"Right, that's step one. We're not the first folks who got pulled here, right? I mean, I think they said somethin' about it happening before, just not to this scale. Maybe we can find out what those other folks got up to once they were here."

Sparks points to the star-shaped marshal's badge on his jacket. "Meanwhile, I got an SOS signal broadcastin' on this thing. Any USSA ships come through this part 'a space, and they'll come pick us up in a juffy." Not that the same thing worked on Crystallis, but it's still worth a shot.