Bishop's Gambit Omnibus by Jeremy Fabiano

Author:Jeremy Fabiano [Fabiano, Jeremy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Violetear Publishing
Published: 2019-11-24T07:00:00+00:00

“Bishop, cut engines and drift to port about ten degrees.”

I did as I was asked. “What am I looking for?”

“You’ll see. I believe you will be quite excited by my findings.”

“I’ll be the judge of th—holy shit…”

“Agreed.”

In front of us floated the carcass of an older mining ship. A real mining ship. And attached to the bottom was one of the largest mining lasers I’d seen in a while. It looked like there had been several, but they’d been destroyed.

“This one made it. Somehow…”

“I do believe this is where you take a step outside.”

I was halfway out of my harness and latching my helmet onto my suit. I applied some more patch tape to my chest. Just in case. “Remind me to replace this suit. I don’t know how much I trust this patch job.”

“Noted. Do hurry before we are discovered.”

“On my way.” The suit pressurized, and all the indicators flashed green. “Radio check?”

“Loud and clear,” responded Sami through the helmet’s comms unit

“All right, I’ll grab my tools and go get us a new toy.”

Sami depressurized the ship and opened the hatch. I stood in the doorway, the old mining ship meters from me. A light hop and I floated across the gap. The laser was even larger up close. It was mounted by four large bulkhead fasteners. They were as big around as my wrist.

“How are we going to attach this to the Gilmore?”

“Likely, you will need to weld it. Thankfully, it does not need to be pretty, only functional.”

“Understood.”

I removed the bulkhead fasteners with a large impact wrench. I had to use the magnetic braces to fasten the wrench to the hull as the bolts were secured with so much torque that it would fling me away from the hull.

It took nearly twenty minutes to remove the fasteners and the wire harness. A tug on the laser and it floated freely from the hull it had been connected to. I gave it a nudge toward the Gilmore. It began to float away. I cut the harness connector off the derelict ship and placed it in my toolbox along with the impact wrench. Then I pushed off myself.

I made it back to the Gilmore just before the mining laser. Thankfully, everything weighed a lot less without gravity getting in the way. The laser slowed as I pushed against it. Carefully, I guided it to the hull of my ship and lined it up where I thought it should be.

“How’s that?” I asked.

“Move it forward ten centimeters.”

I made the adjustments and then used magnetic clamps to hold it against the hull. “I wish there were mounting points. I hate bulkhead welding…”

“Less complaining, more welding. I am detecting radio transmissions from space aimed toward our general vicinity.”

“Expecting company?” I asked as I broke out the welding equipment and connected it to the ship’s power supply.

“Always. It’s only a matter of time before someone either comes to check on us or comes to raid us. Call it an unwritten rule, if you wish.

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