The Circle and Star by John Foster

Author:John Foster [Foster, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-01-07T22:00:00+00:00

AMAL

West, Madison, and Volkum turned to watch the blazing inferno that once was the Soshi ship now enveloped in a cloud of smoke and fire.

“How could there be any survivors?” asked Volkum.

Madison looked at her HDA and made some adjustments. “It’s not an automatic distress call, it’s being made by a Soshi, and someone called Amal.”

West continued to look at the satellite view and put his hand to his chin. “I’ll take a small team and see if we can help.”

“You think they’d take our help?” asked Madison.

West looked thoughtful and then said, “I think they would at least appreciate the offer and that would go a little way to repaying them for trying to save my father, when he was dying.”

“I thought your father died on the precursor to the Paradig?” asked Madison.

West turned to her and said, “He was in the final throes of the radiation sickness and we couldn’t get in the containment chamber to get him out. Our automatic distress signal attracted the attention of a Soshi ship. They volunteered to take him out of the chamber and give him a burial in space. Apparently, they’re not affected by radiation like we are. I was pretty much out of it when I learned of it but was too overcome by what happened to Dad to pay much attention. I watched him being placed in a closed capsule and then taken out of the ship by the Soshi and his vital signs stopped. He died and that was the last I saw of him. The Soshi helped us to fix the ship which was vital since there was so much contamination in the reactor and containment chamber. They were kind and that meant a lot.”

“Well, let’s get a team together and go see if we can return the favor,” said Volkum.

West nodded his head and got up from the command chair, “Right, let’s do it.”

The three of them walked out of the bridge and headed for the reactor room where Theo and some of the other crew were going over the various systems and equipment.

“Theo, there’s been a skirmish between the Soshi and a Sovar ship and the Soshi got the worst of it and crashed outside the city by a river. We’re going to see if there are any survivors. You’re in command until we get back. I’ll take Madison, Volkum, Curt, and Cesar,” said West.

“Okay, don’t take too long, I have my hands full getting this thing understood as it is,” said Theo looking worried.

“We’ll be back as soon as we can. See if you can rig a hospital facility in the ship somewhere. There has to be one somewhere,” said West.

Volkum ran to get Cesar and Curt and see to it that they were armed.

The air was cold as they exited the red building and jumped aboard a small shuttle hover cart that looked like an oversized golf cart with large thrusters and a fixed laser that had been improvised on the front of it.

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