Legacy of the Saiph by P P Corcoran

Author:P P Corcoran [Corcoran, P P]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Castrum Press
Published: 2019-08-01T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

THE SEARCH CONTINUES

TDF TYCHO BRAHE | GATEWAY STATION | EDGE OF THE ASTEROID BELT | SOL SYSTEM

Terrance Wilson stepped into the corridor outside the bunk on the scientific research vessel TDF Tycho Brahe that was going to be his home for the foreseeable future. The ever enthusiastic Ensign Burkett was waiting to greet him and immediately began a meandering conversation about how he had spent the past two months either elbow deep in state of the art circuitry or perched in front of a computer terminal going over and over simulations to ensure that the problems which had plagued the first unsuccessful outing of the Deployable Stellar Detection Grid.

The brain child of Doctor Sylvia Sarkisian and designed to detect the earliest fluctuations in stars as far back as the Big Bang itself the project had been effectively hijacked by the navy’s Department of Special Projects for the DSDG could very well be the key to locating the home of the Creator, the being responsible for sending the Others on their failed Ehita or religious mission to scour the stars clean of anything the Creator had deemed impure which, basically, meant every life form that was not one of their own. And carry out that mission they had. Untold billions had perished as the Others scoured planet after planet, system after system, clean of all intelligent life. Only by the thinnest of threads had humanity survived, and even then, that survival had come at great cost. It was only after the Others had been defeated that the truth behind the Creator myth came out.

The Others believed that at some time in their past the Creator had taken them from their home world and transported them to Assena where he had selected them among all other life in the galaxy to be his Chosen People and his instrument of destruction. Once the Ehita was complete the Creator had promised to once again reunite with his devout followers and take them to the promised world of Assena where the Chosen People would live forever in harmony with the Creator under the red star that bathed Assena in its warm glow. The Creator then transported them once more to the planet which they named Durav which would be their home until the Ehita was complete. However, the myth that the Others had once visited Assena persisted and it was that myth that had got a young Lieutenant Terrance Wilson who at the time was ensconced in an office at naval intelligence headquarters in Carson City to thinking.

The key to locating this Creator was the red star. Terrance had a rough date as to when the Others in their myth must have visited Assena because the planet where they had originated had been discovered. The fourth planet circling the star that humans called 9 Ceti some 66.5 light-years from Earth. The inhabitants of that planet had been wiped out by an artificially constructed biological plague specifically designed to kill anything that contained the merest trace of Saiph DNA.

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