Bad Routes

Lindsy finds a route through what the charts say is unclaimed space and it looks clean. It cuts time off a supply run and the data supporting it goes back further than most of the corridors the Dutchman has been using. There is no reason not to try it.

There turns out to be a reason.

The ship drops out of warp and is not alone and what follows makes it clear very quickly that whoever these people are they have been holding this space for a long time and have very strong feelings about who gets to pass through it. The Fen Domar are not in any database worth consulting and the interceptors surrounding the Dutchman are not interested in explaining themselves.

The question nobody can stop asking is what the Fen Domar are protecting in there that makes it worth defending that hard.