Joe sat in his cabin with Sasha, Doug, Blaze and Janine. They were now five jumps away from the military installation. The Kingdom’s troopers had finally left the Panther twenty minutes before, having ensured no traces of the ship’s recent journeys remained. Joe had ordered the Panther into hyperspace the moment its drive had charged.
“So,” Joe said. “It seems they wiped everything. Sparks and Granger are still trawling through our systems but they’ve found nothing relating to our travels after we picked up the professor. The troopers made certain we hadn’t copied the information anywhere else too. Sasha, if we got you into the general area of space could you find that asteroid field again?”
“Only if you could get me close enough to the area. Without knowing the rough location it
