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. But you didn't take it. You turned them down flat. You began asking questions. Questions about Dalin Rowan: Where was he? What had happened to him? What did the bureau tell you?"
Xris hesitated, then said, "According to Armstrong's report, Rowan left in the shuttlecraft. That was the last anyone heard from him. The next thing the bureau knows, one of Warlord DiLuna's ships reports that they received a distress call from Vigilance the day of the mission. The Warlord contaeted the bureau, waited until they arrived--standard procedure, due to all the classified stuff we handled--then sent out a search-and-rescue team. They found the ship dead in space. Dead's the right word. The crew had been murdered. Most died from asphyxiation--a deliberate air leak. The captain and bridge hands had been shot.
"Only Armstrong was still alive. He was trapped in the control room. He'd been supposed to die in the vacuum, but apparently the air leak triggered some sort of emergency device that shut the blast doors, sealing him up inside. When that happened, he guessed immediately what was going on and gave us the abort code. Too late. He was trapped inside the control room until the search-and-rescue team found him, about twenty-four hours later.
"It was easy to figure out what took place. One of the shufflecraft was missing. Logs indicated Rowan took it. No one ever saw him again."
"You didn't get a chance to talk to Armstrong personally, did you?"
"No
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