She eased her ship into a docking orbit with the dead asteroid and inspected her home for damage.
From the outside, the mining colony didn’t look too bad. You wouldn’t know that everyone inside had died catastrophically.
It had started out as a peaceful miner’s strike. Corp news nets called them riots and sent a platoon of security officers to ‘resolve the escalating violence.’ Something ignited the colony’s atmosphere three hours later.
The corp labelled it a terrorist action by the strikers. She was going to find out the truth, and show the whole system who the corp really was.
Everyday Drabbles #294: Homecoming
June 5, 2020
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