Chapter 62
Galactic Standard Date: 152,323.06 AE
Zulu Sector: Command Carrier ‘Light Emerging’
Colonel Raphael Israfa
RAPHAEL
Raphael examined the holographic map of the Orion-Cygnus spur of the Milky Way galaxy. Different colors marked the solar systems they'd scouted, red for uninhabitable, yellow for systems with planets or moons that might support life for a brief period of time, and green for M-class planets that could support life long-term. There was precious little green…
…and an awful lot of grey marked 'Unexplored.'
He gripped at his hair, grown out of its crewcut because he'd been too darned busy to make a trip down to the barbershop, and yanked it in frustration. For seventeen weeks there'd been no sign of a homing beacon or Sata'anic activity which might indicate wher
