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Light. Blinding, searing, rumbling light. And then, blackness. Was he dead? No, no not yet. He could still feel and think. Ascended? Not likely given how tedious, and thus memorable, such a task was. So it clearly wasn't that either. Letting out a shaky sigh as he slowly ran his hands over his body, making sure he was actually still in one piece, Valtrix quickly disconnected his mind from the ships neural interface before slowly getting out of his chair and walking over to the viewport across from him. Gazing out into the blackness beyond he realized that he was not in some kind of hellish void, purgatory, or some lightless higher plane, but rather a vast and seemingly empty expanse of unfamiliar space. As a matter of fact, the longer he gazed out into the darkness before him, the more clearly he could make out the familiar shimmering of distant stars. A comforting sight even though their formations and clusters were completely foreign to him.

Bracing himself against a nearby support beam, Valtrix squeezed his eyes shut as he pondered exactly how the hell he managed to arrive here. Wherever [I]here[/I] was. The last thing he remembered was leaving his crew back at the outpost before heading into the depths of space and engaging the ships hyperdrive, wanting to put as much distance between himself and the planet as was humanly possible. Then that damn light appeared, seemingly transporting him here to this barren stretch of space along with the Renatus. Shaking his head, Valtrix cut off that line of thought. It's not as though it actually mattered [I]how[/I] he got here, rather, only that he was here. He had been seeking a way to avoid the Council's judgement after all, and had seemingly found one, even if it wasn't exactly what he was expecting. 

Taking a deep breath to calm his nerves a bit more, Valtrix opened his eyes and returned his gaze to the viewport before him. As he did so however, he began to notice bright flashes of light briefly flaring up within the darkness surrounding his ship. Taking a slightly unsteady and uncertain step back from the window, Valtrix quickly moved over to a nearby console and brought up the crafts sensor array as he tried to figure out what those flashes could possibly be. He suspected they were nothing more than the distant death knells of burnt out stars, though the sheer briefness of the flashes gave him some cause for doubt. Sending out several pulses into the surrounding void, Ornus's steel gray eyes narrowed into slits as the sensors revealed their findings...

Those flashes weren't the last screams of far off supernova's as he had previously assumed...

They were ships.