Fleet Feat: A Humorous Space Opera (Reassembly Book 5) by James C.P

Author:James, C.P.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-03-16T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

DOWN TOGETHER

— Geddy.

The voice was as unwelcome as his mother’s when she yelled at him to stop playing the Ponley Point video game in his room. As he generally did back then, he ignored it.

— Geddy, I need you to listen.

— What happened? Why is it dark?

— Your conscious mind is temporarily shut down.

There was no crash until Morph reminded him of it, but now he remembered barreling into an ice cave at high speed. Speed they’d carried into a wall of ice.

— If I’m not conscious, then how can I understand you?

— Because I am in your cortex.

— Is Tati okay? Sworles? Why isn’t Eli here?

— Don’t worry about them right now. I have something very important to tell you.

— About what?

— Dr. Nilsson and this cave.

— The human scientist who actually invented the bubble drive? Verveik already told me about that.

— There is much he doesn’t know.

— Okay …

— The Zelnads’ goal has always been to destroy Sagacea. However, I don’t think they know how to reach it.

— Eli said it’s at the center of the universe.

— That is a simplification your feeble mind can grasp. The universe has no center.

— Okay, but how could they not know? How could you not know? You’re all from there.

— Sagaceans are ejected into space. There is no reason to know because we were never meant to return. That is the purpose of the barrier around it.

— Okay …

— The universe was born from energy. Sagacea is the source of that original energy.

— Original energy?

— Are you going to keep interrupting me?

— Sorry. I’ll be unconscious now.

— From the moment the Rearview ships jumped here from Old Earth, the Zelnads knew that whatever technology brought humans to this galaxy exceeded even their understanding. That it had the potential to reach Sagacea.

They spent decades trying to learn the tech’s origins. Word got around that they were willing to pay anything to get ahold of it. Ivan Semenov took notice.

Dr. Nilsson knew the Zelnads wanted her bubble drive, and because she was host to a Sagacean, she understood why. So, she destroyed her research and hid the device in the Ice Castles.

— Why keep it at all?

— In light of what happened to Old Earth, she thought the day might come when they needed it again. She made her way deep into the North and found this cave. It was the perfect hiding spot.

By then, however, she was quite old. Her Sagacean had helped her prepare a new host for itself. A more durable form that could easily survive the cold and guard her technology. Once she died, her Sagacean transferred into it.

Decades later, a ship arrived at the cave with two people inside. A young captain and his wife. The Sagacean would not let them near the drive.

— No fucking way, Morph.

— The captain called in the cave’s location to his superior officer.

— Colonel Pritchard.

— He sent a team. They overpowered the Sagacean, took the drive, and killed your parents.

In the end, Ivan Semenov never got anything from the Zelnads.

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