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Austin tapped his control board and gazed into deep space. A blinking pulsar caught his eye below, and he pressed his helmet to the canopy for a better look. Moving his eyes back toward the Naroovian Salvage Yard surrounding the small moon behind him, he sighed and leaned back.
To conserve fuel, the fourteen Scorpions remained parked at the edge of the floating field of forgotten spacecraft. After negotiating three curves from the carrier, three Kardas had successfully arrived from the Formidable shortly after the Tridents had returned from their role as “pirates” in the mission.
Once the Lure arrived with the prisoners, the Kardas would dock with the freighter to take the Serpents and former captives on board. With the prisoners safely aboard the Kardas, the entire team would curve
