Years before.
"I am leaving this for you. So, that when you are old enough to understand this that you know that I cared about you. That I loved you. That I felt for you, but I am sorry. Sweetheart, sometimes life leads you in another direction. I am a prisoner. If you are flying around in the Eureka Maru it is a ship that both me and your father made for you, and he is going to give it to you when you are older. Beka, I love you so.so.much. But, I can not stay I must leave. I wish I could stay, and see you grow older. I wish I could stay and hear your laugh, and your play. To gossip. To hear the talk about-"

But she was cut off there was a big commotion in the back ground. "Psyche, we need you the Orion is being attacked. Something is entering the ship. Oh damn." A distant voice called.

So, I hate to say this story sad but true. This is not the end. Under the seat that Beka sits in when she is on the Eureka Maru there is an inscription, and it reads 'Beka, I will, and always love you -Mom"

To bad she never knew.