Both shuttles were suspended in the infinite cosmos, uncertain of whether to move forward or back.
"Something’s heading towards the Hope?"
That was the first question asked after Yao Yuan came over to the transport shuttle and had everyone gathered. Many were initially surprised by Yao Yuan’s sudden appearance, but the gravity of the situation immediately dawned with a look at Yao Yuan’s fretful mannerism.
A racket erupted the moment Yao Yuan shared his and Xiao Niao’s hypothesis.
The Hope’s first space troopers agreed to the mission with the understanding that they would probably not return.
The Hope was the entity that harbored their future. The spaceship had given them and their families a safe place to thrive after the nightmare on Earth. They were ready and willing to lay down their lives to protect humanity’s last bastion of hope.