The air conditioning and digital instruments went on functioning without a sound. For some time, throughout the ship there was a dead silence. When it filled half the width of the screen the annihilation reactor was turned off. In the crosshairs of their field of vision was the disk of a sun that was not much hotter than a regular red dwarf.
Only automatons were working on the bridge. Since the journey was relatively short, rather than full hibernation they had been put into a deepened sleep in which body temperature did not drop below fifty degrees.
The eighty-three men of the crew were sleeping in the tunnel-shaped hibernation chamber on the main deck. The Invincible, a class II cruiser, the largest vessel of the fleet stationed at the base in the Lyra constellation, was moving in photon sequence across a quadrant on the very edge of that cluster of stars.
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