He looked at her. “We’re going to be okay. I believe that.”
She forced a smile.
“I believe,” he repeated, looking back out at the darkness and the light.
Against the reach of the endless night and the ocean of stars, the ship thundered on, its voyage unending.
Collected in one small area of its hull, the humans gathered together, ranging themselves against the unknown, struggling to understand the fate that had brought them to this place, working to learn the secrets of their new home.
Beyond them, the iron flanks of the vast vessel, this Destiny, ranged away in curves and constructs, devices and systems yet to be discovered, yet to be deciphered. But in among the sculptured lines of the Ancient ship, there lay something that did not belong.
Small, so much so that a casual glance might have missed the sight, but distinct enough that a second look would have revealed it. Something deceptive in its design, something alien and foreign, latched to the hull of the Destiny as a pilot fish might cruise on the skin of a cetacean. With a blink of fire, a ring of thrusters on the aft of the craft suddenly ignited and it detached, falling free, dropping into the faster-than-light slipstream of the larger vessel.
For a moment it kept pace with the Destiny, matching its incredible velocities point for point, riding alongside it; then the craft veered away at a sharp angle, vanishing into the red-shifted light of the passing stars.
The Destiny and the lives aboard her traveled on, the vista of the universe opening before them.
About the Author
James Swallow is the author of several books and scripts, and his fiction from the worlds of Stargate includes the novels Halcyon, Relativity and Nightfall, and the audio dramas Shell Game, Zero Point and First Prime, as well as short stories for the official Stargate Magazine.
As well as a non-fiction book (Dark Eye: The Films of David Fincher), James also wrote the Sundowners series of original steampunk westerns, Jade Dragon, The Butterfly Effect and fiction in the worlds of Star Trek (Synthesis, the award-winning Day of the Vipers, Infinity’s Prism, Distant Shores, The Sky’s The Limit and Shards and Shadows), Doctor Who (Peacemaker, Dalek Empire, Destination Prague, Snapshots, The Quality of Leadership), Warhammer 40,000 (Black Tide, Red Fury, The Flight of the Eisenstein, Faith & Fire, Deus Encarmine and Deus Sanguinius) and 2000AD (Eclipse, Whiteout and Blood Relative).
His other credits include writing for Star Trek Voyager, and scripts for videogames and audio dramas, such as Battlestar Galactica, Blake’s 7 and Space 1889.
James lives in London, and is currently at work on his next book.
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Table of Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
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