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First Officer Draco`s vigil turned to one of alarm as he saw that not only was Marot Pallas alive, but he was being treated more like a friend than an enemy, it was only Patina who was treated as something to be wiped off the bottom of your shoe. He turned his men around and retreated back through the portal and back to the starship Dagger.
High above Galafrey, Ray and Jean Connors looked down at the dark portal, and at the dome habitat that sat beside it. The starship Dagger had no idea at all that they had been shadowed to their destination by the cloaked Orion Defender, or that the crew of the Dagger had been watched as they inspected both the portal and the dome habitat. Ray and Jean Connors then watched as a party of six men entered the portal only for them to exit hurriedly an hour later. What Ray Connors saw next astounded him, for the starship Dagger used its Phaser weapon to fire several bolts of energy at the wall of the crater above the portal, which buried the portal beneath a ton of rock and dust before the starship departed for Helionia.
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