So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
(Psalm_104)
Being in a lazy slumber, I felt the signal of Accelerated Awakening. I flinched and woke up. In the stellar wind surrounding me, something slightly changed. Having reached by the testing system for each cell of my body, I yawned and launched a spectrum analyzer. All systems went into operation after hibernation during the last several dozen cycles spent in the orbit of a dying star.
Well, it looks like I was right after all, having gone to this Bright one, which has shedding its shell for about 400 cycles. The spectrum analyzer showed that hydrogen finally burned out and in the next 2-3 microcycles it should explode as a supernova. My message directly from the system of an exploding star will definitely make fuss not only in narrow circles of fans of predictions, but, maybe, even among members of the Mushroom Club of grumbling old men traveling exclusively with the help of gravitational maneuvers. Perhaps I will even be invited to the Council for the position of the Foresight ... In fact, it was high time, because I"m no longer young to fiddle with playful females over the accretion disks of black holes as before, it would be time to declare myself. However, these are just dreams, and the supernova is about to be born, giving a start to a new cycle. So I need to hurry, the future riot of the energies in this system cannot be experienced even by me.
Having formed a winning message to the Network, I started pumping capacitors and began rebuilding the outer shell. Now, throughout my entire 250-meter body, the segments of star chargers and telescopes of passive observation hid under the skin, freeing the place of the multilayer shell of the thinnest nets of superconductors. A pleasant wave of heat ran through the shell of the ideal formed mirror surface, ready to be turned on at full capacity. This cycle ended with my triumph, and I felt it with all the power of charged capacitors, ready to pour out into the superconductors of the shells, providing acceleration and protection.
Having checked the network of pulsars, I plotted a course so as not to fall under the relativistic jet of the supernova and began acceleration.