Bab 517: 517 More Threats

The five vessels spread out in a wide fan space to gather the maximum amount of data about every system they passed, with the findings relayed both to the Reavers and the passengers aboard Terminus. This was exactly the sort of thing they had hoped to find when they booked their vacation here. 

They got to be the first to collect data on inhabited planets that hadn't been seen by the naked eyes of any outsider in time immemorial, thousands of years at the minimum. They had watched as the Commander of Terminus had met a lost colony that had adapted their genome to a hostile planet, and now they were going to see more forgotten star systems, ending with a battle against aggressive aliens that might have descended from the Giants that they knew at home as a peaceful and tolerant species.