The Hab is a bleak and putrid labyrinth, reeking of decay and filth. As Doctor Zarkov, Dudley, Captain Foster, and Arcturus, the android, struggle to get their bearings, they hear a feral snarl, and a machete-wielding figure emerges from the shadows. The attacker is a gaunt, naked crone with skin stretched taut over her bones and a landscape of scars and amputations. Madness shines in her fierce eyes.

As she charges forward, Hernandez’s voice crackles over Foster’s comms. “Enemy combatant has escaped in the shuttle. Impact in two minutes! Get back to Nellie, initiate emergency evac!”

The team fights off the crone, only to be met with a new threat in the form of two knife-wielding, club-swinging teenage children, filthy and unkempt.

Just as they’re about to engage, the shuttle crashes into Nellie with a catastrophic blast, sending a wave of intense heat toward the team. They shield themselves, their hearts pounding, as they struggle to comprehend the destruction.

As debris rains down on them, the Hab ruptures. They are spat out into the cold embrace of space, weightless as their vision fades.

And Captain Cain Foster wakes from his nightmare.