Salvage ships brought the wreckage back to the Dammerung. It was the hull of a ship, or it had been. Every shred of the old star cluster, every chunk of metal or length of wire they could find was brought in.

Miyuki paged through a series of digital photographs of the interior, her mouth drying.

There was writing on the walls, etched in with the jagged edge of a piece of steel:

"Light lots of light then the tunnel collapsed. So much dark Too Far the lights are too little too far too few. can't reach Resorces gone. only Dark"