Epilogue
Captain Kurt Nelms traveled light, the Karda loaded with extra fuel tanks instead of missiles and the inside outfitted to hold more passengers if required.
His carrier, the Redoubtable, had been taken off its recent patrol of the Fringe to deal with marauder attacks and ordered to the Zahl-Legion border. It didn’t make any sense to him—scuttlebutt had it the feelings between the two governments had warmed a bit since the threat of war in the past year. But after twelve years in the Legion Navy, he knew not every order had to make sense.
He adjusted course as his Karda passed through the habitable moon’s atmosphere, lining up for the coordinates he had been provided as the last known location for the missing crew.
Shaking his head, he thought about the situation for this missio
