In the silence of space, no one would notice a small escape pod eject from the cargo hold of an automated transport ship.
That was the lowest specification escape pod, which just barely had enough volume to envelop one person inside.
Every level of the transport ship was equipped with over a dozen such pods, though they were seldom used since actual transport ships tended to have the fewest crew members of all ships.
Five seconds after the pod had separated from the transport ship, it was already a hundred kilometers away from the vessel.
In the deep cosmos, unnoticed by all, a bat-like flying craft appeared, its dense black color even darker than the starry sky backdrop.
Approaching the drifting escape pod, its microwave resonance engine began to function.
This high-tech, fuel-less engine from a parallel universe demonstrated its highly subtle and covert utility.
Silently, it towed the escape pod into an asteroid belt.
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