[h1][u]Kriptoid Stellar Union[/u][/h1][h3]Kriptoid home system[/h3]
On the second moon of the fourth planet from the star, a research base sat on the barren surface overlooked by a brown gas giant.  Having grown to the size of a small city in the century since it was founded, the Zaxoid runs research station had become one of the largest colonies to be founded on an inhospitable world.  It had a few transparent bio-domes connected by passages and tall pressurized buildings towered over them, many passages wove between the debris which was scattered around the site and provided easy transport between the 5 ancient crashed Zaxoid ships.

Inside the base tens of thousands of Kriptoids lived and worked to maintain the colony and investigate the debris.  The colony administrator sat in his office when suddenly one of the scientists burst in.  "At least knock." says the admin, seeming rather annoyed.  Short of breath from running there so fast, the scientists says "No time, this is big."  The admin's curiosity was peaked but before he could ask for clarification the scientist continued, "One of the Zaxoid wormhole beacons has detected something.  Well, more than one thing.  Multiple radio transmissions and space distortions."  The admin began to look annoyed again as he said "We've investigated those before, they are usually just black holes or pulsars." "I know, " the scientist says, "but none of them have been anything like this."  The admin puts down his papers and says "Go on..."

[h3]Military shipyard, low Kiram orbit[/h3]

Amix floated through his bioship which he named Calis, doing a few routine checks and talking to the ship a bit in what seems like a very one sided conversation.  The interior was completely filled with water and lit with bioluminescent lights, and although there were some metallic components around the place most of the walls were very fleshy.  The communications officer swims up to him and begins speaking, "Commander, we have-".  Amix is startled causing him to emit a small electrical shock.  "Sorry commander, but this is important." the comms officer continues, "We have a direct communication from the capital, from the Guardian herself.  She wants to talk to you in person."  Amix stops what he is doing and darts over to the bridge where there is an open comm channel.  "Kana, this is certainly a surprise." he says.  Kana replies "Commander Amix, I have a mission for you.  Recently some crazy stuff has been detected by a Zaxoid wormhole beacon, it is sending back a lot of interesting data.  Either it's aliens or a crazy anomaly unlike anything we have ever seen, either way I need your fleet to check it out.  Set a course for the Kiram wormhole station."

"Roger that, mission accepted." replies Amix as he slips into the captain seat and ends the call.  "You heard her Calis, plot a course to the wormhole station." he says, talking to his ship.  Within the ship's nervous system it quickly calculates an efficient trajectory using it's instinctual understanding of orbital mechanics.  The crew is instructed to get the ship ready for departure, the 500 meter long ship warms up it's thermonuclear engines and releases the docking clamps.  Before long it begins the transfer burn.

[h3]Zaxoid wormhole station, high Kiram orbit[/h3]

An asteroid with a strange looking machine built into it orbited high above Kiram, and a fleet began to assemble near it.  When Amix's ship arrived there was already a small science vessel waiting nearby, being another bioship much smaller than the Calis.  The capital called both ships again for a briefing given by Kana herself.  "The wormhole station is being prepared now.  We have no idea what is on the other side, and although you should always be prepared for alien contact it is more likely then usual this time.  Crew of the science ship Yenix, your job is to collect data and stay out of trouble.  Crew of the Calis, you are to initiate diplomacy if needed and defend the Yenix.  Amix will be the fleet admiral.  Any questions?"

Everyone stayed relatively silent.  The mission was pretty strait forward, but the suspense seemed to permeate the water around them.  Another voice came onto the comms from the wormhole station on the asteroid, "Destination locked, singularity reactor online, we are ready to engage.  Clear the business end of this thing."  The two bioships backed away as the radiators on the wormhole generator began to glow a bright red.

At first nothing much seemed to happen but soon noticeable gravity waves began coming from the device, getting stronger and stronger.  There was a gravity well for half a second followed by a negative gravity well, pulling the ships in a bit and then pushing them away over and over.  Soon they were so strong that they started bending light around a small area in front of the wormhole generator.  Suddenly the gravity well shot up stronger than before and stayed that way, in the center of it was what looked like a sphere, and light came through it revealing different constellations.  They were much denser than those near Kiram, as one would expect from being near the center of the galaxy.  The wormhole had been opened.

The two ships fall into the wormhole under it's gravity well, with gravitational forces getting so strong that they would easily be fatal if not for the crew floating neutrally buoyant in saltwater.  Once inside things began to get rather weird, going through a tunnel of space shaped like a 4D cylinder caused ghost images of the ships to appear, being distorted by the strange spacial curvature.  Light and even normal matter could move right, left, up , or down only to end up where it started.  It only lasted about a minute before the ships shoot out from the other end of the wormhole at escape velocity.

[h3]Aurora system, interplanetary space near a strange asteroid with machinery built into it[/h3]

As the wormhole snaps shut behind them the science ship Yanix immediately begins scanning the area.  Before long they discover an interesting planet, a desert world with a few sparse oceans.  It seems to be the source of all the strange signals, and under continuous acceleration they could get there in just a couple hours.  The two ships set their course for Aurora to get a closer look.

(By the way, all communication is done by emitting electrical pulses picked up by the electroception sense in Kriptoids.  I have just been portraying it as speech to make things easier.  Even telecommunications and intercom systems do this, being among the few electrical devices to be widely used by Kriptoids.)