Our crew was assigned the ship “Khudkoshi”. During training, there were a few issues. This was not unexpected, since our “crimi-nauts” had never experienced modern space vessel technology, much less the physical demands of getting to and living in space. The crew was designated as backup to one of the three primary crews targeting the anomaly. After picking up the nuclear warhead at a space station, they move into position, but suddenly, the “Aatmaghaatee”, the sixth ship (targeted to go through the anomaly), careened out of control.
Our pilot “Wash” managed to avoid a direct impact from the Aatmaghatee, but unfortunately, the least useful “shooter” crew member wasn’t able to maintain his position and fell HARD into the pilot causing the Khudkoshi to swerve out of its path and they went through the anomaly! The spaghettification of the crew and ship was extremely painful and in at least one case (looking at you Jack Shift), it was life threatening!
After drifting out of control for awhile on the other side of the anomaly, they got healed up and then realized the ships on the “Sol” side of the anomaly, either did not get their warheads off, or it failed to break up the anomaly. The crew then decided to complete the mission of disrupting the anomaly from the back side. Again, the least useful “shooter” decided to not take his very best shot…just happy with close enough (probably why he was a terrible criminal). So, the crew does not know if their attempt was successful or not.
Now they are trapped on this side of the anomaly, and after the nuke went off they immediately started to pick up a signal from somewhere relatively close by. Being that they have no extra food, water, or fuel, they decided to get as close to where that signal came from as possible. They found a planet that seemed pretty low tech, even though there was evidence that the inhabitants had at least as much tech as Earth. They landed where indicated and then the crew saw their first aliens…