"Contact," Sayeeda reported as her PPI flashed the new signal. Her hands flew over the controls targeting sensors and examining readings. It didn't have the multiple frequency reading that a ship would have, they bi-product of hundreds or thousands of motors, pumps and actuators, It only emitted one signal, a slowly growing diffraction wave.

"All clear," she said by reflex, "looks like its only a comet or some other chunk of space rock. Moving fast though and seems to be... how is it possible for a rock to be accelerating."

"Captm, It mus have onatural high concentrations of antimater that be sublimin to cause thrust," Lonney chipped in. Sayeeda blinked rapidly, momentarily defeated by the dialect the damn computer used. A few finger strokes converted the analysis to text without the accent.

"Hardly fair!" Looney grumped.

"Looks like its going to pass within one standard unit of us, Looney says that it must have a vein of some sort of anti matter rich ore that is subliming to give it its thrust. Sensors can't predict if we will need to maneuver."

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