[Ruatha]

Zeta Knights The Mourning (4-1) Stardate 2401.0

The catastrophy struck fast, the colony ship "Snål lång 002" was travelling under standard exploration protocol.
Head for the nearest unexplored worm-hole, jump through and head for the middle of the system.
This had saved alot of time in the recent past, instead of just jumping through to take a look and powering down the engines, loosing many weeks of travel time, the ships had kept up speed all the time.
But this time it had proved fatal.
The ship had been close to the wormhole when it jumped, it exited on the other side and the engines continued roaring heading for the center of the system.
When the crew realized that this was not an ordinary system but a black hole, it was all too late.
The engines where shut down but in a matter of days the ship was sucked into the hole and crushed.
All hands lost.
The Zeta Knights exploration protocol had to be changed, new plans revised. This would set back the colonization surge by several weeks, if not months.

[ March 11, 2004, 06:11: Message edited by: Ruatha ]