P5-7 Fail — Carrier

Mira felt a prickle at the base of her skull—the kind of instinct that had kept her alive through a pirate interdiction near Europa and a depressurization incident in the rings of Saturn. “Match it against known debris databases.”

“You saw it,” Mira said. Her voice was flat, but her mind was already running through the failure tree, branch by branch. Carrier fail could mean a dozen things: a solar flare, a debris strike, a power collapse, or something worse. Something deliberate. carrier p5-7 fail

The diagnostic screen flickered once, then went dark. For a long moment, the only light in the cramped cockpit came from the faint, greenish glow of the backup display, casting Lieutenant Mira Vales’s face in the color of old sickness. Then the words appeared, blocky and absolute, as if carved into the glass: Mira felt a prickle at the base of