User:Brian Kurtz/Sandbox

In CY 10087, a Nightsider named Gerentex hired a team of mercenaries and the crew of the salvage ship Eureka Maru to locate the legendary lost High Guard ship, The Andromeda Ascendant. The Maru 's captain, Beka Valentine and her crew, Seamus Harper, Trance Gemini and Rev Bem located the Andromeda and pulled it away from the black hole. Once the ship was safely away from the singularity, the time dilation effect disappeared and Dylan returned to normal. Andromeda 's artificial intelligence (which Dylan nicknamed "Rommie") had the misfortune of telling him that more than three-hundred years had passed. Dylan was devastated.

He had little time to consider his loss however as he now had to deal with the mercenaries and Beka's crew boarding his ship. Using guerila tactics, Dylan managed to incapacitate most of them. Beka, Seamus, Trance and Rev were surprised to find someone alive on board the ancient ship. Along with the Nietzschean mercenary Tyr Anasazi, the crew of the Maru decided to betray Gerentex and side with Dylan. Gerentex was defeated and Dylan set him adrift in an escape pod.

Though the immediate danger was past, Dylan now faced a new challenge. He was alone in a strange new world in which the Systems Commonwealth no longer existed. Determined to rebuild the glory of the Commonwealth, he offered Beka, Seamus, Rev and Tyr the chance to become a part of his crew. Though they initially scoffed at Dylan's seemingly mad crusade at rebuilding an entire civilization single-handedly, the prospect of doing something important with their lives appealed to them. They all agreed to join with him and embarked upon what would prove to be the greatest adventure of their lives.