“He must have jettisoned,” Vapor said, doubt in her voice.

“Check other local sectors,” Ling said. “This one wasn’t going out without a fight.”

Vapor cycled rapidly through reads. “I’m not getting anything. Is it possible he absorbed the tide?”

“Not without my reading it,” Darkholm said.

“Unless he was running a background sponge,” Ling said.

“I’m checking the history now,” Darkholm said.

“No, I’ll do that,” Ling said. “You stay on that other ghost.”

“Four specters, under 100 spectators,” Vapor said. “But still no sign of the ghost.”

Ling pulled up the history of the sector, searching, scanning back.