SFTE Test Audio Log 4/28/2291

"This is test ship UNSC Gagarin to control."

"Gagarin, we read you loud and clear. Is your crew prepared and all precautions taken for the test?"

"Roger that control, all items are stowed and crew are secured. Give us the word, and we'll go."

"Understood Gagarin, but we have two men who want to speak to you."

"Tell them to make it quick, we're antsy to start."

"This is Doctor Tobias Shaw. Do you read me Gagarin?"

"Yes...yes sir, we read you loud and clear."

"I trust that all is well with your ship and the systems?"

"That would be correct sir, maybe some high heart rates, but we just want to get going. We're ready to put your invention to the test."

"I would not say it is my invetnion, I have only done the math behind the parameters for the jumps. My colleague Doctor Fujikawa is responsible for the principles behind the engine. I will hand him over to you now, but good luck gentlemen."

"Understood, thank you."

"This is Doctor Fujikawa, can you hear me?"

"Yes Doctor, we can hear you."

"Are you prepared to be the first men in history to make a slipspace jump?"

"Yes Doctor, we're ready."

"Good. Ganbatte kudasai gentlemen."

"Thank you."

"Control to Gagarin."

"Gagarin here."

"Gagarin, you are permitted to begin the first test of the Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine. Estimates say you will be out of the slipstream in two minutes, we expect for you to report immediately upon your dropping out."

"Will do, beginning test."

"All engines moving up to ninety five percent power as described."

"No anomalies?"

"Negative. Slipspace capacitors charging normally, will jump in two minutes."

"Roger. Report twenty seconds before jump takes place."

"Understood."

"This is Gagarin. Twenty seconds to jump, all systems nominal. Let's roll!"

"Ten seconds to jump."

"This is Control to Station Omega, Gagarin has disappeared from our scopes. In two minutes, we'll see if this invention works, prepare to receive transmission from them as soon as they drop out."

"Station Omega copies."

"This is Gagarin. We have dropped out of slipspace and are intact."

"Station Omega to Gagarin, we hear you loud and clear. It worked?"

"Damn right it did!"

"Station Omega to Control, Gagarin has exited the slip safely!"

"Copy that Station Omega! Gentlemen, it worked!"

"That is...amazing. It worked Wallace, it worked!"

"So it did. The possibilities are boundless now."

"Control to Gagarin, Doctors Shaw and Fujikawa send their regards. You've done it, now it's time to head back home."

"Roger that, Gagarin setting course for Earth. Tell the Doctors that they have opened a path to the stars for us all."