The Complete New Dominion Trilogy by Drury Matthew J

Author:Drury, Matthew J. [Drury, Matthew J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-12-31T23:00:00+00:00

Twenty-two hours after leaving the prison complex at Emnoute, the four Empyreal Sun agents arrived at the rendezvous point - exhausted, but unable to rest. At the very last place Senator Jocle would have wanted to go; the place where his world had been turned upside down less than a week earlier.

The island of Laputa.

As expected, the second infiltration team had joined them on the outskirts of the Silver City, and the Easesash Stone was in their possession, wrapped carefully in an unremarkable fabric so as not to attract unwanted attention. So far, so good.

“We should hurry along,” said Shamara Josto, leader of the second team, who carried the Stone in a bag. They had stolen it from a high-security facility north of Lahmia, amid heavy resistance. “Kaia and I made a number of enemies trying to get ahold of this thing, as you can probably imagine… and I’d rather not stick around for them to find us.”

Kaia Jervada exhaled heavily. “Quite right,” she said. “But how are we going to get off this planet?”

Krin stared rigidly at them, his heart thudding audibly in his chest. “Sai’bot has given us all the codes we need,” he told them. “There is a specific bioship we will need to steal - an old prototype, codenamed the Thunder, located in docking port twelve.”

A squad of Terran Alliance soldiers strode down the crowded street, their grey battle armour reflecting a yellowy-coloured tinge from the lights coming from the buildings around them. Taking a long step out of their way, Yvanos Krin pulled his hood a bit closer around his face. He could sense no particular alertness from the squad, but this deep into enemy territory there was no reason to take chances. Undoubtedly, they would be on high alert, but the soldiers strode past without so much as a glance in their direction, and with a quiet sigh of relief Krin returned his attention to his contemplation of the final stages of the plan. Between the soldiers, the Alliance fleet crewmen on layover between flights, and the smugglers poking around hoping to pick up jobs, the darkly business-like sense of this part of the Silver City was in strange and pointed contrast to its serene and abstract beauty.

“This way,” Krin muttered. A couple of metres to his left was the entrance to the long arched tunnel of a pedestrian bridgeway. Turning down it, Krin stepped up the pace, trying to remember from his study of the city maps exactly where docking port twelve was located.

“There it is,” Pencron observed a few moments later. Docking port twelve, he noted, was no different in appearance from any of the other spaceports in the Silver City - perhaps among the greatest docks on the planet Earth, with a line of bulky biotransports coming in continually, huge floating cranes ready to meet them and unload the millions of tons of supplies necessary to keep alive the floating island of Laputa, which had become too populous to support itself through its own resources.

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