:: Chapter 2 ::
Taylor jolts awake at the sound of the emergency klaxons. She jumps up out of bed and quickly throws a uniform on. As she runs past a window she comes to a dead stop and stares out the window. The normal blur of light is gone instead all the stars are in focus. Taylor sighs and continues her mad dash to the bridge.
"What's going on? Why have we slowed down, we're still 2 years from braking" Taylor frowns.
"The subspace relay system was designed to signal us if more than five species was detected using hyper-drive technology" The sensor officer explained.
"What's your point?" Taylor sighs.
The sensor officer grins "We have ten hyper-drive frequencies on sensors; the Wraith must be defeated right?"
The whole bridge crew starts to cheer and laugh with this new news. Taylor looks around the bridge, she feels sad that she is going to have to burst the crews collective bubble. "We have to follow protocol, I am sorry" Taylor watches as the bridge crew stop cheering and stare at her.
"Don't tell us we're going to accelerate again? It's safe we can go home to Atlantis again!" The sensor officer pleads. The looks from the rest of the bridge tell Taylor that the crew won't let this go until they have had a chance to snoop around the galaxy and see if it is as safe as it looks.
"Ok, we'll look around but we can't use Savior to look around, I won't risk the lives of the people in stasis. We'll use one of the defender ships, Helios will do nicely." Taylor smiles for what feels like the first time in months.
"Zell can caption Helios on an exploratory mission, which means no fights or interfering with the current politics no matter what you find, got it? You can wake Helios's crew out of stasis and leave when you are ready." Taylor explains.
The sensor officer grins. "Thanks, but what about Savior? Are you going to wait for us here or are you going to accelerate again?"
"We are going to accelerate again, you will rendezvous here in 6 months. If we are late then it is because Arthur has got the calculations wrong" Taylor states
"Hay, my calculations are fine" Arthur yelps indignantly
Taylor laughs. "Hurry up Zell, I am not waiting all day"
Zell gets up from his console and as he heads for the door Taylor sits down in his chair
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