Tech Mage by D L Harrison

Author:D L Harrison
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2019-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

As soon as we got in range of Earth, I sent a message to both Jayna and Diana to let them know about the whole mess. It also felt selfish, but I did let Diana know she was welcome to join me if she wished. I doubted she’d make that decision, but I knew I’d always regret not asking if I hadn’t.

I also scoured the news sites, the president had addressed the U.N. So far, there seemed to be shock, and a lot of speculation. I expected if the truth got out, that we were most likely going to be attacked in a month, then people would panic.

Of course, when the president heard about it, I was sure the press release would have a lot of spin on it, a part of the truth, but not the full truth.

As we got close, I launched some nanites off the ship and attached them to one of the communication satellites. It was a device I’d built in the last hour that connected to my suit via entangled particles, and I didn’t share that tidbit with Cassie. I had plans to leave the Earth for almost a month, and I wanted to have a communications access point where I could monitor things and stay connected, even make phone calls, from Jupiter.

I didn’t waste any time, I packed up some clothes, my personal care products in my bathroom, and went right back to the hangar. I had some time, Cassie was on board with my plan, and it would take her time to fully debrief. She’d promised me an hour’s head start, as they’d start with the alien’s conversation and the download of the rules and our defined territory in space.

I don’t know why I trusted her, but I was depending on her sense of self-preservation, ten giant warships would make a huge difference in the battle before us. After… if we survived, I doubted she’d be at all trustworthy.

My magic raced from me and started to reprogram fifteen of the ships, which joined and melted together. It wasn’t hard, I’d had a lot of time to design it on the way back to Earth. I also changed the permissions on the nanites, the ship couldn’t be changed or controlled by anyone but me. I made the hull very thick, and I filled in all of the empty space on fourteen of the ships as they combined, and on that last ship I made two compartments, one for thirty reactors, the other pretty much a bedroom, kitchen, and bathroom, though everything was metal but the reclining leather flight seats.

Nanites were awesome, and could create anything I could imagine, but not something soft, like a bed or blanket.

In short, the ship I created was fifteen times the mass, but not fifteen times the size. It was only about three times as wide a cigar shape, a little over forty feet in diameter, but still two hundred feet long.

I immediately started all thirty reactors building more reactors, even before I got on the thing.

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