Gods and The City by Steve Statham

Author:Steve Statham [Statham, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Statham Communications LLC
Published: 2014-07-10T22:00:00+00:00

17

Divine Space

The universe continued to open before Mik like an endlessly unfolding river with an infinite number of tributaries. The ship's systems bombarded him with information, only a fraction of which he could process.

But he understood one thing with certainty. What he was experiencing was not speed. His rate of travel was impossible within the constraints of the known universe.

He wasn't soaring through the vacuum of common space. He was in Divine Space, that area of existence that lay outside the physical boundaries of everyday life. He still could not grasp its true nature. Was Divine Space some sort of underlying fabric of his universe, or was it actually another universe itself, passage through which resulted in a sort of shortcut across space-time? Or was it a creation of the gods, or perhaps of the Benefactors?

Fear mingled with a strange giddiness inside him.

I could go anywhere. I could fly to the center of the galaxy itself and be back in time for dinner. Another galaxy even...

This method of travel was a by-passing, a stepping around of all the normal constraints the universe imposed on biological life.

The thought transfixed him. Before now, he'd never truly grasped the scope of this power, and so he'd never followed the implications of the ability to travel through Divine Space to the logical conclusion.

Anywhere.

Why haven't we?

Divine Space had been used as an escape route to a new home after the fall of Earth and the elevation of the gods. And the seven defenders of mankind used it to move throughout their sphere of influence. Mik had even briefly traveled through it once on the Mercury Eclipse, without really understanding the nature of the environment through which he passed. So far as he knew, no human had ever been as plugged into a sentry ship's systems as he was now. And no one could truly comprehend the nature of Divine Space using only human senses, he realized.

The gods kept this knowledge from us. A few people were allowed to travel this way, but we were locked inside ships piloted by AIs and gods, blind to the true nature of what was just outside the hull.

An irritation at how the gods had concealed this knowledge swept through him, but he filed it away for later consideration. For now, the fixer in him, the technician who was always searching for problems to correct, examined the alternate-space technological reality of Divine Space from several angles.

He knew that at the beginning of time, the expansion of the universe had been almost instantaneous. Had the gods tapped into some remnant of the forces that caused the newly-born universe to fill the heavens?

It seemed improbable.

No, he liked the idea of Divine Space as a separate universe through which the gods had forced open passageways. The pieces fit together more elegantly....

An alert flared to life in his sensor array.

The ship was nearing the first of the designated coordinates Tower had given him for his search for Maelstrom.

He commanded the ship to drop out of Divine Space.

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