A Dona's Return

[Nightfall]

The artificial night was replacing the short simulated rainy day on the Corsica Asteroid. All went silent as a massive shadow passed over. The Santa Ana class Dreadnoughts were still a new sight. The Captana undocked to leave for it's assigned guard position in the Omicron-85 system - the newly found Nomad Gate that recently activated in the Austera and the new Nomad threat pouring in.

They were not so great in numbers. The Nomads seemed interested in the Razgriz. The Black Hole was attracting them literally like moths to a candle. They would fly straight into it exploding into one thousand glittering points of light. Of course, on their way to the Razgriz, the Nomads were attacking anything that stood in their way - until they came into visual range of the Black Hole. Then they started running for it ignoring everything else and performing the 'one thousand points of glittering lights show'.

It was a weird way to behave, even for a Nomad...

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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