Admiral's Trial (A Spineward Sectors Novel:) by Wachter Luke Sky

Author:Wachter, Luke Sky [Wachter, Luke Sky]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-05-31T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25: Go Team, Go!

“I’ve got a bad feeling about this,” Tremblay said from behind the controls of the shuttle. It turned out he was the only one with even the faintest clue how to fly one of these things, due to his Officer’s training back on Capria, before he transferred to the Intelligence track. It’s not like they could launch a secret mission against Parliament and the ship’s command team, using one of the regular shuttle pilots.

“That must be the ninety-ninth or hundredth time you’ve said that since we first discussed this idea,” the little Com-Tech Lisa Steiner flared.

“It’s the thirty-third,” rumbled the native lancer, maintaining his position in one of the skiff’s few jump chairs; his belt was connected and arms crossed over his body. Tremblay knew, because it was the first thing he checked as soon as the lancer spoke up. The last thing he needed was to crash into the oncoming civilian ship, because the Lancer decided it was time to get physical.

“I can’t believe you’re keeping track,” Steiner said, throwing her hands in the air and glaring first at the Tracto-an, then at Tremblay. Once her glare fell on the Intelligence Officer, it remained fixated.

The Lancer shrugged, but stayed in his jump seat. Only Tremblay noticed, because he was watching the lot of them using the cockpit surveillance camera connected to a screen he kept active on his touch-controlled console.

That the former Lancer turned gunner, was keeping that close a track of what Tremblay said, meant the Intelligence Officer was under close surveillance. He would have to be even more careful not to let anything slip, than ever before. He gave the image of the Lancer on the screen down near his knees a narrow-eyed look—thankfully, where no one else would notice.

“What makes this ‘bad feeling’ any worse than the last half dozen times, Senior Lieutenant,” asked Mike the System Analyst, who was supposed to take control of their target’s long ranged array as soon as it was out-system.

“Look,” he said reasonably, “we’re using a shuttle with a low priority clearance, attempting to take over part of a DI network using old codes from an even older database. If our target wasn’t a Caprian freighter, I wouldn’t even think of trying it,” he finished firmly.

“Fortunately, we have our very own member of the illustrious Black Gloves, to explain away our shuttle’s lack of official clearance,” Steiner said with false brightness. “And, we’ll know before we ever set foot on their boarding tube, if the ship will accept the old codes you found hidden within the intelligence database,” she finished, a tad more reasonably.

“’Hidden’ is a strong word, for something so old that it was mislabeled—and then buried—under the wrong header in a low level classification,” he protested, not mentioning that he had been unwilling to risk anything other than a basic, low security search of the database, so as to not risk setting off red flags.

“It was providence,” Steiner declared.

“Can you even hear yourself? Divine

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