Sleeping in a Sea of Stars

Through a dark and starless sky,

A sleeper shift goes drifting by.

Its passengers are doomed to die,

All passengers but one.

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Ship is of the class of Ark.

Launched into the darkness stark.

On Octavia, this ship will park,

World of distant sun.

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In cryo-pods, the crew is still.

Testament to mankind's will,

From Terra's surface, hopefuls spill,

Know not this is their grave.

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For in the empty, airless sea.

A storm now forms, like mystery.

Will cause the Hadfield misery,

Fate, today's a knave.

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The ship knows wrath of FoldSpace storm.

A sight that would make most forlorn.

Sections of its hull are shorn.

None will stand a chance.

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But in one pod, a heart still beats.

Her life, the storm did not defeat.

Centuries from now she'll meet,

Rescuer, at glance.

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Time passes, the stars still turn.

Lives are lived and more ships burn.

Allies made while foes are spurned,

None know of sleeping Auri.

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But in centuries, the girl shall wake.

An entire galaxy will shake.

War threatens to devastate,

But that's another story.