2. Dead SpaceThe Radiant Dragon felt each twist on the path that it was following through metaspace as a spike of agony.
Threading through the void on its winding, worm cast trajectory went against every instinct built into it. It was an old ship, predating the Omnian War by at least a full century, and it had clearly been constructed at a time when transgalactic FTL travel was normal and common. It knew that much, even though large parts of its memory had been expunged – it assumed – during a period of Concordance control. Certainly, someone had excised its recollections of the species who had built it, the purpose they had created it for and the travels it had undertaken before the conflagration. But it had clear memories of a large-scale battle between Magellanic and Concordance forces
