WarpStrange phantoms drift through the crew's minds. The voidsmen discuss the fantastic visions that haunt their sleep and fill their dreams, the visions of a future that never was. A strange melancholy holds sway over the ship's company.
WarpInterrogator Heinrix van Calox did not leave his cabin for 24 hours, after which he went to the medicae facility for help, weakened by blood loss and exhaustion. There were open and bleeding wounds at his nape, neck, and back. A chirurgeon remarked that the location of the stigmata resembled the placement of neural connectors on the bodies of Imperial Knight pilots, and van Calox forcefully and most indecorously suggested the man keep his idle fantasies to himself.
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WarpJae Heydari spent several days in feverish excitement, bothering the crew with stories of some "heroic exploit that would make her name famous for centuries" and persistent demands that they "raise a glass for her new promotion." Before the officers could discern the reason for such agitation, the obsession left her. According to reports, Mistress Heydari has come to her senses and is stubbornly pretending the episode never happened in the first place.
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WarpTradition dictates that whatever happens in the Navigator's Sanctum during a warp jump remains a mystery, but the transmissions from the esteemed Lady Orsellio during the assault of the phantoms frightened vox operators. According to them, Cassia's voice became unrecognisably clear and cheerful. One of the radio operators reported strange conversations in the Sanctum where the Lady Navigator chattered happily, suggested they "play in the garden," and giggled. Several hours later another operator claimed he heard a woman weep bitterly over the vox-channel.