The Omega Drive by Nik Whittaker

Author:Nik Whittaker [Whittaker, Nik]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-12T22:00:00+00:00

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Vittoria, Tanner and Tylr, were travelling the distance from the StarQuake, to the Revenant in the Solstice. The ship was much cleaner, and whiter than any of the others. It had once served as a BMT, Battlefield Medical Transport, when Lyla had commanded it. A reinforced hull, and the main power focused on the shields, allowed it safer travel into heavy attack zones to picking up injured soldiers, and to evacuate them. Along with a full array of medical tech on board, and full three-man crew, it could act as a mobile hospital where needed, holding up to six wounded. Lyla had changed it since joining the Coyotes, but it still had room for three injured, and more attack power than a standard BMT.

“Docking now,” Tanner said, the comms open to the StarQuake.

“Be safe guys,” Dack said. Lyla had allowed him to set up a basic command bridge in the med bay and was monitoring the Solstice’s progress.

“We will. Have the StarQuake ready to head to the coordinates as soon as we get back.”

“Will do,” Jako confirmed.

*

The ship docked, and before long the three Coyotes found themselves in the Council Chamber once again.

Shai, Wyx and Ezik sat in the centre of the room as before.

“You have located our Vessel,” Shai said, her voice low and somber.

“We have, and if you hadn’t pulled us back, we’d be on an intercept course right now. The Syndicate have a two-day head start on us already,” Tanner could barely keep his impatience at bay.

“We understand, but there are, things, you need to know about the Vessel, things we couldn’t risk sending in a transmission,” Wyx croaked.

“We hoped you’d retrieve the cipher before the Syndicate, and thus prevent this situation entirely,” Ezik added.

“The Vessel, it contains the Omega Drive which we informed you about already. Though we didn’t tell you the full information,” Shai continued.

“The Omega Drive, isn’t just a new form of energy. As the name suggests, it is the opposite to the Alpha. An unstable and dangerous power, but when combined with the Alpha, it becomes something else,” Wyx said.

“It has the power to open up a wormhole in space,” Ezik said, “it is how we ended up in your galaxy. A malfunction in our NavSystems caused the Omega Drive to throw us light-years off course.”

“You’re telling us, that this Omega Drive, is the power to allow Interstellar travel?” Vittoria asked, “that’s… not possible?”

“It is,” Shai answered, “the opposition of the two energies allows a rip in the fabric of space. It’s a mode of travel we have been using for eons.”

“Your galaxy is so far away from ours, that it has never been explored by our kind. However, should the Syndicate get to the Omega Drive and activate it, the wormhole technology will trigger. In doing this the vessel will send a homing beacon back to our homeworlds,” Wyx continued.

“And, no offence, but your galaxy would be ripe for conquering from our species. The technology alone is of a level so far advanced from your own, that it would be like wiping out ants,” Ezik didn’t mince his words.

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