Centaurs In Space II

Continuing the translation of “articles” to modern blog entries… Part II of Article 30 from December 18, 2003.

Second in the series of “Centaurs in Space”, with text drawn from my short story “Death Wish” and images drawn from my sequential adaptation of the same story.

…The mission started well enough: a thousand light years in a trusty B4 shuttle, charting a star factory trailing the shock wave of the Perseus spiral arm. Two days out, and the routine was starting to settle in: dust clouds curdled here, disks of collapsing gas there, and blue supergiants everywhere, burning the candles at both ends.

It looked to be an uneventful jaunt, and she was already getting an itch to see her husband back on the Dragonfire…