Refuge by Glynn Stewart

Author:Glynn Stewart [Stewart, Glynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781988035918
Publisher: Faolan's Pen Publishing
Published: 2019-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

They were halfway out onto the outer floor of the habitat when Sings’s communicator chimed. So did the one carried by the aide escorting her.

She didn’t hear the Spears’ communicator chiming, but she saw their reaction. Unlike her or her aide, they simply got the message. They went from a casual-seeming honor guard into a weapons-bristling phalanx before Sings even reached her communicator.

There was a solid circle of soldiers around her and her aide. Walks-In-Moonlight was included in the circle, and she clearly had no idea what was going on. She hadn’t received the message—she’d just been standing inside the close-protection radius of Sings-Over-Darkened-Waters and hadn’t been classified as a threat.

Sings tapped a command.

“This is an emergency alert to all vessels in orbit,” a voice declared. It wasn’t quite right, clearly one of the voices of the human translators. Those translators tried to create unique voices for each human, but she didn’t recognize this one.

“We have confirmed unscheduled tachyon signatures in the outer system. Current estimate is eight unidentified Matrix units.” The speaker paused. “Large Matrix units. Potential Rogues,” they concluded.

“All ships are to go to Status Two. Matrix recon nodes are proceeding to investigate the units. Stand by for further communications.

“Repeat, all ships are to go to Status Two and stand by for further communications. We have a potential Rogue Matrix incursion.”

Sings-Over-Darkened-Waters had been fully briefed on everything the humans had learned about their Matrix allies and enemies. “Large units” would mean either Construction Matrices or Combat Matrices.

And while Construction Matrices didn’t travel alone, they didn’t travel in packs.

Matrix combat platforms did.

The Rogues were back.

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