"By the way, how could you detect what kind of weapon was in the pod?" Rafaela asked the core system a while later. "Even with an active scan, the pod should have sufficient radiation shielding to obscure most things?"
Perhaps it was just an attempt to distract herself from the fact that she was now in fourth place again due to her stepsister's antics, but she had been over every centimeter of the scout ship's physical equipment, and was certain that it didn't have any secret equipment stashed away beneath its skin.
Diagrams of weapons flashed across the main display, and the ship replied smugly, "Visual identification using the emergency monitoring link."
