I was the one who typed that number into the incident log. My fingers trembled then, and they tremble now, not from fear, but from the sheer, impossible poetry of it.
My crew is gone. They didn’t die. They were… unwritten . Because we arrived at a coordinate that had no mass, no matter, no ship. The error wasn’t just in space. It was in the ledger of existence. We subtracted ourselves from the equation of the future. -14003 parsec error
A negative distance. A parsec is 3.26 light-years. We didn’t just overshoot our target, the Gliese 667 Cc colony. We didn’t just fall short. I was the one who typed that number into the incident log