Chapter 47
Nova tensed as the ship prepared to come out of jump space. No, not the ship. The Freedom. She’d decided to rename the ship and there was no one to disagree with her. She much preferred the new name to the Mailed Fist.
She wasn’t nervous about leaving jump space, the Limited crew had handled that perfectly well several times already. She was nervous about where she was coming out — near a small sized station. Near other people.
Not that near. She planned to emerge right at the edge of sensor range. Who knew what waited there? She was reasonably confident the station itself would be intact, or at least that the Empire wouldn’t have destroyed it, because it was on the list of places her ship was due to wipe out. It seemed unlikely another Imperial ship would have been
