Location:Mid Ring, Vel'thari Containment — Dead Spot
Date/Time:Late Ashwhisper, 9941 AZI — Day 86, 279 days remaining
Realm:Lower Realm, Doha
The dead spot had two ships. Jayde intended to use both.
The Resolute was the larger vessel. Rebel transport, sealed hull, intact corridors, crew quarters designed for thirty. The shuttle was smaller but powered: reactor on ultra-low, scrubbers cycling, emergency lighting humming amber through compartments that had been waiting for crew since before the Academy existed. Two ships. Two purposes.
She stood between them in the debris-field dark, handheld beam casting a circle of light that caught the hulls of both vessels, and the tactical mind that had built courier networks and kill zones and a fortress from nothing looked at what she had and saw what it could become.
"The Resolute is the barracks," Jayde said. "Living quarters, command post, storage. We sleep here. We plan here."
