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King Arthur Star Wars Style

Chapter Eighteen: A Smuggler’s Ship

Reaching the cockpit, Lynette paused
as she stared at the vast darkness of space just outside the window.  Slowly she dropped into the pilot’s seat and
started tapping at the console, taking a sensor reading.  Maybe they had simply overshot when they
dropped out of hyperspace?  After all,
they’d been forced to override the nav computer before making the jump and
there were much worse possibilities out there than traveling a little too
far.  But if that was the case, why
hadn’t Ax turned them around?  Why was he
so engrossed in a readout from the navigation computer?

The sensor readings came back
without picking up any planets in their immediate vicinity.  There was a small moon with a high output of
electromagnetic radiation.  But no
planet.

“Ax?” Lynette asked.

“Yeah?” he grunted, all of his
attention still on the nav computer.

“Where are we?” Lynette asked.  

Ax shook his head as he finally
looked up from the computer.  “Right
where we’re supposed to be.”

“No,” Lynette said.  “No, because where we’re supposed to be is at
a planet.  There’s no planet here Ax!”

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