Star Thief by T Jackson King

Author:T Jackson King [King, T Jackson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: T. Jackson King
Published: 2018-09-06T06:00:00+00:00

Draken followed the repair mechbot that now pulled the floater pad, atop which sat the zero-point energy unit block. It was heading to the Power Chamber. Which was where he wished to be. The captain and the other crew beings had earlier entered the hatch for the Galley Chamber, there to eat organic foods. He needed an intense particle influx. Which would surely be provided once the mechbot connected the zero-point energy block to the Akantha’s energy systems. While other mechbots now swarmed over the rear globe of his vessel, installing the antimatter beamer dome, he wanted only to absorb nourishment and to observe. The repair mechbot must somehow create a superconducting tube for the transport of antimatter from the power unit up to the beamer. That would surely release an abundance of energy fields and energetic particles. And he wished to more exactly locate the spot within the Akantha of the control nexus crystal. If he could find that location, without speaking to any other being and thereby alerting the Stars mind component that resided within the crystal, perhaps he could disable the crystal. Or at least remove it to float in space as his vessel departed.

“Hello, Draken,” spoke Akantha through his earbuds. “It is good to have you back within me.”

He moved over to the block and globe of the fusion reactor, which was always working. Its leakage of neutrinos and quark-level baryons tasted like a rich desert, as he understood the meaning of what other beings liked after a primary meal. From there he could watch the repair mechbot as it put down the zero-point energy block and began fabricating a silver metallic tube using materials that extruded from its chest unit.

“Hello, Akantha,” he honked with just the right low notes to convey pleasure meaning to his vessel’s intelligence. She always treated him as important as the two or four-legged beings on her vessel. It was a fact he valued in view of the rarity of six-legged bioforms in this part of the galaxy. One value of this forced exploration might be the discovery of other star traveling beings who ate energy like he did and who needed a strong gravity field for proper digestion of energy food. “Were you bored by our absence?”

“Not really,” the AI honked. “I was in the mind of Jake Vitades during your exploration of the research station. And I found the discovery of the stasis tube and what Quantum Entanglement had to say to be most interesting. Perhaps there are living Harl to be found in intact stasis tubes on other worlds.”

“Perhaps,” he honked, watching closely as the repair mechbot spun out the superconducting tube. “Why is it good to have me back within your vessel?”

A low hum sounded. “Is it not obvious? You are as different from the other crew beings of this vessel as I am different from any bioform. Our two differences make us natural . . . friends, do they not?”

The thought of Akantha as his friend was welcome.

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