Witch Of The Federation (Federal Histories Book 2) by Michael Anderle

Author:Michael Anderle [Anderle, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2019-06-29T23:00:00+00:00

While the team worked through the difficulties of choosing their settlers, the Dreamer’s Engine Room had gotten noisy. The thrum of working drives vibrated around the engineers who tended them.

The rumble was louder now the ship no longer idled at the dockside or traveled through normal space. The transition drives were bigger than the other engines and much, much louder.

The engineers monitored them carefully and constantly scrutinized the read-outs attached to each observation panel. A faulty engine or battery was incredibly dangerous when sliding the ship from one dimension to the next. If the measurements weren’t correct, they could end up somewhere completely different with no way to get home.

Roger stood at the front of the room and checked things off on his tablet. One of the guys walked up and nodded his head. “Hey, are we redoing all the checks twice or three times?”

He looked up, his face thoughtful. “Only twice unless the readings are different. The first slip went really smoothly, and we have a few hours before we need to make the second.” He smiled. “We were exactly on target when we came through, but you know slipping can be hard on the engines so use double checks to make sure everything’s running smoothly as we travel through the local space quadrant. Once that’s done, we’ll use the travel time to make sure the slip drives are ready for the next transition.”

The guy nodded. “Any word of when we’ll be underway?”

Roger shook his head. “No. We won’t know until Navigation confirms it has the heading, then they’ll want us to haul ass like they usually do. As long as we have a smooth flow and the batteries glow, I’ll be happy.”

As he spoke, the entire ship shuddered. The crew grabbed the nearest handholds and some clipped safety lines to their harnesses.

The engineer had been rocked off his feet and pulled himself up slowly. He noted the slightly higher readings and pushed his hardhat off his forehead as he glanced around and muttered, “I don’t know what that was, but I doubt it was a good thing.”

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