Chapter 17
Admiral Vorn frowned as the Wanderer vanished into jump space. He checked the displays again. The Wanderer’s shields had definitely been offline. Entering jump space without shields meant certain destruction.
For normal ships. The Wanderer had already shown itself to be far from normal. Vorn was certain the ship had survived, though he couldn’t imagine how. Catching the Wanderer was going to be much harder than he’d thought, but the rewards of doing so would be even greater.
On his displays the blazing signature of the Wanderer’s jump formed a tantalising signpost pointing the way, one he had to ignore for the moment. While commanding a massive fleet had many advantages, being able to respond rapidly wasn’t one of them, especially when that fleet was engaged in combat.
