It should have been simple. Rafaela hadn't been out-system for all that long, and she was headed for a station, not a ship.
But the agreement that she and the ship had reached, on how the recovered data would be stored and treated, became irrelevant when the ship announced with confusion, "This is not the station we previously visited at this location."
Rafaela blinked and then asked, "What?"
"Nothing about the station matches our last visit, neither optical scan, energy output, or identification numbers," the ship complained.
"Are you sure we're headed toward the right place?" she asked uncertainly.
"Yes, even given the days spent in the outer sectors, the exact location we visited before the race would be within visible range, and this station is in the correct location for the orbital rotation of that station, but it isn't the station we visited," the anim explained with dramatic arm waving.
"Maybe it just looks different, like he changed the ID and stuff," she suggested.
