Chapter 10
LorranLorran positioned the shuttle to hide carefully behind the moon while he and Mylomon gathered information. He did not want to waste time or fuel entering the atmosphere if SRV-P11’s remaining crew did not land there.
The shuttle’s scanners were not ideal, but they identified the abandoned Mahdfel base on a narrow island off the eastern coast of the planet’s second largest landmass. Why that location when a sprawling continent was literally a stone’s throw away, Lorran could not say. Perhaps the location offered a protected harbor or some other unique advantage to defense. Or the warriors who built the base planned for civilians to colonize the landmass.
The planet, designated at Etes 3, boasted a wide habitable zone suitable for settlement. Temperatures did not tend to
