Looking Glass 3 - Manxome Foe by Ringo John

Author:Ringo, John
Language: eng
Format: epub

Looking Glass 3 - Manxome Foe

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“Coils charged,” Engineering Specialist Rorot stated. “Unreality generator coming online . . .” “That does not sound good,” Favarduro quipped as a hard vibration coursed through the ship. “Structural integrity failure in Number 23 generator pylon,” Rorot said, calmly. “Shutting down.” “How very good,” Ship Master Kond said, quietly. “Time estimate?”

“I will need to go outside,” Rorot said, standing up. “A team is on the way. I would anticipate at least two hundred kleg.”

“Very well,” Kond said. “Keep me updated when you have the time. Favarduro, maintain maximum watch.”

“We have seen no indications of the Blin dreadnought,” Favarduro replied. “It is possible it was destroyed by the Klingoddar and the fighters were remnants. Or it may still be out there, damaged as we are and effecting repairs.”

“Keep a watch,” Kond replied. “Chaos Ball generator?” “That is online,” Favarduro admitted. “So we have that at least. I'll fire the minute I see any threat.”

“I wonder what they're detection systems are like?” Weaver said, frowning.

“Say again, Astro?” the CO replied, watching the forward viewscreens. The trace of gasses was now displayed in false color and they were following the track at low warp.

“Well, unless they have some sort of detector which is FTL,” Weaver said, musingly, “then we're going to come up on them before they see us. Even what we're seeing isn't quite real time. We're, effectively, past the point that we see by the time we see it. If that makes any sense.”

“About as much as everything else about this job,” the CO replied, not correcting the former academic on his omission of the obligatory “sir.”

“About the only FTL detector we know of, theoretically, is a tachyon detector,” Bill continued, frowning now. “And as far as I've been able to determine, we don't give off tachyons.”

“We're far too high class,” Spectre quipped. “Well, your Astrogator's a redneck, sir,” Bill replied. "But the point is, the neutrinos, quentaquarks and

such like that we do radiate, propagate slower than light. So . . .“ ”So we're going to get up to them before they can detect us,“ the CO said. ”I like it."

“Yes, sir,” Bill replied. “But the point is, we're going to get up to them before they can even see us. That's going to come as a surprise. And they just left a battle . . .”

“Visual on ship,” Tactical called. “Zooming forward viewscreen.”

There was a brief image of a ship. There was no reference for size but the ship was a long ovoid with dozens of sharp wings sticking out ending in oval devices that looked somewhat like jet engines without an intake or exhaust. The exception to the oval look was a hammerhead projection from either the front or the rear, with the way the ship was sitting it was impossible to tell which.

“Drop us out of warp,” the CO said, swiveling his chair forward. “Sir!” Bill called. “I respectfully suggest you . . .”

“Where did that come from?” Favarduro shrilled, his hand dropping to the Chaos cannon switch.

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