In 1187 Imperial Calendar IMTU , Senior Scout Gevaudan Cannagrrh was struck by the Empress Wave while his ship, the Sixth Horizon was preparing for jump from Rorroksueknea ( Gvurrdon 2628) through jumpspace to Okhtous ( Gvurrdon 2425). Being only a Mentored psionic with insufficient psionic shielded cowl hood, the old Courier suffered a psychotic and cognitive break as his mind fractured in trying to interpret the mental, causal and emotional turmoil of the "Yonder Chilling Thought". It was the Pilot-Astrogator's best jump calculations of his entire career and post-adventuring life as the Wave took full effect on his psyche. The elderly Courier gave the order to jump to his only other crew in Engineering aboard the Far Scout and then went mad. In trying to interpret the Empress Wave, the Empress In Black and its message during that very short week in jumpspace, the clairvoyant and teleporter sealed his mental demise. He suffered a psychosis of paranoid schizophrenia in thinking he was under attack by the dread warning message that was the Wave. Then his wife, co-crew and emancipated slave named Zhevra walked in on him just as he was suffering an Aging Crisis from missing his anagathics dosage window. In great mental, causal, emotional and physical pain, the captain of the Sixth Horizon fell upon her in an Infighting frenzy. The six Vargr Concubine slaves in Middle Passage staterooms ran to alert robots Vincent and Bob. But by the time they had overridden the locked door to the bridge, Gevaudan was nowhere in sight and never found on the vessel afterwards. Vincent and Bob, following First Law of Robotics, moved Zhevra Cannagrrh in critical condition to an empty Low Berth after stabilizing her. An investigation ensued as the robots found clues that led to the investigative conclusion that the old, white Vargr fought with the Empress Wave and his mate at the same time. Then, seeing what he had done in a moment of lucidity, attempted Teleportation to the one person he could trust, his elder sister, (the famous magazine field correspondent Dame Qithka Cannagrrh of Kfan Uzangou <White Fangs>), while still in jumpspace. The Pilot-Astrogator's Teleportation Suit missing from the ship, the presence of a recorded slight drop in bridge cabin pressure, water vapor and micro-traces of lanthanum dust on the deck seem to support the theory. The Sixth Horizon was piloted back to the Society of Equals and bequeathed to the matronly elder sister of Gevaudan Cannagrrh who immediately paid for the recovery of Zhevra, Gev's fourth mate-wife. The incident brought in the Law and the courts, in memory of the Vargrtarian Gevaudan Cannagrrh, emancipated the ship's current stock, granted his mate-wife the missing Pilot-Astrogator's ship and all assets he possessed and she retired from spacer life a widow. Senior Scout Gevaudan Cannagrrh was never found. Flight recorder, "black box" data revealed the phenomenal Astrogation calculations as a perfect jump given his UPP, assisting gear and jump protocols. The jump was accurate and all lights were Green through the process. Years later, many of the former slave stock transported out of the Wilds plagued with Virus and vampire fleets, collected enough funds to have a memorial beacon put into place at the jump point, 100 diameters out of Rorroksueknea system. The beacon can tell the life story and details of Gevaudan's Jump as far as could be determined. Even Corsairs of that subsector respectfully left the memorial alone. The Sixth Horizon Far Scout is a meticulously maintained museum exhibit once it went through de-commissioning at a museum at the Downport of Gnoengungag ( Gvurrdon 1923) UWP B759623-7, the first world the Concubine slaves exited the vessel in the Society of Equals away from the Wilds. Vincent and Bob maintain the exhibit and recount the various adventures in their service to the Courier-Slaver. Many emancipated slaves pilgrimage to the exhibit to pay respects to the missing Vargrtarian of the Collapse. A very few psionic telepaths claim to be able to sense the psychic turmoil, residual resonance emitted from the Captain of the ship when they tour the bridge.
