Difference between revisions of "Summary:Starsight"

[[Spensa]] finds herself floating in the [[nowhere]], and sees the [[delver]]s' eyes begin to open as they stare at her, bursting with hatred and malevolence. [[M-Bot]] tells Spensa they're being contacted, and as she looks out M-Bot's cockpit, she sees a space station, a flat plane dotted with lights: [[Starsight (station)|Starsight]]. The people attempting to contact M-Bot seek identification, speaking in the language of the [[dione]], so Spensa asks M-Bot to fudge [[Alanik]]'s transponder signal. Spensa calms down and looks inward to see if she can pinpoint how to return to [[Detritus]], but she has no [[cytonics|cytonic]] coordinates for Detritus, only Starsight, so she asks M-Bot to calculate their location. In the meantime, M-Bot's fudging has failed and the [[Superiority]] is sending ships out to investigate. Two ships level off near Spensa, M-Bot patches through their comm line, and they begin to speak in an alien tongue. M-Bot hacks Alanik's translation pin, and the aliens begin speaking English. Spensa tells them she is Alanik of the [[UrDail]] from the planet [[ReDawn (planet)|ReDawn]], and that she is responding to the Superiority's request for more pilots to form a larger space force. The two ships tell her she is welcome to dock at Berth 1182, then fly off, and Spensa can't believe she's succeeded, expecting the two ships to turn around and fire at her at any moment. They don't, and M-Bot informs Spensa they are some forty light years from Detritus, meaning without a stolen cytonic hyperdrive, there's no going back. Spensa flies closer to Starsight, and sees that the flat plane of the station was surrounded by a bubble that must keep air and heat in the space station. Spensa feels towards the general direction of Detritus, and feels what she believes to be Alanik's cytonics, then proceeds to enter the bubble.

[[Spensa]] and [[Vapor]] fly towards the ''[[Weights and Measures]]'', and Spensa tells her she isn't really a part of whatever is going on anymore, as she has revealed herself to [[Cuna]]. Vapor thinks that the [[UrDail]] are hiding a human population on [[ReDawn (planet)|ReDawn]], and that [[Alanik]] is part-human, which is why the UrDail are hesitant to join the [[Superiority]]. Vapor also tells her she should be worried about both the galaxy-wide threat of the [[delver]]s and a feared [[Winzik]]-led coup that could overthrow the [[Ved (Skyward)|high minister]] of the Superiority. The pair reach the ''Weights and Measures'' where Winzik briefs them and the rest of the pilots in the program. He says that the attack on the trade vessel the previous day was by a human, that the humans probably have dozens of spy drones on Starsight, and that they need to go wipe out the human fleet on [[Detritus]]. [[Hesho]] and his crew are excited, while [[Morriumur]] expresses fear at facing veteran pilots in combat, as opposed to the minimal noncombat training they've received. Spensa meets up with [[Brade]] and tries to convince her to not attack her species on Detritus, and decides to disable her hologram and show Brade her true form. Brade immediately sounds the alarm, shouting that she's found the human spy.