The Hope was already done preparing for its next warp.
They had stayed at this same spot for several years, and those years weren’t spent idling . This was the period when mankind truly became a space civilization, when mankind gained the ability to flourish in space.
For many, the Hope was a completely different entity from the Hope of 6 years ago. In fact, if they were to return to Earth now, the Hope would not be a last desperate measure at escape but an armored spaceship competent enough to blow up Earth itself!
And the Hope wouldn’t even need to land! By activating the creator’s particle, mankind’s technology would be undone just like that!
In other words, the Hope had finally come into the title of a spaceship, and not a just a metallic casing ferrying humans through space.
Of course, other than these physical changes, mankind’s knowledge about the cosmos had a drastic increase too, and they had learned one cruel yet eternal truth about the cosmos.
