The Fires of Creation by Richard A. Merk

Author:Richard A. Merk
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Inimitably Superfluous
Published: 2010-12-29T09:05:00.453000+00:00

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Chapter 5 - Resurrection

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

- Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher

Max Vasser felt the ka-thunk through the soles of her boots as the small probe shot out of the Rocinanté’s dorsal tube.

“You sure this is going to work?” she asked dubiously. Fooling a Defiant class starship with such a simple trick seemed to her improbable at best.

“No problem,” was West’s confident guarantee. “I’ve used this a bunch of times. Sort of like tapping someone on the shoulder and then running the other way. Never fails.”

“I won’t even ask why you would regularly need to use tactics like this,” said Max.

West studiously ignored her comment. “Besides, the decoy’s holo-generator and fake warp signature only have to fool their sensors long enough for us to get off this asteroid and back into space. Speaking of which…”

West watched the sensor readouts on the console before him. “The decoy probe just went to warp… They’ve seen what they think is the Rocinanté zooming away from here… And there they go, the fox after the hound.”

Instantly, he was a blur of action and efficiency that Max would never have suspected lay underneath the careless, undisciplined exterior. Within seconds, the subsonic thrum of the Rocinanté’s engines was vibrating the deck underneath her feet, and moments later, her seat pushed up against her bottom as the ship quickly lifted from the asteroid and accelerated away.

“Setting course for the Black Gate — ETA, one hour twelve minutes.”

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