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While hiding in an asteroid field from the scans of Captain Crais' enormous Command Carrier, Moya was forced to shut down nearly all her systems to avoid producing any noticeable energy signatures. Though the Command Carrier seemed unable to detect us amid the debris, we had no navigational aids with which to negotiate the dense field ourselves. When Moya received a muted distress signal originating on a small planetoid floating nearby, we decided to respond, hoping that whoever sent the signal could lead us out of the asteroid field and away from the Peacekeepers.

Crichton, D'Argo, Zhaan, and Aeryn chose to investigate. I requested that Officer Sun stay behind, however, to use her knowledge of Peacekeeper technology to assist Moya with the ship's unusually strained bonding process with her newborn child, a Peacekeeper-Leviathan hybrid.

The investigating team discovered that the planetoid, which they dubbed the Botany Asteroid, was covered with all manner of vegetation but seemed almost entirely devoid of animal life. In fact, the only two examples of fauna they encountered were M'Lee, the female who'd sent the distress message, and a large beast that was attempting to kill her. They quickly saved M'Lee, who revealed that her entire family had been massacred by this violent creature.

Aeryn, meanwhile, was boarding Moya's baby, whose PK lineage put the infant ship's allegiances into question. With PK scanner sweeps constantly washing over him, we wanted to ensure that the newborn wouldn't give away our position to Crais. Officer Sun seemed to develop a strong rapport with the baby, but it remained unclear whether that would be enough to convince him that Moya and her crew, and not the nearby Peacekeepers, were his real friends.

On the Botany Asteroid, the investigating team were discovering that the situation was not as simple as M'Lee had led them to believe. The beast that had been terrorizing her was actually a botanist named Br'nee. He claimed that M'Lee was the real monster and had murdered his family and eaten their bones. Crichton and the team couldn't tell who needed to be rescued from whom. But they were sure of one thing: Something had killed all the fauna on the asteroid, and it would undoubtedly kill them, as well, if they didn't uncover the truth very, very soon.