Being on a civilian ship, Stan and Delmar had better appointments than the regular service transports. Stan looked out a view port and spotted an Axia three-man scout ship keeping pace with them.“Looks like we have an escort,” he remarked, and pointed out the ship silhouetted against the stars.“I...
Hanging there in space was a gigantic human ship, what the Horicon had told him they called a mothership. To Piaffè it looked more like a moon rather than something constructed. Out of its docking bays, Piaffè watched scores of ships come and go in what seemed like an endless stream.As to why the...
The outside night air was cold and crisp. But inside the hidden lab the stale, humid air was rife with tension. For what seemed like countless hours the secret research team had labored over the signals recorded on the purloined disc. Their efforts to decipher each signal taxed their combined ing...