Lieutenant Spacemage (Imperium Spacemage Book 3) by Timothy Ellis

Author:Timothy Ellis [Ellis, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-12T16:00:00+00:00

Thirty Two

“I told Susan she couldn’t have Rogue.”

“And assuming the ship comes back, it’s Jon’s ship for when he needs a more powerful one than BigMother. Sceptre of Kali is in the process of being modified to allow docking of both BigMother and Rogue internally, using jumps. Finding the space wasn’t easy, but the front end of the ship has more which can be converted, because the titan turrets don’t retract quite as far. He’s on Sceptre at the moment breaking in his new rear admiral, but he doesn’t want to be there as much as Algy here didn’t want to be. So I’m organizing him an easy way of choosing which ship for which mission.”

“Ah,” said Jedburgh. “I wondered what was going on.”

“Anyway, I knew someone was going to try and steal one of our advanced ships. I knew when the group of American soldiers was going to try and who they were, and handpicked the ones for the job. One of my avatars is on board, but I’ll stay hidden until they either find Arthur, or something happens worth revealing myself for.”

“Do we have any idea where Rogue is now?” asked Tollin.

“I’ve a pretty good one. Rogue is leaving behind bread crumbs in the form of comnavsats, and I have a comnavsat layer freighter following them, filling in the gaps between them. It’s necessarily a few days behind them, but according to a message I left myself in the buffer of one of them, they’ve had some delays along the way, and are not jumping while they sleep, which has allowed the freighter to catch up somewhat. I estimate it’s about two or three days behind them at the moment.”

“Why so far?” asked Lacey.

“Because they’re dropping a single comnavsat into a system after they jumped over several, and the freighter has to drop between three and five in each system to connect them all. They however, are jumping slower than the freighter is, due to the fact they are jumping manually, and have to stop periodically to computer generate the next set of jumps. With their sleep time factored in, the freighter isn’t falling too far behind each day.”

“There’s no AI on Rogue?” asked Jedburgh.

“No. It was the only way of making it easy for them to steal the ship, without having to bring anyone else into the loop at the time, and at the same time making it harder for them to move rapidly. And provide a reason for not jumping for part of the day.”

“Do they know they’re on a mission for you?” asked Bigglesworth.

“Not for me specifically, but yes, they now know there is a rescue mission, and seem to have accepted it.”

“How do you know that?” asked Tollin.

“I keep sending myself messages, albeit they get delayed before I get them. After they left Trixone, they came across a station run by civilian Trixone.” She held up a hand, stopping anyone from asking further. “And that’s another story for a different time. They dropped into

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