On January 5, 20XX, a joint CIA and NASA operation held a classified five-person mission to study a wormhole developing near Pluto. Launching on the Zeta 11, the crew would consist of two experienced astronauts and three scientists. Of the professional astronauts was Captain Hallard. On October 1, 20XX, the team would arrive and confirm the structural and physical properties of the wormhole’s formerly theoretical existence. Mission Control ordered her to return to Saturn’s orbit and transfer the data. However, the Zeta 11’s trajectory algorithm malfunctioned due to space debris hitting the shuttle. As a result, Zeta 11 would be consumed by the wormhole, losing communications with mission control.

Two months later, Zeta 11 would be ejected from the wormhole. Shortly after, the wormhole would dissipate and disappear. An investigation team, already en route to the wormhole, would arrive in four months and recover the data, bodies, and shuttle of Zeta 11. However, there were no bodies on Zeta 11. On October 29, 20XX, Captain Hallard and Don Person, an aerospace engineer, would exit the shuttle and try to repair the Zeta 11. Footage from the ship’s exterior would capture Captain Hallard looking out at space and seeing what seemed to be stars. The final words the footage would capture before the crew’s unknown demise would be, “Captain, those aren’t stars….