The deadliest and most dangerous part of... well, space. It is filled with bright stars, strange worlds, massive numbers of new forms of life, dust, rocks, ships, and (according to some people) an immense number of coincidences. However, it was no coincidence that some five years after Dennis Salztriem was killed over a packet of what later turned out to be blank datadiscs, a ship was travelling near an asteroid belt in the ancient, planetless Anlaran system, on the opposite end of the galaxy from Earth. It was not one of the crystalline Petran ships with their powerful weapons and resilient hulls. It was not one of the robust human - or Terran, as they were more frequently called - ships that frequently fought for their survival against the Xargans, and it was not one of the unusual biological ships of the Xargans. It was new. It was alien. If fully operational, the massive, radially symmetrical craft would look to an observer like a flying city, with buildings scattered underneath the shielded dome that housed most of the inhabitants.
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