Collision Earth

---

Prepare Nautilus

for orbit capture.

Orbit capture trajectory confirmed.

Engage main thrusters.

Disengaging artificial gravity

for Mercury approach.

Someone forget

to secure their tablet?

Oh.

Remind me to fire the maid.

Approaching coordinates.

- Awaiting manual override.

- All right, Natalie.

Manual flight

controls engaged.

We're going in.

Warning, solar event detected.

What's happening?

We have an electromagnetic

radiation spike, a big one.

- Are we within safe levels?

- So far.

- Lee, stay on course.

- Entering orbit in 20 seconds.

Warning...

- radiation shields activated.

- What the hell was that?

Radiation levels

are spiking off the charts.

Abort orbit capture.

- Lee, get us out of here.

- Roger that.

Engaging artificial gravity.

Alarm,

- system failure.

- Everything is spiking.

- Heat, magnetics...

- Magnetics, that can't be.

- Are you sure?

- That's what I'm reading.

- Increase thrusters to maximum.

- Come on, darlin'.

Hang in there.

Warning,

radiation levels at maximum.

My God.

Alarm, system failure.

Damage report!

System failures across the board.

I can't hold anything online.

Alarm, system failure.

- Losing power to engines.

- Victoria, check out backup systems.

I'm on it.

There's a fire in the comm.

Warning,

engine power critical.

Come on.

No!

Chaos.

Destruction.

Unpredictability.

Our universe...

is a dangerous place.

In our solar system,

there are over

a thousand asteroids

and comets

that are classified

as threatening to hit the earth.

But you should also know

that those are just the ones

we know about.

Just last year,

an asteroid

200 feet in diameter

passed within

40,000 miles of us.

Now in planetary terms,

that is like, uh...

it's like someone

shooting at you

and having a bullet

part your hair

without touching your skin.

Now, if it had hit us,

it would have exploded

with the force of a hydrogen bomb.

Do you know how much

advance warning we had?

Three days.

The good news is,

we have the technology

to deflect these objects.

It's called Project 7.

The most advanced,

most powerful,

most ambitious planetary

defense system

ever conceived.

It's equipped

with an energy field

that allows it to deflect objects

many times its size.

The bad news?

There's always bad news.

Our government pulled funding

from Project 7

just before it came online.

So right now

it floats dormant in space.

The earth's been struck before,

it'll be struck again.

The only question

is whether

we're gonna be ready.

Do your part

in protecting the planet.

Write to your congressman,

tell your friends.

Spread the word.

Our lives may depend on it.

We need Project 7.

You.

You need Project 7.

Thank you very much.

Dr. Preston, Brad Walker.

Your liaison officer

with Mission Ops.

Can I speak with you

for a moment?

- Yeah.

- As you know, it is our policy

to, uh, notify

family members immediately

of any situation involving

the mission that may arise.

- I know the protocol.

- Now, I've been sent here

to make sure you don't hear

anything through the media

that may make you worry

unnecessarily.

Now, having said that, um,

early this morning, we did

lose contact with the Nautilus.

Dr. Preston.

Dr. Preston, wait.

Dr. Preston.

Come on, pick up.

We're sorry,

your call cannot

be completed as dialed.

Please check the number

and dial again...

- Damn it!

... or call your oper...

Okay.

All right.

- Hello?

- Hey, it's James.

I can't talk to you.

I'm at work.

- If Edward finds out...

- I'm worried about Victoria.

Today was orbit capture.

They lost contact with the Nautilus.

I can't reach Mission Ops.

Do you know anything?

I don't, but Houston

doesn't call the military

every time they have a glitch.

You know that.

It's probably nothing.

I'm sure Victoria's fine.

I know you have eyes in the sky.

Just check it out for me, okay?

Call me back

if you find anything.

You know I can't talk to you

about this stuff.

Edward doesn't even like

that we're friends.

- What the hell?

- What?

Jennifer, did SPEAR

just activate Project 7?

What are you talking about?

It's dead.

It's been dead for three years.

Oh, uh, it's sending me data.

It's sending data to you?

If Edward finds out that

you've been monitoring it,

he'll throw you in jail so fast

that you won't know...

Okay, uh, something weird

is happening.

Project 7

is picking up a strange...

Hello?

Hello?

Okay.

Oh, that's impossible.

- Status report.

- The EM wave knocked out

virtually every civilian satellite

and most government ones as well.

We're the only major agency

fully functioning right now.

- But that's not our only problem.

- Three sets of images,

all pulled from

the deep-sky orbital telescope

before it went down

completely.

These were all taken

only five minutes apart.

What's that spot?

That spot, sir,

- is Mercury.

- That can't be right.

- That would mean that...

- Mercury's on the move.

- How's that possible?

- We don't have all the data yet.

We still don't know.

Figure out where it's headed.

I want to know if that thing

is coming anywhere near us.

We're already on it.

Marshall?

Oh, thank God.

Breathe.

Check Lee.

Go, I'll take care of Lee.

Mercury will miss the Earth

by a distance of 500,000 miles.

Roughly twice as far away

as the moon.

- That's not good.

- Exactly.

Even at that distance,

its gravitational field

will wreak havoc.

Extreme tides,

electrical disturbances at a minimum.

Well, our primary concern at this point

has gotta be the political fallout.

Put our defense systems

on high alert.

I've also had Michelle working

to get in touch with the Nautilus,

but we haven't had

any success.

Nautilus is the least

of our concerns at this point.

But they were right there.

If the Nautilus

did manage to pull through,

they may be able

to fill in the blanks.

Fine, but you keep

James Preston out of it.

Yes, sir.

We are continuing

to receive some frantic reports

of massive power failures

around the world.

Global communications

continue to be affected,

as most satellites

seem to be off-line.

All air transportation

is being grounded until further notice.

We'll continue to bring you

details as they develop.

Oh man.

I've normalized our oxygen levels,

but most of our systems are damaged.

Communication is down,

as is navigation.

Right.

What the hell hit us?

It seemed like a solar flare,

but it was massive.

All of the energy readings

are wrong.

Well, we'll have to worry

about that later.

Right now we've got

bigger problems.

I've managed

to stabilize us.

Do what you can with communication.

I'll work on navigation.

Okay.

We need to figure out

where the hell we are.

- Hey.

- Hey.

Check it out.

A little Sumatra blend.

You want some?

I need you to take a look

at this, okay?

It's about Victoria.

Something happened up there

and I need to know how

it's gonna affect the Nautilus.

Well, it was a massive solar flare

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes