Alcantaran 1: Alien Abduction by Terry Compton

Author:Terry Compton [Compton, Terry]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Science Fiction
Goodreads: 11480915
Publisher: Terry Compton
Published: 2011-02-28T17:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

The next morning Ron and Gus headed for the middle cargo bay to see about melting silver and making small bars out of it. They opened the door and looked at the pile of silver under the netting.

"How in the world are we going to smelt that? Will it stink up the rest of the ship?" Gus asked. "Once we get it melted, how do we make bars?"

"We can use the miners to melt it, just like we did to mine it. We just need something to hold it while we melt it. Too bad we don't have some gnomes to melt it down and pour it into molds for us." Ron answered.

"We do have someone that could hold it and pour. We have those robots we took from the Bugs." Gus declared excitedly.

"Yeah and we could set up a shield for them to work in. That would capture any smells or toxic gases that might be given off. You haven't refueled the robots yet, have you?" Ron joined in the excitement.

Gus shook his head no and Ron continued, "Why don't you go refuel them and I'll go look in the machine shop to see if there is something we can use for molds and something to melt the silver in."

Ron was headed for the machine shop when a thought struck him. Why not ask Auntie's computer if there were any melting pots or molds on board. Ron headed for a terminal and posed his questions. Auntie answered him with a door number where molds and melting equipment were stored. Ron headed to the room and opened it up. He stepped inside and saw rows of shelves with items neatly and securely stored. There were labels showing what shelf and row the items were on. Ron found a smelting pot that was almost three feet in diameter. It looked like pictures he had seen of a witch's cauldron. There was a heat source on it but he saw that it had no fuel for the heat. There was a shelf area on the bottom near the front of the pot to slide molds into and a lever to open a valve to allow liquid metal to fill the mold. This could be a lot handier than what they had planned. He looked on the shelves above the pot and saw stacks of several different sizes of ingot molds. He also saw some other molds that he reached up to check out. There were five different ones that were small figures of alien animals. There were five more of exotic alien birds. None of the figures would be more than four inches high when they were done but they sure were interesting. All of the figures came complete with a mount to stick into a base that would hold the figures. Ron remembered Kota talking about having 'eye candy' to help grease the wheels of trade on a lot of planets. Ron figured these were some of the 'eye candy'. If the ship had all of this equipment, they must have done the same thing they just did.

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