Chapter 9“I assume all of you know aboutourengagement on Verdunne so I won’t repeat it. After we retrieved ourpeople, this ship appeared out of the blackness of space and is onwhat appears to be a collision course with, well, us. For reasonsunknown but which are probably related to how and why they werecreated, the crew is in no hurry. We have never seen inside thisblack ship, but we assume the crew looks a bit like Ralph, as Lt.Anson has so affectionately named our prisoner. We have twochoices.I could make an arbitrary command but I wanted to listen to mygeneral staff. We can exit immediately and head back to Belen’swell-fortified planet. At that time we will transmit all theinformation we have about the invaders who call themselves ‘TheDestroyers’ to the Federation. And we will no doubt
