Chapter Seventeen
But Finn’s words disturbed her more than she wanted to admit. Project Charon had been closed down, and he might be content not knowing why, but she definitely wasn’t.
She searched for the information and found that it was as Finn had said. The reason for the closure had not been given, but the regular Federacy Force had swept in with their big ships and had wreaked havoc on a fleet of private ships in the area, widely assumed to be a pirate band.
Pandana, the nearby civilian station where she’d bought her ship, was under quarantine.
Fancy that. So much had changed. She also found out that, back in her day, it had been okay to call pirates Freerangers, but these days, that was a loaded term, because it was what the pirates called themselves with pride. They were free o
