[In her mind, she is being pragmatic. Her military career - her entire life - comprised doing what no one else could. Ending a several century-long military conflict, curing the effects of a genetic weapon that lasted nearly a millennium, stopping the most powerful entities the universe had ever known from culling the current living species across space - it was all impossible and she did it all.

What was one more impossible thing?]

Communications, mostly. If we can establish anything across to the Near Shore, as you call it, it can help a lot of folks keep their heads.

[It would be worth it for the hope alone. And things people hoped for were not ephemeral to her. They were mission parameters.]