CHAPTER 26
Ruya unscrewed the last bolt, and the panel slid to the floor revealing the console’s contents: a bundle of cables, wires and magneto-optical connectors. She sunk her hand into the tangle and pulled it out, spreading it on the floor, like the entrails of a slain animal.
“Alright, gimme a few krons, and I’ll try to come up with a way to bypass the energy valve controls.”
Zui Mar nodded. Visibly tense, he moved closer to Dan-Lee who was standing nearby in front of the only entryway to the hangar, a small pressurized freight elevator.
The old Master looked at the bounty hunter’s ship. It was a Scar class cargo ship: bulky, ungainly, akin to a massive beetle with two uneven turrets on its back. The cockpit, with its hive-shaped portholes, was located in the lower part of the shi
