Rafaela gazed at the display screen blankly, and touched her arm even though it didn't hurt. After the fright it had given her, she had expected… more. But the core system had simply released her from the medical pod and announced that it was finished with its initial calibrations, and then complained that it had no link to the network that it expected to be able to access.
The screen was filled with data. Everything from the available reaction mass to components that reported themselves as damaged. It didn't take her long to realize that something important was still missing after reading the section that reported that millions of coded messages were being detected on several different radiation bands. After sorting through it all for several minutes, she called the others back and reported everything that the system had done.
"The scout needs a modern com system," Rafaela announced, while ignoring the system's complaints about the unknown language.
