Jess closed his eyes and focused, feeling himself flying through the vast amounts of information the ship had available. As he had done before, he sought out the area which held information imparted by previous captains. Most information from the Wanderer had the same utilitarian feel to it. Jess had discovered that where he was now headed there were significant variations, each captain had left his, her or possibly its, own stamp on the information.
Jess had become adept at extracting information from the cache of wisdom, but he had never dived too deeply in. He was scared of what he might find if he went too far back. Would he find proof the Wanderer was created by some hugely advanced race? And if so, where were they now?
Or would he find that it had been created by humans long
