(LEGACY) The Archer Hella EX-4 - ''Wanderlust''

V had heard all sorts of stories and tales as she was growing up with the Bakkers. "The Navowae", a poem about a group of space travelers lost on a faraway planet, had always been her favorite.

The story went, a group of scientists and explorers were on their way back to their home aboard a great mothership called the "Stormbreaker", when their shuttle was blasted out of orbit by a sabotage that occurred on the mothership itself. Four small shuttles which were on their way back were knocked out on orbit and down to the planet below, where they found themselves marooned. As they struggled to reach out to their friends, or their family, or anyone, they eventually learned that all the other occupants of their mothership were dead. The three-dozen-or-so survivors were the only ones left. Their families were gone. Their other friends were gone.

But they still had each other.

And so the scientists and engineers picked up the pieces of their crashed spaceships and turned them into four massive, sand-dune-conquering offroad behemoths, and set off into the rolling deserts of their new planet. They found, through growing to trust and depend upon one another, that they had eventually become their own, new family. They called themselves the Navowae, after a word that roughly translated to "wanderers, lost but renewed", and set off into the sunset. And that's it. The story ended without saying how they ended up. It never said if they were ever found by their old friends from their home planet, or if they managed to survive on the strange new world.

And so, while it had always been her favorite, V had always felt like she never quite understood its ending.

That is ... until she left Night City with the Aldecald