The shuttle-craft docked and transferred the replacement body, and also brought the new uniforms for the crew. The crew weren't impressed. The big-wigs at the orbital dry dock wanted new uniforms and a big photo-op, but the enemy attacks rendered that a causality of war. The first FTL battleship of Balaam readied it's Time-Space-Matrix-Distortion engines. The capacitors for the hyper-drive transferred energy to the so called 'hyper-cannon'. It fired a beam of phased strong nuclear force that excited any wormholes at a quantum level. One hit by the beam unfolded as the TSMD mandibles stretched the wormhole to huge size. It exploded in size to a hole into the higher levels of dimensional space where light-speed was several times faster than it was in normal space. The Relative Inertial Frame generator encompassed the ship in a field that would make life possible in hyperspace for normal space creatures like the humans and others on the space battleship. Normal space fusion engines pushed the ship into the unknowable reaches of hyperspace. The engines were uncalibrated and added to the nervousness of the crew, and uncertainty of where they might come out. Only desperation and orders would push any crew to such measures. An abandoned planet of alien artifact forerunner weapons that may fall into enemy hands was such a desperate thing to motivate the fear of higher ups. The USCOMM (United System Commonwealth Office of Military Management) crew was unready. They were a mish-mash of ill-fitting parts thrown together by forces they barely could conceive of in a sudden group of independent actions. They had stumbled into an ancient war that had gone on for over twelve million years without a clear winner. Three whole galaxies had been mostly destroyed. The number of stars novaed in the war were in excess of a hundred billion. The number of dead sentients was over a hundred billion trillion. Four million years before, the very last of the Human forerunners had decided there was one way to end the war. Probability. They conceived of a weapon to insure the survival of the human species based on Macro probability. Non-humans would be selected, outside the human system, to protect the human system of species. They would warp things by their very presence to achieve victory over the Scourge and their allies. Those forerunners had made one fatal mistake. Time. It would take eons longer than they lived, and would have effects beyond that weapon system, it it reached out of the Milky Way, all the way to the Child Galaxy, almost 75,000 light years distance, to the planet Balaam, where some humans became aware of the eternal war. They just weren't aware of what they needed to do, or the twists ahead of them. The pieces were already moving to bring the eternal war to a final conclusion. Only time would tell who the winner was. If any survived to be a winner... --TO BE CONTINUED!-- Just a filler piece while I'm working on other things for upcoming episodes explaining some stuff already covered, but not put into more exact language. Stuff is dire, and I had to put it in dire language.