Ghosts of the Past...

[Dab]

A light spran to life on the arm of Darkstar's captain's chair on the bridge. He hit the key next to it and a image of Raf'el came upon his screen.

Raf'el: Sir, there is one major flaw in our plan. I have been reviewing reports on sightings of these ships. It won't matter if we get a boarding team aboard. As soon as it vanishes the bodies of those who were inside are left sitting out in space. Ship leaves, but somehow leaves bodies of people who had been inside the ship. As soon as it takes off the bodies are still sitting there exactly where they had been when the ship was there. I think we should send me in there with a space suit. If it takes off without me, I'll stay alive in space with that suit on. I'll be trying to find out as much as I can before it takes off. Perhaps give the suit an electric breaker, so we can continually fire our infernos on it to keep it stunned. That will give me more time to work.

Raf'el waited for Darkstar's reply.

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Luciaden thought as he opened the door to his office aboard the Ableben, that his recon scouts had finally spotted another ship. But it turned out to be a different ship than what he was suspecting.


File opening. . .

File opened.

Encryption key: *********

Decrypting file.

One Hacker Spyglass in Unknown. Several picket fighters in Unknown, various types. One Battlestar I with no IDD transponder or identity marks and names on its side. Suspected to be Phantom Battlestar Oblivion.

Will continue to watch this group until ordered otherwise.

Luciaden tapped a few keys on the board. Using a batch delete command, he set the start date of the file deletion, and set the end date of the file purge at the same time, down to the second. This would send a copy of the file under a major encryption to every Admiral and Vice Admiral in the fleet. It would also delete every evidence of the file ever being in the database or being sent. As far as a computer was concerned it never existed.

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