Doctor Jorge Ortega works in his cloning slaughterhouse, at a installation in some location on planet Malta. This time a woman, a bounty hunter pilot, is on the surgery room. She was pregnant. Mary DeVille was her name, a famous bounty hunter pilot from the core of Omega 56. The born of her baby was a success, but it will not belong to her. Doctor Ortega just extracted the genetic codes of such awesome pilot for his research. And the baby, he will keep for his future experiments.
She was being transported in a dromedary freighter, and with her there was a package. The pilot of the dromedary, also a bounty hunter, was sold on the slave trade, and the package was sent to dom Emilio Cortez, who showed it to dom Henrique de Medici. However, another bounty hunter came into rescue of Mary, his name was Joseph Marshall. He passed the security of the Medici villa and retrieved the package during the meeting of the two doms. A fierce ground battle happened, but the bounty hunter escaped with his friends, who covered him outside of the villa.
Word was sent, again, to Andre Moire, as the Phalanx was called for a new mission, to retrieve this package for the outcasts at all costs, as was something very important for the doms. The bounty hunter was tracked to Hudson, and the Perseus was sent there, intercepting it near the rogue base. The mission was a succcess.
Moire was curious about the package, although the orders from the doms were not to open it. However, Raphael Thames, the intelligence officer of the Perseus, opened the little box and found inside it a chip, with a code, and analysed it.
Raphael Thames: This codeits for opening the hypergate in the uncharted territory.
Henry Scuttari: Hows possible?
Veronica: The bounty hunters are always after nomads in the rim systems, they probably found this code in one of their ships.
Raphael: But what they dont known...is that this code is for activating that hypergate.
Oshima: And why do you think its for activating that thing?
Raphael: The patterns are very alien in design.
Oshima: Yeah, but there are other hypergates located somewhere.
Raphael: Im just supposing
Oshima: Yeah, yeah, you are just supposing. I suppose that the doms will not like that you had opened this box.
Henry: They have scrict orders to not open it, Raphael. But this can have some usethe doms dont known about this gate, and also the bounty hunters.
Veronica: Are you thinking in trying to open it?
Oshima: We found this gate by accident, and its in a uncharted territory, very far from Beaumont and much more from planet Houston. Its just a old piece of alien technology.
Henry: But who known what is on the other side?
Oshima: Oh no, you are not thinking on doing that, are you?
Henry smiles: Full power to engines. Lets go to the hypergate, guys.
Oshima: But the doms
Henry: The doms can wait.
Comm ID: Andre Moire, main office, base UB-4, planet California Minor.
To: admiral Nicholas Volsung
I have bad news. I lost signal of the Perseus some minutes ago. It was on the Texas system. I tried to contact Henry and his crew but Ive got no response. They were with a package that was retrieved from the bounty hunters, I dont known what is in it. I order you to move your ship to Texas.
