Chapter 2
Rowan guided the Guardian Wasp as she skimmed along just below the light layer of clouds shrouding one of the planetoids in the Harmony group. He found the name ironic because, with the UniCouncil and the Angevire forces vying to establish control and supremacy over the region, things were anything but harmonious.
Jost Banargee, his flight engineer, sat beside him, gaze fixed to the vidscreen. Though the ship might be small and austere, their instruments were of the latest and best quality, able to sense subtle differences in temperature, anomalous radiation and any other potential signs of life, machines or something that simply did not belong.
Jost whistled through his teeth. “Whoa, what the f**k is that?”
“What have you got?”
“Damned if I know. Something—metal, heat sourc
