The Last Flight of the Carrion CrowCaptain Galena Karst watched the unfolding space battle with pleasure in her stony heart.
Distant explosions bloomed like flowers in the void. It always struck her how colourful they were. How varied. Some white, some red, some distinctly purple. They could be exotic gems unearthed in the mines back home on Arralith.
This far away you couldn't see the vast ships being ripped in two by beam-weapon fire, couldn't see the mangled and burned bodies sucked out into the void. It was all utterly silent, utterly peaceful. And the battle raged over such a wide arc of space you never knew where the next explosion was going to erupt. Really, the effect was almost hypnotic. Especially when the Carrion Crow was concealed on the surface of an asteroid, undetectable t
