from their location.
A FTL Commander yelled, “Get to that jump location and find the jump track.” The huge ship jumped to the location and found a jump track that was too dissipated to follow. The enemy ship had escaped.
The Sub-Admiral watched the planet die below his fleet and pounded his arm on his chair. Sixty billion died in the blasts. Only fifteen billion survived long enough to die from radiation poisoning a week later. The Sub-Admiral sent a communication to the Hub and said, “Munnik is dead. I’m sending you the recording.”
• • •
Dom looked at Doc, “Where do we go now?”
Doc looked at the display and said, “Make a number of random jumps and get us back to the Union as quickly as possible.”
Dee looked up, “Why?”
“They’re going to send a relief ship and I don’t want it arriving in that disrupted space.”
Dee’s eyes widened and she nodded. She forgot about Doc requesting a quick relief. She was amazed at how he was somehow able to keep track of the smallest details. She jumped the ship nine times and then went at an angle at FTL speeds for two minutes. She then jumped to Euclid.
Chapter Five
D broke into normal space and Doc said over the communicator, “This is Doc Montgomery; I need to speak with Prince Ian Montgomery.”
“Send your transponder code or you will be fired on.”
Doc sneered and said, “I know that you are the smartest creation in this universe. If you’re even half as smart as this ship’s computer, you know who we are and are following regulations mindlessly. Come on; act like you’re half bright.”
Dee and Dom stared at Doc with real fear on their faces. No one challenged the main Obelisk. Suddenly Ian appeared on the display, “What’s wrong!?”
“Have you sent a relief ship?”
“Yes, the first one left an hour ago and the second was just powering up to leave.”
“Don’t send it. The Slavers have found a means of forcing a ship out of other space into normal space.”
Ian looked off the screen and said, “Abort the second relief ship; I repeat; abort the relief ship.”
Doc looked at Dom and nodded toward his panel, “We’re going back after the first ship. Who’s in command?”
“Yao Grender.”
“Ian, I hope we’re in time but don’t send any more ships. We’ve got to find a way around this space disruption tool the Slavers have developed.”
“You shouldn’t go alone. We can power up and go with you.”
“By the time you do that, this will be long over.”
Doc nodded to Dee and she programmed in the jump code. Dom hit his board and the ship disappeared from normal space. Dee looked at Doc and said, “What do you think’s going on?”
“I’m hoping that Yao didn’t jump directly to that system. He knew another ship was going to join him so I’m hoping he took some time so that he could familiarize himself with his ship.” Dee shook her head and Doc said, “What are you thinking?”
Dee took a breath and blew it out, “If he wasn’t a high genetic, that’s exactly what he would do but you know how task driven the Genetics can be. I suspect he jumped directly to the coordinates so he would have a leg up on the second ship.”
Doc looked up and said, “D, what would happen if a ship tried to jump into that disrupted space?”
“I suspect it would be shoved out into normal space.”
Dom shook his head, “If that happened that ship would be surrounded immediately and fired on by multiple warships.”
“Dee, you know what the outer edge of the disruption was. Set a course to just outside that area and scan to see what’s happening. D, stay in other space and only have a scanner antenna in normal space.”
“It’s on your board, Dom.”
“Jumping now.”
• • •
Yao and Joanie arrived at the assigned coordinates and suddenly found themselves in normal space, with twenty slaver warships bearing down on them. Yao activated his weapons panel and Joanie turned the ship and hit their
A FTL Commander yelled, “Get to that jump location and find the jump track.” The huge ship jumped to the location and found a jump track that was too dissipated to follow. The enemy ship had escaped.
The Sub-Admiral watched the planet die below his fleet and pounded his arm on his chair. Sixty billion died in the blasts. Only fifteen billion survived long enough to die from radiation poisoning a week later. The Sub-Admiral sent a communication to the Hub and said, “Munnik is dead. I’m sending you the recording.”
• • •
Dom looked at Doc, “Where do we go now?”
Doc looked at the display and said, “Make a number of random jumps and get us back to the Union as quickly as possible.”
Dee looked up, “Why?”
“They’re going to send a relief ship and I don’t want it arriving in that disrupted space.”
Dee’s eyes widened and she nodded. She forgot about Doc requesting a quick relief. She was amazed at how he was somehow able to keep track of the smallest details. She jumped the ship nine times and then went at an angle at FTL speeds for two minutes. She then jumped to Euclid.
Chapter Five
D broke into normal space and Doc said over the communicator, “This is Doc Montgomery; I need to speak with Prince Ian Montgomery.”
“Send your transponder code or you will be fired on.”
Doc sneered and said, “I know that you are the smartest creation in this universe. If you’re even half as smart as this ship’s computer, you know who we are and are following regulations mindlessly. Come on; act like you’re half bright.”
Dee and Dom stared at Doc with real fear on their faces. No one challenged the main Obelisk. Suddenly Ian appeared on the display, “What’s wrong!?”
“Have you sent a relief ship?”
“Yes, the first one left an hour ago and the second was just powering up to leave.”
“Don’t send it. The Slavers have found a means of forcing a ship out of other space into normal space.”
Ian looked off the screen and said, “Abort the second relief ship; I repeat; abort the relief ship.”
Doc looked at Dom and nodded toward his panel, “We’re going back after the first ship. Who’s in command?”
“Yao Grender.”
“Ian, I hope we’re in time but don’t send any more ships. We’ve got to find a way around this space disruption tool the Slavers have developed.”
“You shouldn’t go alone. We can power up and go with you.”
“By the time you do that, this will be long over.”
Doc nodded to Dee and she programmed in the jump code. Dom hit his board and the ship disappeared from normal space. Dee looked at Doc and said, “What do you think’s going on?”
“I’m hoping that Yao didn’t jump directly to that system. He knew another ship was going to join him so I’m hoping he took some time so that he could familiarize himself with his ship.” Dee shook her head and Doc said, “What are you thinking?”
Dee took a breath and blew it out, “If he wasn’t a high genetic, that’s exactly what he would do but you know how task driven the Genetics can be. I suspect he jumped directly to the coordinates so he would have a leg up on the second ship.”
Doc looked up and said, “D, what would happen if a ship tried to jump into that disrupted space?”
“I suspect it would be shoved out into normal space.”
Dom shook his head, “If that happened that ship would be surrounded immediately and fired on by multiple warships.”
“Dee, you know what the outer edge of the disruption was. Set a course to just outside that area and scan to see what’s happening. D, stay in other space and only have a scanner antenna in normal space.”
“It’s on your board, Dom.”
“Jumping now.”
• • •
Yao and Joanie arrived at the assigned coordinates and suddenly found themselves in normal space, with twenty slaver warships bearing down on them. Yao activated his weapons panel and Joanie turned the ship and hit their
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