SIEGE (TRAMPS Book 1) by Blackwell Ray

Author:Blackwell, Ray [Blackwell, Ray]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2016-07-07T04:00:00+00:00

Lt.Commander Davis and Lt. Commander Blanchard had arrived at the recharge point on schedule but Commander Remke’s ship was nowhere to be seen.

“Commander Davis, Blanchard here.”

“I receive you Blanchard,” said Davis

“:Looks like we lost Bo Peep.”

“Looks that way. What say you we give him five more minutes?” Asked Davis.

“Maybe their calibration was off.”

“Could have been, either way we have to recharge before we can head out.”

Davis scratched his head, “I’ll send a message to Proxima Centauri Command; let ‘em know we have a situation.”

“Sounds good,” replied Blanchard. “I’d like to drop off our passengers as soon as possible.”

“I heard that,. I don’t feel like babysitting.”

There was only one jump left and Davis had his crew prepare a message buoy. It was a self propelled torpedo that had a built in time/space compression antennae that was retrievable and re-usable. It was basically an un-manned shuttle that could ignore harmful Gs’ and was used by nearly all space fairing vessels when they were close to a base or planet. While quite useful, it was limited to 1.5 light year travel due to power requirements.. The very reason Remke was not able to send one as Remke’s Banshee was two light years from either point when they dropped from hyper.

In either case, it would be two hours minimum before a search commenced.

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Rand returned to the bay to find Terri patching up Williams leg.

“Serena, how’d you guys shut down the Hyper?”

“We did it from the circuit room.”

“Oh good, no damage.”

“Terri, can you get our passengers some water from the galley and if they need a break., make sure they are under guard and only one at a time. I don’t want to have to re-take the ship. Use Perry to help escort and Serena can watch guard. I want to teach these two boys how to operate a Banshee.”

“Yea, sure. We’ll be fine”.

“Aaron and Mitchell, will you two join me in the bridge?”

Aaron and Mitchell both seemed excited and jumped right up.

The three of them entered the bridge.

“Aaron, left seat navigates and handles all functions pertaining to buoys’, communications and secondary functions, oh, and radar controls. Mitch, you take the right seat. You have helm, let me reiterate that, helm, not pilot; and can over-ride the weapon systems.”

“First thing we need to do is plot a course. Aaron, are you familiar with three dimensional radar plots?”

“You mean like rotating the screen and closing in and rotating again until you pull up the exact point?”

“Exactly.”

“I can do that, I took secondary level astrophysics,” Aaron grinned.

“Good man, Aaron,” Rand looked pleased. Aaron was more versatile than He had hoped for.

“Ok Mitchell, unlike stealing a shuttle this ship has extra controls. You’re probably used to pedals to turn, a collective for lift and drop and a stick or wheel for pitch and yaw, but these sticks have a center toggle for a side slip. Give it a try. Don’t worry, I reset the breakers down below.”

Aaron seemed a bit nervous but they were nowhere near obstacles so he eased the toggle right and the Banshee gently eased over.

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