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They where all lying sedated in the suspension capsules while their ship
travelled at near light speed through the empty void between the stars.
Nothing moved in the interior of that great vessel except a few lights on
the main control panels. They had left Earth nearly 200 years ago, as time
passed there, but because of the nature of light speed travel only a few
weeks had passed for the three girls. They had embarked on their long
journey to escape certain enemies that had wanted them dead at all costs;
enemies that should now be long dead. They were returning to what had once
been their home but which they knew would have changed as to maybe be
unrecognizable to them now. The ship computer had scanned the radio
traffic radiating from the Sol system and decided that the best place to
stop would be a newly built space station in the outer rim of the system,
named Babylon 5.
The three girls in the suspension capsules where all identical to each
other. In zero gravity their long red hair floated around their heads like
a halo. They were bound with safety straps, their arms crossed over their
chests, except for the leftmost girl who had somehow come undone and was
floating freely inside her capsule. Her bare legs were rubbing gently
against the cold glass of capsules front and her left hand had gotten
entangled in the long strands of her hair. Suddenly the ship shock and
shuddered. A great roar begun deep in the bowels of the ship. The computer
had activated the G-engines to begin deceleration. Everything in the ships
compartments lunged forwards by the sudden force but was held in place
with safety straps or supra-glue; everything except for the girl who had
come loose from her bonds. She flew into the capsules glass with such
force that it shattered and let the girl fly across the compartment in a
spray of shards. This was actually exactly as it should be. The engineers
designing the ship knew to prepare for all imaginable accidents and, even
though the safety straps should be 100% failsafe, the glass had been made
to brake so that the person inside would not be seriously injured if they
were thrown against it with great force. The structure of the glass was
such that it would
not brake into sharp shards but into small cubical pieces with little
danger of cutting someone.
The still sedated girl landed in a great air cushion in the wall opposite
of her capsule. There she laid among little pieces of glass until the
sedation wore off after an hour outside the capsule.
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