“Ummm… Okay, Europa II, copy that.”

The light bathed the chamber in its glow for a moment, but that was it. Armelina remained in place. After an awkward second, she threw up her arms baffled looking towards the control center. There where a small, ill-boding commotion was already beginning to stir.

Right after the reddish light went out, the teletechnicians huddled together over the readings from the equipment trying to figure out what went wrong.

The theoretical physicists however turned towards the cameras aboard the Europa II, hoping against the improbable. The moment Armelina of Earth took her first step out of the chamber, her voice, from across the far end of the solar system, froze them al