"The Andromeda Ascendant," he repeats, but there's little rancor in it. If anything, Dylan's got a suggestion of a smile on his face as he looks at her. "That would be why she's not talking to me."

Which he'd already worked out, and which is really disconcerting. This is like that time when Harper's tesseract machine was going haywire with time and space around the Andromeda, but that was localized. This is clearly not. There was no ship anywhere near the Andromeda.

"Rose. You can call me Dylan." There aren't all that many situations in which he insists on 'Captain Hunt' since the Maru pulled him out of the black hole. After all, that was one of Beka's rules for joining his crew.

"The USS Enterprise?" he asks, brows drawing together in concentration. It's certainly not the name of any ship he's ever heard of. Of course, there are countless ships out there he doesn't know, but given the lack of operational High Guard ships, there aren't many out there big enough to have a mess of this size on them.

"I don't know it. But what do you mean about people being a bit far from home? You're saying this happens a lot here?"