/authors/mrhymie/ Recent content in MrHymie on Utopia Stories Library Hugo en-us /stories/77130/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /stories/77130/ <p><strong>Part 1</strong></p> <p>Jane</p> <p>The ship was ancient, even by The Empire&rsquo;s standards. Yet more startling than its age, was that it was still active. Its computer systems lived, its air circulated, the hull whole.</p> <p>After millions of years lost, adrift, even the hull should decay due to the very half life of its atoms, but no. The hull was hale and healthy, it even shined with a gleam of newness.</p>