All Or Nothing (The Earthburst Saga Book 9) by Craig A. Falconer
Author:Craig A. Falconer [Falconer, Craig A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-05T00:00:00+00:00
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Instinctively, I bring my left hand to my chin and rub it in thought.
I feel like I must be missing something, because I donât understand how learning about the Ancientsâ home world can be of any practical use to us right now.
If my life was a Hollywood movie script searching for a brain-melting twist, Santino would follow up the revelation with a drumroll, and then say something crazy like âthey came from Earth.â
As it is, though, I donât really understand what he expects me to take from this.
âThere is enough contextual detail for us to locate the planet,â the young man says. âThey describe the size of their planetâs sun and its distance from Bayzen at light speed.â
Iâm still scratching my chin. âBut how can this help us?â I ask. âItâs not like we can call them for help. We know they left their world because it was dying. Thatâs why they ended up on Bayzen and Eden. Thereâs no one there.â
âBut there could be signals, Ray!â Santino says, almost yelling. Iâd say heâs more excited about the news than exasperated by my non-reaction, but thereâs an element of both creeping into his tone. âAiming our telescopes at Bayzen, which we knew about thanks to the old documents you found on the Beacon, is how we picked up Mayaâs signal. That saved the world once. I know we donât have long, but why can lightning not strike twice?â
I sigh. âSantino, what would it say? If we picked up a signal from this planet, and if we decoded it straight away, whatâs the best possible thing it could tell us? They would have had to have recorded it before they left. It would be older than the message on Eden. How could it help?â
At this, his expression falls. He doesnât say anything.
âHey, weâll still look,â I tell him, almost feeling bad for how quickly Iâve shattered his hopes. âItâs always worth looking. Weâll pass this to the Balena, like you said. The astronomers there will be able to identify the star based on its size and distance from Bayzen and theyâll check it out. Our focus has to be on the message from the tomb. Feeding this translation key into the computers so we can figure that one out is our best way forward.â
âWeâre on it,â Clyde says. âThe planet is another potential lead and I do think it makes sense to look under every single rock, but I agree: this is the priority.â
âMaya no can read words?â Laika suddenly squawks.
âI can,â Maya reports. âIn fact, I have just finished translating the message, piece by piece. I would like independent confirmation, so we should share the raw data with our allies and with the system. But I would be happy to tell you my own interpretation. With the help Loobnar provided and the sufficient length and complexity of the language key, there is enough for me to be fairly sure of my accuracy.â
My eyes widen immediately. I glance at Santino and see that his are doing the same.
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