- Beka Valentine: Any sign of the Maru?
- Andromeda Ascendant: A few hull fragments and missile vapour. Not enough to imply she was destroyed.
- Beka Valentine: Okay, so the Maru arrived early, tangled with some unidentified bad guys, which begs the question...
- Trance Gemini: Where's Dylan? Where's our crew?
- Beka Valentine: Where's my ship?
- Nadya Ratamsky: Attention, unknown lifeforms: we don't want any trouble, so do us all a favor and don't make any. Stand by to receive our contact team.
- Seamus Harper: Well, all right then, Mr. No Guns, what's the plan?
- Captain Dylan Hunt: Let them in, and now we do what unknown lifeforms are supposed to do in situations like this: tell them, "We come in peace; take us to your leader."
- Captain Fehdman Metis: Three hundred years, trapped near the event horizon of a black hole. That's astounding, like something out of a science fiction novel.
- Captain Dylan Hunt: Well, it was a quick read. One minute I was engaged with ten thousand enemy ships, next minute, three centuries went by.
- Captain Fehdman Metis: And having discovered that your civilization had fallen apart, you tried to put Humpty Dumpty together again without the king's horses and none of his men.
- Captain Dylan Hunt: Something like that, yes.
- Rommie: Dylan won't rest until he's back with his ship, and you'll pay the consequences if you stand in the way of a solution. You can take that as a warning.
- Captain Fehdman Metis: A warning.
- Rommie: Dylan is a remarkable man. He has a way of knowing what he has and what he doesn't have, and how to make the most of it, but he's not a superman. The last time the universe passed him by, civilization fell.
- Captain Fehdman Metis: And he's afraid that it will happen again.
- Rommie: Only this time, it will be worse, because this time, he'll know what's happening around him, without him.
- Captain Fehdman Metis: Get off my bridge, now.
- Nadya Ratamsky: Don't you get it? Your mission is over. Dead. There's no home for us to go back to. No one will give a damn what we've seen or done. It doesn't mean a thing. And you want to keep roaming the stars in this obsolete piece of junk with all of us as your prisoners.
- Captain Fehdman Metis: You were never my prisoner.
- Nadya Ratamsky: What choice did you give us? What choice did we ever have?
- Captain Fehdman Metis: Only the ones that you've already made. One god, one captain. Dismissed.
- Seamus Harper: Well, the sunlight engines are still fine. We could always try the trip in normal space. I mean, it may take a while, but if we start out now...
- Captain Dylan Hunt: If we start right now, we'll make it to the first known world in time to meet Beka's great-great-great-grandchild.
- Seamus Harper: Just how far out are we?
- Captain Dylan Hunt: Trying to shake the Ogami took us clear off the star charts. We're not exactly in the middle of nowhere, but you can see it from here.
- Captain Fehdman Metis: [sings] 'With cutlass and gun, With cutlass and gun, O we fought for hours three; Blow high! Blow low! And so sailed we. The ship it was their coffin And their grave it was the sea A-sailing down along The coast of High Barbary'