Tegan halts Terminus exile with manual abort

Tegan bursts onto the bridge just as the station’s automated systems initiate the deadly departure sequence. Ignoring the blaring warnings, she lunges for the main console and frantically strikes controls, overriding the kill switches with a brute-force emergency abort. Her desperate strike collapses the Company’s timetable, freezing the station’s engineered exile and buying time for Nyssa’s belated discovery. The Tannoy confirms her gamble, cycling from countdown to calamity averted just as Turlough arrives in the console room. Though Tegan does not yet know it, her impulsive act carries the station—and Nyssa’s fragile new knowledge—past the brink of destruction. key_dialogue: [ TEGAN: Shut up! ]