Aon meets "Cal" — the last prince of the Atlians, now a neural imprint drifting through the tech of a dead civilization. Cal has something to say about coin flips, fate, and the difference between being chosen and choosing. Then: a ship the size of a continent powers back to life for the first time in hundreds of thousands of years, and it needs a name. Jack provides one. The Bedouin is born — an ark ship carrying whole biomes, preserved species, and a captured sun for a drive. First stop: a remote asteroid cluster, and a voice on the other side of the static.