Recker's Chance by Anthony James

Author:Anthony James [James, Anthony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-09T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

The Ixidar was no longer in the original bay, though it was in a place of similar dimensions. Having been sensor blind during the run back to the Gorgadar’s shuttle, Recker wasn’t sure exactly where the Ixidar was in relation to its entry point - more than enough time had passed for it to have travelled from one end of the Ancidium to the other.

Recker’s eyes danced across the feeds, a few of which were aimed at walls or nothing of interest – something Montero was fighting to correct.

“A construction and repair yard,” said Eastwood.

Recker thought the same. The Ixidar’s lower five thousand metres were inside a square bay in the floor and the floor of this bay contained a shaft that was slightly deeper than the destroyer cannon that was currently inside it. Recker had no doubts this bay was where the Destroyer had been originally created.

“We’re two hundred kilometres from the left wall, a hundred from the right and fifty kilometres from each of the nearer two walls,” said Montero, reading out the sensor data. “Lots of activity outside.”

Dozens of shuttles flew in the vicinity, some carrying thick sections of armour plating – the Ancidium clearly wanted the Ixidar repaired and operational as soon as possible.

Other work was underway in the yard. Towards the left-hand wall, Recker spotted other warships at varying stages of construction. A few were battleship sized, which in the Lavorix fleet meant a mere seven or eight thousand metres in length. These were dwarfed by the work beyond. One part-built hull was about twenty thousand metres, its underside deep in another trench. This vessel was more than halfway complete and its curved sides made Recker think of the Gorgadar. The outer plating wasn’t finished and huge, cube-shaped ternium modules were visible through the openings.

Further yet was another incomplete warship, this one slightly shorter and with a height that allowed Recker to discern much of its shape. This second warship reminded him of the Galactar, in that it appeared to be a collection of massive cylinders, cuboids and struts, cobbled together, as if the intended design had been altered several times during the construction process.

These two huge warships took only a fraction of Recker’s attention. The star of the show was at the extreme end of the bay and this new vessel was going to be the most terrible of them all – a sixty-kilometre titan of alloy with sleek lines and a broad beam that would likely scrape the sides of the exit tunnels as the spaceship flew outside at the beginning of its first mission to kill any living species it happened upon.

“Check out the other end of the bay, sir,” said Montero, still fine-tuning the sensors.

“A copy of the Ixidar,” said Recker, turning to the feed Montero highlighted for him. He stared at what would eventually be the twin of his own ship, once the Lavorix had fitted the upper fifteen hundred metres. A swarm of lifter shuttles and welder robots were in the process of dropping components into place.

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