With Grimm Resolve: A Military Sci-Fi Series (Grimm's War Book 2) by Jeffery H. Haskell

Author:Jeffery H. Haskell [Haskell, Jeffery H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2022-05-16T16:00:00+00:00

Lieutenant (SG) Yuki and PO first-class Oliv were crowded shoulder to shoulder over the screen, coding the software to block out the erratic hum of the dark star.

Oliv pointed at the last line. “I don’t think that’s going to work, XO,” she said. “We can’t use predictive coding on this.”

“But the computer is showing a standard rhythm,” Yuki replied.

“The computer is good, ma’am, but there are frequencies the human ear can pick up that no machine the navy has can.” Oliv closed her eyes and cocked her head to the side, listening. “There’s an irregularity here. It’s hard to notice, and I think Tefiti probably figured it out before me, but it’s like… the star has a beating heart. Instead of thump-thump-thump like you would expect, there is a hiccup… but I can’t detect a pattern. Here… like this.”

Oliv tapped her fingers on either hand, one for the main beat the other for the offbeat.

“It’s so weird that space-time has a sound,” Yuki said.

“Not that weird, ma’am. Everything has a sound. Metal, rocks, people. Gravity beats space-time like a drum. As gravity passes through light, it disrupts the light in harmonic ways. We read that disruption as sound.”

She paused, tapping out the rhythm. Oversized headphones covered one ear, the other was free to hear the XO. Yuki went back to coding while Oliv tapped out the pattern. Yuki was excellent at puzzles, which was why she took to coding. She’d spent four years at Rōnin’s Academy of Computer Science while she was in the Navy’s ROTC program. They paid for the upscale school as long as she kept her grades up. That was never a problem.

Yuki shook her head, remembering her mother’s abject horror upon announcing her intent to join the Navy after she graduated. Her mother was an artist, a modest profession, and appropriate, at least in her mother’s mind, for a proper Rōnin woman.

Kimiko Yuki took to art about as well as a toddler rolling through paint. Coding, though, made sense to her. Art did not.

“Oy vey,” Oliv muttered. “I think I’ve got it.”

She pressed the comm button. “Bridge, PO Oliv. Can I speak to PO Tefiti, please?”

“One sec, PO,” Mac replied.

“Go for Tefiti.”

“Tefiti, it’s a seven-one-four with a third mixed in,” Oliv said. The excitement in her voice brought her light accent out even more.

“Son of a—” Tefiti stopped himself. “Good job, Oliv!”

She closed the line and wrote out the pattern.

“I don’t get it…” Yuki said.

“It’s hard to explain. It repeats seven beats, then one, then four, each one changes to the fourth one—” she paused as Yuki’s eyes glazed over.

“Never mind, just program the computer to do it this way,” Oliv said as she sketched out the proper beat followed by the mathematical formula to show Yuki what she meant.

“That’s a thing?” Yuki asked.

“Aye ma’am, it’s a thing.”

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