Years of practice had trained her to awaken instantly, but she still could swear she’d only been asleep for a few moments as she pulled herself from her bed and tapped a key, accepting the transmission voice-only. “Captain, it’s Lieutenant Fiero,” her junior communications officer, the woman currently stuck manning the station in the middle of the ship’s night, greeted her. “Tau Ceti f RTA has forwarded an Alpha One priority transmission from Mars.” She shook the final dregs of sleep from her eyes. Alpha One from Mars almost certainly meant from the Mage-King himself - and even battleship Captains didn’t receive many missives directly from the King. “Forward it to my cabin,” she ordered. “Thank you, Lieutenant.” By the time the Captain had grabbed a robe and wrapped it around her body against the slight chill of the cabin, an icon had appeared on both her cabin console and the PC discarded on her dresser.
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