Asteroids

This is from Universe 1

Description of Events
Previous Incident: Chicken Runner

Next Incident: Paradise Lost

When the Blue Dwarf departed from the Proxima Orbital Poultry Factory, they followed the heading for the Red Dwarf that Frank Harris obtained when he traided Lenny Ming to the mercenaries. On their way, they accidentally enter an asteroid field. They cut the engines for fear of flying straight into an asteroid.

The crew pick-up a distress signal coming from inside the asteroid field. Jason Smegg and Kieran Loes take a Starbug into the asteroid field to track down and locate the source of the distress call. Jason invents a weapon he calls a Gaussian Shotgun, which he attaches to the outer hull of Starbug. All thought it backfires at first, it does eventually work. It destroys an asteroid and reveals an green orb inside, the source of the distress call.

Meanwhile, Steev MAckEnzyyyyyyy is struck by a beam when an asteroid collides with the ship. When he wakes up, he finds himself to be a competent, over-eager engineer. In his over eagerness to find something to repair, he destroys the piping network. This cuts the power across the ship and plunges the ship into darkness.

While the back-up power comes on, a ship approaches the Blue Dwarf. It doesn't appear on any sensors or radar, and only the black shape can be seen on screen. It scans the ship with a red light and then disappears again. Steev then manages to get the power back on-line, and promptly loses his abilities.

Jason and Kieran return with the probe on board and the science team sets to work analysing it. It would take a few days before any meaningful results can be produced, so the ship stays in a safer area of the asteroid field but remains trapped.

Niples organises volunteers to use Jason's Gaussian Shotgun to go out and clear the path for the Dwarf, although they are few and far between. In fact, only one person does eventually volunteer, Kayn Andrew Bestrom.

The probe is decoded, although the message comes out as a loud high-pitched scream. The science team are sure that it translates to talking about a great blackness coming for the population of a planet. With the press of a button, the probe opens up and displays a hologram of a solar system and a lush green planet. Niples orders for them to plot a course to it.

Except, the probe is over 600 years old.

Kayn flies out on the Starbug and, despite all odds, manages to clear a path through the asteroids. But he accidentally collides with the Dwarf and crashes on an asteroid. The Blue Dwarf leaves him behind.

''Note: The events of Back from the future, No aliens? and the first part of Kayn joins that asteroid shooting team and farsees his future are non-canon. ''