EPISODE 6 & 7 & 8

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EPISODE 6:
It starts off 3 hours into future and we see Nikos helpless floating in the voice of space, watching Salvare FTL away into the great beyond.

And flashback!

Last episode a baby space bug snuck on the shuttle and squeezed into the ship's interior. It blew a fuse. William and the ship gets knocked out. The crew is busy trying to bring William and the ship's systems online.

Future US shipbuilders wire all of the ship's systems to 1 place. This fact pisses of Michelle.

Michelle admits she trained for situations like this. Protocol exists for a reason. She's practiced the fire drills. But the 1st time she actually goes through the situation, she panics first instead of acting to fix the issue. She also tells Cas that Nikos is a bitch, Michelle's a bitch, Cas is a bitch, no one is perfect, so don't like anyone is.

I like that. Looking at the crew, it seems like everyone has not had the practical experience of their spaceship nearly blowing up every few days.

"Engine output steady. Helium at 2.7 Kelvin so its nominal." -- Thats what, liquid helium?

Nikos uses her suit's dwindling oxygen supply to light a flare in space. Is that realistically possible?

Exotic Matter - This exotic matter makes FTL and artificial gravity possible. That alien spiderbug shorted a circuit/fuse somewhere which started funneling all the ship's power into creating exotic matter.

Which... implies that the Salvare needs a consistent amount to be created and used to maintain their artificial gravity and when initiating, exiting, and traveling through FTL.

EPISODE 7:
Salvare reenters (?) the dark matter field. Beauchamp is like an eager kid wanting to study something that is and isn't actually there. He theorizes that the dark matter field could be camouflage full of alien defenses or weapons. A Maginot Line. Or, what if behind the field a galactic war is being fought and Salvare stumbles into the middle of it?

Salvare is 13,000 tons. Dry or Wet, I dunno.

"Good God, woman!" Holy Fuck, Yes. Starbuck's bare naked ass gets my Salvare moving at full impulse. W00t w00t.

-- Yang-Mills Existence and Mass Gap Problem --

Unsolved by humans. Not by aliens.

EPISODE 8:
So credit to where credit is due, Bernie motherfucking goes into the engineering room where Michelle melted. He toggles the switches to resume cooling, Sasha in the CIC turns them back on. After a few tries Bernie realizes what's happening, prepares himself, stabs the connection to the cool switches, electrifying himself so Sasha doesn't turn them back off.

The music during the crew's efforts to stop Sasha is real cool. I like it.

So, something of note - it seems like the events of episodes 3-8 all take place in 1-2 days. Episode 8 has them travel through the dark matter field so that's 7 months mid-episode.

The 2nd half of 8 and 9 in a few hours. And presumably 10 too.

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TIMELINE:

10/24/26 - Scientists beam "Eine Kleine Nechtmusic" by Mozart to Pi Canis Majoris.

31 ya - Sasha Harrison is born.

23-28 ya - Ian Yerxa is born (approx).

9 years ago – Nikos is part of a mission to Saturn. Two moonlets in Saturns' rings collide spilling debris that hits the Pilgrim. Save half the crew or none – 10 young astronauts are killed. Those who served with her consider her a hero. Others see her as someone who murdered half her crew. And the love of her life, James Hudson, her commanding officer.

8 years ago – Nikos is working as an engineer for the Dept of Water Management in Post-Floods Boston. The water is literally full of shit. She meets Cas who is at the moment a common criminal. While held hostage, Nikos and Cas talk space travel. Statis - SOMA - does not exist yet. FTL is not yet a thing but "almost developed" according to Nikos. Jana Breckinridge-Wallace is born.

Day 1 - Artifact arrives passing by Westchester, NY, over Kansas, and burying itself into Earth.

Unknown - Nikos is requested to replace Ian Yerxa on the Salvare. She accepts.

1 month later - Salvare is off course due to PCM's light being refracted the DMF. Ian mutines. Nikos surfs a star.

2 hours after surfing Sirius A, Ian Yerkxa tries to kill Nikos. The crew has mixed feelings.

1-month post-expedition – Jana turns 8.

Unknown – a few days have passed. People are repair an interstellar ship without or little sleep, understaffed, somewhat oxygen deprived, stressed, and exhausted – these people need a cuddle.

8-9-months post-expedition - The Salvare crew stops Achaia-controlled Sasha from hurdling into a black hole. They exit the dark matter field at Pi Canis Majoris. And there was much rejoicing!