A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. -Albert Einstein

Shepard jumped back in shock, he never honestly believed that the owners of this ship could possibly be human. Yet here was a human. His skin had only decomposed a small amount before the sub zero temperatures of space overtook the ship, preserving his body. He was wearing a blue and gold uniform and he had some sort of red visor over his right eye.

"This... This simply isn't possible." Shepard voiced, visibly shaken. He quickly regained his composure. "Tali, Legion, see if you can get some of this hardware on-line. We'll need to recover any information we can from the computers before we do anything else."

While the others activated their omni tools and began to work on the computers, Shepard examined the body. It was definitely a human, some where in his mid 30s. Shepard pulled the red visor off of his eye and pocketed it for latter inspection. He then went about searching the rest of the body, turning up nothing but a pack of cigarettes, or at least he was pretty sure they were cigarettes. Disappointed he began to search the station and was rewarded with something much more interesting. Next to the man sitting in a small holster was a pistol. Complete with handle, barrel and trigger guard. It didn't seem to fold in on itself like modern firearms did and he could see no place where one might eject thermal clips from. He shoved the pistol into one of his empty heavy weapon ammo packs.

"Shepard Commander! We have found something." Shepards examination of the body done, he turned his full attention to Legion. "We have isolated an automated start up routien. If activated it should bring this vessels power generator back online."

Tali chimed in. "Wait, you mean this ship can start itself? I that explains why we've only seen one body here. Most of this ships systems must be automated."

"I don't much like the idea of waking this giant up without knowing more about it, but we need that power to be able to examine the computers more closely..." Shepard said, "Do it, but be ready for trouble."

"Acknowledged." Legion hit a few buttons on his omni tool which was followed by a new humming. A few minutes latter the lights begain flickering on one by one along with some of the computers. The few bits of debris that were floating around fell to the ground as gravity came back to the ship.

A synthesized female voice filled the room. "Primary power on-line. Error: Defensive turrets 4 and 6 are not responding. Error: Secondary nuclear drives not responding. Warning: Life-support system failure. Warning: Radiation damage detected."

"Legion, I want you to get to work grabing every bit of data you can from the computers. Tali, see anything interesting?"

Tali was already sitting at one of the stations, a number of blue holograms surrounded her. "A few things. I think this is the cargo manifest. It says this ship was hauling 10,000 units of something called tradelane and jumpgate parts to a place called Dallas Research Station in the Texas system. Do any of those names mean anything to you?"

"Dallas? Texas? Those are the names of places back on Earth, but I've never heard of a star system named Texas.."

"Here, this looks like a set of ship specs. Fission generators, nuclear drives, plasma turrets." Excitement slowly crept into Tali's voice. "Shepard, with this we could-"

Tali was interupted by the ships voice, "Warning: Gravitational anomoly detected."

Shepard and Tali's eyes met, Shepard opened his mouth to ask what was happening but was interrupted by a rather violent shaking that knocked Shepard clean off of his feet. Once he regained his footing he could see the debris field outside of the windows were flying past them straight into the maw of what looked like a blue and red black hole that had electrical storms dancing around it.

Shepard activated his radio. "Joker! Get that shuttle over here!" static "Joker! Do you read me?" All that greeted him was more static. "Tali, Legion, please tell me there's something you can do."

His response was the ship saying "Go to" as the nose began to slowly turn away from the hole that was pulling them in and in the direction of the Normandy which was sitting in the opposite direction. On a hunch he looked over at Legion for an explanation.

"We have activated the vessels auto navigation systems." Legion looked at one of the holographic readouts before continuing in a strained and hurried voice. "We are still moving towards the anomaly, impact in ten seconds!"

Debris began to rap against the ships hull, despite the auto navs best efforts to avoid them. The last thing Shepard sees before everything goes black is a very large hunk of metal headed straight for the window...

On board the Normandy,

Edge of the debris field

"No! There must be something we can do!" Joker screamed at EDI, they watched from a distance as the anomaly opened and began to swallow the debris field.

"The area is to unstable to aproach without risking the Normandy being sucked in as well, I'm sorry Jeff."

"So what? We just wait here and hope that... thing stabilizes?"

"Its all we can do."

Joker sighed and rubbed his forehead. "Shit... Garrus is going to have my head for this"

Meanwhile, the last bits of the field dissapeared through the anomaly, headed to god knows where.

A/N: Another chapter done, 'tis a bit shorter then I would have liked but better to make it short then jam it full of filler.

I would like to thank everyone for their reviews, I'm glad to know that someone likes my work, or is at least amused by it. The more reviews I get the more motivated I'll be to turn out chapters.

Oh, and a note to Ogi: You may have noticed an... Odd message from me in reply to your review. I kinda accidentally hit the reply button before I was ready, but I'll provide my reasoning for 200 Rheinland Battleships here.

In game we can see that there are two battleships at every TL intersection, assuming this trend continues throughout all of Rheinland there are about 56 battleships in Rheinland. They attacked New Tokyo with a force of 40 battleships, assuming that they sent even half of that number to Liberty and Bretonia during their attacks on the respective houses this bring total numbers to an absolute minimum of 140. I'm just assuming that overall numbers are a bit higher then the absolute theoretical minimum.