The door to the Command Deck swept open, and Perseid ran right through. "Report!" he snapped in mid-stride, before his feet had stopped moving.
Scott ran in next and stopped sooner, hanging back to assess the situation. In the view ahead, visible through the transparent prow of the ship, he saw the orange and yellow sphere of Oberon, poised between the binary stars that kept it bathed in perpetual daylight. The planet was still small, in the distance, hours away.
"Sir!" Rexis, who was standing up front with hands clasped behind her back, looked tenser than Scott had ever seen her. "We've detected a vessel in orbit around Oberon." She paused. "A Commonwealth vessel."
Perseid came to a stop in the middle of the deck and planted his hands on his hips. "Which Commonwealth vessel?"
