Regi's Huuman by Lyn Gala

Author:Lyn Gala
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance, science fiction romance, alien contact, romance, gay science fiction
Publisher: Lyn Gala
Published: 2022-08-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Dante’s gaze kept flickering toward the door he’d identified, and Regi took several breaths to restrain his own desire to study the damaged door more closely. However, right now stealth was their best weapon. So he leaned against the corridor wall and tried to project a nonchalance he did not feel. “Shouldn’t you call some of your security people?” Dante whispered.

“Until the radiation suits come, we can't go in. And I would rather not advertise our interest in the engineering access areas until we have teams suited up.” Regi shifted so he could better see the damaged door in his peripheral vision. The radiation foam was in place, sealed to the door edges. However, one edge was folded under, as if part had been caught when someone had gone through after the sealant had been applied. Only a Styl would open a door with a damaged radiation seal.

“You're concerned the pirate is going to throw the door open and spread the radiation around,” Dante said.

Regi was impressed that Dante had recognized the danger. Sometimes Regi thought that the hardest part of his job was trying to explain the obvious to crew members who should have already understood it. Dante had the advantage of having seen his fellow huuman die of radiation poisoning. No doubt that improved his understanding of the risk.

The patrol ship was small and in an area of space that was unlikely to be faced with much conflict. Intelligent pirates avoided Empire space because the Empire did have a bad habit of shooting intruders where the Coalition limited itself to talking them to death. And this was very close to Empire space.

“I am sorry about your colleague who sought escape through this part of the ship.”

Dante raised one shoulder. “I'm fairly sure she knew that she wasn't going to find a teleporter back here.”

“Teleporter? I am unfamiliar with that technology.” The translator had offered a strange and scientifically improbable definition based on related words. Just as the translation matrix could never translate the names of animals, it often created false definitions when it came to technology, especially when the technology was unique to one culture.

Dante huffed. “It’s fictional technology that my people like to imagine being possible.”

For a short time, surprise robbed Regi of the ability to form a proper response. His people enjoyed storytelling, and those favored by Oba could inspire debilitating emotion, but his people did not use fictional words to create realities that could not exist. “Do your people often imagine technology beyond the scope of scientists?”

“We love to imagine anything and everything. We imagine fictional technologies, we imagine histories that didn’t happen, we love heroes who aren’t real. We are just a very imaginative people.”

When the huumans joined the rest of the universe, they would no doubt find themselves in great demand. There were many species, such as Ter’s, which had great technical abilities but were not highly skilled in innovation and adaptation. If Dante’s people were as imaginative as he claimed, they could help others advance their technology.

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