Adventures of the Starship Satori: Book 1-6 Complete Library by Kevin McLaughlin

Author:Kevin McLaughlin [McLaughlin, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Role of the Hero Publishing
Published: 2019-02-16T22:00:00+00:00

Four

Andy stepped off the ship with far more caution than he’d used last time he landed on this world. It had been fun then, almost a lark. Oh, they’d known there might be danger. But the risk had seemed like something far away.

Then they met the Naga, and everything changed. The reptilian race gave those ephemeral fears shape and substance. Now they were back again. He supposed that people were right about saying one had to ‘get back up on the horse again’ after a fall, but that didn’t make it any easier to actually do it.

He was scared and not ashamed to admit it, at least to himself. For everyone else he needed to at least appear strong. The team needed to know that he would have their backs if things went to hell again. In his gut, he knew that something was going to go wrong. There were too many potential problems for it not to.

“Checking the perimeter,” he said into his radio. “Everyone stick close to the ship until I call.”

There were a few affirmative murmurs in his ear. That was one real plus. They had much better equipment this time. He’d tested eleven different sets of body armor before he hit the dragon scale stuff that was both lightweight and resistant to the Naga weapons. Once Andy knew what worked he told John, who ordered enough sets for the entire crew and had them quietly shipped up to the base. Not only would the stuff stop the high energy pellets the Naga weapons spat out, but it seemed like it reduced the impact of their lower setting ‘stun’ blasts as well.

The rifles they carried were state of the art, firing caseless ammunition with a low-recoil stock. If they had to shoot with low or even no gravity, the guns wouldn’t blast them backward with each shot fired. Even the radio in his ear was new. John had upgraded them to a system which scrambled their communications with a private encryption code.

The Satori had set down on what amounted to a beach. The part facing the water was easy enough to check out. Nothing lived out that way. He had a hunch that not much could. There were no tracks along the sandy shore, which implied even the ratzards were avoiding the water. He wondered where the things got their own water from. Some animals on Earth could survive just on the fluids they got eating their prey, but what was there to eat on this world? They hadn’t seen anything alive here except the ratzards themselves.

Opposite the beach were a series of small buildings. Dan had set the Satori down fairly close to them. Nearer than Andy really liked. He needed to clear that area before he would be sure the landing zone was really safe. He paused for a moment before pushing in. Room clearing was something you did with a team, not alone. But the rest of the crew wasn’t really trained for this.

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