He saluted the flag and deck officer and asked to come aboard. “Permission granted,” the deck officer replied with a grin. Once protocol was satisfied, he shook hands and exchanged smiles with the Captain and crew. His smile and appearance brought spontaneous cheers from the crew who had come to ...
The chimp was wearing a suit and bow tie Jack noted. He nodded to the geneticist. “I'm glad you have time to meet me, sir,” the chimp said, standing near a chair. Jack indicated a chair. The chimp looked then took a seat. The chair adjusted to his smaller frame. “Doctor, I know you've been petiti...
Four days later the ship jumped into the rapids once more. Admiral Irons received the report and was gratified by the progress. They were seeing small progress across all fronts. Some progress seemed to leap though, case in point, Protodon. He was fairly confident that baring any major damage Ama...
Ryans asked hands behind his back. He watched as teams of branacks towed wagons loaded with hay to the wood pole slide. Workers would unload the wet hay onto the slide then when they were finished a driver would whip a pair of branacks hooked to a set of pulleys. The whip didn't hurt them, but th...
We're tracking them. The storm is playing havoc with the signals, and I admit we had short range passive trackers on most of them. But one of them has a full listening and Wi-Fi package. We are assigning a security satellite to them now. Once they clear the storm we'll home in on them,” Commander...
They went unescorted since the star systems in between Antigua and Protodon were considered secure. They had an eight-week, one-way journey but would pass Xavier and her group somewhere in transit. They held the few dozen Horathian prisoners his search and rescue teams had recovered from the spac...
Piotr made it clear they were entering early spring. “Hurray!” Janet said, chasing the kids outside. She grumbled when they came back in, tired and covered in mud and muck. Janet passed second trimester but started having early contractions. Sandra ordered her to take it easy, reduce her stress l...
Ian asked, looking up as the Admiral returned from making rounds. “Is what confirmed?” Irons asked. He looked around. The bridge crew had settled in nicely. They had the smallest department, with six ratings and two officers. Hopefully they would get more hands to thicken the watch roster soon. “...