Lange's Legacy

"Lange's Legacy" is a story about Sean Lange, a man who works on a huge star-liner as chief of security. It's a monotonous routine job, and with around 3000 guests and 1500 crew to look after, there's no rest for the wicked. Space travel is pretty exciting, as he would tell you – which only means you get to see your life flash before your eyes several times a day – but can't hear much dialog over the sound of your own screaming.

The disappearance of the Red Star Liner "Demeter" becomes one of the great unsolved mysteries of commercial deep-space travel, until one day, a military ship on patrol spots an object drifting in space – which turns out to be a shuttle from the long-lost mystery ship, Demeter. They find a body onboard – a body clutching a very long letter...