Star Trek: Corp of Engineers - 063 - Echoes of Coventry by Richard C. White

Author:Richard C. White [White, Richard C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781416520474
Publisher: Star Trek
Published: 2006-05-15T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter

7

Bart stepped out of the holosuite after another frustrating shift. He’d gone over and over the readouts he’d brought with him when they shut down operations, but he was no closer after this shift than he’d been two days earlier. He knew without a doubt the answer was waiting for him in the memory buffer of the main computer, but they simply couldn’t chance turning it back on.

Mayhew had informed them that the ice-covered moon had been probed at least four times in the past two days. Apparently the shielding Starfleet Intelligence had used to hide the underground facility had done its job, but knowing a single barrage from one of the ships floating near Antros III would completely obliterate their spider hole kept everyone on edge. Bart gave Zarinth credit, though. Whatever his personal feelings were toward the SI personnel, he did a great job of keeping them updated as things began happening.

“Hey, Bart, you awake there?” He glanced up to see Priya standing over by the entrance to the zero-gravity racquetball court. “You’re just staring off into space.”

“Oh, hey, Priya. Sorry, I was just thinking about those cruisers up there. It’s just tough knowing we don’t even have a good spitwad shooter to fire back at them if they decided to take a few dozen feet off the surface.”

“Welcome to my world. When the resistance was fighting with the Cardassians, we had no navy and very little air support to speak of. We learned to appreciate caves with high concentrations of magnetic rocks. The Cardassians knew we were using them to hide from their sensors, but there were too many caves and tunnels for them to guard all of them all the time. I swear, there were times I wondered if the sun was still in the sky. It felt like I lived most of my life underground.”

The earnest look on her face made him smile. “That sounds familiar. Not so much the hiding in caves, but working for SI, I spend way too much time in windowless buildings, hiding behind sensor-resistant screens. We called the place I was just at ‘the mushroom farm’ because we were always kept in the dark and fed a lot of manure.”

Priya laughed. “So, are you up for a quick set of racquetball?”

“Ah, trying to work off some of your stress by picking on my minuscule racquetball skills?” Bart teased.

“Oh, please. I mean, you actually scored seven points last match.”

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