The approach to Pradagrash station was very different from anything Kaira had seen before. The starship traffic was heavy, much heavier than at the other stations she’d visited. The Glimmer ended up travelling within a specified transfer lane with a line of ships and even convoys ahead and behind them, and the same in adjacent transfer lanes.
“So many ships!” said Kaira. “I’d never imagined anything like this.”
“I know. I hate it. Truly hate it. Some of the ships are immense. They can carry as much in one trip as the Glimmer could in a hundred, yet not one person aboard them will be making anything like a decent amount of money. They’ll keep on plying the same routes, making a pile of money for the Corporation, without that ever changing. Living their lives out in boredom under
