"Revenge"

* Back on the ship
* Finished orders from Exchange
* Imperium News Central breaks over ships comms
* An attempt on the life of Arbo was foiled and he was picked up by Imperial Navy. Details scarce.
* Imperator has taken ill and been taken to Washington Hospital. "Unkown Illness"
* Neuro-Cosmologist Galadan Lazarus officially declared missing.
* Xanthus claims a lot of his kind has been killed due to an asteroid explosion.
* Xanthus says his wife is missing.
* Steele mentions that they have the Imperium at their disposal due to their position.
* Asks Xanthus to contact Imperium members in the area and to look for his wife.
* Xanthus says if they come across a transport, he's going to take it back home.
* While tinkering, Steele hears tapping on the hull of the ship.
* After telling the LR.CMDR to pull the ship from slipspace, Steele heads to the hull
* Sees 8 small blue creatures ripping into the ship
* Telling Elisa about creatures over comms, she calls them Slipspace Rasps.
* They live in Slipspace and ravage ships energy sources if they travel too long.
* Steele shoots one in the ear and they charge him.
* He calls for backup as the beings shoot strange beams of light into Steele.
* The beams of light use up all of Steeles Tech Points and cause his omni-tool to malfunction.
* After Ingrid kills some of the Rasps, they tear into the hull and begin activating the ships shield with their beams.
* Shields push Steele and Mia off the ship and cause them to begin floating in space.
* Mia casts something on Steele.
* Ingrid and Xanthus deal with remaining Rasps on their own.
* Steele asks Elisa to position the ship so that he and Mia will land back on the hull.
* Steele and Mia repair hull breaks.
* Steele and Mia take some bodies of Rasps for autposies/experiments.
* Steele asks people not to bother him for a while while he figures out what do with bodies.
* After some time, Xanthus decides to watch as Steele works on the bodies.
* Steele finds out that the Rasps powers are fully biological.
* He decides to rendevous with Mia to share info and figure out more.
* They have specific organs to feed on energy.
* They are capable of draining, expelling and changing energy.
* Steele slowly begins to make plans on how to transform this technique into a mechanical device.
* After some rest for a night, the ship is suddenly taken by a high pitched ringing.
* Azaria shows that it's The Signal and it's amplified. 
* Galactic Communications are down.
* Azaria says this is the next stage and suppresses the sound.
* Xanthus says he got small bursts of communication from his wife.
* She's been taken hostage nearby somehow.
* Azaria says the signal comes from a Class-Y planet. A death planet.
* Steele thinks it's a trap, but thinks it's worth a look at least.
* Team have to use Enviro-Suits.
* Land on planet and it's very rocky and is a barren wasteland.
* Very atmosphere is irradiated, but they see an artificial structure in distance.
* Walking through radiation storm, they enter air-lock of structure.
* Crew is disinfected before being let in.
* Room has terminals and looks fairly lived in, but no one currently there.
* Xanthus charges through a locked door into a research lab.
* Him and Mia find Xanthus' wife.
* Steele and Ingrid watch as she runs through the door into the main room.
* She seems terrified of everyone.
* The moment Xanthus touches her, she melts into a Zhintuk.
* An ethereal blackness shakes the room and causes people to lose footing.
* The Zhintuk is angry about his tool being disposed of by them.
* His tool was Kindreth.
* He's been tracking them.
* He is a death slinger.
* He asks who killed Kindreth and Steele claims it was him.
* The Death Slingers walking stick turns into a shadowed sword.
* The fight begins.
* Thruz, the Zhintuk, forms a black energy that hits each of the crew and it shows cracks into the walls of the room.
* Mid-Battle, Steele is inflicted by multiple necrotic wounds.
* Realizing he's about to die, he pulls a final card from The Deck of Many Things.
* It is The Fool. Steele forgets everything from the past year.
* Now a Steele who hasn't fought through the many battles of TASKFORCE, he teleports away, hoping for help.
* He is confused and pulls a card from the strange deck and pulls The World.
* He suddenly knows he can rewind time for himself by an entire day.
* He does so and is suddenly back on the ISS. BURAN
* Everyone is suddenly back as well. He remembers everything.
* He is back to when he and Mia are experimenting on Rasps.
* Overrun by the memories of what happened and his near-death, Steele stumbles to his room to drink himself asleep.
* He watches as everything happens again involving the signal.
* The moment he hears about Xanthus saying his wife has been kidnapped, he rushes for the bridge.
* Steele has Elisa move above the The Death Planet.
* He has the guns let loose their weapons onto the complex.
* Steele tells the crew of the Deathslinger named Thruz and what happened.
* Suddenly, Elisa and Steele get a number 1 and 2 on their wrists, which begin necrotising.
* The Burans engines begin exploding.
* Steele evacuates the oxygen in the ship.
* A large 3 begins on the ships systems which lock him out.
* Everyone on the ship hits the escape-pods and watch the BURAN explode from space.
* The pods land on The Death Planet.