Into the Void (Sentenced to War Book 14) by J.N. Chaney & Jonathan P. Brazee

Author:J.N. Chaney & Jonathan P. Brazee [Chaney, J.N. & Brazee, Jonathan P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Variant Publications
Published: 2023-05-13T16:00:00+00:00

19

“This is impossible,” Rev muttered.

<Yet here we are.>

“Supplies just don’t disappear off a ship in space. It can’t be done.”

<As far as we know, it can’t be done.>

“So, you think they got hijacked? Really?”

<I don’t think anything at this point, but getting hijacked has a very low probability. What is far more likely is that they have been misplaced and are simply not in their assigned location.>

“And a scan should show us where they are. The ship isn’t that big. Neither is the compound on the surface.”

<Since the scans don’t pick up the emitter heads, then the scanners, trackers, or UCIDs must be faulty. Or, they must not be in the system at all.>

Rev pressed his lips together at Punch’s tone. He’d been more confrontational, more apt to criticize Rev. He’d been like that for more than a year, but it seemed to have gotten worse since Kurt’s slavery accusation and request to scan him.

But Rev knew he might be just overly sensitive and was reading into things that didn’t exist. So, he kept quiet, choosing to ignore the changes.

His comment about where the emitter heads could be wasn’t helpful, though. And there was one more possibility that Rev could think of. The parts might never have been on the ship in the first place. That, or they were taken on Bare Rock before they took off. If a decoy UCID was broadcasting that the emitter heads were on board, then no one would know anything different. According to the records, there had never been a physical inventory of the necessary, but hardly vital, parts.

His thoughts strayed to sabotage again. LeRon might be back in human space, but that didn’t mean she’d been the only one. There could be a sleeper still among them, waiting for the most effective time to take action.

And you think this is the time, Reverent? For fifteen stupid emitter heads?

Rev rubbed his temples. He wasn’t sure why he’d even taken the lead on the missing parts.

Yes, you are. You were bored, and you wanted to be doing something.

This was more in line with Top Klipsinger. But he was on the planet, along with most of the Marines. So, when the alert suddenly showed up on the master inventory list, Rev had stepped in, sure he’d figure out what was wrong.

But as he stared at the empty rack, he was at a loss. The ship started out with forty of the parts. Twenty-five were where they were expected to be. Fifteen might as well have just vanished into thin air.

“Connect into the tactical net,” he told his wristcomp.

Then, a moment later, he asked Tomiko over the P2P, “You haven’t found anything yet, have you?”

“No. I would have told you. And why would anyone bring emitter heads down here? What are we going to do with them?”

“I’m just checking, Miko. Because they’re not here, and I don’t want to do a top-to-bottom search of the ship.”

“We’ve still got twenty-five, right? Those will last forever. Just forget it and write them off.

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