[ TT ] Your ship 's dead in space , nothing working but life support . You 've still got momentum from when the engines worked , and with no way to `` steer '' , you 're months away from crashing into the very planet you were supposed to colonize . No one can reach you in time to help . How do you tell your crew ?

Stevens stood up as the colony Ship, UUSN Seedling traveled towards the maw. The UUSN Seedling was one of the older colony ships that were accepted to make the run. The oldest being a colony ship from the planet earth, specifically when it was still run by countries, long before Sol went super nova, The koloniya. The UUSN Seedling had been refitted at least a hundred times, each time having her systems upgraded. She was being sent on another mission, along with all the other ships that were able to carry people through the dark void. 
 The UUSN Seedling was in line and set as one of the first ships to travel to the other universe. The huge space construct in front of them was the culmination of project hope. The Massive conical object was utilizing Gravity to open a wormhole like tunnel between this doomed universe and a new universe for billions of refugees to go and resettle. The cave like maw loomed before them and Stevens Saw the gravity antennae lighting up as they powered up. In the distance inside the maw along the interior curvature the antennae start to light up before vanishing as something seems to block their light. Stevens Sees the first object being pulled towards the dark opening of the construct. 
 The first object being taken through was a super tug designed specifically to pull large astral bodies, towing a planet in one of the interstellar planet sleeves. He saw it happing, the Super tug hit something where the darkness was encompassing the maw ’ s opening it was flung to the violently side and vanished The Sleeved planet was no longer being held by a gravity field and so could not change its course as it went right on into the darkness and vanished. 
 An emergency signal came through the communications station, “ attention all ship the use of a gravity manipulations is dangerous when going through, make sure all gravity manipulating devices are turned off. ” Steven activated the computer and made sure that they were not carrying anything that would require any gravity manipulation, and then gave the order. “ All ahead full using our ion engines only. ” Steven said, thinking about how useful it was that the UUSN Seedling was not technologically advanced enough to require gravity engines to move. Even the most advanced energy conservative gravity engines were more than The Seedling could handle. She was made not to be the most technologically advanced, though at one time she was state of the art, but to allow humanity to take up root on a new planet. 
 The shift from normal space into the tunnel between universes was surprising. The ship seemed to accelerate dramatically, throwing everyone not in a chair to the floor. None of the exterior cameras were working as he ordered any and all personnel able to; help them to a stable location. Then he ordered everyone to be ready for an equally sharp deceleration, as they would not be entering the tunnel but leaving it. The time seemed to slow to a crawl and then he felt it the deceleration hit he ship harder than the acceleration had. Everyone that was not in cryo-stasis was either out cold or dead. 
 Stevens Was the first to wake up and cursed silently at what he saw, the bridge was a mess. At least two of his bridge crew had their necks snapped from the sudden deceleration they had endured. About two others on the bridge, the navigations officer, Richard Glowen and the pilot Aaron Trowen, were beat up but still functioning. The first officer and communications officer were both dead, lying limply in their station ’ s chairs. 
 Steven activated the computer terminal and did a quick check of the ship. She was not in very good shape; it seemed that the outer hull had been partially eaten away by the tunnel giving them little to no data on the universe outside the ship. Luckily the UUSN Seedling was designed specifically with thicker than average hulls to keep her from being taken out by any rouge meteor shower she might pass through. The Cryo-chambers were still running and there were no signs of any lives lost there from the transitions. When he got to the engineering section, he saw the engine power was good, but the engine thrusters were almost gone, they had one use before they would break up completely. Without those thrusters The UUSN Seedling would be a drift in space, just another derelict ship. 
 After a couple of minutes Steven and the other two bridge crew got up and got into space suits. Better to be safe than sorry if there were any breaches. They then exited the bridge and decided to check on engineering first and see if there was anyone left alive down there. If there was they might have a chance. 
 Two days later Steven was writing up a log of everything that had happened so far. Stevens couldn ’ t believe it, it seemed like no one else had made it to this universe, or if they did they were hundreds of light years away. The two engineers they found alive were able to jury rig a simple sensor relay and mount it on the front of the ship using drones. They were adrift in the middle of a solar system. There were two gas giants, a single Ice giant and a puffy planet behind them away from the way the UUSN Seedling was drifting. Ahead of them was a binary planet set, with both of them appearing earth like that is orbiting the star, a white dwarf. The good news was either one of those planets would be great for colonization; Steven had Richard plotting out the best burn to get the ship into orbit of one of the two planets. They only had one shot at this. So the math had to be right. The travel time with their severely damaged engines would be at least two months to get to the planet. 
 Steven finished his paper work and then did a walk through the storage bay with the humans in cryo-pod to remind him why he had to make sure everything worked, every single living thing on this ship would live if he made the right choices or die if he made the wrong choices. The captain walked into another chamber where they had hundreds of animals in cryo-chambers as well, the farming animals that the human colonists would need to survive. 
 Three days later Steven was worn and tired, the engines did not burn long enough they gave out a second early. So instead of sliding gently into orbit around the planet dubbed by his navigation officer New Bastion the UUSN Seedling would be crashing into the planet. To his knowledge only three people knew of the problem of the five people left alive and awake on the ship Brian Shorie, one of the remaining engineers, Richards and Steven himself knew their course was wrong by a half a degree the wrong way. The rest of the crew was too busy with their tasks to see the results of the burn. The other engineer Kesandra thorne, and Aaron did not know the course they were one would end in disaster and to their knowledge the end of humanity. 
 Steven was putting off saying anything to the other two crew members as they would probably lose focus like he was. He got up and again went for a stroll through the cryo-storage bay and looked at every tube as he thought. If he was responsible for all the humans left, he couldn ’ t just go down without trying something. The ship may crash into the planet but maybe the cryo-pods could be launched to land safely. If nothing else it would give the rest of the crew something to focus on. He smiled as he called a meeting of everyone awake. 
 Once everyone was in the conference room walked up and said, “ The burn failed we are about a degree off course and we will be hitting New Bastion head on. The engines are shot as you all know, and our sensors are the best we could jury rig. But while we may not make it there is a chance we can launch the Cryo-pods out of the ship before impact and give them a fighting chance. ” As he paces his mind bringing up distant quote from a universe forever lost to them and he says, “ Life finds a way. ” Looking at each of them in turn he finished with, “ let ’ s make sure that it finds the right way this time, anything on this ship is fair game for scraping to make sure our guestcicles arrive safety to New Bastion. ” 

