Starship Chief

Talents Universe 4
A prequel to the entire Talent Universe series best read any time before "The Master's Talent". It's set many years before first contact with Earth, perhaps in the 1970s. Three Karnd teenagers are on the way station's starship to retrieve a valuable hidden artefact on a planet that's never been contacted. But how many of the crew are really criminals, the next generation from the people that stole the artefact?
Juili was one of the three teenage Karnds. Born on the way station, she has never been on a planet.
Summer 2024 revision,
This is a stand alone story apart from being back story for "The Master's Talent".
About 33,600 words.