I spoke with Cucco alone. He feels he failed in navigating us. Failed in being the first humans to explore an exoplanet. He wasn’t in tears, but sad in his own way. He doesn’t want anyone to think he’s incompetent. I reminded him of our situation: alone in the darkness, and that this was out of his control. That something else is deeply amiss in the void beyond Okulous-10.
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