Chapter Three
May 11, 2231, Wolf 359, Aboard the Fleet Destroyer UTS Kano
Commander Shen’s gaze flicked between the half-dozen data windows floating in front of him. Numbers ticked down as the destroyer hurtled through space toward the contact on the far edge of the sensor window.
They’d picked up a weak distress call. That hadn’t concerned him much, but what little they could pick up on the long-range comm should have made no sense.
They were far from the frontier, but the UTC had gone mad.
“I…under…attack…” the message repeated. He’d ordered the comm station to relay it directly to him and his first officer, Lieutenant Commander Albriz.
The tall woman sat in her chair, focused on different systems windows, including power and weapons. No one was expecting a battle when the Kano had
