Chapter Thirty-Two
October 12, 2230, Gliese 581, En Route to New Samarkand, Aboard the Argo
Jia sat in the cockpit, resting comfortably in the pilot’s chair while scanning the sensors for anything out of the ordinary—not that she expected to encounter anything. They’d disconnected from the jumpship and were a couple days out from New Samarkand. Currently, they were closing on one of the uninhabited outer planets. Janessa and Wei remained on the jumpship to help Raphael. Malcolm was in his cabin getting some rest, while Lanara continued her eternal quest to achieve engineering perfection.
Although they were on their way to a world in crisis for a dangerous mission, Jia was relaxed, convinced the trip there would be uneventful. She kept going back to the long-range sensor data. It might b
