A captain, a commissar, and the ultimate crisis at 0.99c:If your propulsion system goes off-line, how can you slow down? After decades of service, Captain Aalund has one final mission: tow a wormhole to an enemy star system, then retire on a tropical beach. Until enemy action knocks out the tractor beam generator back home.Now, his ship can't slow down. Can he find a way to save his ship and crew from dying of old age in the depths of interstellar space? Can he overcome the unyielding fanaticism of his ship's political officer?
A captain, a commissar, and the ultimate crisis at 0.99c:If your propulsion system goes off-line, how can you slow down? After decades of service, Captain Aalund has one final mission: tow a wormhole to an enemy star system, then retire on a tropical beach. Until enemy action knocks out the tractor beam generator back home.Now, his ship can't slow down. Can he find a way to save his ship and crew from dying of old age in the depths of interstellar space? Can he overcome the unyielding fanaticism of his ship's political officer?
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