The screens went blank for a few moments then flickered back into life. All showed the same thing, a deep blue mist with wispy strands of a lighter blue all lit by a soft internal glow. Every few seconds a crackle of lightning discharged.
“Holy s**t!” Matt swore. “We’re in jump space. It’s just not possible. You can’t jump from inside a gravity field or inside a station. It’s impossible.”
“Then we’ve done the impossible,” laughed Sal. “Don’t you understand? We’ve made it, we’re free!”
“Not yet. I spent most of my life on ships. They’ll have tracked our entry vector. Ships will soon be following us, not the ones that were chasing us but they must have more outside of that place. Their sensors won’t work here but the moment we punch through to real space we’ll leave behind a huge disturba
