Two days passed quickly, and by the end of the second day, Aurelian finally reached the coordinates tied to the carrier clue.
Even from a distance, the place was hard to miss once he knew where to look.
A massive distortion hung in the dark ahead of them, wide and ugly, like space had been stretched open and then left to heal badly.
Before coming here, Aurelian had expected something smaller, maybe a narrow fold breach hidden behind dead rock or nebula dust, but what floated in front of them was much larger than that, enough that if the surrounding region had been cleaner and brighter, it would have been impossible to miss.
But the location had been chosen well by the universe itself.
Scattered nebula haze, dead sensor pockets, and the general emptiness of the surrounding systems hid it from casual traffic, which was probably the only reason something like this had lasted unnoticed for so long.
