Deep Space - Hidden Terror (The Stasis Stories #6) by Laurence Dahners

Author:Laurence Dahners [Dahners, Laurence]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2021-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

She sat back looking at the first bullet point on her list. Why the hell would aliens cross interstellar space to start a war? she wondered. And wondered some more. She couldn’t imagine a reason why. Unless it’s easy for them to do it and they want some resource we have but they don’t. And, of course, if transporting it back home is cheap for them. Or they so desperately need that resource that it makes the expense worth it.

But all of the elements should be present in huge quantities in any solar system, and if you have the elements, you should be able to create any molecules…

And, if they could jump from the middle of one solar system to the middle of another, why hadn’t they done it this time? And if they could only jump from the periphery of one system to the periphery of another, she couldn’t imagine a resource valuable enough to even transport it to the periphery of the system where they could jump. Maybe, she thought, something rare. Something that they could transport in small quantities and it’d still be worth it. Something they’re running out of that they desperately need, uranium perhaps, since they use fission power. Perhaps uranium’s become so valuable to them that they do find it worthwhile to jump from the periphery of one system to another?

Lee was still puzzling over this when they got a message back from Earth with expressions of appreciation from President Del Rio. The message contained suggested orbital mechanics for their trip. Then a big data download of material on alien contact started. Lee felt amused to see it included some science fiction stories that’d imagined such contact. After she considered it, she decided it wasn’t so crazy to read a novel about how some people had envisioned such contact might occur, good or bad.

She’d been thinking she’d go back into stasis but decided she needed to spend the trip reading all those materials.

And, she thought, I’d better write to Norm and the kids. Kaem had warned her that word of the aliens was leaking, so the government was working on how to release the news. She hoped it’d be better if her husband and kids got word of what she was doing from her, rather than wondering. Though, just because I’d prefer to know if I were them, doesn’t mean they’d feel the same, she thought worriedly.

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