Three blue planets turned slowly around a golden sun. Clouds drifted across vast oceans. Light reflected softly off their surfaces.

Alive. Beautiful. Possible. A path had been found. A new system.

{text:child_name} threw both fists into the air. “YES!”

The shout filled the cockpit—wild, uncontrolled, and perfectly real.

There was no one to hear it, but that didn’t matter. It wasn’t for anyone else.