Renegade War: An Intergalactic Space Opera Adventure (Renegade Star Book 15) by J.N. Chaney

Author:J.N. Chaney [Chaney, J.N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Variant Publications
Published: 2020-06-13T16:00:00+00:00

14

While Dressler got down to business trying to find a way for the rest of the team to get through the Precursor shield, I checked in with Bolin on Tartarus.

“Captain, I have additional flight squads ready to dispatch,” he began.

“How many?” I asked.

“Two hundred strike ships in total. It’s about half of everything we have on hand. After some discussion, Alphonse and I decided it was best not to show our hand. The Celestials aren’t going to be intimidated by the likes of us, so it’s better to keep them in the wings.”

I understood what he was saying. Maybe if we were going up against an armada of Ravagers and pirates, it would make sense to try a display of force to make them stand down. The Celestials, however, were a different story altogether.

They didn’t fear us. Quite the opposite, in fact. They hunted us. With them, strategy was the name of the game. Better to hold back some and bring them out if we needed to. Which I hoped we didn’t.

“Works for me. Let’s hope it’s enough,” I told him. “Get everything into position while we have the time to do it.”

“Of course, Captain,” Bolin replied. “I’ve been coordinating with Athena. The squads are already within Titan’s shields.”

“Good man,” I said. “Keep me updated. I want to know the instant the Celestials show up on a scan.”

I had scarcely cut the transmission when Dr. Dressler came up to me, scanner in hand. “I believe I have found the source of the shield,” she said. “It is similar to our current technology, but it contains a second component as well—something I have never seen before. It appears the shield is resonating at a very specific frequency. It is digital, but it is activating and deactivating so quickly, there is no possible way that we might pass through it before it activates again. That’s the basic explanation, of course.”

“Then how did Jace get through?” asked Abigail.

“I have a theory on that. Just give me one second...” The scientist spent nearly a minute running the scanner around me. “Ah, here it is. It is faint, though. Very interesting.”

“What is?” asked Abigail, sounding wary.

“It appears Captain Hughes is resonating as well—not physically, but electrically. Perhaps this is why he is able to pass through the field yet no one else can.”

“Is there a way to make us all ‘resonate’ too?” asked Abigail.

“Perhaps, but it would take far more time than we’ve got,” she said, waving the question away. “I suspect it has something to do with the injection he received at the hands of the precursors. I can’t recreate that yet, not without more data. It’s a better use of energy for me to find a way to disable the field on site.”

I recalled how Mareses had said I would be the only one who could handle the supposed weapon. It seemed like that extended to the building housing the weapon as well. It wasn’t that I doubted Dr. Dressler’s abilities—far from it, in fact.

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