Encheta Shimoa and the BattleCruiser Vagrant

[Encheta]

“Sir! The anomaly is now in scanner range!” piped the Scanners Op, bringing everyone out of their reverie.
Thankfully, the Keeper had stopped talking for over an hour, much to the crew’s relief. Had it stopped its pursuit of the Vagrant, or was it still lurking behind them? Encheta didn’t know, but he wasn’t going to go out of his way to find out either.

“Initiate scans, but stay in passive mode. Bring all information up on main holodisplay.” Encheta replied while putting a memo in his persocom that he really needed to remember the names of all these new bridge members.

The holodisplay in the centre of the bridge flicked and spluttered into life, showing row after row of cascading numbers.

“Estimated time ‘til anomaly identification: One minute forty-five seconds..” The scanner Op. informed, typing furiously on the touchboard in front of him. Encheta could not take his eyes away from the display of ever scrolling figures. His reputation, no - his life, along with the others on his ship was at stake. It was the longest minute forty-five seconds of his life.

After what seemed an eon of waiting, a small beep sounded from the main console. The display immediately changed to an image of a fiery, green-white orb, along with general statistics and space/time distortion factors.

“Identification confirmed. The anomaly is a class-5 traversable jump hole.” The scanner Op. concluded, slumping back in his chair as the rest of the bridge erupted in celebration. Things were looking up.

“Hey! We’re not out of the ion storm yet folks, we still have to find our way back home remember.” Encheta warned. It was the truth, after all.
“Is the jump hole aligned?”
“We don’t know for certain unless we do a full analytical scan, but there aren’t any noticeable fluctuations from what I can tell.”
“That’s good enough for me. That Keeper is still in this system somewhere. While it doesn't seem to be on our heels anymore, I don’t want to hang around and find it. Take us in slowly and stay alert when we jump out.”

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