[ WP ] Tell me the middle of a sci-fi epic . No beginning or introduction to the setting or characters , nor any context to what 's going on , and no resolution of any kind .

The cell was massive, but they stood shoulder to shoulder, not wanting to tempt fate by separating again, they were all silent, save Peters, who was bellowing at the top of his lungs. A couple of the bigger guys tried to convince him to be quiet, but he was unconsolable. 
 
 After a few minutes of his near-constant tirade, even his loyalists were losing hope for him. They all heard the clanking outside the door, they knew that their captors had heard the yelling. 
 
 The door glowed faintly around the edges, intensifying quickly to envelop the entire thing. The door moved, but not in a direction they could describe. They saw a figure in the blinding light, it was monstrous, but was too faint to make out any detail. 
 
 Peters stood across from the opening. It was hard to tell where he was getting the energy, and the air, to scream at a near-constant pace, a barrage of accusations and the worst insults he could think of. And, since he was Air Infantry, he knew them all. 
 
 Without warning Peters was gripped around the neck by a rope made of light, and yanked into the blinding light of the opening, vanishing into it. The rest were huddled in the far corner, and watched as the door rotated back into place out of nowhere, instantly cutting off Peters' screaming outside. 
 
 It was quite a while before the rest of the crew calmed down, but at least now they could hear themselves think.
