Your denial came in so quickly, Colonel, I’m inclined to think you didn’t read the full report. But okay.

So much for keeping an open mind.

We reached Ross’s coordinates at 2100 Alliance time, and I’m at a bit of a loss to describe what we found here. Let’s call it a space station, though I’ll be damned if I’ve ever seen one like it. Scanners estimate it at half the size of Mandel’s smaller moon, which makes the diameter close to a hundred kilometers. Only it’s just hanging out here in the...