Star Force: Return to Earth by Jyr Aer-ki

Author:Jyr, Aer-ki [Jyr, Aer-ki]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Archon Lore
Published: 2017-05-19T04:00:00+00:00

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June 17, 4834

Itium System (Hadarak Zone)

2nd planet

Paul was in the Archon sanctum onboard his ship climbing up a wall in high gravity when Admiral Baeren interrupted him via comm, noting the arrival of a Hadarak in the system. The trailblazer let go of his precarious handholds and floated down through the air at an angle to drop him off at the exit doorway where he then headed straight to the bridge at a modest run, his body relaxing now that he was back in normal gravity.

When he entered the bridge he walked past the numerous work stations that had the command chairs for the Admiral and Paul at the center, though he rarely used his. He preferred to use the more robust battlemap interface that the nearby command nexus offered even for small things, so he walked through his elite bridge crew and into the nook on the far side that put a single wall between him and the others as he walked up onto the shallow pedestal, linking in and getting an active sensor feed directly into his mind.

Holograms popped up as well, though he didn’t need them. He was so good at using the interface that he could pull the holographic feeds and translate them into mental images, though letting the ship’s computer handle that during high stress situations was best and he’d just got in the habit of flicking them on regardless.

And on them was a 215 mile wide Hadarak. Paul had seen images of them before, but now that he was here he got an odd feeling immediately…only to realize it wasn’t him, but the telepathic auras of the nearby Uriti washing over him.

He immediately checked the anti-psionic shields on his ship, finding they were in fact intact, but somehow the Uriti were getting something through.

He got a complex forwarding of the Wranglers’ interface with the Uriti, indicating that they were sending out unbelievably strong emissions that were part telepathic and part something else they’d never seen before, but it was obvious to them all that they were responding to the Hadarak…the question was how?

“What do you make of it?” Kara asked, popping up in front of Paul in hologram.

“They didn’t do this with each other, so it may be something buried deep within their genetic code. I don’t think the Chixzon ever planned on having them meet, so we’re in uncertain waters here.”

“Are we waiting for it to notice us?”

“It already has, if it bothers to passive scan,” Paul said, still interfacing with the Wranglers rather than plugging into the Uriti himself. He needed his mind clear to maintain the naval situation. The V’kit’no’sat were not here at all, unless they had stealth ships present, and he presumed they did, but Mak’to’ran had not come on the final leg to this location. This first contact was Star Force’s responsibility, and the V’kit’no’sat were wisely staying out of it…or so it looked. Paul had to guard against something happening from them, and he couldn’t do that if he was trying to translate Uriti thought himself.

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