Spaceship in a Bottle

A salvager discovers an alien starship but that’s only the beginning. Wiz Zumwalt has sunk his Navy pension into a beat-up ship in hopes of finding riches in the asteroid belts. Only the days of the Asteroid Cowboys are over. Big Mining now has a firm grip on the mineral riches and their economies of scale and resources make it almost impossible for the indie miner to survive. Now he has two days before his ship will be repossessed unless he can find a miracle. And boy does he find one. On a nameless hunk of rock his sensors detect the faintest traces of well . . . something . Not a human ship but something alien. A long-running secret that upturns everything he’s always believed one that could impact humanity’s very existence. Mankind always believed it was alone. Every probe it ever sent out beyond the Oort Cloud sent back the same results… except those were a lie created to trick humanity into believing the ga