The Iv'ax Incursion: Union of Stars: Book Two by D. L. Harrison

Author:D. L. Harrison [Harrison, D. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-06-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

New Kyoto formerly known as 82 Eridani was a little smaller than Earth with only eighty one percent the gravity. It made up for it with living space by being two-thirds land and one third ocean instead of the other way around. There was a supercontinent and several small island chains. The days were shorter, just twenty-two hours, and the axial tilt a degree and a half greater than Earth which made sure they had four full seasons during its five hundred and two day trip around the sun. The atmospheric pressure and composition was almost a perfect match to earth, and the planet had a rich animal life including some that had become human pets and guards.

It was late evening, a couple of hours after sunset where I was going on the planet, even if it was mid-afternoon back home.

I was virtually impossible to see, just two lightly glowing eyes flying down into the atmosphere, while the rest of me absorbed the light, radar, and Lidar that would betray my presence in the system. Even the heat of reentry was just a nice snack, to prevent anyone from seeing that glow. I was sure they were paying attention, and ready to act immediately if my presence was revealed. The terrorist groups knew I went after them, and it was getting harder and harder to take them down in surprise to secure the lives of the hostages.

I stopped and hovered around a thousand feet above New Kyoto city and specifically the museum which I assumed was rich with old Japan culture and history. The life sign scanners were fed straight to my eyes, showing the humanoid shapes of people below as blue colored nimbuses as usual.

Dana said, “They have active comms.”

That wasn’t good news. It meant they were constantly transmitting and receiving, like an open line or conference call on a phone. If anything happened to one of the eight, the others would know immediately.

The two hundred hostages were split up into three groups, presumably in different exhibit rooms, with a two-terrorist team watching each group. After a moment, it was easy to pick out the fourth two-man group who was moving between the three groups.

They weren’t evenly split, there were ninety-two in one group, eighty-nine in another, and nine in the last. In two of the rooms, the terrorists were obvious, because they’d split them up by sex which I could see quite clearly by the shape of the nimbuses. They’d split up the men and their wives or dates, but there were three extra women in the first group. So it was easy to pick out the two men among that group. The small group of nine was even easier, since they were small and obviously children.

It was the group of eighty-nine men that was difficult in the extreme to separate out the terrorists, especially since they were packing machine guns which of course didn’t have an energy core.

They were getting smarter about making things difficult for

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