Badlands by Randal Sloan

Author:Randal Sloan [Sloan, Randal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-22T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

The Badlands

Sasha sat in front of the control station staring at the view in front of her. As Jarra had said, one had to see it in person to fully appreciate just how wonderful and yet frightening it was. For the moment she was looking at the normal scan that went up to the gamma level, and it looked much as the view Jarra had shown them. Yet what the 3D VR she'd shown them hadn't made evident was the vastness of the area or the fact that it all was constantly changing even as she watched.

This was obviously one of those moments Jarra had warned her about. She looked out over that vast area in front of her and it was almost more than she could handle. She had her job to do and the team was depending on her. But it all was so terrifying. It was just so big and those energy streams were even more ferocious when viewed up close than they'd appeared before. How could they possibly survive that?

Remembering the history of the place, Sasha was amazed at the crews of those ships that had attempted to explore the area. Very brave but very foolish. She hoped her ship's crew wasn't being foolish too.

Yet even Sasha could see that the Princess was right. Everything was leading them to this area for some final showdown. She just hoped they could pull it off again. It all looked so impossible. She realized she was shaking with her fear, something she quickly reeled in. She hadn't been this frightened since those two men had accosted her on the frigate. That seemed a long time ago now, but she knew it had only been a few weeks ago.

Get it together, girl. Your Princess is depending on you. Sasha took a deep breath. She would not let her Princess down! Looking around quickly, Sasha was glad that no one seemed to have seen her moment of fear. They all seemed to be quite busy.

Galen for the moment was ignoring the view. He was busy making notes in his navigation log of their trip from Sigmus Station to the Badlands. The log was a new idea of Galen's and Sasha liked it. If they ever had to make the same trip, the log would allow lessons learned to be applied. In this case, Galen had managed to shave three days off the otherwise ten day trip. Sasha knew the Relentless should have remained at the station for another day and she expected the two navigators, along with the promised help Jarra claimed she would get from the XO, to add two days to their trip.

All of that led Sasha to believe they would have five to six days to work with. They had that long to get their planned technological enhancements tested and completed. As the rest of the team did their part to get ready for their first test, Sasha worried about her Princess. Somehow, Jarra was making intuitive leaps that crossed outside of the patterns that Sasha could see.

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