Distant Hope

CHAPTER 4 - AVENGER

Lisa looked to her screens and she had seen the destruction of the station. She was alone her crew where on Peridima city "This was supposed to be a routine mission" she muttered to herself.

Lisa scanned the debris and saw that no one was alive but the ships sensors had picked up the location of the stations probe.

She maneuvered the sapphire blue Avenger and launched grappling arms to pick up the data probe and it was soon on board.

Lisa knew she had to get Edenia home of the Intergalactic Alliance and also her next trade route dropping off vital building parts for a large construction project.

Lisa turned the ship towards the hypergate and headed for Edenia.

She studied carefully the data records of the station and it concerned her deeply to see that the Iquan had disappeared. The Alliances greatest enemy had disappeared.

Lisa knew that the Alliance was not strong enough to take on the Iquan as most of her fleet was over thirty years old with few new ships.

Yet she walked to her cabin from her bridge and she looked to herself in the mirror seeing her half Meon/half human heritage of golden eyes and blackened spots that crisscrossed her shoulders and she had her human mothers blackened hair. She pulled out of a top drawer a picture of her dad. She looked to him knowing how much she missed him and that he would be concerned that the Iquan had disappeared.

She dwelt on this thought as the ship automatically piloted itself towards Edenia.