Last time on Andromeda...
Zalastrina, Beka, Harper and Dylan saved what was left of an ancient civilization, while the Ark's AI, Moira, crashed itself into the Magog's point singularity weapon. But the ensuing explosion left the Eureka Maru dead in space. Meanwhile, a Nietzschean Battlecruiser detected the small cargo ship and gave orders to bring it on board...
Terra Vox
Beka popped her head into the engine room. "How's it going?" She asked. Harper simply glared at her. "Ah, right. Stupid question."
Harper sighed and set down the tools he was working with. "There's no way I can repair the engines, Beka. Even if I had the right tools, the regulator is cracked. The entire thing needs to be replaced. Besides that, the sensors, communications, navigation, everything is fried. We're blind and crippled." He paused. "How's Zal?"
"Still bad. One of the med techs we rescued from the satellite is monitoring her, but we need to get her out of here."
Ahva came running from the control room. "Beka! Beka! Beeeee-kaaaa!"
"What? What is it?"
"There's a ship. A big- a hugeship. Battleship. Nietzschean. Coming right at us."
"Goodbye, frying pan, hello fire." Beka said.
"And we're defenseless." Harper reminded her.
"No, we're not." Beka said. "When we don't return communications, they're going to come onboard. And we're not going to let them get any farther than the door."
"They aren't replying to hails."
"We'll have to use the bucky cables to bring them onboard. Let's hope Lois finished repairing them before the last battle."
Beka heard the cables attaching themselves to the outer hull of the ship. She and everyone else who wanted to fight were stationed at the airlock doors. "Alright, once the Maru is safely inside that ship, we fight our way out, and take the ship."
"Do you have another plan that won't lead to our untimely demise?" Harper asked.
"Here's one." Dylan said. "Before we start shooting, we talk to them."
"Do you have another plan that won't lead to our untimely demise?" Harper asked again.
The airlock doors hissed open, and a team of humans came through. That's a bit weird. Dylan thought. Stranger still was what they said next.
"We are Terra Vox."
