Joshua (Heroes of the League Book 14) by Carey Frank

Author:Carey, Frank [Carey, Frank]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2017-10-08T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

The Nordican fleet--yes, there were only ten ships left, but that still makes a fleet--slowly made its way through space about a light-week out from Alyson. In his office aboard the flagship Neesar, the fleet's leader, Trent, took another report from the stack and read it. Half-way through it, someone knocked at his door.

"Come in."

The door opened and Falan walked in. She sat down and handed him a drink. "Need a break?"

"Gods yes. Thank you," he said, taking the drink and sipping from it. "Falan, how did we end up in such dire straits?"

"I wasn't aware our straights were dire."

He handed her the status reports. "We're running out of nisium."

"Shit. I thought we had plenty."

He shrugged, “We hit a dry spell. Too many of these local civilizations know about us, so they're unwilling to trade.”

"What are we going to do?"

He took out a map and pointed to a planet. "Saguenay, about a light-week from here. According to the database we borrowed..."

"You mean stole."

"According to the database, its rich in high-yield nisium ore. We can use some of that mining equipment we borrowed..."

"Stole."

"We can use the mining equipment to extract enough fuel to supply our fleet for a few years."

"What if your information is wrong?"

"Then we have a new home where we can raise sheep and grow crops."

The intercom buzzed. "What is it?" Trent replied.

"This is Mersa. Something's happening down here in the hold which I think you need to see."

"Be there in five." He switched off the intercom. "Care to go for a walk?"

"Why not?" They got up and headed out the door.

"You know, we could put everyone in temporal stasis and head the fleet on a slow trajectory back to Earth," Falan suggested.

"Earth? Why there? Everyone we knew there is dead. Anyway, they may have not forgiven us for taking the BORIS project from them."

"It's been over two centuries. They've forgotten us by now."

"Yeah, and it's not like they could have discovered faster-than-light travel in this short amount of time. You know, that might not be a bad idea. Hell, that whole quadrant is probably ripe for picking."

"My gods, doesn't it bother you that we killed Joshua?"

"Joshua died a hero. So what if it was our mistake that killed him and the whole biocybernetics group? At least we could borrow BORIS and look how well that turned out."

"You are unbelievable."

"Remember the Prime Rule: Don't get involved with the marks."

They walked into the cargo hold and found Mersa standing in front of a piece of equipment about the size of a refrigerator. Three of the lights on its front face were blinking. "It started doing this about five minutes ago."

"What is it?" Falan asked.

"According to the inventory record, it’s a receiver unit we borrowed from the Zexx about thirty years ago."

"So, what's it receiving?"

Mersa tapped the screen beneath the lights. It showed a city seen from orbit. "I would like to introduce you to the home world of the Jarrion weapons merchants."

"What did you say?" Falan whispered.

"That, my friends,

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