After leaving the Command Deck, Scott went back to prepping his Battlenaut...but not for long. An hour later, he was summoned to a conference room by Captain Rexis.
When Scott entered, Rexis and seven other Diamondback officers were staring at a holo projection cube hovering over the big ebony conference table in the middle of the room. Right away, Scott identified what they were watching as video of the surface of Shard--a recognizable landscape of gray and silver shapes gleaming in the cold light of a pale yellow sun.
"Corporal Scott." Rexis gestured at the screen. "These are some of the first images from the A.I. probes sent to Shard."
Scott nodded and moved closer, watching the hovering cube as the video continued to play within its boundaries. It was like gazing into a cube-sh
