Chapter Twenty-One: Missing Link

Tonight we continue with Part Four, Heroes and Scapegoats.  The decision to transfer Young-Min Jo to the Matter Pod section pays dividends almost immediately.  Within months of reporting to duty he detects one of the devices is mysteriously out of place.  Were this to go unnoticed, Captain Stehter and the rest of the crew would have had no idea why Nautilus was not awaiting their arrival at the rendezvous point in September 2106. 

It has even more dire implications for the overall success of their mission however; especially in regard to their counterparts likely speeding toward them from Kapteyn B.  Worst case scenario, the captain and crew of Santa Maria will be forced to continue toward Earth for the next ten years.  But that's a far better fate than their unfortunate colleagues onboard Nautilus.  Those poor souls might very well find themselves lost in space.