Nahema - "¿Cómo llegamos aquí?"

Nahema, journal, go.

No one wants to talk about how we got here. ""Pointless to speculate."" I like pointless speculation.

Can't be a flight navigation error. The Cicada had years to adjust course. We couldn't fly to the wrong star.

So we must've made an unscheduled phase gate transit. But phase gates come in pairs. If we jumped through a gate we could jump back. And which phase gate, anyway? Zezura's fourteen years outside transgov space. There are no gates en route.

Unless the phase gate wasn't human.

Mantis says his clan-corp knew Alterra found an alien phase gate on 4546b. It's where the Frontiersmen got their mini-phasegate technology.

What if the Cicada detected an alien phase gate and diverted to check it out? What if the Cicada went through the gate, and couldn't return?

But where's the Cicada? None of us remember a crash. And where are the aliens who built the gate? It can't be the Tailings. So who?