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desk. “The Doctor says he still has some recovery to do, but I think he is able to go forward with operation. I was just about to start explaining to him what his job will be, and how we had installed a safeguard to ensure his cooperation.”
“I am glad you carried on in my absence Captain, but I will be taking over from here. I have decided to make a change in my plans. Load my yacht with enough supplies for yourself and a skeleton crew. Collect all the physical credits you and the crew have on hand, and I will add to it from my own pocket. Send the techies and a maintenance crew over to alter the yachts ID markings, transponder and engine signature. Once you have finished those repairs you will go to the Archones system and make contact with an old friend of mine to resupply and recruit some new Merc teams. You will use funds I have stashed there to buy a transport and crew, then you will bring the Mercs and our supplies back out here, by which time I plan on having control of enough Pure Strain tech that the Esii and Roche will rue the day they attacked me. We will stay on the edge of this system until you are ready to leave Captain. Do we have an understanding of your mission Captain?”
“Yes Sir, I understand.”
The Admiral tossed back the last of the alcohol in his glass and said, “Good, now let me finally meet the linchpin of our plan.”
The guards removed Cole from the chair, had his arms behind his back, and manacles on, in no time. They shoved him towards the door and Dr. Sky fell in step next to him. They left the bridge through the same door that they had come in, but were going away from the lifts down the hall to a room that turned out to be a ten by ten cell. At least it had a bench and cot in it, Cole thought. He wasn’t alone anymore either, the Captain must have been rattled to place him and the doc in the same cell. “Wow I guess that was unexpected.” He said. “Do you know who that guy was, Doc?”
“Please Cole, just call me Sky. I don’t feel much like a doctor these days. To answer your question, no I don’t know who that was but it had to be someone that outranked Feng. And if I read him right, Feng had also thought that he was dead. I think I heard him call him Admiral at one point, but that couldn’t be possible because the only ones who use the title Admiral are the Sector Patrol Navy. So why would someone that basically calls the shots in a whole sector, need to run a shadowy criminal organization. This doesn’t make any sense.” She shook her head than sat on the bench. Cole joined her there.
“What was that guy anyway ?” He asked her. “He almost kind of looked human. “
“He is an Archon from the Archo nes system, it is one of the older systems in the galaxy. They were one of the few races that forced contact with the Pure Humans. They had limited space flight at the time of contact. Mainly only within their own system, though they were trying to break the light speed boundary. They also had very advanced communications tech because they supposedly started picking up human signals. They broadcast their own message back to the humans on a deep space station doing research in the area. Archons chaffed at the rules humanity imposed on them, before allowing them to learn the tech they needed to break the light barrier. So after the purge they asserted themselves into positions of power in the core sectors and created the Sector Patrol Navy or SPN for short. They are highly intelligent and resourceful beings who thrive in commerce and scientific studies.”
“Sounds like this guy might be in charge of this whole operation to me.” He said. “ Now the question is, why he is out here now? And is this good or bad?” Sky had no answer for him. Cole got up to explore his limited surroundings. While Sky lifted her legs up and hugged them to her chest. Cole found a panel which responded to
“I am glad you carried on in my absence Captain, but I will be taking over from here. I have decided to make a change in my plans. Load my yacht with enough supplies for yourself and a skeleton crew. Collect all the physical credits you and the crew have on hand, and I will add to it from my own pocket. Send the techies and a maintenance crew over to alter the yachts ID markings, transponder and engine signature. Once you have finished those repairs you will go to the Archones system and make contact with an old friend of mine to resupply and recruit some new Merc teams. You will use funds I have stashed there to buy a transport and crew, then you will bring the Mercs and our supplies back out here, by which time I plan on having control of enough Pure Strain tech that the Esii and Roche will rue the day they attacked me. We will stay on the edge of this system until you are ready to leave Captain. Do we have an understanding of your mission Captain?”
“Yes Sir, I understand.”
The Admiral tossed back the last of the alcohol in his glass and said, “Good, now let me finally meet the linchpin of our plan.”
The guards removed Cole from the chair, had his arms behind his back, and manacles on, in no time. They shoved him towards the door and Dr. Sky fell in step next to him. They left the bridge through the same door that they had come in, but were going away from the lifts down the hall to a room that turned out to be a ten by ten cell. At least it had a bench and cot in it, Cole thought. He wasn’t alone anymore either, the Captain must have been rattled to place him and the doc in the same cell. “Wow I guess that was unexpected.” He said. “Do you know who that guy was, Doc?”
“Please Cole, just call me Sky. I don’t feel much like a doctor these days. To answer your question, no I don’t know who that was but it had to be someone that outranked Feng. And if I read him right, Feng had also thought that he was dead. I think I heard him call him Admiral at one point, but that couldn’t be possible because the only ones who use the title Admiral are the Sector Patrol Navy. So why would someone that basically calls the shots in a whole sector, need to run a shadowy criminal organization. This doesn’t make any sense.” She shook her head than sat on the bench. Cole joined her there.
“What was that guy anyway ?” He asked her. “He almost kind of looked human. “
“He is an Archon from the Archo nes system, it is one of the older systems in the galaxy. They were one of the few races that forced contact with the Pure Humans. They had limited space flight at the time of contact. Mainly only within their own system, though they were trying to break the light speed boundary. They also had very advanced communications tech because they supposedly started picking up human signals. They broadcast their own message back to the humans on a deep space station doing research in the area. Archons chaffed at the rules humanity imposed on them, before allowing them to learn the tech they needed to break the light barrier. So after the purge they asserted themselves into positions of power in the core sectors and created the Sector Patrol Navy or SPN for short. They are highly intelligent and resourceful beings who thrive in commerce and scientific studies.”
“Sounds like this guy might be in charge of this whole operation to me.” He said. “ Now the question is, why he is out here now? And is this good or bad?” Sky had no answer for him. Cole got up to explore his limited surroundings. While Sky lifted her legs up and hugged them to her chest. Cole found a panel which responded to
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