Chapter 12 : somewhere in space

Vessel LV-39642-feinVol: Estimated distance, 5395 L.Y. Annual maintenance report.

As Ailon Nogar, the maintenance manager for exploration expeditions, prepared to open the black box of the vessel en route to Nekea, the final step of the Sanchez protocol, a strict maintenance protocol designed to prevent disruptions in long-distance intergalactic communication systems, he expected to merely reprimand the captain on board with a simple reminder, as was often the case, followed by a pat on the back and some encouragement to keep up their spirits in carrying out their perilous missions. But what Ailon, a former expert in spatial mechanics, placed here simply because someone had to do it, certainly did not expect when opening the Quantum Box N502 synchronized with the quantum state signature of the Hakkenru vessel, was to discover pure randomness, data rewritten multiple times, encrypted, and incoherent. The worst was to be feared.