The Human Chronicles Saga Box Set 5 by T R Harris

Author:T R Harris [Harris, T R]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-18T07:00:00+00:00

Chemical landing jets weren’t designed for delicate maneuvers. They came into play during the final leg of a landing, once the ship became too close to the surface to safely use gravity drive. Then a final burst of gas and the ship would settle to the ground. Using the chem drive to hover outside a building without destroying it was proving to be problematic, and especially in a starship with unfamiliar controls. As the ship approached the building in a cloud of fire and smoke, it dawned on Adam that he’d never landed the Gracilian ship before. This was the first time he’d even fired the chem drive. It would be a miracle if he didn’t burn his friends to ashes, and with them the destructive dark matter collector.

At that point, who would care? They’d all be dead anyway.

Sherri and Coop were outside the huge dome, carrying objects Adam assumed were dark matter collector and sack of containment cubes, fighting the heat and smoke from the chem jets, trying to get closer to the railing. It was hard enough keeping the ship level, let alone piloting it close to a building a thousand feet in the air. Now he sent the sharp tip of the starboard wing crashing into the balcony, sending a large section cascading to the next layer of domes below.

Unfortunately, Sherri and Coop went with it.

They rode the section of hardened foam along the side of the lower dome until it embedded itself into the thin roof of the next level down. The Humans slid off, falling hard to the balcony that encircled this level. They were safe for the moment, even as the dark matter collector fell over the side and wedged itself in the depression between two other domes on the level below.

Sherri rushed to the railing and looked over. The gravity of Navior was about three-quarters that of Earth, so she catapulted herself over the side and slid down the curved roof of the dome until she landed in the confluence where the unit now rested.

Sherri had the device on one level, while Coop held the bag of cubes and a thin wire cage in his hands on another. He dropped down to Sherri’s level, sliding on his butt along the curvature of the lower dome.

Adam shoved the port side wing into the dome, ten feet below where Sherri and Copernicus clung to their precious cargo. A moment later, Coop was on the wing, having jumped from above. He fell to his belly and took hold of a small navigation light to keep from sliding off. The ship bucked, causing the wing to rip upwards, tearing more of the dome apart. As it did, the wing lifted more…and Sherri took the collector and literally walked onto the wing.

Tell her to hold on, Adam said to Coop through his ATD.

Copernicus yelled and Sherri dropped to her stomach as well, with one arm around Coop and the other around the DMC.

Adam pulled the starship away from the building, taking broken debris with it.

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