HALF BREED
Many had been scrapped, or sold into civilian service, but not the DE-504, an honorable hull that had seen action off Byron and been credited with seven kills.
No, she had suffered the indignity of having her drives removed to enlarge the onboard living accommodations.
Then, as if that insult was insufficient, the one time war ship had been loaded onto a giant transport, carried out to the edge of the galaxy, and dumped into orbit around a world so hot, so shriveled that the crew called it Rasen. That in spite of the fact that the original survey team had deemed the planet too insignificant to merit a name.
Now, her globular hull marked only by the designator NB-23-11E and a hand painted sig
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