4. Contamination“You found the missile? It's unexploded?”
She sent Ondo imagery of what she was seeing. “It looks like an infiltration bug to me. We really need to get the hell out of this region of space now; it's either trying to take over the ship, or it's busily harvesting all the data it can find to send to Concordance.”
She pulled in telemetry from the three nanosensors ringing the ship. Still no sign of any pursuit; the only object of any size nearby was Surtr's vessel. They had to assume it was only a matter of time before the enemy showed up. She sent a series of instructions to the nanosensors, instructing them to remove this muster point from their itinerary, and to pass the command up and down the chain. She needed the devices where they were for the moment, but once they lef
