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FIRST THE INTERNAL lights and screens came back on.
The weapons team started up their systems immediately. The crew were tense, with hands on the controls. Waiting for orders, waiting for the outside feed to come back online.
First the viewscreens flickered into life. Without the scope feed, Ledaya couldn’t enlarge the live view, and the unenlarged version was not very informative. Ships were no more than little dots against the starscape, if we could see them at all.
Then the three-dimensional projection in the middle of the command room came back up. Several people took in sharp breaths, but I didn’t understand why.
“What is that thing?” Deyu whispered
I stared at the projection, confused by the mess of trailing jump wake lines that resembled old spider webs strung over bare tre
