Do you know what kills a species, Miss Rayna?

Do you know what tumbles civilizations?

It is not what you might think.

It is hesitancy. A dream, an illusion, a flash of lightning. Opportunity comes as such, and if you do not seize the initiative, it passes you by.

Seven years ago I was assigned to an underwater base on Earth.

Mostorian built it around a giant door and said to the bottom of the ocean.

19,000 feet down.

Things went bad.

I haven't been the same since.

I lost my wife.

My son.

I lost everything.

Let me guess.

You opened the door.

27 hours ago, an ice mining vessel named the crunting

and detected a wide band signal emanating

from an uncharted star system in this region.

They then trained their interferometric receptors

on the source.

This is what came back. It's a ship. A derelict

shipped completely abandoned. So I'm going to go ahead and guess this derelict ship is

in fact,estorian property.

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