16 – Speed
News travel with the same speed as holonet messages and shuttles and bad news are the first to spread. Of course, Jag decides cynically, this special news could be considered both bad and good, depending on the recipient.
Twenty-two standard days before, he was left behind to die. A hermit found him, tended to his wounds and nursed him back to health.
He doesn't really have a home anymore, so he returns to the place he has lived in for the last decade: the Core. In hyperspace, he wonders who will learn of his survival.
And who exactly might care.