Star Force: Origin Series Box Set (17-20) by Aer-ki Jyr

Author:Aer-ki Jyr [Jyr, Aer-ki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Archon Lore
Published: 2016-01-18T18:30:00+00:00

An hour later after the Archons had finally crept up on the tree line and got a good, ground level view of the base, a small six legged miniature walker scurried out of the forest and into the tall grasses that dominated the perimeter clearing. Barely half a meter long, the crawler disappeared into the moonlit greenery that swayed with the breeze, hiding the bits of motion the machine created as it passed along low to the ground.

Using a small datapad, Rafa guided the crawler across the sea of grass while the others waited for a reprisal from the lizards. None of their ground troops had been discovered in the forest outside the base. They’d done an extensive check of the immediate area before setting up a few hundred meters inside, dispatching Ariel and Kevin as venators while Cora guarded Rafa. Morgan was up in the treetops again as lookout while the rest were situated another hundred meters back guarding their equipment packs and ready to reinforce the others if the lizards did show their scaly faces.

It took a long time for the crawler to get halfway across the kilometer-wide clearing, then Morgan stopped Rafa with a quick word as a sentry was spotted emerging from the gaps between buildings. It scurried along the perimeter of one, looking out over the grass, then darted back inside on patrol. A few seconds later the ranger cleared him to move on, even though it was unlikely that it could have been spotted from the ground.

From the air was another matter. Morgan could see its location on her scope, but she could also make out a faint bump in the grasses when it was moving forward…like a hamster moving underneath a blanket. She didn’t see any elevated guard towers on the nearby buildings but there was no reason they couldn’t have hidden camera mounts the way Star Force did.

“Slower,” Morgan urged, with Rafa responding by decreasing the crawler’s forward progress rate by 50%.

That took it even longer to approach the buildings, but make it it did. Rafa stopped it just shy of the edge of the hard dirt roads that lined the interior of the base, keeping the mini walker inside the edge of the grasses.

“Directions?”

“Go up the building on your left,” Morgan prompted. “Patrol shouldn’t be back for at least another 6 minutes.”

“Alright,” Rafa said, scurrying the little machine out and onto the rock-hard dirt. The camera mount showed that in fact it wasn’t dirt, but some ultra-compressed compound that formed a sort of asphalt. The Archon snapped a photo tag and archived it in his datapad for review later, then walked the machine over to the wall.

When it was a few inches away he trigged the gripping mechanisms to extend on all six legs, then began to slowly attach its front two legs to the building in front of it. From there it hoisted its weight upwards, attaching all of its legs to the building via air pressure, given that the material wasn’t magnetic, then disconnecting one and attaching it further up.

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