The Ship Errant by Jody Lynn Nye

Author:Jody Lynn Nye [Nye, Jody Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Fiction, Science Fiction, Adventure, Space Opera, Interplanetary voyages, Space ships
ISBN: 9780671878542
Publisher: Baen
Published: 1996-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

hovering on both sides. "Ready?" he asked Carialle.

"Ready."

He hooked into the information transfer port, and waited anxiously, with one hand on

either side of the small screen, staring into its depths, while Carialle sifted the contents

of the hard-storage. He could only sense fleeting impressions of individual star system

maps as she read the memory and copied it into protected database.

"We have a match." Her voice sounded triumphant. 'Three star systems, put in

relatively recently."

"What are they?" Keff said, as the graphics appeared in the 2-D display.

"No can tell, Sir Knight. They're in an alien typography. The keyboard must have been

altered to create their symbols. There are sixty-eight. Your first clue to their language.

Enjoy."

Keff groaned. "Do you mean this is a dead end??

"Not at all." There was a long pause, and the stars spun by again, accompanied by

colored screens full of square letters. "The flight recorder shows that two of them have

been visited more than once. And you'll never guess where one of them is!"

"I give up."

"Right next door. The binary mate, PLE-329-JK6 — straight across the lowermost

boundary of P-sector. I followed the visual log entries, and I could identify half of the

visuals from my personal memory."

'That's incredible!" Keff exclaimed, then paused. "No, that's logical. Why else would

they go to so much trouble to prevent a lot of traffic in this part of the galaxy?"

"My thinking exactly," Carialle said. "So that's where we go. We try it first, and if it's

wrong, we go on to the next one. One of these has to be home base."

"Right. We try them one by one," Keff said.

Tall Eyebrow and Narrow Leg had been watching Keff curiously, hearing half the

conversation. Keff looked at them guiltily. He'd forgotten that he was not alone, and

his companions were intelligent. And motivated.

"Where to go next? This map?" the Cridi captain asked, pointing at the screen with a

long finger.

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