Carry On Constitution by Leighton W Vary, Jr

The USS Constitution was one of ten Constitution Class Heavy Cruisers in the United System Space Navy. These ten Heavy Cruisers were all very old and had been decommissioned eighty years before, but because of the devastating losses during the System's war with the Zenites and the battle of Hell System Three, these decommissioned Heavy Cruisers were retrofitted, upgraded, and recommissioned. This was seen as the best and fastest way to rebuild the System Navy. As a consequence of the retrofits, upgrades, and innovations, these ten Constitution Class Heavy Cruisers were the most powerful ships in the System Navy.

The System Navy Chief of Naval Operation has tasked Fleet Admiral Timothy Holoran to command a fleet comprised of the ten Constitution Class Heavy Cruisers toward the center of the galaxy to attempt to discover why civilizations, peoples, and worlds beyond a point in the galaxy known a P-387 were utterly devoid of life.

The challenge was to speed to P-387...