Waypoint Magellan by LS Roebuck

Author:LS Roebuck [Roebuck, LS]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shadowlands Press
Published: 2017-01-13T08:00:00+00:00

North had strapped his field infopad to his forearm and was using it to speak with Moreno.

“Wilco.” North looked through the plexiglass at the gathering force in the corridor. He could see down the corridor to Chinatown, the restaurant where he met Amberly the night before this violent conspiracy started to unravel. He was desperate to talk with Amberly. Was she a part of this Chasm cult or just an innocent bystander?

The five Marines with North were preparing for a firefight. Two of them had assault rifles, the other half just their stun sidearm.

“North, we’re now tracking the stolen runabout,” Moreno’s voice came over North’s radio. “Looks like she is headed back to port. Just more than an hour out. I am not going to allow Firebird to dock until we have full control of the station and we have defused the situation down there.”

North thought about Amberly, hopefully safe aboard the Firebird, being abducted by Dek, and he ground his teeth in frustrated anger. At least he hoped she was abducted. Is it possible she was one of these Chasm butchers? The thought overwhelmed North, but then he quickly cleared his head. Got to stay in the game.

North could feel a hardening deep inside. His joyful life was imploding. Amberly’s rejection in the Shard Caves threw him off center. He hadn’t time to process the trauma of seeing Anderson and Jindal murdered in front of him — and narrowly escaping with his own life. He knew he would never be the same, and he knew that if he didn’t hold fast, he could be overwhelmed by what was yet to come. “We’ll take care of everything down here, XO.”

“I am going to send you whatever reinforcements I can,” Moreno said over North’s communication unit. “I’m am trying to raise the governor now. He can call off his police. And I’ve locked down the hangar access door from here — no one is going to override it, so if they want in, they’ll have to break it down. ”

The main floor of the Magellan docks was one of the largest open spaces in the waypoint, nearly 200 meters from the hangar doors to the inside wall. The civilian access point, with its large translucent doors, was situated on one inside wall corner; the other inside wall corner led into the Marine base. On the far exterior wall were the main space doors and gangway access.

A few meters from the civilian access point was a processing center, a collection of desks and other office furniture, and behind that was the air pressure curtain, currently up. Before a ship left the hangar, a failsafe required all personnel move to the area between the pressure curtain and the interior wall. When the curtain was engaged, its atmospheric seal protected dockworkers and others from the deadly vacuum of space, which could then be opened.

North and his men had taken up positions behind the processing desks but in front of the pressure curtain drop line.

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