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Our story takes place somewhere in the vastness of Space, somewhere, at a particular point
some unimaginable distance and unimaginable time from ours. A small transport vessel,
from its previous convoy is now adrift, lost. After an uncharted and unknown micro-meteor
shower bombarded this convoy on its deep space supply mission. All ships but one were destroyed.
The rest succumbed to critical system failures and multi-bombardment damage rendering the
vessels and crew dead. The sole surviving ship, "The Arrow", a small and agile transport
vessel, and her two crew members, we will call them Jane and John because their true
names cannot be pronounced in our language, have now finally depleted the last of their
fuel, and are now floating through unknown space. These 2 beings have been together almost
all of their lives. On their home planet their elders spoke how they would never be separated,
not even by the vastness of space. Now, in the vastness of space, together but alone,
these two needed each other more than ever. Had they known that the day would inevitably
end in their death, they may not have tried to avert it so hard. The ships still operational
scanners had been detecting faint gamma rays for several days, but nothing until this particular
day had alerted them of the danger that was to come. At first all seemed well. Their trajectory
was as it had been the day before, and nothing but the faint anomalies from the scanners
alluded to the event to come. Slowly, as the day progressed, the computer began to signal
possible system failures. The first to go was the on-board visual system. Though the
forward comers showed as operational, they displayed nothing. Next, the gravitational
sensors, showing that outside the ship things were not as they should be. Finally their
speed indicator showed that they were slowly and slowly increasing in speed. Knowing that
there we no planets in their vicinity that would cause these changes, John and Jane were
left to test their equipment. By the time they had figured out what was happening, it
was already too late. Having no fuel to correct the issue, John had decided to eject his core
and detonate, hoping that this would fling them off into a, propel them off with enough
force to escape what they were caught in. This act, had no effect, and now these two
were left on a ship with no fuel, no core, and no means of survival. They were now damned
beings, traveling faster than light towards the point that would be their end. They knew
that there was nothing they could do, and that in only a few moments they would be reduced
to nothingness. As they sat there in the dark, all power diverted towards their rear cameras,
they watched as their world was distorted and thrown from view. In a fraction of a second,
the ship and its crew had traveled hundreds of millions of miles, and into nothing were
they compressed. Nothing remains of the Arrow or its crew in our plane, but it is said that
the 2 stars we see in out nights sky that are surrounded by nothing else, are the points
where the love of 2 beings was stronger than the universe itself, and that those 2 points
of light mark the life that they created for each other in another space. We will never
know what happened to them, but the lesson is that in love, all things are possible.