The Best Ship For Going to Hell and Back Again – The Event Horizon Breakdown
The Event Horizon was created to reach the stars, but ended up going much, much farther than that. And then it came back.
The Event Horizon was an experimental ship commissioned and launched in the year 2040. Designed by the noted astrological engineer, Dr. William Weir, the Event Horizon was a specialized ship that would serve as a platform for Weir’s experimental gravity drive.
The Event Horizon was intended to be a breakthrough for all of humanity. If successful, the Gravity Drive would allow spaceships to travel across vast interstellar distances in the blink of an eye, thanks to its ability to “fold space.” The ship vanished in 2040, and reappeared in 2047, prompting an ill-fated rescue mission.
The Event Horizon – Design and Capabilities
As of 2040, the Event Horizon was the largest space-faring vessel ever built, measuring almost 2200 meters in length. With hefty bulkheads capable of cordoning off different sections of the ship in the event of explosive decompression, and room enough for a sizable crew, the Event Horizon was designed to be a sturdy vessel.
At the heart of it all, though, was the ship’s gravity drive. The gravity drive system was an array of engines that would allow an artificial gravity well to be created. In essence, the ship could create a controlled black hole, which would pull the ship to another point in space, traversing light-years in a matter of seconds.
In many ways, the Gravity Drive was successful. Too successful. And the Event Horizon went further than humanity was ever meant to go. Traveling outside of the bounds of physical reality and into a dimension of pure chaos and pure evil, the ship became demonically possessed.
To Hell and Back Again
The maiden voyage of the Event Horizon was written off as a failure. In 2040, after the ship entered Neptune’s orbit and planned its jump, the vessel disappeared, presumed destroyed. However, this was not the case. The initial gravity jump was more successful than Dr. Weir could have imagined, and the vessel traveled outside of normal space and into an unknown dimension.
According to the information given by the crew, who were themselves demonically possessed by the ship, the Event Horizon traveled deep within the bowels of Hell itself. Though Hell is but a name, and the truth of that awful reality was much much worse. The Event Horizon, now possessed by a demonic entity, took control of its crew, overwhelming them with sexual and homicidal impulses that resulted in the death of all aboard.
The Event Horizon proved to be sentient, and able to interact with its own systems, as it seemed to sabotage its life support and oxygen scrubbers, to try and prevent the exploratory crew sent to investigate its reappearance from escaping.
The Demon Within
The Event Horizon possessed a number of demonic abilities after its ill-fated journey. The ship could access the memories of anyone aboard it, and could twist them to manipulate its victims, making them more open to possession, or more vulnerable in the case that they must be killed.
Guilt and sorrow were its chief weapons, since using a victim’s own mind was much easier than taking full control. However, the Event Horizon’s influence was limited. Those psychologically resilient could resist its influences, though not entirely.
The ship could even seemingly bring deceased personnel back to life, creating hallucinations that were all too real in the minds of its victims.
Fortunately, the Event Horizon and its gravity drive were pulled into the Hellish dimension and will certainly never return…
