Chapter Eighteen
When Tina was as sure as she could be that Jake no longer watched her, she stopped to note “SF Manila” on her PCD.
SF stood for Star Fighter, an attack ship, much smaller than the behemoths like the Stavanger, which were glorified troop carriers, command centres and logistics providers. The Star Fighters did the work, and the ones of the Southeast Asia class were at the forefront. Their whereabouts were a secret. Their missions were a secret. Weapons they carried on board were secret. No wonder she’d been unable to find any information about Evelle other than some really generic stuff.
Evelle had just turned thirty. What would be her function on the Manila?
Whatever else had changed at Kelso Station, the office of the Port Authority was still more or less as it had bee
