Delphi Promised (Targon Tales Book 4) by Chris Reher

Author:Chris Reher [Reher, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: alien invasion, aliens, space opera, science fiction, exploration, first contact
Published: 2013-07-02T04:00:00+00:00

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But there was nothing out there for her and Cyann’s attempts at attaining the correct sort of khamal simply threatened to send her off into a deep snooze. Likely, Jovan was aware of her efforts but the voice she sought remained silent.

Frustrated and just a little bit grumpy, she left her cabin after hours of fruitless meditation to return to the lab. She was surprised to see Jovan there with Anders, perched atop a wheeled stool pulled up to the monitors. She was even more surprised when she quickly smoothed her tousled hair and found herself worrying about the state of her wrinkled shirt.

“No luck?” Jovan said when she had taken a chair beside Anders.

She shook her head. “Not a thing. Did you hear all the news?”

“Yes. It was interesting to find that I’ve been kidnapped in my sleep and whisked away into the great unknown.”

“Not so unknown. There’s nothing out here but chunks of asteroid. You don’t approve?”

He shrugged. “Seems like an interesting idea. As long as you don’t plan to land. We’re not authorized for first contact. There is much we don’t know.”

“Any indication yet that they’ll see us coming?”

“Not really,” Anders said. “Still no noise from there. But you don’t build a habitat on an asteroid by growing wings to get there. If they hitched a ride they must have had some very advanced methods.”

She looked up at the screen. “Maybe they’re all gone. Dead.”

“Oh, we have real-vid now,” Anders said excitedly. He switched the display. She now saw a number of irregular shapes, dull brown and bronze, worn smooth over time and accompanied by hundreds of smaller rocks inside a cloud of what might be thousands. The light of the star in this sector threw harsh shadows over the uneven surfaces.

“Looks a lot like our alien’s pod,” she said. “Same composition?”

“In parts. Try not to hug it. Don’t want it melting on us.”

Jovan laughed at that although Cyann furrowed her brow. “Not funny.”

“Yes, it is,” Anders said. “We’ve taken a little detour to approach from the side where we’ve seen those domes. I don’t want to risk running into whatever is jamming our sensors at the front end. Look.” He zoomed into a small section of the asteroid until the round objects on its side because visible. “Most definitely made by something sentient.”

“Makes me wish we’d brought along a few more of the experts,” Cyann said. “Look at that raised edge all around the domes. It’s almost like they built a roof over a crater. What are those bubbles around them?”

“More structures, we think. There are few straight angles to be found. We have detected an atmosphere of sorts, but it’s still a good idea to build down and not up. A good meteor shower would do all sorts of damage.”

“Have we been able to look inside?”

“Not really. No more than we were able to look inside the rock on Sola back home. Sensors think these cores might be ice, at least the bigger pieces.

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