22 Discoveries (Into The Black) by Stuart Grosse

Author:Stuart Grosse [Grosse, Stuart]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

(T’ler, Beta Darconyx System)

Lieutenant Sharel didn’t like that she and her squad were heading further into the alien spaceship that had been attacked and infested with another type of aliens. She didn’t like that they were counting on Charlie and Delta squads to keep the aliens distracted until they could reach their goal. She didn’t like any of it, but that was the mission, so that’s what they were going to do.

The rest of the squad moved along with her, following whatever kind of mental map that Raleda seemed to have gotten from his contact with the alien mind… gem… thing. Whatever it was. That wasn’t important at the moment. What was important was that they had a definite direction to go, and their suits were recording the map data as they went, so they would be able to find their way back. Hopefully. There was no way to know whether the ship would just decide to randomly change things up, of course.

However, Raleda seemed to be confident in his directions, and, so far, they hadn’t run into any blockages or alien swarms, so she was going to count her blessings while they lasted. While they lasted. Damn, she shouldn’t have thought that. Now something was going to happen, for sure!

(T’ler, Bow Section, Beta Darconyx System)

Captain Tustek Hardbrew was nervous. Well, that much was obvious. They were on an alien ship, in the middle of nowhere. Not just ‘poncy knelfi’ alien, but alien alien! It was the largest damn ship he’d ever seen, and it had been beat up straight to hell. If the science types were right, the battle also tore up the whole rest of this system, too. And he was stuck investigating it. At least the nasties that Charlie and Delta had found weren’t showing up here, yet.

His Alpha squad had been tasked to enter through a hull breach near the bow of the ship. Unfortunately, it was too small for the shuttle to land, so they had been forced to EVA across from the shuttle to the wrecked ship. Their goal originally was to find a way to the big door-like thing at the bow of the ship, and see if they couldn’t crack the thing open, to give the science types better access to the ship.

What they had found changed all that.

The Gauz marine looked around, and his eyes fell on one of the privates, the main ‘information specialist’, as Command liked to call them on paper. Everyone else (including Command) called them hackers when they weren’t trying to be official. “Paulidis! Get y’er ass moving! Blair found what appears to be a control station. See if you can’t splice in and find a way to open those doors!”

Slave-Private Pericles Paulidis was one of the refugees from Jagloth that ended up in Black Star’s ‘care’. Best thing that could have happened to him, in his opinion, but no one asked about that. He’d been running with one of the criminal syndicates on Jagloth, and had managed to get off-world before the place got wiped out.

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