Warm ghosts

Post-destruction ending sequel to a novel written in 2012, in which those left behind spend most of the succeeding half-millenium in cold sleep, waking for occasional duty. This deals with the last such revival.The underlying novel dealt with the disappearance to Andromeda of most characters. It was posted (not to AO³) two years before the first ME: Andromeda trailer, so is original in that respect. (An excerpt from the final Andromeda-bound chapter is presented in "Notes" at the beginning.)For all these story arcs I chose to wait, rather than rewrite plot elements as the ME trilogy unfolded. This avoided contradicting important game events; there should be no egregious violations of lore. A couple of years after first posting however, serendipity revealed a parallel but opposite issue. The closing lines of my fanfic had survivors heading for Andromeda. Imagine my shock when the E3 2015 trailer, "Mass Effect: Andromeda" was drawn to my attention, showing an N7 in Andromeda, obviously not Shepard but still.