Bridges
07 Aug 2017ModishNouns
As I gaze out through the canopy into the black, the Heisenberg Bridge stretches out invisibly before me. Safe passage, they tell me, across the treacherous Formidine Rift. My plan was to attempt a more direct route, striking directly out towards the last known location of the Zurara but the distances are just too great. The "Bridge" is here for a reason.My thoughts return to those six escape pods I found on my approach to the Heart nebula. Who were they? My systems flagged them as illegal salvage but what can that mean? It's illegal to rescue stranded humans? Is this some kind of sadistic exile?
Whoever they are, their fates will now be decided by the black marketeers of Farsight Expedition Base. That has to be better than endless nothing, hasn't it? A long, silent sleep until the pods' systems fail and the occupants are awoken to die screaming in their airless coffins.