Star Force: Temple Wars by Aer-ki Jyr

Author:Aer-ki Jyr [Jyr, Aer-ki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Archon Lore
Published: 2021-03-18T22:00:00+00:00

6

The journey through the portals was boring for the Ren’mak, having to float there without anywhere to fly to, but Plausious knew the calm would end when they reached their destination. He had sent the others ahead so the Neofan in Installation 0193 would know he was coming and assemble…but he wasn’t going to be where they thought he was, for Plausious was using one of the backup portal locations that had probably never been activated in the Temple…and one that could not be blocked from their end given the codes he possessed.

When they finally arrived Plausious saw the catch on the receiving arrays in his Essence vision, then the transfer down through the Essence-infused machinery until they popped back into reality outside a random building in the wilderness in front of a wall that gave no indication it was anything other than stone blocks.

“Stretch your wings and tell me what you see,” Plausious said, mentally interfacing with the hidden portal and using its link with the Temple systems to log the presence of the Ren’mak and have it registered as a permanent non-combatant the way all Neofan were…meaning that even if it attacked a Caretaker unit they would not respond aggressively.

Plausious’s friend said he couldn’t see anything other than trees, but eventually one of the Temple’s machines rose out of a patch of nearby forest and came their direction, resulting in a warning squawk.

“I summoned it,” Plausious said, flying up to the Ren’mak’s position just in case this didn’t work due to reprogramming of the individual units before, during, or after their construction. “It will scan you and log you as an ally, otherwise every one like this will hunt you down assuming you are part of a Hadarak invasion.”

“Did you build all this?”

“Yes we did. It took a very long time, but it’s a place the Hadarak should never be able to find. And if they do, there are an army of these machines to fight them, and more machines to make replacements for these when they are destroyed. That is why you must be labeled as an ally,” he said as the floating Caretaker unit came closer but didn’t stop. Instead it did a flyby and left, sampling a bit of the Ren’mak’s surface tissue with an energy probe that he didn’t even feel.

“Confirm scan upload,” Plausious ordered.

The Caretaker frozen in position and displayed a hologram detailing the Ren’mak’s genetic code and other unique identifiers such as blood vessel location, retinal scan, and size dimensions. All would be cataloged and updated as needed, but as of now the Caretaker was listing the Ren’mak to have equal status to a Neofan…meaning the Temple itself would never willingly harm them, and would act to defend them unless they were in combat against another Neofan. In which case they would stay out of the way and observe.

A flick of a mental command and the Caretaker flew off, leaving Plausious and his friend flying over the treetops with the Ren’mak having to constantly flap to do so while the Reignor remained perfectly still.

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