Another Miracle of Sirius

[AngelofMercy]

Eventually falling into sleep, he dreamed about strange places. Foreign places he never visited, yet seemingly familiar to him. Beautiful but frightening. Some full of light, some soaked in darkness. Some full of Colors as if the stars were made out of rainbows. Some dull and monochrome. Creatures screaming in pain and anger. Aggression, rage. Others very calm and peaceful. Alien consciences reaching out to him.

He opened his eyes, starring into the darkness of his cabin, only surrounded by the monotone humming of the engines. What should have been some sort of nightmare, he did not feel this way. He felt embraced and cozy, yet suddenly very lonely.

'Nomads?'
More than ten years ago he had a similar experience, when he was part of a Corsair force, which had the task to cleanse Omicron Delta from any Nomad threat. They were met by a superior Nomad force, which decloaked right in front of them. It could have become a very losing battle for the Corsairs and they all knew it. However a Nomad conscience reached out to him, Benito Huarez an ordinary human and he transmitted the messages he received to the Corsair task force. In the end no shot was fired. The Corsairs, glad to see another day, retreated to Omicron Gamma and the Nomads went their way.
In the following weeks he was examined, studied, underwent all kinds of physical and psychological checks, but no marks or signs of an infestation had been discovered. So it must have been just a temporary, telepathic connection and it was a one time event only. At no point in the years in between then and now was he ever contacted again, nor was he dreaming about anything comparable. Since Liberty is far away from Nomad space, at least he thought it was, the years in prison blurred his memory about this occurrence.

He switched on the light and looked at the trinket on the leather band or more exactly the artifact. He had his suspicions, that it might be somehow related to Nomads, but he was never sure about. He had seen different kind of Nomads, even partook in autopsies of Nomad bodies and he had collected enough artifacts in his life to know, this was different.

Now he was even more eager to get to a test facility to help him reveal the secrets of this artifact. Though he would have to leave Corsair space for it, it would be worthwhile.
The campaign in Sigma 17 seemed to come to a conclusion soon and then he finally would have the time for.