Chapter Twenty-Nine
October 5, 2230, Gliese 581, New Samarkand, Sogdia
Damir kicked in the half-blasted door. It collapsed to the floor with an echoing thud, revealing a mostly empty storage room. He ignored the door and focused on sweeping the room for traps or enemies. Unless they were tiny bots, they wouldn’t fit in the small boxes that remained in the room.
There’d been a battle in the sector a couple of hours earlier, and Command wanted the entire area swept and confirmed clean so there wouldn’t be any surprises during their upcoming counterattack. It would help them avoid unfortunate reversals.
Damir’s squad had never located the alleged ghost on the last mission, and he remained unsure of the true source of the FSA’s problems in central Sogdia, especially compared to their succe
