Milk Run - A Dauntless Story

The ship moved silently through the dark.  The Dauntless was far beyond the charted systems and well outside of the normal shipping lanes. The stars were distant pin-pricks in a sea of black.
“Navigation shows nominal drift. Secondary stability thrusters offline for diagnostic checks and port main thruster is showing a variable reading on heat sensor two. Decker is enroute to bay 4 to for EVA and I’m awaiting his signal to cut all power to the port main thruster so we don’t accidentally cook our engineer. Sneed reports that armory inventory is complete, and on your desk, and Rocker units are showing green across the board. Comms reports no abnormal chatter on the commercial and civie channels and no pings within range. Oh, and dipshit is waiting in your briefing room.” XO McGrath gave her report. Captain Page lifted his eyebrow at his second.