See you on the other side.

Captain Joanne Peiades felt the silvery light flowing into every pore, experienced the incomparable sensation of existing in two points in the universe, and the fiery jolt as all the cells in her body ‘decided’ to be in a new position.
The experience left her gasping for breath though her lungs felt like they were about to explode. Mental Note: Remember to tell Alexei that crew need to breathe out before commencing the jump. Her vision cleared, and she glanced around at the crew, all still safely strapped into their cushioned seats. Ah, the benefits of a commercial giant funding research. The representatives are annoying to a fault, but at least you get to travel in style.
“Everyone alright? No toes or fingers missing? No limbs suddenly in the wrong places?” she called to her crew. A series of mumbled affirmatives and clickings of released harnesses answered her as members of the crew got up to stretch. Relaxing now that the first part of the mission proved a success. The mood was noticeably lighter than the tense atmosphere in the drive room before the jump.
“Nimitz, return to a cruise speed of 3.0Cs. McLeod, send out a message to the Galileo. Let them know we’ve arrived all in one piece.”
“I feel like I’m going to be sick,” groaned her XO, Brett Hertzche, from the couch next to her. Jo grinned at his pale face. “Pity the droid tests couldn’t warn us of some of these side effects," she replied, “Now where are they?”
“Any signals received from the Galileo? They should be glad to see us by now,” she said to the communications officer.
“Nothing yet, Captain,” he replied, looking faintly surprised, “In fact there don’t seem to be any ships out there at all. Not one reply to any of the hailing calls I’ve sent out. Nothing.”
“He’s right Captain, none of Commander Kachorikov’s ships are appearing on the scanner. Indeed, none of the stars are actually where they should be in this quadrant.”
“What?! Then where the smeg are we?” Jo undid her harness and jogged to the navigation officer’s console.
“Right smack-bang in the middle of a smegging asteroid field,” came Brett’s voice from behind her. She glanced up at him and then in the direction he was looking. A nightmare vision had appeared on the forward screen. Various sized boulders of jagged dark rock were rolling haphazardly past the ship, colliding and grinding against each other. Some as big as houses, some the size of hamburgers, the very smallest were grains of sand. All had the potential to completely destroy the ship and it’s precious equipment if they didn’t get their asses out of there fast.
“RED ALERT! Evasive Action!” she shouted, “Tell the science boffins to get buckled in. Everyone else do the same. Nimitz! Plot us the shortest route out of this. Now!” Jo stumbled back to her chair as the bucking ship did its best to pitch her head first into the wall of consoles in front of her, a combination of collisions with asteroids and the reflex actions of their pilot Javier Canseco trying to keep them from becoming a metallic smear on one of the cruel looking rocks tumbling around them.
Javier bounced the ship over a large chunk of tumbling charcoal rock…straight into the path of a dark, fast moving monolith. Jo reached the couch and stared in shock at the monstrosity in their path, struggling with numb fingers to strap herself in. After an age, the lock clicked. A brief cry from one of the navigation crew was the last thing Jo remembered before the impact knocked her out. *******************
The forging company advertised the special alloy used in the hull of the Quasar 4 as indestructible. “Fly right through the sun with only the mildest cases of sunburn!” their brochure boasted, “Withstand impacts of 40Gs and remain unscathed!” The asteroid ripped through the metre thick outer shell as though it were paper. The collision tore a 50-metre fissure in the ships hull, shreds of bright silver metal spiralling off into space in a grotesque ballet. The Quasar 4 ricocheted back and forth as though in a pinball machine, spinning end over end until eventually ploughing into the jagged surface of an asteroid the size of a small planet, scudding along like a skipping stone on a lake. The metal screamed as was warped and twisted by impact after impact of alien structures of crystal and rock, finally coming to rest with a sigh on the precipe of a vast dark chasm. It teetered there for a moment with an odd assortment of squeaks an groans before settling with a soft thud.
Silence.
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