Evolution by Saunders Craig

Author:Saunders, Craig [Saunders, Craig]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-01-20T00:00:00+00:00

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Shit, thought Orpal.

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Deep space, Shell ship unique class, Habla’saem.

Habla’saem had rocked himself to sleep not six hours previously. He had taken the news badly. Now he was awake again he was worried.

There’s something wrong with this, thought the socioassassin, taking the news the night before. Now the socio-assassin – through beautificous qubit cryptography – had a deeper understanding of his mission, and it frightened him.

There were troubling reports on the news that the Cascade emitter was being reassembled, but he couldn’t tell by whom. The emitter was the last great mystery, and no-one knew where all the pieces were kept, but the news reports said that two had gone missing now, one stolen from the archeog Cablas and one stolen from the Hedonal’s sybaritic ship. It did not bode well. If the device was assembled the importance of Habla’saem’s little war would pale into insignificance.

The emitter, with its final message and access to god’s plane, had long been sought. For someone to complete the greatest quest in all history could even mean an end to his war. The Enlightened would soon lose interest were the completed emitter to show up, as would the Lore, the Tradition and the maybe even the Ecentrists.

Someone else was playing the game, someone playing a game not entirely new to Habla’saem, but nobody had told him the rules. The Lore would be on their way to extinction soon. Given time, the Enlightened with their symbiotic ships would wipe out the Lore for their inherent unnaturalness, for the way that they could take on the properties on a nano-level of anything they wished. Nanotech was the enemy as far as the Enlightened were concerned. The whole of the Enlightened followed the scholarly opinions given to them in much the same way other societies followed strong leaders or elected principals. It was through this that the Enlightened had been raised. Um’lael Sabreme was too highly regarded for them to ignore his opinion.

And yet, something didn’t quite sit right with Habla’saem. The Ecentrists, who stoically refused to shake the boat, had joined the battle. But there was something wrong. If the Ecentrists had not joined the battle the Tradition would have remained neutral, but for his plan to work the socioassassin needed the Tradition to stay out of hostilities. But this was not happening.

The war is going well, but the Lore are taking too heavy a battering, too quickly. The Tradition would see the threat of extinction. They would surely step in. Then all bets would be off. This wasn’t what he had planned at all…

The news showed him what he wanted to see. He lay back against his softly cushioned sofa and sighed in discontent. Making war should be less complicated than it was.

Habla’saem took the news again.

First there was the war in sector 4390/narc class ceb 45~90. It was far removed from his sector, but close enough for discomfort.

He took a sup of stum. It was smooth on his palette.

Secondly there was the retrieval of the pieces of the emitter.

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