Part of the Crew, Part of the Ship

[Einbeck]

25th April, 834 AS, Omicron Theta

The dead know only one thing: it is better to be alive. This was the only thought that resonated in the minds of the Einbeck's crew as it departed, after so much deliberation, into Omicron Theta. The remnants were now the shadow of a shadow; only the Schiller and an assortment of smaller craft were left behind, in Sigma-17, in relative safety. The voidforms were by now gone, departed into Zeta and Iota, ahead of the planned assault by Nomads at the behest of the K'Hara Elders. They had done their part, for now, and could leave the Wild Hunt to its own schemes.

But these latter details made little -- if any -- difference; Meyer, only some days prior, had chosen to split the fleet in two, yet again, in a game that was to play out in Omicron Theta. He hurried his crew one last time to the their stations and gave the order to jump through, eventually posting not all that far from Planet Pygar; it was there that they would prepare to stage a distraction, allowing the Schiller the slip through and into Theta on its own. It was a simple, crude, but brilliant plan, one that would only work thanks to The Order's lackluster involvement in the Theta system up to this point, and even in Rheinland, leaving Wild ships free to roam around and cause further chaos in the graveyard that the system had become.

There also laid the hope that these efforts would coincide with the breakout of their brethren from Omega-58, of the legendary ships of old, of "ghost ships", though none, much less Meyer, count on this affair to materialize at the clap of hands.