Combat Reconnaissance

There’s always room in life for blind chance—something that can flip everything upside down. For Lieutenant Commander Alexander Tarasov, it was the most ordinary operation to capture a “black archaeologist.” Could he have imagined that the key-card from a teleport, found on board, would lead to such dire consequences? What is that, a solitary “safari” on a planet that has been cut off from the Federation for almost a hundred years? No support, malfunctioning electronics, and only ghostly chances to return to the home base. Well done, security types! And it all started so nicely: went, looked, came back… Now deal with it. But neither the natives nor the mysterious “people from the sky” will be able to make an experienced assault pilot give up his nerve. Especially since friends on Acheron unexpectedly turn up too…