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Drake had decided against taking any shore leave himself. With only four hours per shift he didn’t want to dampen anyone’s fun. So he started on the usual checks for any signs of hellship activity. His heart wasn’t really in it, but it was a routine he had set up whenever they stopped at a station with a decent information network.
In most places he found a few suggestions of a hellship on the loose but unless there were several reports which seemed to reinforce each other it was generally just gossip and tall tales being shared over drinks.
To his surprise his queries brought back information immediately, and a lot of it. There were dozens, hundreds, of reports of a hellship in the area. He started to cross check them.
Some of the reports seemed to be bogus but many clumped to
