"Oh, you met the botanist that just woke up?" He laughed softly, shaking his head. "Aeroponics will be running again at least. We might need that for food if something goes wrong, so fuck if I'm going to complain about that. I'm a lot of things, but farmer isn't one of them."

"Who knows? Maybe we're not even in the local group? Could be about to see Ton 618 when we escape the nebula, get a real light show." Yeah, because seeing one of the biggest super-massive blackholes in the entire universe was such a great idea. The photosphere alone would probably fry them.