Chapter 12On the screen the silver and redshipzoomed through space smoothly. When I was told it was hailing us Iwas a bit curious. But our sensors told us the ship was not on redalert. The silver and red guys were not coming in with gunsblazing.From what we could tell their weapons were on neutral. Theirshieldswere down.
Which showed they had a degree of trustthat was either a trick or at the high end of the incredulityscale.Militarily, it violated every code officers live by. You neverapproach an unknown ship with your shields down. You don’t know whoor what is inside and they could be potential adversaries. Giventhecurrent state of affairs in the galaxy, the chances are more than50-50 that they are adversaries and, if they see the shields down,they will blow your ship apart. But the sil
