Pillars of Reality: A Military Sci-Fi Series (Battleship Chronicles Book 3) by L. Eclaire

Author:L. Eclaire [Eclaire, L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2024-05-21T00:00:00+00:00

Full stop achieved, the local AI informed me. So far so good. As Gibraltar would say, “Now the fun part begins.” I was to reconstruct what Rigel had built, only this time in vacuum. The absence of gravity was an advantage; I didn’t need to construct a scaffolding to hold the artifacts. At the same time, I had to be very precise with every action.

Stack by stack I took the rods out of the shuttles. The series of simulations I had run showed me the exact angle and position I had to place them. In order to increase speed, I started similar to how Rigel had—completing three quarters of the outer layer before moving to the inside.

Two hours and nine minutes after I left the main shuttle, the construction was complete. Technically, it couldn’t be called a construct; none of the artifacts were physically connected, although I knew they formed one device. Rigel and Tilae had used it to get in touch with the Scuu. It was still questionable whether they had succeeded. This time I was going to use it for the task I was originally sent here to do: send a message to the third-contact race. The BICEFI knew that, which was why they refused to send a fleet here. Should a new fleet get involved in the battle, they would be content to observe from a distance… and hope it didn’t come their way faster than they could top it.

“I’ve completed a dome approximation,” I said. The suit’s system was going to see to it that my words and actions were recorded. “I’ve copied the design from my last mission, using four fractal pyramids. The command sequence will be the same as shown to me by Rigel.” Hopefully, they would accept input through the suit’s gloves. If not, I was going to have to make some modifications to the suit and likely lose my fingers to exposure. “Commencing sequence now.”

Two, one, one, four, three, three, one…

My fingers started tapping simultaneously on the sides of all pyramids. Initially, there was no response. On the twenty-fourth number of the sequence, a blue line flickered between two of the rods.

“Jigora!” I shouted, hoping the vibration in my helmet would be sufficient. It was.

Blue fractals emerged, filling the space between rods with faint blue light. This wasn’t the first time I had witnessed such a scene, although it was just as mesmerizing. Technology that was able to create a bubble or reality without contact, without sound, without air.

… one, three, four.

I inputted the final three numbers and stopped. The blackness of space around me was no longer there, replaced instead by endless strands of light, similar to what I had seen the last time I had looked into the Scuu Network. This time, I wasn’t looking at a handful of Scuu ships; there were thousands, each part of a jungle of vortexes and connections. I saw two masses of connections, each trying to consume the other and also be consumed. This

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