Ancestor's Arrival
Eclipse had been cruising through space in her ship without a care in the world... or universe, as it were. And yet, something felt amiss. Eclipse checked over the systems, and it was only when she was done and satisfied that she realized that her unease was being caused by something external to the ship.
That shouldn't have been... possible?
How could something be wrong with the universe?
For a moment, there was a hiccup. The universe... blinked. And yet, Ancestor remained the same. It was still there, still intact, still functioning... even in that moment when the universe ceased to exist.
The sensors were slow to process the data. It wasn't that the universe had ceased, but that the ship had been momentarily shifted into a second universe!
Her first instinct was to flee, but she quickly realized that there was nowhere she could go.
It was a space-hole... and it was swallowing her up!
It was a hole in the universe. There had been speculation among the learned that it led to somewhere else in the universe. But, to another universe? Only the quacks and the fictions suggested that.
There was no gravity so the ship couldn't actually fall, yet that's what it felt like.
It took only a second... or perhaps a year squeezed into a second... maybe even a century. Or the other way around... a second stretched into a century.
And then the ship was in the new universe. Eclipse had a brief moment of sensors just enough to detect the different universal constant before the ship went dead. It took only a minute before the energy grid absorbed enough cosmic radiation to bring minimum sensors back online. The ship did not appear to be damaged, but its energy had been depleted. It would take a few hours for the ship to fully recharge.
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