She had always admired the vantage point of the Shenzhou’s underslung bridge. Being situated on the underside of the Walker-class vessel’s saucer-shaped primary hull gave the bridge an unobstructed view of the space beneath the ship. That position had always conjured for Georgiou the illusion of standing astride the cosmos rather than just gazing up at it, as one would from a bridge on the dorsal side of a starship.

