A Greater Interest: Samair in Argos: book 4
“The convoy, however, was over a month late. Mondragon had returned home quite a long time ago, with the understanding that the rest of the task force would be following along shortly behind. And while the frigate was able to travel a great deal faster than the other ships by virtue of being alone, it still should have only been a matter of a couple of weeks for the rest of the group to catch up. The amount of concern felt by everyone was growing with each passing day, because there was simpl...y no way of knowing what had happened. Had the pirates gotten them? Had there been a drive failure and the ships lost? No one knew and there was no way to find out. Outside of the hyper limit of a solar system there was simply no way of finding a lost ship, short of combing every kilometer of space along the path of that lost ship, which was a task so difficult and time consuming as to be bordering on the completely futile. It would take years to traverse the space in between two star systems, even if you knew the exact vector of your quarry. Without even that specific set of data, the only other way of finding anything along that path and reporting back would require sheer dumb luck, or a century or two of intense scans.MoreLess
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