My Homemade Spaceship 4 by Douglas Michaels

Author:Douglas Michaels [Michaels, Douglas]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2023-02-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

“Did you say… they won?” I asked as I clambered out of the stasis tube.

“Yes,” the scientist said with a bright smile on his face.

“As in, they fought them off?” I gawked.

“Yes,” Hemphy replied. “That’s how it looks to me. They hit Kytr just like they hit our home and every other planet they have invaded, but Kytr is the only one that wasn’t wiped out. That doesn’t seem to sit well with the Karaak, so they kept the planet on the list with a notation about the need to return and basically finish the job.”

“Which means they people on Kyrt are still alive,” I said. “We’ve seen for ourselves that they don’t leave survivors. They keep coming until everyone has been wiped out. But this changes everything. We now know it’s possible to beat them, and all we have to do is figure out how they did it.”

The energy inside the room suddenly went from zero to one hundred. Excitement buzzed around the cave, and it felt like the we all might combust at any moment from our combined energy.

For so long, the Karaak had seemed like an unstoppable force. Sure, we could put them off for a while and postpone the inevitable attack, but in the end, all of us believed that it would take nothing less than a miracle to defeat them. But here was the glimmer of hope that we had all been searching for, that I had hoped might come along with the Karaak ship we had managed to take into custody.

There was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a planet called Kytr. Kytr had gone up against the Karaak, the species that had been systematically annihilating every single species and planet they set their sights on, and somehow, they had beaten them. The people of Kytr were alive, and while I was sure they had suffered great losses, they had resisted the Karaak’s attack and lived to tell the tale.

Now all we had to do was convince the people of Kytr to share their method with us.

“What can you tell us about Kytr, if anything?” I asked.

He quickly scanned through the information on a tablet he had with him, and his eyes flicked in all directions. The analyst was a quick reader, though, and he nodded and hummed as he read and then reread the report.

“Well?” Occana pressed.

“It’s a mining planet,” Hemphy said. “It is not too far from here, relatively. One jump and a few hours of flying time and you should be there.”

“Then what are we waiting for?” I said eagerly. “We should get going ASAP, before the Karaak decide it’s time to go back. I wanna find out everything I can from the people of Kytr. If there’s a way to defend against, or even fight back against, the Karaak, then I wanna know it. I’m sick of being one step behind those bastards, and this planet could be our only chance to get the upper hand.

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