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Drake glanced around the bridge, checking on his crew. All of them were sitting quietly, focusing intently on their tasks. For the first time in too long that wasn’t down to any leak over from his thoughts or tension between them. This time it was because they were about to enter the Disputed Zone.
The jump point was ahead of them and surrounding it was an immense Federation fleet. There were somewhere in excess of a thousand ships and it could only be described as a war fleet.
Drake knew this wasn’t usual. The whole reason for the Disputed Zone was because the border between the Federation and the Eternal Domain was too large to mass ships along. This either meant the fleet was preparing to go to war or was expecting a war to come to them.
Either way, Drake didn’t want to get
