Princess of the Empire by Hiroyuki Morioka

Author:Hiroyuki Morioka [Morioka, Hiroyuki]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Fiction
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

6 Emergency (Lesliamroth)

Hecto-Commander Lexshu Wef-Robell Plakia awoke a split-second before the hologram of Lowas Reilia appeared beside her bed.

“Sarerl,” Lowas Reilia addressed the captain.

“What is it?”

“Please come to the Gahorl at once,” he grimly requested. “We’ve detected unknown Flasath.”

“I’m on my way.” Waving her hand to cut off the Luode, she sprang out of bed. Without even turning on a light, she pulled on her Serlin, straightened her hair, and put on her winged tiara. On her way out the door, she grabbed her Kutaroev and Greu, then walked quickly toward the bridge.

Inside the tube, she deftly wrapped the Kutaroev around her hips and hung the Greu from it.

By the time she arrived at the bridge, Lexshu was completely and formally attired.

“Report, Reilia!” Lexshu shouted as she ran onto the bridge.

“Direction: seventy-eight degrees ahead. Distance: fifteen hundred thirty-nine point one seven Kedlairl. Course: eighteen degrees ahead. That’s the direction of Loebehynu Sufagnaum,” Lowas Reilia spat out in one breath while jumping out of the captain’s seat, where he had sat while the Bomowas slept.

Lexshu didn’t sit down. “That’s our next port of call, isn’t it? Safugnoff?”

“Yes.” Reilia assented. “At current speeds, we’ll arrive first.”

“What’s its scale?”

“One hundred twenty confirmed Flasath, with a total mass of about ninety Zesabo. That’s comparable to four Jadbyr.”

Lexshu stared at the map of Plane Space (called a Ja Flasath) on the floor.

There were a number of Sord, winding black coils, lurking in the vicinity of the ship, which appeared as a blinking blue dot.

Due to their constant energy emissions, Sord and solar winds repelled each other. This, in conjunction with the gate’s relatively small mass in normal space, meant that they were generally located on the outskirts of star systems.

However, Sord on the other side of the event horizon took in more energy than they gave off. In these cases, for the majority of Sord, the energy flowed from Fath to Dath. The Abh name for these special eruptive Sord was Kiigaf.

Kiigaf were like volcanoes that continuously spewed space-time particles (Supflasath) from Plane Space into Dath. When they went from Plane Space to normal space, Supflasath were reduced to four-dimensional space-time particles about the size of an electron.

Flasath absorbed Supflasath, reacted with them, and then ejected a much greater quantity of Supflasath. The byproduct of these reactions was an enormous amount of energy, which was the fuel that propelled the first Yuanon-powered ships.

Flasath also emitted mass waves (Sesuwas) that could be detected from very far away. The unidentified objects on the Gosroth’s radar were undeniably Flasath.

The Sarerl knew something was amiss. She would have known in advance if allies were moving a fleet of that size; an unexpected movement of this magnitude indicated an emergency situation.

She didn’t even want to think what it meant if these ships weren’t allies.

It would be much easier if we could just ask them what’s going on, Lexshu thought.

Unfortunately, the laws of physics prohibited that kind of communication in Fath. The frequencies and wavelengths of Sesuwas were fixed in Plane Space.

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