Chapter Nineteen
Arkady introduced the two women who were with him as prominent ex-scientists for the Federacy, both from Olympus. They’d been travelling when they became stuck on Aurora because of pirate action. Jetta Bengtson was a physicist in middle age with a severe bun of greying blond hair. Yalinda Singh was younger and had worked in the medical labs.
Tina had heard of Jetta, but didn’t know Yalinda. Both women already knew who Tina was, from Arkady’s stories.
Jetta explained to Tina that the group associated with Thor consisted of scientists and technicians. “We’ve all gotten together because we realise we can’t beat this thing alone. It’s been hard enough to retrieve available data from the remnants of Project Charon. Some of it was highly classified. These are the conclusions
