One station. That was all the probes had managed to locate in two hours of detailed scanning. One station which still had power and might support life.
Had it been one of the last survivors? Had it been saved from destruction by friendly forces which themselves were destroyed later on? There were a number of wrecks in the vicinity, though none all that close. Were those related to the station in some way?
There was only one way to answer her questions. The station was reasonably close, only seven hours away. But did she really want to go there? With the devastation in the rest of the system wouldn’t any surviving structure be set to defend itself aggressively?
On the other hand, maybe that wouldn’t be the case. The station might have survived by pure chance, or been spared by a
