JAS COULDN’T BELIEVE it. She was at home in her apartment, and she’d been standing when the message appeared on her interface, but her knees buckled and she sat on her bed as she read it.
All individuals involved in the attempted capture by unknown aliens of the prospecting starship Galathea while it was in orbit around K. 67092d are found to be innocent of any dereliction of duty or other criminal or civil culpability in the resultant loss of life. No legal wrongdoing on behalf of any Polestar employees involved, living or dead, has been found.
How could it be true? She’d told them all of it, beginning to end, and her story would have been totally different from Haggardy’s. The investigation committee must have known one of them had to be lying. How could they have found no one guilty?
