Chapter 13
The Sarah O. came to a soft landing a few meters from the tender. Hart raised the hatch to find the chief sec tech there, lowering the ladder. She stepped out of the way as Hart jumped down.
“How is the captain?” Hart asked as he ran his gaze over the camp. It had been set up haphazardly, and he shook his head.
“Annoyed with himself for letting them take him unaware. Other than that, the chief med tech says he’ll be all right. Who’d have thought…” She scrubbed a hand over her face. “He wants to see you.”
“What happened?” Hart followed Chief Sec to the tender.
“We were overcome by the sheer number of them.”
Five hundred of them compared to a hundred crewmembers, even if a quarter of them were military and the rest of the crew was trained in some sort of self-defense…“I don’
