The chill and silence of empty space cannot be described. Some things can only be experienced. Deep within the expanse, a ship cut through the mystery. As it glided past, it's immense size became evident. Fortes et Liber was the size of a large city. In fact, Fortes et Liber was a large city. It had once been the pride of it's creators. Containing the most complex Artificial Intelligence conceivable, it floated aimlessly through all creation consuming what it wanted and leaving it's droppings on every inhabitable planet it found. It was truly something to behold.<br/><br/>Now, the ship was just the husk of it's former greatness. It left surrounding planets untouched. The only evidence it was more than space debris were some very faint power signatures. That was, until it found one of its missing escape pods. Systems started powering up.  A little device, something like a giant magnetized suction cup, shot out from a docking bay. Once it had a firm grasp on the pod, FeL reeled it in.<br/><br/>The airlock latched shut behind the little pod with a loud "Klu-Chunk!" While equalizing the air and gravity for it's passenger, FeL activated the nearest stasis room. The room contained a dozen stasis pods in 4 rows, with just enough room to walk around them. The lights came on, and all 12 pods opened with a "Woosh!" Theoretically, the occupants would begin to breath and slowly awaken. Unfortunately, the ship's stasis pods weren't designed for long term use. Most of them had malfunctioned during the last hundred years. The occupants had decomposed while "in stasis", essentially passing away in their sleep. This left one single young woman to wake alone in the stasis room.