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the monitor.
    “Valis likes
pairing us up,” Esra said. “Do you think she’s trying to tell us something?”
    Brian laughed.
“I wouldn’t mind taking you up on that offer. But we have a crisis to deal
with.”
    Esra sighed.
“It’s always business before pleasure.”
    “Do you want to
split up for the search or stay together?” he asked.
    “Let’s stay
together,” Esra said. “If we find a fleet of carriers we’ll need each other for
protection.”
    “That’s what I
thought you’d say,” Brian said.
    “Captain, we’re
receiving a distress call,” Droid B reported. “It’s from the Minan resource
colonies around the fourth planet.”
    “Put us on
course for them,” Brian said. He looked at Esra. “I think we should send out
our mobile suits.”
    “Agreed,” she
said.
     
    * *
*
     
    The mobile suits
from the Freedom and Daevoni searched the colonies. From the wreckage it was
obvious they had come under attack. Seles and Mira flew on their own to the
largest of the colonies and found a massive hole in the outer shell. The
Artemis and Siren paused when they reached the breach.
    “I’m not
detecting any life signs,” Seles said.
    “This is bad,”
Mira said. “They didn’t even have a chance to defend themselves.”
    “Let’s take a
closer look inside,” Seles said.
    “Of course,”
Mira said.
    The pair
descended into the colony until they reached ground level. The interior of the
complex spanned ten ketres and included apartment complexes and agricultural
domes. Floating around everywhere were the bodies of thousands of Minan
civilians. Both mobile suits recorded everything they could.
    “It looks like
this area was completely depressurized,” Seles said.
    “Does this place
have an emergency shelter?” Mira asked.
    “It did,” Seles
said.
    Their scanners
showed a large part of the complex that was now destroyed.
    “This is what
war with the Greys looks like,” Mira said.
    “They won’t
leave one of us alive if they can help it,” Seles said. “With things as they
are I won’t be surprised if this is the norm everywhere soon.”
    “The best
solution is to drive them out of the Confederation,” Mira said.
    “I agree, but it
won’t be easy,” Seles said.
    Their coms
flashed before a haggard looking Minan man appeared on their screens.
    “Oh thank
goodness,” the Minan said. “We thought we’d been abandoned.”
    “I’m Commander
Seles Daevon of the Freedom,” she said. “We came because of your emergency
beacon.”
    “I’m Lieutenant
Commander Halden,” the Minan man said.
    “Where are you?”
Seles asked.
    “I and about
three thousand others were able to escape into the command center of this
colony,” he said. “We have no means of leaving on our own.”
    “We’ll send some
transports in to help,” Seles said.
    “Thank you
commander,” Halden said. “Tell me, did any of the others make it? We lost communication
with them a while ago.”
    “I don’t think
so,” Seles said before showing him the video feed. She saw tears in his eyes.
“I’m sorry.”
    “I am as well,”
Halden said.
     
    * *
*
     
    Brian was pacing
around the bridge when Kyli appeared on the screen.
    “We’ve found another
three hundred survivors in the second colony,” she reported.
    “I’m glad we can
help them,” Brian said. “Continue on then.”
    “Yes captain,”
Kyli said.
    “That brings out
total to four thousand and two hundred survivors,” Jesela said. “Where are we supposed
to put them all?”
    “Have them
escorted to the Vomada,” Brian ordered. He looked at Grigon. “That’s alright,
isn’t it?”
    “Of course,” the
old birdman said. “It’ll be a tight fit but it’s the best place for now.”
    The scanners
went crazy when a number of disturbances in subspace were detected. A moment
later a fleet of a hundred Grey carriers appeared nearby. They quickly went to
surround the Freedom, Daevoni, and Vomada.
    “Just our luck,”
Esra said over the