Echoes of Future Past
Part 3: Voice from the future

Dylan's forcelance remain steady as Ryan slowly got to his feet, "Why should I believe you?"

Ryan smiled, "I'm going to slowly reach into my pocket and take out a flexi. Once you've seen it, you can make your own decision."

Dylan nodded. Ryan slowly lowered his hand to his side and reached into his pocket and pulled out a flexi, and handed it to Dylan, who activated it.

Rommie's face appeared, "Hello Dylan. If you're seeing this, then Harpers plan worked and Ryan made it back in one piece. It's hard for me to record this message: from my point of view, you've been dead over 20-years. If this works as we hope, you should be at the rally point for the fleet that's going after the Magog world ship. Dylan, you're going to loss and loss badly: The Commonwealth fleet is going to be massacred, and Andromeda is going to be the only ship that makes it back. The new crew is going to abandon ship, and in approximately 8-mouths, you're going to die, and the ship is going to be destroyed. There are only three survivors: Harper, Ryan, and me. Trance disappeared right before my eyes, so I can't say what happened to her. Dylan, don't make the same mistake again. Good luck." The image faded.

"Just who are you?" Dylan looked at Ryan.

"My name is Ryan Anasazi, and I am the son of Tyr Anasazi and Beka Valentine."

Dylan shook his head, "But according to you, they die in eight months, and Beka's not pregnant."

"She is: she just doesn't know it yet." Dylan turned round to see Trance standing in the doorway. She walked up to the two men; "I helped deliver Ryan when he was born: It was just before I came back to change the past. If he's here, it means I failed."

Ryan smile, "The famous Trance Gemini! I'm glad I've finely got a chance to meet you, person to person."

Rommie cut-in, "You say that in eight months time, Dylan, Tyr and Beka are going to die, and the ship is going to be destroyed: how?"

Ryan looked at Trance, "Is it safe to tell them?"

Trance nodded, "They need to know if we're to stop it from happening again."

Ryan shrugged, "Ok then. The story I was always told is this: The Andromeda was on the run from Magog raiders, but my mother went into labour, so you had to stop. While she was giving birth to me, the Magog caught up with you. The first point-singularity round they fired took-out command, killing you and my farther. With the main AI damaged, and no one to operate the weapons, the ship was doomed. Trance pulled her diapering act, leaving Rommie alone with my mother, who made the decision to make a brake for it in the Maru."

"They had just met up with Harper when another point-singularity round hit, and my mother was crushed by a support beam and killed. Rommie and Harper took me and made a run for it in the Maru, getting out just before the slipstream core detonated, destroying the Andromeda and the Magog ships. Rommie and Harper brought me up on the Maru, and we spent our lives running from the Magog. That was, until we reached Tran-Vedra."

TBC…