The Alpha Protocol
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I turned the view from the earth and looked into the infinite, pitch-black void
of all. There, radiated by the bright light of the sun, drove the relic.
The sister ship of the echo of the stars.
It was a steel Leviathan. At least five kilometers long, shaped like a
aerodynamic arrowhead, crowned by three huge, annular
Drive sections. The shell was of a matte, blunt grey, oversaturated with
Hundreds of dead solar hedges, like the broken wings of a huge
Bats in the room.
There were no lights. No position lights, no glow in the engines. The ship
was absolutely dead.
And Silas was right: the starboard flank was torn up. Violent,
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