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GSS Hunter
Nearing outpost 12 Earth System
4146.8.10 Galactic
Nick sat at his desk in his quarters reading the information on the terminal screen, his frown growing deeper and deeper with each passing second.
The unaligned planet they were headed for was called Brimstone V. Trading ship captains called it by another name, the Planet of Doom. This was because Brimstone V had once been a thriving mining colony extracting iron, gold, copper, and some essential elements for starship construction found on few Alliance worlds until it was devastated by massive earthquakes caused by the mad web of crisscrossing mine shafts bored through the planet’s crust. A penetrating sensor scan of the surface would resemble a map of an anthill.
Over the span of several centuries, catacombs, caves, and
