Eight light-minutes from Wayfarer Station, Ensign Kumagai broke comms discipline. "Lieutenant McPherson," she said into her helmet mic, "how're you holding up over there?"

The two pilots had been assigned a long patrol together, investigating possible long-range sensor traces that might, in some possible world, be Vasudan warships operating under EMCOM, but were more likely smugglers making a clandestine navigational adjustmen...

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