"Moonshot, tapping in." “What’s the status on 285978 in Area 74? Vecrum Group, do you read?” “Roger, Moonshot. Area 74 is cleared - negative.” Parker Estez lifted her hand from the comm switch and exhaled in quiet frustration. “What am I even doing here?” she muttered. Six years she had spent drifting among rocks and silence, searching for a nearly undetectable microalgae in the asteroid belt, and she had found absolutely nothing. What stung worse than the barren years was th