Linda Nagata - Nanotech Succession 03 by Vast

Author:Vast [Vast]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-06-04T13:57:29+00:00

Vigil had bought them a reprieve, but Nikko knew it couldn’t last. When the courser turned back on their trail, they would be carrying no camouflage to confuse its instincts. It could not fail to use its guns. Zap. Pop. Fims. The long pursuit would at last be over.

He could try mining their wake, but the courser wasn’t running behind them. Its approach was oblique, and besides, it could use its guns to clear any debris.

He could try regrowing the philosopher cells and defend the ship with their poison dust—but there was no way a working field could be ready in time, and besides, Lot would refuse to drop the poison.

So they had no weapons.

Okay, then. They needed speed.

Except the solenoids could not be rebuilt in time. Even if they could, conventional propulsion could not outrun the courser’s zero point drive.

So they needed a zero point drive.

Thanks to Urban’s adventurism, they apparently had one, though it wasn’t working well. Nikko had measured a feather-push of acceleration, barely discernible. How to increase it? Now that the ship was thermally stable, he turned all his ghosts to this question.

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