The Afterparty

[Nightfall]

Nightfall nearly missed the fighterbay doors in his haste. He hit a few containers as he was coming in too hot. He jumped out.

"Dammit, don't loose yourself now Bernard!" he swore.

The medical team was already extracting Browning from the cargo hold of Mariella's Avenger. Mariella was there, looking a bit worried but calm, confident that the old pirate will come back.

"Hurry up men! Let's get him to the sickbay!" Nightfall approached.
"You won't go like that on me old chap, we still have some drinks to drink and tales to tell."

They took him to the sickbay...

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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God? - from 'Nightfall' by I. Asimov
The Outcasts consider Siniestre Nube a sacred place for several reasons. Early explorers discovered a jumphole within the depths of the cloud that leads to a strange world of ringed stars and strange craft. All ships in the burrial ground are placed facing that hole to honor the Alien Spirits. - An Outcast rumor