Hold the Star: Samair in Argos: Book 2 by Michael Kotcher

Author:Michael Kotcher [KOTCHER, MICHAEL]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-04-27T04:00:00+00:00

As Tamara had said, it was a very simple operation. In fact, the word “operation” was a bit of a misnomer. Turan sat the Captain down on the edge of one of the beds in sickbay and had him roll up his sleeve. With an injector gun, he pressed the muzzle of the gun to the skin just below the inside of his wrist and depressed the trigger. There was a click, the Captain winced at a sharp pinch of pain and then it was done. The Guura was wiping the injection site with a swab of disinfectant and then running a scanner over his arm.

“It’s looking good, Captain,” the doctor told him. “The implant went straight into the target site and the nanites are unspooling nicely. Go ahead and make a fist. Are you in any pain?”

The Captain followed direction, clenching and unclenching his fist. “No, it feels a little weird. I can feel the implant in there, but it doesn’t hurt.” He flexed in fingers a few more times. “Now it feels normal.” He looked at the place where the injection was done and the wound was gone. “It’s healed!”

Turan chuckled. “The nanites fixed up the wound, Captain. And they’re already working to build the pathway and the jack.”

Vincent nodded. “All right, so Tamara, you’re the one who’s in the know,” he said, looking over to her. “How do I use this thing?” He held up his hand.

“Well,” she said, gathering her thoughts. “You don’t have a HUD with level one implants. Most of the consoles that you would use to access the information will have implant jacks in them, certainly the ones on the ship, anyway. From what few that I’ve seen on the station, a few of the shops there have ones that you can use. Basically, you press your thumb to the access jack and the information you want will appear on the display. If you’re paying for something, thumbing the jack will make the payment. You can also add or subtract data from the memory core.”

“How much is in there?”

“It isn’t a huge amount,” she cautioned. “Quite a large amount if it’s text data, considerably less if you record audio, pictures or video. But right now, it will contain your personal data, medical info, and banking information. That’s bare bones.” Tamara gestured to him. “It will certainly make your interactions with Ganner and Saiorse easier.”

He nodded. He was still clenching and unclenching his fist. “It doesn’t feel weird anymore.”

Turan nodded again. “Just let me know if there’s any problems. Call me right away. Now, it’ll tingle and it might itch, but otherwise, it should be fine. If you feel anything, any pain, you get your captainly ass back into my sickbay right away. Am I clear?”

Vincent smirked. “Yes, sir,” he said, giving a sloppy salute. He stood and walked out.

“Stella, can you make sure you keep an eye on him?” Tamara asked. “I know the internal sensors aren’t one hundred percent throughout the ship,

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