Drake received a call from Alpha leader and answered it immediately.
“Captain,” said the squad leader. “It’s not good over here. So far we’ve seen a hell of a lot of suicides and corpses. It looks like the hellship did its best to purge the crew in its dying moments.”
“Damn it. Are you finding anyone alive?”
“Maybe one in forty are alive but many of those are comatose. We’ll evacuate them but I don’t hold high hopes for them.”
“We’ll do what we can to save them. At the worst they’re not suffering any longer and we’ve stopped the hellship from inflicting pain on anyone new.”
“Aye, Captain. I’m heading for the bridge area now. We’ll get what information we can from it, do a final sweep for survivors, then set the powerplants to overload.”
“Good. I don’t want the Federation pic
