Eduian frowned deeply. His head was aching. His eyes were blurred and his vision kept getting screwed up. It made things complicated. Made it hard to grasp what was going on. He blinked a few time at the reports. Listening, but finding it harder and harder to follow her instructions to Gene and what the pilots were coordinating. The reports coming it, it was all just a mess. He blinked again as he focused again on Mystique's words. He listened to Darin's words, but he didn't have a chance to reply. He was cut off. He'd have been more upset if the situation wasn't so dire.<br/><br/>"I'm thinking we should probably strap in. Personally I've taken more then enough damage thank you very much for one day. I have no intention of being bounced around like so much luggage going through a Stargate that's been hacked and ending up lord alone knows where... Damnation my head hurts," he grumbled the last words as a curse. He pressed the cloth firmly against the wound and glowered meaningfully at the display. "Strap in were going in that damnable thing," he said bitterly. He checked his restraints and cast a look back.<br/><br/>"The ship will hit the gate, usually you don't feel much more then a sensation of being crushed and shoved through too small an opening, it's almost instantaneous, but with this I haven't a clue what to expect. Or where we will end up. Wherever we end up, your skills as a farmer and midwife/medic will give us the only fighting chance we will have to colonize on whatever backwater we find ourselves on. If anyone has brains we are not going to end up in a very populated port... Hopefully." he said with a heavy sigh. If they ended up in a port they could easily be taken again by the Coalition or worse taken by profiteering slavers.<br/><br/>The ship began to bank steadily into the stargate's horizon. They were going to be one of the first three ships through the gate, two had already passed first.<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>Zir grinned, he loved his job. "Boss if you toss me about like a sack of turnips back here were going to be a stain in someone's blast shield. The chemicals I'm going to be using are going to be VERY unstable until they are properly contained. I hope you realize that," Zir said with a soft hiss of expelled breath. The chemicals were a special brand known only to the Rignians and heavily guarded. Their one planet hadn't survived this long by being entirely unmilitant. Only overwhelmingly outnumbered. Zir pushed all thoughts of his home planet and his true origins away.<br/><br/>He looked at the table before him and steadily began to work. "I'm going to make two bombs for yah Captain. The first is going to be a little bigger and a hell of a lot more unstable," he said into the link as he began cleaning the surface and his implements. No contamination must occur. The harsh stench of the cleansing compounds stung his nose making him sneeze. "It'll need to be launched and attached tot he gate as soon as it is ready. It is much more stable in the void of space. As for the second it'll be small, lethal with a big bang and not much of a show. It shouldn't be noticeable on scanners. least not to my knowledge, but you know how tech is Dar, always advancing."<br/><br/>He set to work cutting up the thin crystals and mixing the powders with liquids from vials marked all in Riozan, he knew they would never be identified or legible to anyone outside his people. No one in the Coalition, Tearsia or other races knew how to read his language it wasn't made common knowledge. Working with ease and speed come from years of explosives work Zir had both bombs completed by the time they were nearing the gate.<br/><br/>"It's done boss, who you gunna send down here to fetch them?" Zir said into the link setting both devices on his work table. They were not much to look at small cylindrical canisters of a metal yet unnamed and unknown by most other species. A common metal on Rignia. One slightly larger then the other. He went back to his readout monitors, "I need to do a few minor repairs from here, I can't bring you the bombs."<br/><br/>Zir cursed suddenly. Fowly. "Boss, we got a problem. There's a fluctuation coming from the Stargate and it's messing with the Grav field. Something's off with the power in the gate. It's greater then it should be. Acting like a small S class planet. Were going to be pulled in. Everyone. Everything in this sector." real panic began to set into his voice as he spoke. The gate was acting like a black hole creating a greater gravitational pull increasing the atomic weight of the gate causing it to be more then just a wormhole point, but an actual event horizon. One that was about to take everyone and everything in the whole sector into it.<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>Skar frowned heavily at being ordered about like some pup. His anger began to snap to the forefront. It was only because she was female and he was being diplomatic that he didn't take her head off for daring to speak to him with anything less then regal respect. His eyes narrowed and his jaw began a steady tick. The only signs he was angry.<br/><br/>He gave the order to keep the fighters around his ships. To fly directly above the Coalition fleet and to remain alert. Attacking only if there is a visible threat. He didn't need all his fighters out to defend against a threat from one ship, but he wasn't in the mood to banter. Thus he did what was expected. He obeyed. Even though it galled him.<br/><br/>He watched the displays and listened again to her as she spoke. He was surprised that she would turn a planet destroying weapon against ships of her own armada, but he had no desire to go there with her. He remained silent, unmoved by the display of power. It was stunning sure, but he'd seen this before so it wasn't anything unexpected. His eyes narrowed further as a few different readouts appeared on his screen.<br/><br/>Her words stunned him slightly, but what was on his screen was even worse. He swore in Aridiannian savage and for several long moments, breaking the facade of a diplomatic prince and showing the rougher side of the warrior he was. "Your damnable gate is going to be a black hole in space!" he said angrily to her his eyes flashing azure fury and glowing brighter. "You trying to kill everyone in this sector?" his words were harder then he'd meant. It no longer mattered that she had been talking of entering Aridian Airspace much less their ports to 'return him'. It was worse then that.<br/><br/>---<br/><br/>The commander stared up dazed at the alien above him. His shoulder bled and the pain was making his head feel dull. He realized he'd hit his head against the wall of the pod as they launched. He stared dully at the man and his eyes showed  a hint of fear.<br/><br/>"How about we don't die?" he said as a weak suggesting as he felt and saw the readouts on the displays next to him that indicated the plasma lances attacking his and the alien ship. "'cuze if those catch us, were dead!" he said panic rising in his voice. Those lances would melt them into a puddle of goo.<br/><br/>Yet even as he spoke the pod was suddenly and very roughly drawn into an entirely different direction. Directly towards the Stargate. "Well things just got worse..." he said his eyes wide as coins. He pushed himself up to a more comfortable position and started trying to access the com's network. "We hit that horizon in this and we will disintegrate. The pods aren't designed to be thrown through hyperspace, stargates or any other form of instant travel. I don't feel like being instantly vaporized do you?" He said just in case the man he was with didn't know the significance of everything being displayed on their screens.