You immediately activate the retro thrusters, diverting all power to your ship's emergency engines to give maximum chance to escape the incredible pull of Quasar Alpha before it is too late. At first the ship begins to turn around, giving you some hope to break out of the lock into the singularity of the black hole. But then suddenly the entire cabin lurches forward, yanking you up from your seat against the belts hholding you tight over your shoulders, and a sickening scraping sound can be felt, emanating from what seems like every metal surface of the ship. It sounds like the ship is grinding itself apart as the force from the powerful super giant black hole competes with the emergency thrusters. Unfortunately, this is a fight that your thrusters cannot win, and your ship completes its spin forwards and begins to tumble, over and over again in the air as it hurtles towards the center of the black hole. You quickly realize that there is no way to avoid the pull of Quasar Alpha, but your ship bounces violently around at what seems like hundrds of revolutions per minute, and before long all the jostling and extreme pressure on the ship cause you to black out. You drift into unconsciousness with only the desperate hope in your mind that you might survive the trip through the ICT, even with your ship this unstable and unsteady heading into the tunnels, and that someone on the other side might be able to help you to repair your ship.


When you awake some time later, your head hurts badly, and it takes a few moments to remember where you are, and what happened to your ship. Your ship! As far as you can tell, you are not in it. What happened to your ship? And where are you?
You look down and realize you are hovering over a table that looks like glass, but which has countless dials and measurements on it, some of which you recognize and many you do not, and from the looks of some of the connections between the table and various parts of your body, you assume that you are in some sort of medical chamber. Could someone have found your ship after entry into the ICT and tried to nurse you back to health? And again, where is your ship?

Do you want to call out, to try to find who has put you here?

OR

Do you try to get up and explore your surroundings on your own without alerting anyone?