He hadn't spoken a word in weeks and felt very alone and abandoned. At first the silence was pleasant, but then it became torture. All day long there was only wind, the sound of sand and the occasional animal call. Yikatom was almost insane. But no one had answered his screams. And so he had accepted it. He was here alone and it would stay that way. Forever if you had to. Yikatom had learned to draw strength from silence.His silence was his protection. He listened all day and tried to take in the place here. While meditating, exercising, looking for food, while sleeping. Only in spite of everything he missed company. But it was his home and Yikatom was grateful to have found a place in the universe again.




Dark. All around only dark. And cold. SonGoku was freezing. In his thin suit, he was dressed rather inappropriately. " Hello ?" he exclaimed, wondering where the tents and the others had gone. He turned around. But the darkness was all-encompassing. It was impossible to see anything. Then he heard a strange noise, a kind of metallic screeching. SonGoku knew then that he was dreaming. He was astonished at this realization and waited to see what the noise was about, which seemed to be slowly approaching. He felt uncomfortable and wanted some light. The noise came closer and SonGoku had the feeling that it would circle around him without his being able to locate it exactly.Suddenly it got lighter. Oddly enough, SonGoku couldn't pinpoint the source of the light, but it definitely got brighter. Then the sound stopped and a point of light appeared. Tiny in the distance, he seemed to be walking quickly towards sonGoku, who instinctively tensed up and put his hands on his side. but he felt no energy or aura. The light came closer and SonGoku saw that it was a small ball. He went a little closer and was surprised again. No heat, no energy, the sphere radiated nothing, but it radiated as brightly as a small sun. SonGoku was about to touch it when a black dot appeared on the ball. He flinched back. The point grew larger and branched out like a drop of liquid on the surface of the sphere. Interested, SonGoku leaned forward and watched the strange structure. Suddenly he laughed. The thing that had run off the sphere reminded him of a stick figure. And it was moving that way now.With jerky and trembling movements, the thing wandered over the sphere without actually moving away from SonGoku. Suddenly the stick figure fell back and froze. SonGoku paused and listened. He heard a crackle like ice, very soft and somehow eerie. The figure transformed again, its edges became smoother, and the shape changed slightly. Eventually the shape froze and resembled a character or an ornate shape. SonGoku leaned forward when the figure on the ball suddenly lit up brightly and then disappeared. Suddenly it became pitch dark again as at the beginning of the dream and the sphere disappeared. SonGoku turned around, confused. He tried to orient himself, but suddenly there was a loud and powerful snap like from a huge castle and he was so startled that he woke up. Confused SonGoku jumped up from the mattress and bumped his head on the tent frame. " What...?"But then he heard Chichi breathing next to him and saw her outlines in the dark. Relieved he lay down again." What kind of dream was that? "He asked himself tiredly." Oh no matter ... "SonGoku then thought while he fell asleep again, but the shape of the figure when it lit up burned itself into his mind.




Tifa was sitting at the window again and thinking. For two days now they had moved away from the asteroid belt, in which Captain Luthur suspected more Gior mines. Tifa was a little happy about the variety, but not particularly. Quite surprisingly, after she had turned the captain down, she was ordered to do a double night shift. She accepted it because that way she could keep her distance from him. Tifa didn't understand why he was so persistent. He was probably fooling himself about his rank as captain or something. “Fool!” She sighed and took another sip of caffeine. Then she looked at her reflection in the window.You could see her last night shift clearly, dark circles under the green eyes that were looking at her. Her skin looked paler than usual. She brushed her brown hair back from her face and leaned her forehead against the glass. She hoped that they would soon be flying to a planet, because the empty space was boring them. But the captain seemed to be keeping his distance from all systems. The ship, the "Konopaq", had been sailing for 2 years and was in need of a general overhaul as urgently as the crew. The eternally narrow corridors and rooms and the dry air depressed Tifa, who had to interrupt her training at the academy when the war began. She had used the time during the escape to catch up on her missing exams, the computer had been set up for this. But after the "Big Impact" she had lost all courage and all enthusiasm to do her job. Because their whole homeworld had perished then. Due to the ongoing war against the Eethuil, the planet's resources and structures were exhausted, and that's how it happened: Huge earthquakes and volcanic eruptions tore the planet's crust apart and at some point the geopower plants collapsed.Their fusion engines exploded, engulfing the entire surface in thermonuclear fire. The war was over in one fell swoop. Tifa remembered exactly. She had been to one of the orbital stations and felt a tremor in the walls. When she rushed to one of the windows, she saw how the atmosphere of the planet vanished into space like a thin cloud and how the embers crept over the horizon and destroyed everything below. But all her screams and tears hadn't stopped the "Big Impact". She had to watch helplessly as whole continents burned up and passed away. Then, after all of the oceans evaporated, the core of the planet imploded. Tifa remembered the fire coming towards her station. The glowing plasma, the chunks of flesh and earth and the complete silence. It was just silent, like a silent movie. And then she knew nothing ... Until she woke up on board this ship that was one of the few survivors.She sighed and took another sip of the caffeine, which was now cold. But Tifa didn't even notice. She kept looking for asteroids that, like her past, faded into the blackness of space ...




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