[ WP ] You are part of the first crew to traverse into a black hole .

`` Main battery to on.'' 
 
 The spaceflight engineer flicked two switches on the control board. `` Main battery on.'' 
 
 `` Reactor to off.'' 
 
 `` Reactor off.'' 
 
 The commander's voice carried the unaffected confidence of an aerospace veteran. `` Mass buffer to on, electronics to mode two, and bring orbit down to mission window.'' 
 
 `` Yes commander.'' The lights in the cockpit dimmed and the ship shuddered to life as its engines ignited. Below loomed the void. The altimeter dropped. 
 
 `` Probe release to ready.'' 
 
 ``...'' 
 
 `` Probe release to ready, officer Dayton - `` The commander's voice wavered with the name of his subordinate as he realized he was alone. 
 
 The commander clutched his head and vomited, a sharp pain - like a frozen razor - moving up his spine. The floor of the cockpit gave out beneath him, and he begain to cough up water as he fell. He was seven, again - he had been horsing around back at grandpa's lake house, but this time when he fell off the canoe his sister could n't find him in the muck fast enough. 
 
 The UNS matured without its most influential figurehead, funding fell through, and the mission became a pipedream - a forgotten memory. The universe remained.
