Musa, mihi causa memora
-Vergil
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters, Pioneer does. I only wish to manipulate them.
Prologue:
There was nothing he could do now. They were all gone. No amount of tears, screams, or bad dreams could bring any one of them back. All he could do was sit there in his father's cockpit, ware his father's cloak, and glance back at his father's sword hanging on the wall. His tears and thoughts were gone. All that filled his head now was the dull noise of the afterburners running at quarter power pushing him through the galaxies.
"Now entering protected space. All combat strictly forbidden. Password required for entry." The mechanical voice of the ship was as dull as the sounds that filled it.
"Where are we now?" He halfway leaned forward in the cockpit to look at the viewing screen. His fingers worked without his mind telling him to. In less than a minute he had the password cracked, just as his father had taught him. He wasn't exactly a space pirate, but moving around undetected was what his kind had been bread for.
"That was quite a capable hack, sir." The voice came from some speaker he couldn't see. If he knew where it was, he would break it.
"Whatever, just find a habitable planet and set a course." He slumped back into the cockpit seat and let his legs dangle over the side of the elongated bucket in the center of the bridge that served as his command station. His hand rubbed his eyes slowly and he could feel how swollen they were from nights of tears. They really are dead, aren't they? he thought. He must have thought that a thousand times in the past week he had been living his solitary existence in space. The tears began to creep to the corners of his eyes.
"I…" His voice wavered as sobs began to take control. He struck the consol with a closed fist. "I want to die…"