Nahema 2

Nahema, journal, go.

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No one wants to talk about how we got here. "Pointless to speculate." I like pointless speculation.

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Can't be a flight navigation error. The Cicada had years to adjust course. We couldn't fly to the wrong star.

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So we must've made an unscheduled phase gate transit. But phase gates come in pairs. If we jumped through a gate we could jump back. And which phase gate, anyway? Zezura's fourteen years outside transgov space. There are no gates en route.

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Unless the phase gate wasn't human.

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Mantis says his clan-corp knew Alterra found an alien phase gate on 4546b. It's where the Frontiersmen got their mini-phasegate technology.

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What if the Cicada detected an alien phase gate and diverted to check it out? What if the Cicada went through the gate, and couldn't return?

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But where's the Cicada? None of us remember a crash. And where are the aliens who built the gate? It can't be the Tailings. So who?

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