Chapter 86
Galactic Standard Date: 152,323.06 AE
Zulu Sector: Command Carrier ‘Light Emerging’
Colonel Raphael Israfa
RAPHAEL
He and Major Glicki had taken to working opposite shifts so that there was always a battle-hardened commander on the bridge. Out here in Zulu Sector, they were too far away from help if whoever had shot Mikhail down took objection to their snooping and decided to do to them what they'd done to the Leonid destroyer. While the Light Emerging was technically a command carrier, its primary function was intelligence-gathering, not hammering against a Sata'anic naval carrier or a Tokoloshe dreadnought.
They weren't the Jehoshaphat!
And he wasn't General Abaddon…
He tossed and turned, trying to force his mind to embrace the sluggish haze which dogged his waking h
