Axira Episode Four by Odette C. Bell

Author:Odette C. Bell [Bell, Odette C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Odette C. Bell

CHAPTER 7

Jason Singh

I was at ease, or as easy as a guy could be before the battle of his life.

The Mercury was a hive of activity. Every crewmember was pulling together to get the ship repaired before our next battle.

We were running constant simulations, going over every possible attack plan.

We were dealing with no ordinary enemy. This wasn’t a Barbarian fleet – it was a master.

I was only now starting to learn what they were. Em knew a lot, and yet at the same time not that much. She had a very personal account of what a master was and how brutal they could be, but most of the hard facts were coming from the admirals.

The masters were minds. Powerful, powerful minds. Minds spread out across multiple bodies.

In a way, they were a kind of collective. Except when they took over a host body to extend their will, nothing remained of the host’s personality. Every memory and belief were subsumed. They became nothing more than a receptacle.

In order to operate like this, a master required a node – a strong telepath like Elle. They were the method of transfer. Kind of like a wireless signal that allowed constant communication between the master’s various vessels.

The masters, it seemed, were a race. A very ancient race. There were some theories that they had their roots in the First Age.

Maybe once upon a time, they hadn’t been the devious, evil creatures they now were. But over the years as the galaxy had darkened and the Kore Empire had become the darkest place of all, they had changed.

With their power and knowledge, they had gained supremacy.

There was no clue as to how this race of masters reproduced, though Admiral Forest’s own theory was that they didn’t. They were like banyan trees from Earth. An entire forest could be made up of a single tree plunging its roots into the ground only to reappear as a supposedly separate entity several meters away.

If this were true, and the masters didn’t reproduce, then they’d been around for millennia upon millennia.

They would have so much knowledge. Knowledge they had built and used against other races.

The spacers were one such example. Em knew nothing about her people before they’d been enslaved, but there were sporadic reports in Coalition archives.

A peaceful race of subspace creatures. They had been wanderers. They didn’t require resources to live – and instead sustained themselves off subspace fields – they had never bothered settling down on a planet, nor had they started any wars.

They hadn’t wanted for anything, so they hadn’t tried to take anything.

But that had stopped when the masters had enslaved them. The masters had taken every spacer they could and killed those they couldn’t.

Then they had perfected the enslavement over a period of several millennia until the modern-day spacer evolved. A spacer who could be controlled perfectly by a master’s distant mind.

If I wasn’t living this, I wouldn’t believe it. But this galaxy was so big and so diverse you’d be naïve to imagine something like this wasn’t possible.

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