Astral Fall by Jessica Mae Stover

Author:Jessica Mae Stover
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: sci-fi, fantasy, JM Stover, space, Science Fiction, warcraft, scifi, tech, epic, technology, war, Jessica Mae Stover
ISBN: 9780997054415
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2016-03-21T05:00:00+00:00

The next few days followed the same pattern. Thwip spent his mornings using what he’d learned in the 0-lab the previous evening to physically advance his in-suit ability on half-tether with Leo or Skregs, then had Sanders banana him out of his suit, went through his daily workup med eval, and hurried to begin work on the fractal trepid hood and suit in the 0-lab, listening to the unit prepare the mission, while occasionally reviewing the specs, or making an exception in questioning Blyku or Sanders when he needed tech clarification.

Crave joined him each evening after his scheduled duties. He only spoke in context of workflow discussion, but he was always there, offering to assist. Skregs and Wheck would trickle in later, Wheck often straight from space flight, Skregs usually from the command deck. Wheck maintained Thwip’s log for him, and Skregs went through some of the mission’s details aloud, briefing Thwip as he worked with Crave. They’d finish their work, A-STAT the lab, and head together to the V-0’s sleeping module. Still on wake duty, Charis would confirm in text that they were sealed in securely, never appearing on Thwip’s IF except in greyscale.

By his fourth day as a Nova, Thwip was 40 percent into the fractal trepid suit’s systems and 80 percent off the tether on his own suit. He was ahead of the workup schedule, but the command sequences were becoming more advanced, and the final increments of progress came in smaller leaps.

By the seventh day he had a full grasp of the conventions of trepid pulse combinations, and by evening he walked around the Vesper’s flight deck off-tether, watched closely by Leo and Skregs.

The next morning, Thwip woke to Wheck and Skregs leaning over his sleep hold. Crave stopped behind them, and after asking Wheck about a schedule adjustment with the pilots, departed for breakfast.

Wheck pulsed Thwip the Vesper module location R4C6:01EE. “Intel there for your review this shift.” Thwip accepted the breakfast container Wheck offered and left with Skregs, who secured the module so that Wheck could sleep.

Skregs parted from Thwip at the lower hangar deck. Thwip brought up the Vesper’s schematic on his IF and, carrying the container, headed for R4C6:01EE.

He watched his chem balancers slide as his body moved, waking itself. Crave and Charis were both on private mode; even their locations weren’t available. Wheck was asleep in the V-0 module and therefore also on private. Skregs retracted his mask to eat a breakfast scramble, transitioning to greyscale, muting the rest of the loop. Down the C6 corridor and past double A and double B, Thwip minimized the map: he’d committed it to organic memory. Time for a test. He took two right turns, then a left that led down an incline. At the bottom he took a left down another incline, then the third right.

Double E should be ahead. His body map lit at the shoulder, as though something had struck his suit, but the object did not register on his scan. Slowing his pace, he turned and scanned the corridor again.

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