Travel to and through the next five jump points was strangely quiet. There were no ships, no wrecks, no signs of danger. It wasn’t how Drake had imagined the Disputed Zone would be, but then it was a large area. There could be an entire war going on in another part of the zone and he would still be far from seeing any signs of it.
As they exited the seventh jump point alarms flared. Drake was immediately on edge and ordered the Dagger into motion. But this time something was blocking their path and his crude attempts at changing the Dagger’s direction didn’t solve the problem.
So they sat there, straining for any signs of danger. When no weapons fire struck the Dagger Drake started to worry they’d be facing a boarding party. His troopers were manning the approach to the airlock an
