Folding Time

To those of us who traveled seven years at .9999986 of the speed of light, seven days in deep space with nothing to do may seem like a cake walk. To those on our team who came from new earth, it seemed like an eternity.
That all changed when Mocol quietly said, "There's something out there."….gesturing "there, somewhere ….It's all around us. No physical form. A lot of consciousness. Can't determine intent. Don't know if it's hostile or not."….
Captain Jenna Rydecki called out, " Can we evade it? Can we navigate around it, whatever it is?"
"Negative. It's as if we were captured." ….
Jenna barked to Q "let's recompute our trajectory and get us out of here somehow, STAT! "

In this stand alone sequel to .99999, Follow our space wandering team to… the crater moon, wandering moon, ice moon, gas giant, water planet, octopus planet, giant lobsters, unnamed alien menace, uninhabited cities, ruins, bones, gravity anomalies, hostile interplanetary aliens, and the Andromeda Galaxy as they rush to save New Earth.