Cryogenic sleep pods inside a spaceship. CHAPTER 13 – DEEP SPACE RENDEZVOUS 09:10 (Universal Time) Saturday, July 31, 2320 Command bridge of the KOSTROMA Leaving polar orbit of Wolf 1061c Tina hid her nervousness as her ship was pulling out of its orbit around Wolf 1061c and preparing to jump to the coordinates calculated by Dana Durning: there were so many uncertainties about what she and her ship would encounter next. Despite knowing in detail the flight plan of the SHUNDAR as filled before its departure from Shouria, its captain could well have decided to modify it as a result of what he had encountered in his successive stops in the Gliese 625 and Gliese 581 Systems. He could have decided to push his ship’s engine to the maximum and go faster in order to compensate for the time t

