The Mothership by Renneberg Stephen

Author:Renneberg, Stephen [Renneberg, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2013-11-23T00:00:00+00:00

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“Sonar contact, bearing one seven five degrees, speed–” the sonar operator cut off as his mind struggled to grasp what his instruments were telling him.

Captain Bourke turned toward the operator curiously. “Speed?”

The sonar operator gave the captain of the USS Michigan a confused look. “Over two thousand knots, sir, submerged!”

“That’s impossible!” Commander Thompson snapped as he started toward the sonar operator’s console.

“Heading?” The captain demanded.

“Straight for us!”

“Battle stations,” the captain ordered. “Launch countermeasures.”

The XO leaned passed the sonar operator, peering to see a fluorescent line streak across the screen toward the Michigan. “There must be something wrong with your instruments.”

The sonar operator ran his eye over his controls doubtfully. “I don’t think so, sir.”

Captain Bourke took up position on the other side of the sonar operator, reaching for the operator’s head set. He pressed one of the speakers to his ear, listening. Instead of the familiar sound of high speed propellers cavitating through the water, he heard barely a whisper. It was the sound of water particles being pushed aside by an acceleration field that ensured the speeding object never actually touched the water, even though it was cruising hundreds of meters below the surface.

“It’s not a torpedo,” the captain muttered as he watched the line streak toward them. “Hard a port, seventy degrees!”

Before the massive submarine began to turn the silver ellipsoid struck the Michigan amidships, plunging into its nuclear reactor and detonating. For a moment, the dark depths of the ocean burned with the radiance of a star, then the sea water collapsed into the empty airless void that had formed where SSGN 727 had been. There was no wreckage, no surge of bubbles or debris, no hope of survivors.

The USS Michigan had been annihilated at a molecular level.

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