Collective Hindsight (Book 1) - Aaron Rosenberg [0]
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Chapter
1
Stardate 53851.3
“Great, a runaway train.”
Sonya Gomez found herself going through several emotional states at once. The part of her that was the first officer of the da Vinci thought, Fabian’s finally getting his sense of humor back. He’s starting to recover. But the part of her that was Sonya Gomez, the lover of the now-deceased Kieran Duffy, wanted to snarl, How could you? Your best friend is dead! How can you joke about anything?
She managed to put both halves aside and focus on what Fabian Stevens was talking about.
Captain Gold nodded his agreement. “That’s a pretty apt description, Stevens. It’s large, heavy, and moving at an alarming rate—in a perfectly straight line.” He gestured at the viewscreen, which showed an image of the runaway ship. The image had been captured by a long-range sensor array as the vessel has hurtled past a Federation colony, and was too small to make out many details beyond the basic shape.
Sonya studied the image as best she could. The ship resembled an old Earth bullet-train, flat on the bottom and the back half of the top but curving down in front. Along the side stretched a long mirrored expanse, most likely a fuel nacelle. The entire shape emitted