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Captain Jay Shakleton sat in his command chair on the bridge of the cartography starship Abhysal. Well, actually it wasn't a real bridge, just an office with lots of screens, and Jay wasn't officially a captain. The spaceship of the cartography company StarMap Ltd. had no military structure and Jay was only "ship manager".

Jay was bored clicking through the latest cartography charts and looking at the screens to see what the others were doing.

The crew consisted of five people. Besides Jay, there was the ship's mechanic Almamira Malhotra, who took care of the subspace diving generators and the complicated sensor technology. Her nickname was Joe for short, and no one really knew why. Nicolai Sweroltzki was the engineer, janitor, MacGyver, all-rounder, he was a subspace veteran and his nickname was Nemo, named after the captain of the Nautilus from the novel by Jules Verne.

The subspace astrophysicist was Milo Aaron, and as an natural genius with a very seldom talent, he could intuitively grasp subspace. Milo was just Milo; he didn't care about nicknames. The last was AI expert Lexaly Park, she had a data implant and could communicate directly with Abhysal's artificial intelligence. Her nickname was Lex and the artificial intelligence was called Kiki.

The Abhysal was also populated by well over 100 other robots that took care of everything from maintaining the hydroponic gardens, servicing the fresh air systems, inspecting the hull, or even acting as sparring partners for Jay.

In fact, the ship could have flown completely automatically. The crew was only there to intervene in an emergency situation and check that Kiki was functioning properly.