The remainder of the journey back was devoid of any major incidents. It was just quiet travel time where everyone did their best to get back to normal.
About two weeks in, the half of the fleet that Avery was in met back up with the half that had left before the nightmarish entity had broken fully free of its prison.
They had been waiting in a mostly empty system, and while the two groups had been in commutation, joining back up brought the huge losses and failure of their mission back to the forefront of everyone's minds.
Hundreds had died and a massive amount of resources had been wasted with nothing to show for everything.
For almost everyone that had followed Zefield, this was the worst defeat of their careers. And spelled the end for some of them.
"This is the final list? No one else?"
