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The system is there precisely as you remember it, as are the wrecks. The cold light of a long-dead star. A sparse asteroid belt bleached bone-white, chained to a distant elliptical orbit.

Neutron wind prickles against the hull, picking away at the outer layer of ablative armor. In spite of it, you were hopeful that at least some of the wrecks had survived well enough to contain meaningful salvage - or at least reclaimable material.

You plot a course to the largest cluster before launching a brace of sensor drones to help the salvage team plan their approach.

<Solstice Overwatch. Notify: Clustered sensor contact. Low output.>

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The system is there precisely as you remember it, as are the wrecks. The cold light of a long-dead star. A sparse asteroid belt bleached bone-white, chained to a distant elliptical orbit.

Neutron wind prickles against the hull, picking away at the outer layer of ablative armor. In spite of it, you were hopeful that at least some of the wrecks had survived well enough to contain meaningful salvage - or at least reclaimable material.

You plot a course to the largest cluster before launching a brace of sensor drones to help the salvage team plan their approach.

<Solstice Overwatch. Notify: Clustered sensor contact. Low output.>