Adamesh, the dead sister planet planet of Balaam, floated like a bloated ghost over the blasted rusty hills below them. Martya glanced at it as she came into the cockpit of transport 110. She remarked, "Wow. Adamesh really did a job on Babel. Even the Jade Empire's military industrial complex couldn't survive a hit from an Anti-Matter bomb!" Capitan Rose flicked a look at her and said,"Indeed." She turned her look back to Snowflake and resumed her private-channel conversation. Martya listened into the scrambled channel without meaning to. Snowflake didn't whine, but came close as she remarked,[Adopted mother--I don't have much time! All I did was have oral sex with him! I wanted to have sex.(insert unhappy emoticon) Why did you stop me?] Capitan Rose responded,[ Snowflake--when we have time for a Capitan's Mast, I will SPELL OUT why that was a bad choice! (insert stern command icon and unhappy emoticon) I will NOT have any member of my family bypass the chain of command OR break the standards and practices of service! (insert angry emoticon)] Martya rolled her eyes and tried to not laugh. Martya chirped out,[Oh my GAWD! You sound just like my mom! She was absolute military service,too!] She realized she had overstepped some unwritten boundaries as they all looked at her. Capitan Rose looked surprised and said in the human sound frequencies, "That was SUPPOSED to be a private and SCRAMBLED radio transmission to my daughter. I cannot imagine that you'd be able to intercept and translate THAT!" Martya smiled and twisted her fingers together, laughing out, "Ah...ha-ha...OOPS! You know...the alien artifact thingy I have. Permits transportation and translation, apparently." Snowflake looked embarrassed, and remarked, "Capitan, we'll finish the discussion later. Yes?" Martya felt something twist in her gut. She snapped her eyes to a twisting doughnut of air. She shouted, "Oh shit! What the fu-ooooaaaaaahhh!" Capitan Rose and the rest of the Cyclops had sighted the phenomenon. Snowflake and several other members of the bridge-crew recognized it. Snowflake zip-squealed,[Known Game-object(Hyperspace Breech:game Galactic Empires)Request for Command Function Temporary?] Rose for the first time her life was out of her experience. She responded,[YES!] One of the fighter escorts hit the breech and exploded. The EWACS fighter disappeared into the vortex, as others barely avoided the vortex. The huge transport swerved to avoid the distortion zone. Snowflake slapped the object that exited from Hyperspace with two pair of oscillating tractor-pressor beams as the object collided with one of the escort planes. The pilot ejected, as the aircraft twisted to the ruins below and exploded. Pazu's Melcosi Star-fighter shuddered from the tractor-pressor beams. Red lights flared on his board as his ship fluttered down to land hard between mounds that had once been skyscrapers. Transport 110 wheeled around and sat down in front of Pazu's ship. Two squads of heavily armed Cyclops troopers poured out and fastened contact detonators on his hull. Over the Transport's external address system came the voice of Snowflake, "Open your cockpit, or we detonate your ship! Raise your Shields and we do the same!" Pazu was feeling over-whelmed as he opened the hatch and stood up, raising his hands over his head. He said to his open microphone,"Narchi--just got captured. Can't make rendezvous now. Crap." --TO BE CONTINUED!--