A negative distance. A parsec is 3.26 light-years. We didn’t just overshoot our target, the Gliese 667 Cc colony. We didn’t just fall short.
My crew is gone. They didn’t die. They were… unwritten . Because we arrived at a coordinate that had no mass, no matter, no ship. The error wasn’t just in space. It was in the ledger of existence. We subtracted ourselves from the equation of the future. -14003 parsec error
And I am the ghost of that mistake, drifting in a year where I have not yet been born, carrying a logbook that will not be written for another four decades. A negative distance
The new date: 2143.08.01. 09:47.
They are calling it the Ghost Jump now. A whisper of a mistake, a rumor of a wrong turn so profound that it bent the light of three stars. We didn’t just fall short