It wasn’t a black hole. That would have been picked up far
earlier by the sensors, plus the ship would have been torn apart long before we
got to it.
No, this was different. It was just a strip, a click long
and a half click wide, in which there was no light, no gravity, nothing.
A slit in the universe.
This got the reactions you’d expect. The scientists wanted
to ignore our orders and study it, while the loyalty officer was already
docking me points for not meeting deadlines.
I would have moved on, but then It came through…
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