G-Loc

It's been 32 years since the gate arrived in earth's orbit.

Ancient technology from unknown source.

It was a wormhole to a new solar system.

One capable of supporting life.

Probes allowed us to calculate that,

for every year on earth, 18 would pass on the other side of the gate.

With the planet on the verge of a new ice age,

thousands of migrants set off through to find a new home.

A home they would eventually call Rhea.

Over the next 16 years, ships would make the journey

but most of the human race stayed on Earth,

until it was clear that they could no longer live comfortably there.

The mass migration through the gate began.

The refugee crisis has raged on for another 288 years,

whilst only 16 more have passed on earth.

Refugees continue to leave humanity's original home,

unaware of the hardships that await them on the other side of the gate.

Warning, escape pod is damaged.

Open your eyes, Bran. You need to wake up.

Warning. Escape pod is damaged.

- Edison... - Warning. Escape pod is damaged.

Easy. You were injured in the explosion.

You may have internal bleeding.

Warning. Escape pod is damaged.

The Rheans shut us down, huh?

What did you expect? You didn't listen to me, did you?

I told you, trusting those human traffickers was a bad idea.

Yeah, alright, enough with the I told you so's.

Well, I did tell you so.

And now you're drifting through space and will likely die,

leaving me to chat to your frozen corpse until the power

in this escape pod runs out, and I die too.

So, thank you very much.

Warning. Escape pod is damaged.

Any other refugees make it off the ship?

Just you.

Warning. Escape pod is damaged.

Okay. We're down to 41 percent,

but that should be enough to get us back to the Refugee Station.

No. You're down to 12 percent oxygen. You wouldn't make it.

- I can hold my breath. - For 13 hours?

What else you got for me?

- You're not gonna like it. - Try me.

There's a damaged Rhean supply ship

called the Nysa nearby.

It's currently running on auxiliary power,

and if there is anybody on board they're not making any radio noise.

- What's wrong with the ship? - No idea. But I might be able to get it back online.

Yeah, but if the crew's still alive,

they're gonna give me the death penalty and just flush me

straight out to space anyway, aren't they?

What, where you'll suffocate?

Just like you will in this escape pod?

When you put it like that, what are we waiting for?

We're gonna need to accelerate if we're gonna make it in time.

- How fast we talking? - G-seven.

- Ouch. - You're gonna need to use

half the fuel in the thrusters to fire us towards the Nysa.

It's possible you might have a stroke.

Oh, nice.

And then when I tell you to, you need to flip the ship

and fire the remaining fuel in the thrusters

in the opposite direction to slow us down.

Otherwise, there's a possibility that we might explode.

Great.

In that bag next to you, there's an anti-G pen.

If you feel yourself hemorrhaging,

stab yourself in the heart with it.

You're just a bundle of laughs

this morning, aren't you?

- Little higher, actually. - Will you shut up?

- I was just saying... - Well don't.

Alright.

Alright, Edison, start the countdown.

Three, two, one.

G-three. Warning. Warning.

Communication beacon...

Turn now, Bran. Now!

G...

Warning.

Warning. Warning. Warning. Warning.

Warning. Warning. Warning.

No time for that, Bran.

Warning. Warning. G-five.

Warning. Warning. Warning.

- -

And that would have put a hole where your face is.

Warning. Warning.

You need to flip the ship now.

- Warning G-six. G-five. -

Impact on three.

- G-three. - Three, two, one.

Docking complete.

They won't grow, Bran. It's too cold.

I know... but poppies were her favorite.

Mine too.

There you are.

Are you sure you can spare this Henry?

- Got nothing to trade. - I know that, lass.

But the truth of the matter is there's not much demand for that anymore.

There's so few of us left.

So, if you can use it, you have it.

Maybe build myself a rocket and head through the gate.

- - That trip's a rich man's game.

You wouldn't be able to do it with just that.

I've heard of private Junkers offering cheap rates.

You look hungry. How are things at the farm?

Nothing's taking anymore.

Wait here.

Henry, I don't know what to say.

Your Dad would have done the same for my lot

if circumstances had been reversed.

Now you get home before the roads ice up, hm?

- Thank you. -

God bless.

You shouldn't have done that.

What?

Shown Jane the supplies that we found.

It's too dangerous.

My daughter used to say,

"No change happens without some sacrifice."

I know what she used to say, Henry, I was married to her.

Look what happened.

I need to protect Riley now.

The best way you can protect Riley

is by building a better world for her to live in.

Now, Ellen knew that. And you never did.

Human beings don't change.

Need to get out of here and head south

before Jane tells everyone about our stuff.

I thought you were heading north?

One of us will.

But not today.

What do you think it's like over there?

Warm.

That's what your mother used to think, anyway.

That's where we should have been planting Mum's flowers.

I know.

Do you think she'd be alive right now?

If we had left with everyone else?

Come down here. I wanna show you something.

At least the gravity drive's still working.

Oxygen levels are good, too.

Alright, buddy.

Can you show me the way to the med bay?

Let me just check my schematics for Rhean supply ships.

Yep, it's just as I thought.

I have no clue, seeing as how I have never

been on a Rhean supply ship and I'm not psychic.

You'll have to find it the old fashion way and look.

I'll go old-fashioned on your ass in a minute.

I'll let your charge go down

and then I'll just think for myself from now on.

Well, you thinking for yourself is why we're in this mess.

You sound like Riley.

- Bran? - Do me a favor and stop talking,

just in case we're not alone on this thing.

Maybe they'll be friendly?

Rheans never are.

Someone's killed them.

Another crew member?

Who knows?

I can understand Earthlings killing each other over an air scrubber,

but what excuse do these guys have?

You know, some Rheans believe that after 600 years

of growing up in less than Earth's gravity...

they don't qualify as human anymore.

They think they're better than us.

You all look the same to me.

We're nothing like them.

This could be interesting.

Just stay on alert.

Bingo.

Hm.

Bran, I detect some radiation in this compartment.

- Maybe it's from outside. - Maybe.

Move away or I shoot.

You speak Earther?

You killed my crew, why?

I just got here, it wasn't me.

Liar. We take supplies to the Earther stations

and this is how you show thanks? Earther scum.

What is wrong with your ship?

You damaged it.

Tell me what you did.

Wrong again. Your crew killed each other.

You must have missed it somehow.

Listen I have been eating freeze dried food

for the last eight years so if you're gonna kill me,

just get on with it. It'll save the authorities

doing it later anyway.

Yeah, I thought not.

- -

Don't die before we get to the med bay.

- Oh, I didn't know you cared. - Well, like you said, who'd charge my battery up?

Obviously, not me if I turn you off.

Oh, that was a good hit.

I thought you Rheans were supposed to have brittle bones?

Funny Earther making jokes.