Author's Note: This story will connect the episodes "Time" and "Space" and will diverge from the show plot afterward.
The human's overwhelming fear polluted my efforts to recall. I didn't have much time; I could sense him fading in my grip and the connections were falling apart. On the surface, he held images of our brothers attacked on Gefa. I let them fade away and pushed further into his mind past various images of people, places and major events in his life and it was among these that several threads caught my attention. I directed all of my focus to this area of his mind and recalled the connections it held and a pattern emerged just before he expired.
Lt. Scott paced the corridor, his mind reeling in a daze, Sgt. Greer's blood dripping from his sleeve. Scott kept his distance and watched as Lt. Johansen and Park worked to save Sgt. Greer. Several marines stood by the gate visibly shaken by what just happened, only a minute ago they were laughing at an off-color remark Greer had made to them about the oddly shaped fruit found on the planet. The others in the room looked much worse off. Scott stopped and gathered himself just as Young came running down the corridor at full speed. The Destiny's countdown clock wound down to zero and the ship entered ftl.