Vacation Amok
NO POWER. LITTLE AIR.
Deep space, off the trade routes.
Helluva way to start a vacation.
The explosion had happened in hyperspace. It threw us out of “warp” and we appeared in normal space several parsecs from where we could be found.
My problem was more immediate though. Power and Air existed on the other half of the ship.
Separated from me by a big hole that explosion had left.
And, no, I wasn't trained at this spaceship survival stuff. I worked in a research group, back of a library, in a college town. My training wasn't in surviving space-liner wrecks. We all had to take the required emergency drills before we could board for the vacation. Not that it gave us much experience with these things. Like those boring lectures flight attendants give on airlines about what
