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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Eclipse had been taking the night shift when the incident happened but was gratified when shortly after first Navorn the their children rapidly arrived on the bridge, and Eclipse turned to look at them as they floated near the door as the artificial gravity was offline due to the power loss.

"First we need to restore power to at least life support, Navorn you check main engineering see if you can't get the cores to fire up again, I'll go to secondary to see if I can't get that one to fire. Sebastian, keep  on eye on the sensors and warn us if anything strange comes up, the rest go through the rest of the major areas to see if anything is wrong."

Eclipse watched with a small bit of pride as they all took off, the children may have only been 11 years old but they where very mature when circumstances warranted it, but Navorn was a different story, shi was not even in hir original body yet in the time they had been together you would never be able to tell hir from a normal one of hir kind.

Eclipse quickly followed the others off the bridge and once again envied both Navorn and the children, Navorn just because hir race was meant for space and made Z-G movement easy and the children as they inherited that trait.

But Eclipse was hoping that the power loss was due to what ever pulled them to this other universe had effected the primary cores like a gravity bomb and had caused a forced shut down, which if that was the case they would be able to fire up the secondary core for power.

Sebastian

Sebastian had been in hir cabin reading a book when shi felt something odd right before power died, and with gravity gone aswell shi quickly let go of the book and at the door to hir cabin used the manual release and quickly headed for the bridge, and was happy to see the the rest of the family met hir their before going through the airlock to the bridge one at a time and when shi finally got on the bridge after letting the others go first and stood infront of Eclipse with the others.

Shi was kind of upset when Eclipse told hir to watch the sensors but understood as that was one of the things shi usually did when the whole family was on shift so quickly went to the sensor station and started doing what shi could with what power they had to get the best sensor picture possible with the Ancestors sensors.


Navorn

Navorn had been in the main cargo bay tinkering on hir old truck when suddenly power and gravity went out and quickly securing the tools and quickly headed to the bridge and waited outside till all the kids arrived before leading the way onto the bridge, after Eclipse gave out orders Navorn couldn't help but smile as shi headed for main engineering as shi couldn't help but enjoy maneuvering in zero gravity due to hir species, it was one of the few things that made hir miss hir old human body less.

Once Navorn got to main engineering shi quickly starts trying to find out what happened to cause the cores to shut down.

Secondary/back-up power came up right away but main power was going to take a bit longer. That was because the cores had to be recalibrated for this universe. That should only take about 10 minutes.

The sensors now indicated that some sort of subspace rupture had occurred. It's exact nature wasn't immediately determinable, since previously recorded ruptures hadn't throw a ship out of the universe.

That meant going back wasn't going to be easy.

Sensors were also detecting a heavy concentration of dark energy over a wide area. That may have been a contributing factor to the rupture.


And then sensors detected an approaching ship. The dark energy was interfering with sensors, but even so, the ship's design wasn't familiar.

And then a second ship was detected! It was coming from a different direction, but it's design wasn't familiar either.


Once the first ship got within range, it seemed to be trying to contact the Ancestor. At least, Eclipse assumed it was some sort of hailing frequency. It wasn't one she was familiar with. That would probably take more re-calibration.