Chapter 5

Xant is beginning to get recurring nightmares of his battle with ‘The Lady’. They explore more of the ship and find more pods/stolen human tech. Discuss the humans left behind on Lukia and how much this would help them. Decide to leave the current pods sleeping until they either a) have translators waiting for them or b) are planetside so waking up with so many aliens won't come as such a shock

Xant does one last round of the infirmary, the lights dim down automatically to the human night cycle. He noticed himself also slowing down to the voidsinger rhythum, he once went for days without sleep, now, he enjoyed the ritual. 

His body was doing more, his brain was doing more, so he required more rest. He laid down on the silken sheet stolen from the yacht and counted down until sleep.

The soothing sounds of rain falling on the vegitation, the clean white lights of the labratory of his old station. Old friends pass as shadows and memories, then a tall, graceful figure catches his eye. The Lady of the Arc staring at his lab screen, 

“Its not fair,”

The lab changes to the broken beach.

The lady and himself are staring at the blue earth against the black sky.

“It’s not fair,” she repeats.

Bulbous and filled with vitriol, the lady screamed from the darkness, 

“IT’S NOT FAIR-”

Xant awoke with a start, and snorted. He didn’t like nightmares nearly as much as dreams. Beaus said he would get used to it, didn’t make them any more unpleasant.

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“Alright!” Jasmine stood in front of the humans and dogs, “this is the only part of the ship we havn’t explored yet, we need to find something, anything worth trading for!”

As large as the Rajavan ship was, most of it was dedicated to keeping the ship alive, internal engine organs. The bridge was the living quarters, the museum of horrors was one of the 3 ‘storage’ sectors, the other held supplies (oxygen, water, ect) so the last one holds all the human stuff that they were going through on branch.

Jasmine talks to everyone, how the colony on Lukia is and how they formed it. Turns out if you give a bunch of strangers a goal and all the equipment they can do a lot. Everyone was getting along to which is a little weird, Deepra says she was expecting a few assholes, but nope, everyone is nice.“Maybe I’m the asshole?” she asks in a moment of horrified self-reflection.

Then they make the discovery. More stasis tubes. At least a thousand more. It’s terrifying. 

The amount of power and supplies keeping them intact. A few humans try to open the pods but Jasmine tells them to wait. They don’t have the supplies and to awaken them now would be cruel, better to keep them asleep until they get to Lukia. 

A few of them are opened and empty, it’s the closest thing to a trade they have to pay for the translators that isn’t DNA. stealthed stasis pods would be a boon for pirates trying to get contraband across council/imperial space. As much as Jasmine hates it, they need the translators more then what imagined crimes the aliens could commit with the pods