Chapter 1
Staring out the observation port, Captain Hugh Pigot tried to work through his problems. He was worried. His ship the EOM Paney had been on patrol for over a week with no communications from either the fleet or the sector government. While that was not unusual for the fleet, not hearing anything from the governor’s office was very strange. In the past, there was always some crazy request or demand for information or something coming down the pipe.
To top that off his new XO, Commander McCoy was acting a little strange. Crew changes are always hard, especially when it involved more than half the ship. Hugh was still unsatisfied with the explanation he’d received for stripping out half his crew and replacing them with these poorly trained ones. His orders said it was a “training
