Chapter 30: Gen 7
Tam looked around the scout ship. It was small, could barely hold a person, let alone two people standing there as they did. It was too cramped for her, she would have gone insane riding one of these for years.
“Tam,” her subordinate said, “It seems the ship’s automatic call-back engaged and it flew back. The logs say pilot was lost in EVA, retrieving the probe from an ion storm. The AI was fried irreparably shortly after.”
Tam sniffed around. “No, it’s bullshit. I don’t believe it. The wear on the exercise machine is many years old,” she pointed. “It’s still well greased. And the smell, sure it’s been sealed for years, air scrubbed and recycled but still… No, this reeks of ball-sweat.”
“Oh? If you say so Ma’am, but do you really think a man is aboard the ship? Wouldn
