The Grand Master by Bill Stenlake

Author:Bill Stenlake [Stenlake, Bill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-07-12T04:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 53 SPIRIT

During the attack, Spirit and his craft have wound and zig-zagged their way further from the planet; and Luvus in particular. As the last of the missiles explodes into nothing, the craft turns to face Luvus again. The pellets that have exploded against the side of Luvus appear to have made minimal impact on the shell. Certainly they have not damaged it to the extent of not being able to send out more missiles. Spirit can see this, as a small craft exits Luvus and hovers around the outside of the area the missiles were launched from. His sensors pick up that the launch doors are opened and closed several times while this craft hovers over. No missiles are launched.

This tells Spirit a few things of note. Firstly, that Luvus is occupied, although exactly by whom or what he cannot be sure. Secondly, that it is likely there is a further supply of missiles that can be launched against him, although they have deemed it not appropriate to do so just yet. Thirdly, that whoever is down there has taken the assumption that no visitor is a friend and they are quite willing to be the aggressor, whoever the visitor is.

This raises his expectation that there is something really worthwhile protecting down there. That raises the possibility that The Keeper is there. Now if that is the case, obviously he has to be really careful in what he does next. In his experiences so far, he is highly unlikely to be able to go down there and knock on the door to be let in to save The Keeper. Getting this far has been one thing; how he approaches the next bit of his task is something else altogether.

The craft hovering outside Luvus finishes its task and retreats inside again. Spirit sits and waits as he retains his position about a thousand miles away. He is expecting some sort of communication and dialogue, but after three hours wait he is to be disappointed in that. He tries all the communication channels he has at his disposal, but fails to get a response from any one of his messages.

Suddenly the hovering craft exits Luvus again and makes a circuitous route towards him. It isn’t in any hurry and at least is not firing in their direction. Spirit enables the defence cone and a defence shield around the craft. Maybe there is going to be some attempt at communication, but he doesn’t want to take the chance of more undefended aggression. Nor does he trust any actions not to be aggressive, until such time as it proves not to be. The craft slows down and approaches him from the front. It is very small, only being large enough to fit one person although it tapers down behind the occupant. No doubt that is where its propulsion system is.

Spirit zooms in on the occupant. He is not surprised to see an android at the controls. Both arms and hands are clearly visible to him, but that does not mean an attack cannot be launched by other means.

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