> 00:25:25,057 On my way. 499 00:25:32,864 --> 00:25:34,232 Dylan, something's happening. 500 00:25:34,332 --> 00:25:36,268 There's been an explosion 501 00:25:36,367 --> 00:25:37,535 in the outer system of ral avar. 502 00:25:37,636 --> 00:25:39,104 Rommie, 503 00:25:39,204 --> 00:25:40,438 you're breaking up. 504 00:25:40,538 --> 00:25:41,973 Raise the Andromeda if you can, but hurry. 505 00:25:42,073 --> 00:25:44,442 I need you here. 506 00:26:05,030 --> 00:26:08,300 I am so glad we put real weapons on the maru. 507 00:26:08,399 --> 00:26:10,335 Dylan, stand by. 508 00:26:10,435 --> 00:26:11,737 Fire in the hole. 509 00:26:33,358 --> 00:26:36,661 Argosy special operations service? 510 00:26:36,761 --> 00:26:38,796 Una salus victus, ma'am. 511 00:26:38,897 --> 00:26:40,498 There's our ride. 512 00:26:55,681 --> 00:26:57,983 We sure stirred up the hornets' nest 513 00:26:58,083 --> 00:26:58,984 this time. 514 00:26:59,084 --> 00:27:00,118 True, 515 00:27:00,218 --> 00:27:01,519 but now there are fewer hornets. 516 00:27:01,619 --> 00:27:03,388 Beka, 517 00:27:03,488 --> 00:27:04,622 the maru is hailing us. 518 00:27:04,722 --> 00:27:05,590 Onscreen. 519 00:27:06,457 --> 00:27:08,593 What are you doing up there? 520 00:27:08,693 --> 00:27:11,429 I could see your low profile from the planet. 521 00:27:12,730 --> 00:27:14,565 So who made the star? 522 00:27:16,701 --> 00:27:18,270 They started it. 523 00:27:19,504 --> 00:27:20,872 So did you find your vedran? 524 00:27:20,972 --> 00:27:22,607 She's wounded. 525 00:27:22,707 --> 00:27:24,542 Stand by to bring us aboard. 526 00:27:36,221 --> 00:27:37,622 Beka, how long 527 00:27:37,723 --> 00:27:38,957 until we make it to slipstream? 528 00:27:39,057 --> 00:27:40,091 We're 10 minutes from a good slippoint, 529 00:27:40,191 --> 00:27:41,960 and there's a lot of kalderans out there, 530 00:27:42,060 --> 00:27:43,294 but what the hell, 531 00:27:43,394 --> 00:27:44,796 I'll have us out of here in five. 532 00:27:44,896 --> 00:27:46,798 I like that number better. Dylan out. 533 00:27:46,898 --> 00:27:48,300 You'll be fine. 534 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:50,168 Trance will take care of you. 535 00:27:50,268 --> 00:27:53,605 Rommie, you're with me. 536 00:28:05,751 --> 00:28:07,418 Almost home. 537 00:28:07,519 --> 00:28:08,720 Dylan? 538 00:28:08,820 --> 00:28:11,322 Uxulta's in worse shape than we initially thought. 539 00:28:11,422 --> 00:28:12,390 Her equipment's been shattered, 540 00:28:12,490 --> 00:28:13,725 and she's badly wounded. 541 00:28:13,825 --> 00:28:15,894 We've slowed the bleeding, but we can't stop it. 542 00:28:15,994 --> 00:28:17,328 Why not? 543 00:28:17,428 --> 00:28:19,464 The kalderan weapons had a biological component. 544 00:28:19,564 --> 00:28:21,133 The effects are abhorrent, 545 00:28:21,233 --> 00:28:23,101 especially for vedrans. 546 00:28:23,201 --> 00:28:24,436 On my way. 547 00:28:24,535 --> 00:28:25,670 Dylan... 548 00:28:27,239 --> 00:28:29,074 We might not be able to save her. 549 00:28:29,174 --> 00:28:31,209 I know some people who can. 550 00:28:33,979 --> 00:28:36,281 Are you asking me for the route to tarn vedra? 551 00:28:36,381 --> 00:28:38,149 I'm asking you to help me save your life, 552 00:28:38,249 --> 00:28:40,118 and I know we can do that on tarn vedra. 553 00:28:41,319 --> 00:28:43,121 For those of you playing at home, 554 00:28:43,221 --> 00:28:44,756 that was a new attack from our old friends, 555 00:28:44,856 --> 00:28:45,991 the kalderans. 556 00:28:46,091 --> 00:28:47,793 Fortunately, we're at slipstream distance, 557 00:28:47,893 --> 00:28:49,795 but I need a destination. 558 00:28:49,895 --> 00:28:52,464 My pilot needs a destination. 559 00:28:52,563 --> 00:28:54,599 Did you think you'd pressure me? 560 00:28:54,699 --> 00:28:56,134 You really are 561 00:28:56,234 --> 00:28:58,036 argosy special operations. 562 00:28:58,136 --> 00:29:00,872 I'm waiting. 563 00:29:00,972 --> 00:29:02,507 Then make it ral Parthia. 564 00:29:02,607 --> 00:29:04,575 That would be suicide. 565 00:29:04,675 --> 00:29:06,844 It's my life, 566 00:29:06,944 --> 00:29:08,579 and I'm giving it to save ral Parthia. 567 00:29:08,679 --> 00:29:09,815 Yeah, but you can't do it alone. 568 00:29:09,915 --> 00:29:11,516 No. 569 00:29:11,616 --> 00:29:14,386 I also need a nova bomb. 570 00:29:19,157 --> 00:29:20,658 What? 571 00:29:20,758 --> 00:29:21,759 Dylan... 572 00:29:21,860 --> 00:29:22,927 stand by. 573 00:29:23,028 --> 00:29:24,429 Why do you need a nova bomb? 574 00:29:24,529 --> 00:29:26,264 The kalderans destroyed our ship. 575 00:29:26,364 --> 00:29:28,633 I need the voltairium to power my equipment. 576 00:29:28,733 --> 00:29:31,203 And I need to know what kind of equipment. 577 00:29:31,303 --> 00:29:32,804 You aren't cleared to know. 578 00:29:32,904 --> 00:29:35,040 Well, then, I'll go see for myself. 579 00:29:35,140 --> 00:29:36,974 There's a self-destruct unit. 580 00:29:37,075 --> 00:29:39,177 It's foolproof and it's nuclear. 581 00:29:39,277 --> 00:29:43,014 So you're willing to blow up an entire planet? 582 00:29:43,114 --> 00:29:44,782 As I indicated, 583 00:29:44,882 --> 00:29:47,319 that's need-to-know only, captain. 584 00:29:47,418 --> 00:29:50,321 You know, I put my ship and my crew 585 00:29:50,422 --> 00:29:53,024 on the line to save your life. 586 00:29:53,124 --> 00:29:55,093 In my book, that qualifies as need-to-know. 587 00:29:55,193 --> 00:29:58,396 And I'm grateful, captain, but my mission is classified. 588 00:29:58,496 --> 00:30:00,231 Then to hell with you. 589 00:30:00,331 --> 00:30:01,466 Captain hunt. 590 00:30:01,566 --> 00:30:03,735 I'm giving you a direct order. 591 00:30:05,570 --> 00:30:08,006 Priority omega, 316 omega. 592 00:30:11,476 --> 00:30:12,877 Code? 593 00:30:12,977 --> 00:30:15,213 Code seven, break seven. 594 00:30:15,313 --> 00:30:17,883 Identity, 595 00:30:17,983 --> 00:30:19,050 uxulta, 596 00:30:19,150 --> 00:30:20,718 vice-admiral, commander-In-chief 597 00:30:20,818 --> 00:30:22,487 of argosy special operations. 598 00:30:24,189 --> 00:30:25,723 Now, you will comply, captain, 599 00:30:25,823 --> 00:30:27,659 or I will assume command of this ship 600 00:30:27,759 --> 00:30:29,127 and toss you in the brig. 601 00:30:29,227 --> 00:30:30,728 Are we clear? 602 00:30:37,835 --> 00:30:39,971 A nova bomb, rommie. 603 00:30:40,071 --> 00:30:42,507 How can I do that in good conscience, 604 00:30:42,607 --> 00:30:45,343 even if she is who she claims to be? 605 00:30:45,443 --> 00:30:46,811 A lot of things can change in 300 years, 606 00:30:46,911 --> 00:30:48,112 even tarn vedra. 607 00:30:48,213 --> 00:30:49,480 Well, their technology has certainly changed, 608 00:30:49,581 --> 00:30:50,848 but her command authority hasn't. 609 00:30:50,948 --> 00:30:53,418 I have the right to refuse a suspect order. 610 00:30:53,518 --> 00:30:55,987 What's suspect about the order? 611 00:30:56,087 --> 00:30:57,989 She's an admiral, she wants a nova bomb, 612 00:30:58,089 --> 00:30:59,490 and you have one. 613 00:30:59,591 --> 00:31:00,892 It is not that simple. 614 00:31:00,992 --> 00:31:03,428 This isn't about the nova bomb, 615 00:31:03,528 --> 00:31:06,831 and it isn't about uxulta's legitimacy. 616 00:31:06,931 --> 00:31:08,333 This is about you. 617 00:31:08,433 --> 00:31:10,435 Excuse me? 618 00:31:12,136 --> 00:31:14,939 The vedrans came back and they didn't inform you. 619 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:17,075 Now they want something from you 620 00:31:17,175 --> 00:31:18,776 and they won't tell you why. 621 00:31:18,876 --> 00:31:20,611 They're leaving you out of the loop, 622 00:31:20,711 --> 00:31:23,114 and you think you deserve better. 623 00:31:23,215 --> 00:31:24,982 You're angry, you're hurt, 624 00:31:25,083 --> 00:31:27,319 and that's okay, 625 00:31:27,418 --> 00:31:29,887 because you're human, 626 00:31:29,987 --> 00:31:32,524 however, you are still high guard. 627 00:31:32,623 --> 00:31:34,191 These orders are legal, 628 00:31:34,292 --> 00:31:35,327 and you must obey. 629 00:31:35,426 --> 00:31:36,461 Would you? 630 00:31:36,561 --> 00:31:38,629 I don't have a choice. 631 00:31:38,729 --> 00:31:39,864 That's the problem, rommie, 632 00:31:39,964 --> 00:31:42,733 I do... 633 00:31:42,834 --> 00:31:45,570 And I have a responsibility. 634 00:31:55,913 --> 00:31:57,482 Give me more, 635 00:31:57,582 --> 00:31:59,184 or we're not going anywhere near ral Parthia. 636 00:31:59,284 --> 00:32:00,184 I told you... 637 00:32:00,285 --> 00:32:01,286 you've told me nothing 638 00:32:01,386 --> 00:32:02,287 about your intentions, about your mission. 639 00:32:02,387 --> 00:32:03,121 My command code... 640 00:32:03,221 --> 00:32:04,922 is from a government 641 00:32:05,022 --> 00:32:08,693 that's been gone for over 300 years. 642 00:32:12,864 --> 00:32:14,765 My career, my training, 643 00:32:14,866 --> 00:32:16,767 they demand that I follow your orders, 644 00:32:16,868 --> 00:32:18,936 but everything else that I am, my experience, my instincts, 645 00:32:19,036 --> 00:32:20,771 are screaming at me to refuse 646 00:32:20,872 --> 00:32:23,141 until you give me a reason why I shouldn't. 647 00:32:24,642 --> 00:32:26,478 And you will forgive me, ma'am, 648 00:32:26,578 --> 00:32:29,114 if I have fallen out of the practice 649 00:32:29,214 --> 00:32:31,116 of quietly accepting the idea 650 00:32:31,216 --> 00:32:34,986 that there are some things that I don't need to know. 651 00:32:40,057 --> 00:32:41,759 Clear this deck, captain. 652 00:32:43,428 --> 00:32:45,130 You heard her. Go. 653 00:32:55,973 --> 00:32:58,409 Three kalderan attack ships aft opening fire. 654 00:33:02,380 --> 00:33:04,782 Return fire. 655 00:33:10,788 --> 00:33:13,024 We're all clear. 656 00:33:13,124 --> 00:33:15,193 Slipstream in two minutes. 657 00:33:15,293 --> 00:33:17,162 How's your military history, captain? 658 00:33:17,262 --> 00:33:20,632 I don't see what that has to... 659 00:33:20,731 --> 00:33:23,067 I asked you a very simple question. 660 00:33:24,869 --> 00:33:26,303 Excellent. 661 00:33:26,404 --> 00:33:30,942 Do you remember admiral Munro? 662 00:33:31,042 --> 00:33:32,944 Munro was the one of the first humans 663 00:33:33,044 --> 00:33:34,946 promoted to admiral in the high guard. 664 00:33:35,046 --> 00:33:36,447 Acting on orders 665 00:33:36,548 --> 00:33:38,449 from the chief of argosy operations, 666 00:33:38,550 --> 00:33:40,451 he led four battle groups 667 00:33:40,552 --> 00:33:42,787 into a clearly suicidal engagement 668 00:33:42,887 --> 00:33:45,556 with a fleet of pyrian torchships. 669 00:33:48,660 --> 00:33:52,463 They all died that day, but we won the battle. 670 00:33:52,564 --> 00:33:54,465 And why was that? 671 00:33:54,566 --> 00:33:56,668 Munro was one hell of an admiral. 672 00:33:56,767 --> 00:33:58,469 Yes, 673 00:33:58,570 --> 00:34:00,771 and he trusted his vedran superiors, 674 00:34:00,871 --> 00:34:02,773 though it cost him his own life 675 00:34:02,873 --> 00:34:04,542 and the lives of thousands 676 00:34:04,642 --> 00:34:05,910 under his command. 677 00:34:06,010 --> 00:34:07,312 Trust me, captain. 678 00:34:07,412 --> 00:34:11,616 I'm not asking you or your crew to march into a hopeless battle. 679 00:34:11,716 --> 00:34:15,487 I'm asking you to let me die 680 00:34:15,586 --> 00:34:17,222 to complete my mission. 681 00:34:17,322 --> 00:34:18,489 Admiral... 682 00:34:18,590 --> 00:34:20,958 it's the sacrifice I've been called upon to make. 683 00:34:21,058 --> 00:34:23,728 I promise you, captain hunt, 684 00:34:23,828 --> 00:34:26,163 there is far more at stake here 685 00:34:26,263 --> 00:34:29,867 than a fleet of advancing pyrians 686 00:34:29,967 --> 00:34:32,303 or the pained desire of one lost son 687 00:34:32,403 --> 00:34:34,939 to cling fast to a piece of home. 688 00:34:39,377 --> 00:34:41,813 Yeah... 689 00:34:48,586 --> 00:34:50,254 Sinti, here we come. 690 00:34:52,557 --> 00:34:54,459 Beka, bring us about. 691 00:34:54,559 --> 00:34:56,393 Get us in range of ral Parthia 692 00:34:56,494 --> 00:34:58,796 and prepare to deploy a lancer drop-pod. 693 00:34:58,896 --> 00:35:00,732 I want a full load of defensive missiles, 694 00:35:00,831 --> 00:35:02,266 all tubes. 695 00:35:02,366 --> 00:35:04,435 We'll have to cover her all the way down. 696 00:35:04,535 --> 00:35:06,504 Thank you, captain. 697 00:35:06,604 --> 00:35:09,340 Don't thank me. 698 00:35:09,441 --> 00:35:11,376 I might change my mind. 699 00:35:19,517 --> 00:35:22,086 The admiral needs your help. 700 00:35:22,186 --> 00:35:24,088 Harper, meet me in the magazine. 701 00:35:24,188 --> 00:35:25,523 Right, boss. 702 00:35:45,577 --> 00:35:46,944 Relax. 703 00:35:47,044 --> 00:35:48,445 It can't go critical. 704 00:35:48,546 --> 00:35:50,782 Look, betting my life savings on a game of yesheedono 705 00:35:50,881 --> 00:35:52,950 is a chance I'm willing to take, except against trance. 706 00:35:53,050 --> 00:35:54,451 However, 707 00:35:54,552 --> 00:35:56,621 accidentally setting off a nova bomb... 708 00:35:59,557 --> 00:36:02,092 And therefore disrupting the gravitational forces 709 00:36:02,192 --> 00:36:04,061 that hold together stars and planets 710 00:36:04,161 --> 00:36:05,663 isn't. 711 00:36:08,432 --> 00:36:10,868 Boss... 712 00:36:10,968 --> 00:36:12,503 I know. 713 00:36:12,603 --> 00:36:13,804 Okay. 714 00:36:13,905 --> 00:36:15,239 But what if she... 715 00:36:15,340 --> 00:36:15,973 she won't. 716 00:36:16,073 --> 00:36:17,074 Okay. 717 00:36:17,174 --> 00:36:18,175 You're sure? 718 00:36:18,275 --> 00:36:20,177 Yep. 719 00:36:23,047 --> 00:36:24,448 Okay. 720 00:36:24,549 --> 00:36:27,352 Just like that? 721 00:36:27,452 --> 00:36:29,420 Yeah. 722 00:36:29,521 --> 00:36:31,122 I trust you. 723 00:36:31,222 --> 00:36:32,557 Thanks. 724 00:36:36,527 --> 00:36:37,795 Hello, 725 00:36:37,895 --> 00:36:39,531 hot backwoods babe. 726 00:36:42,967 --> 00:36:45,269 You get all the fun. 727 00:36:45,370 --> 00:36:47,338 Dylan, 728 00:36:47,438 --> 00:36:49,674 I wanted to thank you for everything that you've done. 729 00:36:49,774 --> 00:36:52,443 You might want to wait on that. 730 00:36:54,244 --> 00:36:55,980 I already have, 731 00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:57,549 too long. 732 00:37:02,219 --> 00:37:04,722 That's goodbye. 733 00:37:04,822 --> 00:37:07,425 So you're going with her? 734 00:37:07,525 --> 00:37:08,826 Yes. 735 00:37:08,926 --> 00:37:10,327 No. 736 00:37:13,398 --> 00:37:15,065 I'm sorry, Maia, 737 00:37:15,166 --> 00:37:17,368 there isn't room aboard the drop-pod. 738 00:37:19,837 --> 00:37:21,372 But you need help. 739 00:37:21,472 --> 00:37:23,274 I won't fail you again. 740 00:37:23,374 --> 00:37:24,776 You've never failed me. 741 00:37:24,876 --> 00:37:25,843 You led captain hunt to me, 742 00:37:25,943 --> 00:37:28,012 and now you're helping me to save 743 00:37:28,112 --> 00:37:29,414 more than you can possibly imagine. 744 00:37:29,514 --> 00:37:31,148 But ral Parthia is my home. 745 00:37:31,248 --> 00:37:33,150 And it will live in your heart, 746 00:37:33,250 --> 00:37:35,219 even as you discover a new universe. 747 00:37:39,223 --> 00:37:41,358 You'll see she finds a home? 748 00:37:43,561 --> 00:37:44,995 I will. 749 00:37:45,095 --> 00:37:46,430 Thank you, captain. 750 00:37:46,530 --> 00:37:50,300 I really would appreciate that. 751 00:37:50,401 --> 00:37:52,670 I'm sorry you and I didn't have more time together. 752 00:37:52,770 --> 00:37:55,339 Under the circumstances, I think that's just as well. 753 00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:58,308 I'll tell you something else. 754 00:37:58,409 --> 00:38:00,845 I don't think you need to know, 755 00:38:00,945 --> 00:38:02,379 but you should know, 756 00:38:02,479 --> 00:38:04,048 you deserve to know. 757 00:38:04,148 --> 00:38:06,216 Tarn vedra is quite aware of you and your efforts 758 00:38:06,316 --> 00:38:09,554 to restore the commonwealth. 759 00:38:09,654 --> 00:38:12,556 We're proud of you, captain, very proud, 760 00:38:12,657 --> 00:38:15,159 and we want very much for you to carry on. 761 00:38:39,517 --> 00:38:41,018 Status on the drop-pod? 762 00:38:41,118 --> 00:38:42,519 She's through the outer atmosphere 763 00:38:42,619 --> 00:38:43,721 and coming in range 764 00:38:43,821 --> 00:38:44,989 of the kalderan terminal-Defense batteries. 765 00:38:45,089 --> 00:38:46,423 Tyr, suppressing fire. 766 00:38:46,523 --> 00:38:47,725 Make sure she gets down safely. 767 00:38:47,825 --> 00:38:49,059 Then she's really gone? 768 00:38:49,159 --> 00:38:51,796 I never even got a chance to meet her in person. 769 00:38:51,896 --> 00:38:55,132 Yes, the admiral is a remarkable being. 770 00:38:55,232 --> 00:38:56,433 Yeah, no kidding. She's a vedran. 771 00:38:56,533 --> 00:38:59,303 She's flesh and blood like the rest of us. 772 00:39:00,705 --> 00:39:02,439 The drop-pod is down. 773 00:39:02,539 --> 00:39:06,677 Beka, increase orbit z plus 30. 774 00:39:06,777 --> 00:39:07,545 Dylan, 775 00:39:07,645 --> 00:39:08,545 I'm receiving a transmission 776 00:39:08,645 --> 00:39:09,747 from the surface. 777 00:39:09,847 --> 00:39:10,581 It's the admiral. 778 00:39:10,681 --> 00:39:11,916 That was fast. 779 00:39:12,016 --> 00:39:14,185 She did demonstrate an ability to tesseract over short range, 780 00:39:14,284 --> 00:39:15,720 but her equipment was destroyed. 781 00:39:15,820 --> 00:39:17,121 Put her onscreen. 782 00:39:17,888 --> 00:39:20,557 Captain, my final order... 783 00:39:20,657 --> 00:39:22,760 Run. 784 00:39:22,860 --> 00:39:24,128 Running like hell, aye. 785 00:39:30,868 --> 00:39:31,902 We're almost at slipstream range. 786 00:39:32,002 --> 00:39:33,738 I'm detecting a massive tachyon burst 787 00:39:33,838 --> 00:39:34,906 emanating from ral Parthia. 788 00:39:35,006 --> 00:39:35,940 Beka, now. 789 00:39:49,587 --> 00:39:51,388 [ Beeping ] 790 00:39:58,896 --> 00:40:00,131 The slipstream is disintegrating. 791 00:40:00,231 --> 00:40:01,566 Okay, not good. Not good. 792 00:40:01,666 --> 00:40:02,967 Beka? 793 00:40:03,067 --> 00:40:04,601 Hey, I didn't turn ral avar into a sun, 794 00:40:04,701 --> 00:40:06,237 and I sure as hell didn't do this, 795 00:40:06,336 --> 00:40:09,173 whatever this is. 796 00:40:21,151 --> 00:40:23,253 Okay, 797 00:40:23,354 --> 00:40:24,721 that definitely makes my list 798 00:40:24,822 --> 00:40:26,290 of top 10 things that aren't fun. 799 00:40:34,231 --> 00:40:37,968 We could try jumping from Typhon. 800 00:40:38,068 --> 00:40:40,171 There has got to be a way to get back to ral Parthia. 801 00:40:40,271 --> 00:40:42,173 You've tried six other routes. 802 00:40:42,273 --> 00:40:44,141 It's safe to say that ral Parthia 803 00:40:44,241 --> 00:40:45,877 has been cut off from the slipstream. 804 00:40:45,976 --> 00:40:47,378 Impossible, 805 00:40:47,478 --> 00:40:49,246 unless you destroy the entire system, 806 00:40:49,346 --> 00:40:51,649 sun, planets... 807 00:40:51,749 --> 00:40:53,250 Everything. 808 00:40:54,819 --> 00:40:56,821 Or make them disappear. 809 00:41:00,825 --> 00:41:02,860 Just like tarn vedra. 810 00:41:22,146 --> 00:41:24,048 Dylan, you wanted to see me. 811 00:41:24,148 --> 00:41:25,182 Yes, please. 812 00:41:25,282 --> 00:41:26,650 Come in. 813 00:41:28,886 --> 00:41:30,921 I just wanted to make sure that you were comfortable. 814 00:41:31,022 --> 00:41:33,457 This ship is amazing. 815 00:41:33,557 --> 00:41:35,726 It's the most amazing thing I've ever seen, 816 00:41:35,827 --> 00:41:37,061 next to uxulta, of course. 817 00:41:37,161 --> 00:41:38,762 Of course. 818 00:41:40,731 --> 00:41:42,466 You'll have to excuse me, 819 00:41:42,566 --> 00:41:45,502 but you don't seem to be too worried about ral Parthia. 820 00:41:45,602 --> 00:41:48,472 Maybe I should be, 821 00:41:48,572 --> 00:41:50,274 but somehow... 822 00:41:50,374 --> 00:41:52,910 I know it's safe. 823 00:41:53,010 --> 00:41:55,146 Uxulta loved ral Parthia, 824 00:41:55,245 --> 00:41:56,813 and she's a vedran. 825 00:41:56,914 --> 00:41:58,649 They always do what's right. 826 00:41:58,749 --> 00:42:00,317 Don't you believe that? 827 00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:04,688 I want to. 828 00:42:06,924 --> 00:42:08,692 I have to.