Marcus Cole is seventy and on his last watch when the deep frontier comes apart in more than one place at once. A hostile presence surfaces. The Vekhol arrive coordinated. The Nhál arrive unannounced and don't explain themselves. No single ship was built to hold what happens, and the series ends the way it began, with a captain who shows what he feels and a crew that trusts him because of it.
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- Twenty-eight years with one captain. Did the ending pay for the time?
- The Nhál. They don't explain themselves and I don't either. Did that frustrate you or was it the point?
- Hana Whitfield. Would you read her watch?
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