185 Covert salvage operation (2)

"What the hell are we supposed to do all the way out here?..."

[I still don't know private. I didn't know when you asked 10 minutes ago, or an hour ago for that matter. Standing orders from ICI is to stand ground and keep up the formation with this exact separation.]

It had been a few hours since the 2nd fighter wing scrambled with the supposed goal of locating and identifying the unknown contact that occupied the system along with them. In that time they had done nothing of note, making the pilots who had received cutting edge fighters that were a generation ahead of anything they had ever heard rumours about extremely bored as they simply maintained their positions. Being spread out thin in a wide net like formation, the fighters were separated by a few kilometres, so all they saw out their cockpits were the cold empty void of space.