Re: Milky Way Galaxy (Space Itself)
Nodding once, the channel cut, and a moment later the wormhole terminated. As the Al-Sora made her 'jump', Ayla would suddenly find herself seemingly no longer on board the ship. One moment she was, the next, she was in an area that was completely dark. A single white light, with a few other colors appeared, dancing around her for a few moments, and she might recognize it as a Salish Spirit, something never seen away from their own world. At least, until today.
Before she could attempt to communicate with it, something caught the corner of her eye, and came into view. It was a Stargate, but unlike any she had ever seen before. This one was a white like color, and it's chevron ring spun in place with the actual dialing mechanism. Clearly, this was a very different type of Stargate, one she'd never seen before. At the last moment it dawned on her that she was in the direct line of the wormhole, but before she could move, the vortex rushed out at her. Instead of obliterating her though, it passed through her as if she wasn't there, and the whoosh effect seemed significantly larger than she was accustomed to seeing. She also could see that something was out of place, and it took her a moment to realize what. Rather than seven or eight chevrons lit up, there were nine!
For a moment, everything seemed calm, and she might wonder what was going on. Then, from the gate a person, someone she didn't recognize was thrown from the gate, hitting the floor, but making no noise despite the fact she could see his mouth move. Behind him a box flew out of the gate, and about ten seconds later, one at a time more people and boxes flew out of the gate, some coming in faster than others. Then, she saw a face she recognized as she saw Elissia come flying through the gate, managing to avoid being slammed into the floor, and then dodging a large case that flew at her like it had been fired out of a cannon. By now people were coming in far too fast for her to see them all, until finally one final person came through. At first all she could see was a body come out of the gate, flames and what seemed to be an explosive shock wave propelling him at almost triple the speed the others had come through. He was launched clean across the area, which seemed suddenly to be like a room one would find in an Ancient facility. Hurling across the room at sickening speed, he slammed hard against the wall, before slamming to the floor, bone popping out of his left leg. As the body rolled over slightly from the force of the impact, Ayla could see who it was now.
The body lying on the floor belonged to Siphon, who seemed to be alive, but just barely. After a moment, the gate shut down, and she could see huge plumes of steam and flame erupt from under the Stargate, before suddenly the scene shifted.
The next scene showed some kind of data terminal, which showed a series of details regarding the fabric of space, yet it seemed off. It took a moment for Ayla to realize what she was seeing was a display, in Ancient. The display showed some kind of highlighted structure within the fabric of space sampled, and the ensuing data gave her a fair idea of what this was. She didn't need to know Ancient to understand that in this vision, she was seeing a cohesive structure embedded in the fabric of space that shouldn't have been possible.
Before she could see any more, the scene shifted again to show what seemed to be a first person view of a large Blue Giant Star. More pressing was the fact she seemed to be heading straight towards it, far faster than she'd have liked. Barely having time for any kind of reaction, she suddenly found herself within the star itself, but strangely not burning up. After an indeterminable amount of time, she exited on the other side of the star, and strangely felt like she was stronger for it. Several other visions hit her in rapid order, some seeming to involve alien planets, as well as looking at star constellations that were completely alien to her. None of them looked familiar at all, nor did the planets.
Finally, she found herself floating in empty space, a strange blueish glow heading in her direction. After a few moments, there was an explosion of light, similar to what she'd see from a ship exiting hyper-space, and then suddenly she saw IT.
A gigantic ship, arrow shaped in design cruised towards her. As it passed her by, she could see that it had been damaged, parts of the hull completely gone. The ship was huge, easily larger than a Wraith Hive ship, and clearly a very old ship. At the back of the ship was a massive engine, that seemed to take up almost the entire back end of the ship, and a large pyramid like structure near the back as well. She found herself standing on this pyramid, looking down and out over the vast ship, unable to even see the end of it from even this vantage point. Suddenly there was a surge, and she found the ship traveling at incredible speed, a misty like veil all around her.
Abruptly, the vision ended, and she found herself standing next to a peaceful creek, a old man standing not far from her who appeared to be a Native American from Earth. He regarded her for a moment, looking at her but saying nothing, as if waiting for her to recover and speak first.