-The truck manages to make it up to the mountain, with surprisingly little interference, though lightning does strike near it a bunch of times. As the team near the power plant hooks their lightning rod into the existing electrical grid, the truck people manage to wire their radio dish into the electrical grid. Power floods the radio dish. It takes a few minutes to get the radio dish reprogrammed, but eventually the dish team manages to crack it and they begin scanning for signals.-
-The radio dish scans the stars for 15 minutes. All they find is junk data. A couple of sentences here and there that don't seem to have any connection to each other. A few garbled words and a lot of static. Incomplete burst transmissions - who knows if the transmitter was broke, or if it got cut off, or if passage through space has simply degraded it? At this stage, it's impossible to tell.-
-After fifteen minutes of junk scanning, however, the radio dish team finds their holy grail - a complete signal. Very automated, highly structured, and stable enough that they are able to triangulate the location of the signal's origination point - Centerpoint Station, which is calling every Ark that it can to its position. It takes a few more minutes and gratuitous misuse of a robot for the radio dish to restore its ability to send messages, but eventually the group is capable of firing a subspace radio burst in the opposite direction - not much more than "hey Centerpoint, Ark Destiny is alive and we're en route to you guys, might want to make preperations". Oh well. Not every message needs to be complex.-
-Both groups return to their FOB and head to the shuttle to get off-planet. As they board, they find... Stubbs. Or what's left of him. Just one quarter of him - one of his arms, most of his body, and his complete head, having dragged itself into the shuttle by its remaining arm for God knows how long. After shutting him off, Mercuria extracts Stubbs's cortex to free him from his destroyed body, though she keeps his "remains" for sentimental reasons (and spare parts).-
-With everyone secure and safe aboard, the shuttle takes off and heads back for Ark Destiny. Ecstatic that Centerpoint Station has been found and that Ark Destiny's surviving colonists will have safe harbor, as soon as they're back aboard Kotei orders a jump to Centerpoint - which is well within FTL range. The trip is short, but harrowing - travel through the interdimensional medium has not been kind on Ark Destiny, and neither has the space cloud it hit. The ship shudders and creaks and sounds like it's about to break apart at any moment, but it holds together, and two hours later it leaves jump in front of Centerpoint Station
◊. It looks different. And also pretty big.-
-Centerpoint itself, in stark contrast to its sister Terminus, is in orbit of a brilliant greyish gas giant. While it isn't as vibrant as people might expect it to be, it's certainly not just a featureless white marble - it's criss-crossed by many different white, grey, and blue bands that seem to constantly be shifting. While these bands of shifting gas constantly form patterns, they never hold for very long, giving the planet a constantly changing image. Those inclined would be able to get a few hours worth of entertainment out of watching the planet shift and change. The patterns of ships headed towards and away from the giant - as well as science data on gas giant classifications - suggests the planet's clouds are made of water vapor, and that Centerpoint is harvesting those clouds to hydrate its citizens.-
-Ark Destiny gets docking clearance incredibly quickly - it seems as though people are VERY happy to have another Ark shamble its way into port. Once the Ark docks you're allowed off first as repayment for saving the rest of the ship - as well as because you're some of the first people awake at all. Once you're onboard, the first thing that comes to mind is its sheer size - Centerpoint is a big station. It feels empty, too - there are very few people milling about, and it's almost spooky walking through a ghost station, though eventually it comes to pass that since there's only two arks docked here - Destiny and Fortune - Centerpoint is probably just under capacity.-
-The second thing that comes to mind is that it looks almost exactly like Terminus did if Terminus was bigger and emptier. It's also almost spooky how uncannily like your old home it looks, down to the shape of the storefronts and the police bots. Cementing this is the fact that after enough wandering, you all find your new housing - an exact copy of the penthouse you all owned on Terminus, only it's much larger and has a bunch of extra rooms due to the station's much larger size. Not as personalized, unfortunately, but hey, what can you do?-
-Congratulations; you survived the apocalypse! Kick your feet up and rest for a few days. You've certainly earned it. It's not like it'd be all that different from what you normally did - there's still a bunch of food, enough open stores to provide a massive amount of options for wasting your hard-earned paychecks, and it's not like the TVs haven't mostly been airing multiversal content anyways (though what little locally produced content exists is almost B-movie tier, and definitely good for a laugh with friends if you're into that sort of thing).-
-Welcome home.-
"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."

Asagi: ...Then I hope you like being in here for a while. >.>
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