Chapter 295 - Burning
(BSS Starlight Raven, descending to Thraki, Eye of Despair)
“All right, clear of the fleet, no problems so far. Descending into the atmosphere. Keep an eye on the sensors, Raven, and let me know if we get any strange readings.”
“Other than ones caused by being in a dimension born of pure chaos?” The AI was being snarky. Clearly, she still wasn’t happy with my choosing to go down to the planet. Still, best not to make a big deal about it.
“Yeah, other than those. We need to have a baseline weirdness value, so we can find out what is extra weird about this little pocket of Hellspace, in particular.”
Raven just shook her head, so I turned back to my plot, and focused on flying the ship. “Altitude fifteen thousand meters. Course steady for the population center closest to survivor’s suspected location.”
“Device is still logged on to the local network. Looks to be streaming from a music site. I am detecting some phasic energy in the atmosphere. Getting stronger as we descend.”
“Dangerous?”
“Unknown at this time.”
“Passing ten thousand meters.”
“Wait, there’s a spike—”
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