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<span class="mu-b">”What do you mean, “no guidance data”!?”</span>
The Alavis computer aboard your ship was very negatively effected by the magnetic waves, further exacerbated by the sudden jump to hyperspace. She can't rangefind HQ, or the Nan system, or anything at all.
<span class="mu-b">”So we're... lost?”</span>
It hits you like a punch in the gut. You're lost in space- lost! Traveling at many times the speed of light, totally aimless. Without a way to communicate or find your way back, you'd be drifting through space almost forever- unless you get lucky enough to bump into a landmark- but given how empty space is, that will be a slim chance indeed. You took a wide turn as you entered hyperspace to return to the Nan system once the magnetic waves dissipated, but its impossible to know how off course you are now. How could it be that you're so unlucky the one part of the data core that is wiped is the guidance data? The coordinates and communications rely- the one most crucial part of your computer.
You remember the words of your clone- Kimnan one. He mentioned this before. He was the first person to fly in hyperspace- and he could do it <span class="mu-i">without</span> a computer.
The urgency of the situation continues to mount as you remember your important cargo, your promise to your brother, and the fact you could end up absorbing more of those magnetic waves- depending on if any of their energy level can reach hyperspace. You could lose life support, or worse.
<span class="mu-b">”Alavis... turn off the hyperspace distortion shield.”</span>
It takes a moment, but now you see what hyperspace is really like. It makes you feel sick- the only Jaxtian with any experience flying in these conditions is your geriatric clone. Everything feels equidistant from everything else. You see distant galaxies as close as your hands and your ship's hull as miles away. You try to close your eyes to block it out, but light is displaced to beneath your eyelids.
What did he mean by being able to “See”? What did he mean by it? You think back on everything you know, everything you've learned, of the races and people who seem to understand, the ones who can “See”. What did they have in common, what do they know that you don't?
...No way. That <span class="mu-i">can't</span> be it, can it?
It's time to <span class="mu-s">make a choice</span>. Become a derelict drifting through space for hundreds of years, waiting your brother's descendants to find you, or doing whatever it takes to learn for yourself what they meant. Your clone couldn't do this- he couldn't sacrifice for it. But you're supposed to be the fixed one. Are you?
