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Seke put the battleship in cloaking mode, making it invisible to tracking, before he left the hangar. If would be disastrous if the Ocretions tracked ships flying to and from their training location. Zander had been granted asylum by the Ocretions after he escaped the Finnian takeover of his planet. If they Ocretions discovered he’d interfered with their justice system by intercepting the death pod, he’d have to engage in war with them, too. And that was a battle Seke doubted they’d win.
Even with the cloaking, he flew a roundabout course to get to the death pod, just in case. It lay moored on an uninhabitable planet outside of Ocretian territory. The two hundred humans who’d been destined for death were housed on it, and they’d sent several of Zander’s new battleships so Rok could tea
