A memory is burned into this strange material, an echo of another lifetime...

"The same nightmare chases me: a wail fills my cockpit, the dashboard controls gummed with blood.
I have given up sleep. I pulse past blurred stars.
And then there it was: majestic, drifting in the ocean of space.
Something inside me burns for it. I must have it.
Its great fin flexed toward my ship, and my hull was gone..."