YEAR: 52028 HESHIP: Matriark II, Super-Frigate Exploration classSUPERVISORY COMPUTOR SYSTEM: Exterior Guard Drone fiveLOCATION: Nojo memorial Farms and GardensPRESENT: CORPORAL MACKINGSub-Captain Ortner’s Watch Log     ORT: There falls another Hahaoyan day. The darkness grows like a fog over the dust....

You held stars in your fingersI’m sure of it,or perhaps it was just your wink  playing tricks.Do I reach for one,or claim  the whole sky?Reach if you must, but know thisstars are not souvenirs.They bruise easily  and remember the warmthof every hand that dared them closer.I watch from beyond clouds, beyond winds,from...