Wing Commander Page #2

when people looked up

to the Pilgrims.

The stars were their destiny.

Since the Pilgrims

were defeated...

not a single new quasar

has been charted.

Increasing thrust...

Stupid...

Main engine

now at ninety percent.

Out! You get out!

Get out, get out!

Ow. Jeez!

What's your problem?

- What?

- Did you change course?

No, I didn't change course.

I just boosted the power.

Why dog it?

We can be at the beacon

in, like, under an hour.

That beacon

is marking a gravity well.

One cubic inch of it...

exerts more gravitationalforce

than the sun.

Navcom on-line.

If we approach it

too fast...

we'll be sucked in

out of control.

If I don't realign

our entry vector...

we are not going

to make the jump.

- What happens if we miss?

- We die.

Have we reached

the entry vector's PNR yet?

No, no. Not yet.

She's reaching outfor us.

Listen to that.

Velocity holding...

one-four-two-L-S-S...

Well, ladies, meet Scylla...

Warning...

gravitational anomaly detected.

Bane to sailors

and monster of myth.

What's a Scylla?

Ulysses sailed between

the whirlpool Charybdis...

and the island monster, Scylla.

She snatched six of his men

and ate them.

Whoa. What is this thing?

This thing is a distortion

in space-time.

The Pilgrims

were the first to chart it.

If it's charted,

why is it off-limits?

Because it's unstable.

It's unstable?

Whoa. It's unstable,

and we're gonna jump it?!

Navigational computer

just went off-line!

I'm on it!

- Blair!

- Yes, sir?

You take the helm!

I never made a jump before.

Good time to learn!

That's it!

I don't like this guy.

B, I... I don't know about you...

but I really don't

like this guy at all, man.

Merde.

- Uh... Mr. Taggart?

- Yes?

- Ten seconds to jump, sir.

- So?

So? So if you don't get that

computer back on-line, sir...

this unstable gravity well's

gonna suck us in...

one molecule at a time, sir!

Navcom on-line.

Plot your course, Mr. Blair!

Vector one entered

and confirmed.

Vector three

entered and confirmed.

What happened?

You just plotted a jump

through a gravity well...

in under ten seconds...

and Navcom can't do that.

That's not bad.

I mean, that's not bad...

for the second-best pilot

at the academy.

You shut up!

Next time you don't

follow my orders...

I'll dump you with the rest

of the garbage, you got that?

You plot a course

for the Tiger Claw, Mr. Blair.

Yes, sir.

Jeez.

Guy's got

a serious attitude problem.

This is Lieutenant Hunter

of the T.C.S. Tiger Claw.

Unidentifiedfreighter

bearing two-niner-three...

state your course and business.

This is the Diligent

carrying supplies...

and two replacement pilots

for the Tiger Claw.

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