As the ship exited the furthermost reaches of our atmosphere and was welcomed into the endlessly dark embrace of space, it slowed down and began moving forward with nothing except a gentle hum.

The speakers sprang to life with a piercing feedback squeal, indicating that one of the creators was about to speak to the crew.

Noah explained how the Time Contraption worked. Interjections and comments were made in between by the rest of the creators during the long speech.

Time, was a complex and primordial construct. The one real "scale" that measured every event as it ensued in the cosmic time line. The contraption would work in ways that could only be described as anomalous : it would render the entire ship immune to that "scale".

The Titanic would, quite literally, elude time itself. Travel outside the bounds of the cosmic time line, evading the measurement of Time. And in doing so, it would be effectively immortal and everlasting.

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Anything that traveled outside the cosmic time line could not be measured, and hence, could never age.

The ship would still take billions of years to reach the estimated edge of the universe, but since it would be travelling outside the time line, no time would pass inside the time line at all.

To all observers, it would seem as if the Titanic completed it's great voyage in the blink of an eye. But the reality would be an immortal crew travelling for billions of years to reach an edge that could, in all probability, be even further away than initially hypothesized.

Cryo sleep chambers installed would be used to keep the members on-board in a state of infinite stasis until their destination had been reached.

The speakers had returned to their dormant states and the crew once again busied itself in preparations for Cryo sleep. This was it.

The Great Voyage had begun.

The Cryo sleep was activated. The whole ship fell silent and the only thing audible was the gentle hum of the ship as it traveled in the infinite vastness of space.