"The Morag do not answer questions from Humans, we want all your computer data on this part of space!"

"NO I don't think so." Egals said.

"You will give us the data or we will kill the whole crew, you have 20 of your Earth minutes to decide!"

Egals turned from the monitor to his Bridge crew, "Lets get this bucket battle ready

and get me a coffee!" Egals ordered.

The whole crew began to work franticly, Egals set off on his treacherous journey down to the Engineering Section of the ship. On the way down to Engineering, Egals could see the damage to his vessel caused by the Morag ship. In Engineering Prakar was ordering the repair crews to work.

"How's it going Tom?" Egals asked.

"The main Energisers are shot and the anti-grav units is working overtime, engines are currently unavailable, main power's down, we hull breaches on decks 1 through 5 but apart from that we have 4 operating Taser Cannons and if we are lucky we will have a few shots with the Pulse Laser!"

"That will have to do, estimated time for repair!" Egals said.

"Well. In a space dock six weeks!" Prakar gave a short-lived smile.

The Morag ship still turned in the darkness of space, the Bridge of the Research Cruiser was still bustling with activity.

"Krane! Target what weapons we have on that vessel, wait for my command!" Egals straightened his uniform and wiped his face.

The Morag commander was back on the screen within twenty minutes.

"Give us what we want!" the Morag boomed.

"I have decided to give you the data you want and with my order, we will transmit it to you...NOW!" Egals shouted.

The Cruiser opened fire on the Morag craft, it was hit several times before it turned and vanished, as it did a sudden force hit the ship,

"What the hell's that!" Egals shouted.

"It looks like a temporal rift!" Threal answered.

"What?" Egals questioned.

"A tear in the space time continuum, or in layman's terms we're in trouble!" Threal said with authority.

"Great that's all we need!" Egals muttered, "So what shall we do about it?"

"Well we are already in it's gravitational pull, unless we escape now we will be lost for ever!" Threal said calmly.

The ship shook just like before, Egals dived into the pilot's chair and took the controls and the ship stabilized.

"I want suggestions on how to get out of this!" Egals said as he turned around to face his Bridge crew.

"Well, Captain, in theory if we accelerate to full speed straight into the rift and then pull up at the last minute we will should in theory break free from the gravitational pull, due to the fact that our momentum with be greater than the attraction towards the rift!" Threal explained to the Captain.

"It sounds like none of these theories have been tested!" Egals rubbed his scalp

"As I said Captain it is only a..."

"Theory, yeah I understand!" Egals cut in, "Start work immediately!"

Threal and Krane started to work on the figures, they worked with skill and speed and soon the computer was ready,

"All we have to do is set the autopilot and it will do all the work for us." Krane said with confidence.

"Lets get on with it." Egals ordered.

All control or the ship was handed over to the computer but as it was the ship shook violently again. Explosions could be heard from all over the ship,

"Sir we have lost all control of computer functions and....!"