![]() ![]() ![]() In the case of Thom, the creature inserts an illusion presenting itself to be Greta, an ex-love interest of Thom. The creature does this to ensure that the survivors can last their lives out peacefully until their bodies wither and die. Instead, it projects a pleasant illusion inside the minds of survivors. Now, here’s the cool bit – the alien is empathetic, it doesn’t consume or feed on the living. It appears that the creature then consumes from the resources of the various ships as part of its survival. Just like a spider, the alien has spun webs into which lost ships wander into. The misalignment and the shortcut happen to take their ship light-years off course and through a space-web, the home of an alien arachnid creature. Well, this is the crux of the whole mess up. The crew also states that their Q-Jibs are a touch misaligned. However, she says that she has managed to find a shortcut. Suzy, the Navigation Officer, mentions that she’s plotted the course back to Earth. They’re waiting in a queue to be sent back home by the dispatch center called Arkangel. The short story doesn’t go into what their mission was about, but we know its regular stuff they have done before. Thom, Suzy, and Ray are the three crew members of the ship. ![]()
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