The USS Carl Anderson left Saturn after 3 weeks in orbit and set course for Uranus. 103 seperate experiments were scheduled for the fourth leg of the mission, scheduled to last 7 weeks. On the ninth day a series of events occurred which could have been catastrophic and at the same time...were simply amazing. As scheduled, the matter-antimatter engine was fired at .65 percent thrust in accordance with guidelines for the gradual move to a full power test. Shortly there after, several different experiments were started, two dealing with high energy physics, one with applied relativity physics, and one to search for the elusive graviton. 3 minutes later, the engine had gradually moved to the indicated thrust and would continue at that level of power for 22 minutes. 17 minutes later the engine output suddenly spiked to .76 percent of maximum output, roughly half the speed of light. There was no apparent reason for this sudden surge. Chief Engineer Palladiia Kovalenko gave the order to shut down the injection nozzles to the combustion chamber. As she gave the order all sensors seemed to shut down and the ship lost all power. The back up fission reactor automatically connected itself to the power grid to supply power but most ship systems were offline. Vice Admiral MacNamarra called a meeting of department heads as the crew began the process of reload/restart of the computer systems, all 527 of them. Sensor readings, which are automatically backed up, were displayed on individual view screens. The Admiral quietly demanded to know what had happened. As the department chiefs looked at the information, one thing became obvious, data wasn't correlating as it should. The Chief Science Officer, Li Na Zhou pointed out the readings when the high energy physics experiments came online and the sudden appearace of data that some instruments said was there and others said was not. She stated that it would take some time to sort out the information. Admiral MacNamarra was informed that he was needed on the bridge, ASAP. Upon entering, he immediately noticed that all sensors were on a planet and it wasn't Saturn. Uranus and it's verticle rings were plainly visible at a distance of 250,000 kilometers. None of the department heads would speculate on what the ship had just experienced and Vice Admiral MacNamarra ordered that they would find out and would find out as soon as possible because the main engine would not be fired again until they had. Two days later it was detirmined, with NASA concurring until all data was more thoroughly researched, that a bubble of some sort had formed around the ship and had accelerated the ship forward, surpassing the speed of light in the process. This leg of the mission was supposed to take 7 weeks and it had been accomplished in seconds. There were many back on Earth who would be researching the "Saturn Incident" as it became known in the history books. Planet maps from Planet Portal, rings modified from Saturn model, starfield created in Universe Thanks for taking a look :o) I would also like to thank everyone who has given constuctive advice on how to improve the previous pictures in this series. I think it has helped me do the next one after the advice was given :o). One point of note, each image has become darker do to the distance from the sun in which they take place. Areas don't have the high contrast between dark and light areas that they would have in reality. I've chosen to go for the dimmer light because I think that is just as realistic a point to convey as the point of contrast. I've tried to do both without success and chose one over the other. I hope this in no way ruins "the feel" of the image for you and if it does, I apoligize and hope you understand my reason. Please continue to give advice because I know my weak point is details and a image is made up of details :o)