Friends or no friends

Previously

…Ricky stared at her, his mind reeling. The hull breach, the external energy signature, and now Elara, holding a piece of technology that looked like it belonged in a science fiction novel. The pieces of the puzzle, fractured and scattered, were beginning to fall into place, albeit in a terrifying, unexpected way. The whispers and suspicions that had plagued the Stardust Drifter were about to give way to a truth far more dangerous, and far more personal, than any of them had ever imagined.