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A guard of sorts to the main hatch? “I would advise you to lower your weapon. There are at least two lasers targeting you and the moment you fire that weapon, ALL of you will cease to exist. “ “KJ!” Nodu was quick to have KJ lower his weapon.
The lasers, flickered momentarily, before appearing to shut down.
The hatch, in front of them opened. “Follow me. My mistress is expecting you. “ Nodu glanced at Yie the same thought going through their minds.. ‘Expecting you.’ In front of them the inner corridor, was a short one to the next hatch, one that slid to open with a groan, as though its inner workings, were badly needing some attention.
The lighting also flickered. The bulkhead was damaged and, some indication, of distorted twisted metal, caused from weapons having been discharged.
A sticky green goo, on some of the metal framework, that had a peculiar stench to it. Yie had stepped away from it, noting the slight hiss from it.
“Acidic. Its own biological defense, or strongly akaline ?” Nodu nodded.. “Could be, any number of races, with that in their form”. KJ hissed at them, a distinct rasp in its voice..
“Slothin’ the analysis, of the fluid, is theirs, I, am not, detecting any of them.” That, at least thought Nodu AND Yie was somewhat a relief.
Terrifyingly deformed creatures from 4ek5, ‘Progensis’, had produced, from the planet now with a thick layer of ice, due, to little or no heat, from a dying star.. their main sun.
Worst still, that was being dragged towards a black hole.
Physically their form was a mass of seismic proportions. Think on early prehistoric Solus 3 (Earth) re Dinosaurs.. the big, the VERY big variety.
As, the inner hatch slid open, they, were now in a well furnished area. Control systems, for what they would soon learn was a very sophisticated space station. Some Slothin from a scouting party, using a Portei Semperu, to land on the station.
Only a few and, not initially hostile BUT, the systems, were not akin, to their presence, being acceptable.
A known threat and, treated by the defense systems as such. the ‘algorithms’ were outdated and had not, for some time been updated.
THEY were being scanned and, quite evidently so.. The rings around them were nothing new.
The tingling sensation, was soon past and they were now in the main chamber, a pilot control point.
KJ was unable to move. Caught in a beam of light, fixed. NOT that IT was panicking or responding to its imprisonment, uhh maybe CONFINEMENT. “No harm will come to your Tobot’ “ The voice was clear, crisp and with some resonance to it.
The female form sat in front of them leaned forward.
“An Arcan. Welcome to one of our most privileged ‘guests’. Our Portei Semperu, is having some issues, that of late. have seen, this space station, subject to intrusions from several unwanted visitors.
As soon, as we repair, our defensive capabilities, we are attacked again. Updating of the core programming on and within the Portei, can only be carried out by a qualified, Arcan.
The energy, from the star generators , is too fierce for any of us, to go near, but it too, is requiring attention, hence the flicker, you will have noticed within the plasma streams.. Some segments requiter replacing in the right order?
We have no wish to cause collapse of the inverter arrays.”
Where are we might spring to mind, especially re Yie. If Nodu had been sidetracked her thoughts were not.
“Your guest is ?” “Yie of the Caijia.” A pause, a momentary reflection on the RACE? Not known, nor recognised but that, was due to a time and spacial anomaly, that their host was definitely not a party to, well they were but !
2123 and Solus 3 (Earth) was the planet beneath the clouds. A craft, seen dropping out of orbit and now descending into its atmosphere flashing within the magnetic flux of the Aura Borealis. Aliens from Orias, dropping by, one might say to do trade. Nothing unusual.
WHERE was the Portei aboard the space station? They, were shown by a Mosette. A female cloned being and simple in form, but highly advanced. IT, knew everything, about where they were much to Yie’s relief.
Time period, the planet below and so much more. NOT that Nodu OR Yie had any real interest in a
Human(a) planetary system.
Human(a) colonies, did exist, in their former Qiverse time period. Where, they had been taken from to now..
THIS was an experience that both, were enjoying. True the Tomot, was a definite unknown, to those aboard the station, who had never come across such.
So they had travelled back in time. A rift that had shifted them to where they now stood staring at the huge imposing Portei Semperu. IT was huge. more than any he had seen before. BUT in fairness it was an EARLY adaptation of the ones they were used to. A trifle primitive and that Nodu knew delivered its own concerns.
He could, update their base systems using his own Celestial clock, to write and overwrite, the current one aboard the space station. BUT that, also, had its own STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY issues. Primitive versus the more sophisticated without making changes to the actual framework?
Yie, was good at working with him, to go over the statistics, the computations required, to allow him to make adjustments, improvements, without advancing their technologies, beyond the current time frame.
Some, advancements could be made but others could definitely NOT!
The hyper loop was new. It expanded the time co efficient to include more races that could use the terminus BUT also allowed a selection of races vetted by the Galacia Federa to be blocked. NO access. The Slothin was one of those deemed as being a dangerous war mongering race.
It, would take TIME, to make all the adjustments. Yie worked with him, though ‘she’ had been invited, to take it easy in the recreation area as it was known, Bathe, relax and be pampered, might spring to mind and most Human(a) would have jumped at the opportunity. Yie however knew her race was unknown to them.. Her sensitivities, her biology and physiology were way way different from this lot.
Marianas, the pilot, was in deep conversations from those on Solus 3 (Earth). They needed their Portei power distribution across the main networks checked over and any adjustments, repairs carried out.
It seemed Nodu would be on the space station for quite a while but he and Yie would be on Solus 3 (Earth) for a lot longer.
Unknown to them, their benefactor, was steering them towards an ancient race of beings, who were about to be waking up.. their sleep, their repose, broken by the interference of that species below.. NOSEY Human(a) who had advanced into ever increasing depths of space but also within their oceans..
The Mariana trench. That chasm, previously over the last century; only partially explored, was now seeing craft, manned craft dropping lower and deeper until..
to be continued..
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