Doctor Who: Warriors' Gate by John Lydecker

Author:John Lydecker
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science-Fiction:Doctor Who
ISBN: 9780426201465
Publisher: Target Books
Published: 1983-05-15T10:00:00+00:00

The procedure for bringing a Tharil out of cold sleep was complicated and specialised; it took a skilled team at the slave market medical centre to manage the job with any kind of efficiency, and even they reckoned on a 10 per cent loss rate.

Time-sensitives were notoriously delicate – so delicate that onboard attempts at revival rarely succeeded. But in this casethere was no choice; and, as Rorvik had said, they were going to have to keep trying if they hoped ever to see the universe outside of the void again.

So Aldo and Royce dragged their trolley down to the slave decks and picked out a Tharil. They went for size and strength, selecting a creature that would have the best chances of surviving the rough operation. Lazlo was the name shown on the transit card that had been clipped to the Tharil’s support rig, but as far as they were concerned he was their ticket for home.

They wheeled him to a storeroom on the privateer’s middle deck. This was where they kept the emergency revival rig, a mess of cables and contacts that had been assembled several voyages back and then left to gather dust. Nobody could even be sure if it would still work. Aldo started to make some of the connections whilst Royce watched, made suggestions, and slowed down the job in various other ways.

‘It’s the other way round,’ Aldo insisted for the second time.

‘Doesn’t matter,’ Royce told him. ‘It works either way.’

‘Ah.’ Aldo nodded sagely, and rammed home the connector.

It didn’t seem to want to go, but a couple of whacks with the back of a spanner persuaded it. He looked up. ‘What happens next?’

‘Close down that solenoid, and you’re away. It’s not as complicated as it looks.’

Nothing, Aldo was thinking, could be as complicated as this mess was looking. He gestured to Royce and said, ‘Go on, then.’

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