By: IO

The phasing room was filled with antiques of great historical value, all waiting to be teleported to the space shuttle. The shuttle would then take the items to the main ship, Manifest Destiny, which would transport them further to the newly terraformed outer moon where the colony was setting up. Annette had asked about using the long-range teleport to get the items into a climate-controlled storage warehouse all set up on the planet but upper management said it was too expensive. Long-range teleport was for government leaders, industry tycoons, and other people important to the initiation of an intergalactic human settlement. Not “knick-knacks.” Only through the grace of some of these wealthy world-makers was a museum of original Earth culture to be established, as a luxury supplement to maintain links to human history. She was lucky to even receive the use of the short-range phaser.

Lucky was not how Annette would have described her present predicament. One early 20th century sculpture piece from Rodin was sitting on the teleport platform, twitching in and out of existence. Through her communication with preservationists awaiting the statue on the shuttle, she knew that it wasn’t making it to its designated terminus. It was phasing in and out of existence, full stop. 

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