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Ares Fortuna walked about the limited space offered by the bridge of the starship Dark Nebula getting angrier by the moment, making his crew even more nervous than they already were, being as they were so close to the dark nebula. He looked at the nebula shown on the large view screen before him, he knew he couldn`t order his ships into the nebula, for the crews would simply refuse to enter, and so instead he merely cursed the Orionists to hell while he considered his options for the immediate future.
One, he had to return to Helionia to silence anyone who dared to accuse him of being in league with the kidnappers. Two, he would leave the Vengeance in orbit about Galafrey in case the Orionist starship returned to it to try and pick up the murderer Tyler Burrows. Three he would send his other space cruiser, the Shield, to the wormhole to prevent the Orionist ship from returning to its own part of the galaxy, and to warn him should the starship that had contacted the Orionist ship come through in a bid to help its friends. To wait here for a cloaked ship to depart the nebula was pointless, and to enter the nebula impossible for it was strictly against the religion of his people. He was leaving without the victory he badly wanted, he would just have to be satisfied in taking out his anger on the free Marot Pallas, when he was back on Helionia that is.
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