Prologue: Destiny Calls

Mayron leads the party into a small space between some stalls, rushing down the short corridor as the ground shakes. The corridor turns sharply right, but ends abruptly in a gaping, jagged hole in the floor which still seems to be widening as you watch.

There is a service corridor below, about five metres down, but the walls are visibly strained.

Back on the main causeway it's becoming obvious that the hab ring is unpealing itself from the central refinery. The durasteel walls are buckling at the rim-side and stretching taut at the hub-side. The station is now almost deserted and the glowing drive trails of escape pods fill the view above, where the transparisteel canopy is showing cracks. Fortunately, so far, the emergency shields are doing their job and holding in the atmosphere, but there is still a long way to go to berth 59-3.

As the group travels the debris from the blast lessens, and the station appears significantly less messy, other than the buckling structure.

Passing a small alcove on the left, G'Rehth notices one of the escape pod doors is slightly open. Ta'hida sees it too, and also feels the presence of several sentients in obvious distress at the other side of it.