The Space Station - Chapter 1 - Page 10

Waking from his reveries, Functionary turned and walked across the across the observation deck and looked forward to where the ship was heading. There, dimly, he could see a small star, around which orbited his new home. There would be several months yet, while the spaceship oozed its slow way through the apparent treacle of space, before Functionary arrived at this outlying planet. This was plenty of time for him to contemplate his past, his present and his future.