In fact the Alterian government had seemed a little smug as if saying I told you so. Indian XXX I knew we were safe from spies and listening devises and laid out a plan. During the time I had gone to school I had lost everyone in another system raid. All my life the True Republic has been at war. After that they were fleeing with our fleet chasing them. Alarms and flashing lights were going off as well as an abandoned ship warning. I started a data dump on where supplies had come from and where they had been sent over the last year. We used the older maps because no one used the jump points anymore. As it began skipping into the system I glanced at David, “well?”
He looked at me in surprise, “I do not have any ships patrolling the system.”
I grinned and glanced at the green light of the closed cargo hold hatch. I graduated with several certificates in ship repair at the age of twenty. I walked to the large open vault and started using a hand loader. We spent a week putting together new skip drones half the size of the old ones with ten gram anti matter warheads.
