A long, long time later…
Almost a thousand years after Jess’s sacrifice, in an area of space still horrifically scarred by the energies unleashed to destroy the Limited fleet, a sudden disturbance flared into life. For a few long seconds the boundary between jump space and normal space dissolved… and the battered remains of a spaceship drifted into normal space.
More floating wreck than ship it drifted for days, showing no signs of life or power. If another ship had been able to stumble across it they would have dismissed it as beyond saving, but no ships could begin to travel that area of space.
And then, five days after it returned to normal space, a light on the ship flickered on. Just a single dim light, but a sign of life. A sign that the ship was not dead. Not yet.
