Communication between stars lead to
An exchange between species
The elite 12 are gathered
Overcoming the most strenuous training
For the perilous stellar journey

Nausea, sickness, stricken aboard the mothership
Passing through, the vast distance
Between stars, for seven months

Immense heat, radiation, rain down, from the dual suns
Hazardous, to human fragile skin
The rays of the sun dictate eben time

Time lost, to unknown physics and laws
Bizarre creatures roam the arid landscape
Experimental laboratories, containing creatures from other worlds
Extracting the blood

Organs, from a fallen comrade, to create a hybrid being
After living in an alien world
For more than 10 years
Returning home, to be held captive, from the populace
From ever knowing

And to die rapidly
On the Homeworld
They were once accustomed to