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Worlds Apart Book Six: Crucible WORLDS APART BOOK SIX: CRUCIBLE Copyright © 2006, 2018 James G. Wittenbach www.worldsapartbooks.com All rights reserved. Produced in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Wittenbach, James Worlds Apart Book 06: Crucible Table of Contents Chapter One ............................................................................................. 1 Chapter Two .......................................................................................... 16 Chapter Three ........................................................................................ 28 Chapter Four .......................................................................................... 46 Chapter Five .......................................................................................... 63 Chapter Six ............................................................................................. 70 Chapter Seven........................................................................................ 77 Chapter Eight......................................................................................... 86 Chapter Nine ......................................................................................... 99 Chapter Ten ......................................................................................... 110 Chapter Eleven .................................................................................... 126 Chapter Twelve ................................................................................... 145 Chapter Thirteen ................................................................................. 159 Chapter Fourteen ................................................................................ 172 Chapter Fifteen .................................................................................... 185 Chapter Sixteen ................................................................................... 197 Chapter Seventeen .............................................................................. 211 Chapter Eighteen ................................................................................ 221 Chapter Nineteen ................................................................................ 236 Chapter Twenty................................................................................... 249 Chapter Twenty-One .......................................................................... 266 Chapter Twenty-Two ......................................................................... 284 Chapter Twenty-Two and a Half ...................................................... 290 Chapter Twenty-Three ....................................................................... 302 WORLDS APART BOOK SIX: CRUCIBLE CHAPTER ONE Nineteen seconds have passed since Pegasus entered the Chapultepec StarLock. Page | 1 PC-1/Main Bridge Oing!... ... is the sound a forty kilo hunk of scorched metal would make when it spacked against Pegasus’s forward shield and spiraled off into space if there were anything other than near-vacuum in space to transmit noise, which everyone knows there isn’t. Oing!... If a starship explodes, and no one is around to hear it, it doesn’t make a sound. Oing!... Something else impacted the shields, vaporizing and releasing just enough energy to create a resonant sound that translated through the system as... Oing!... The impacts appeared as little sparks in the Primary Holographic Display. Prime Commander William Keeler, stocky and commanding in his stockiness, furrowed his professorly brow. “What is that?” “We seem to be passing through a debris field,” answered Lt. Shayne American, his hyper-competent operations officer, a handsome woman with chocolate brown skin and a tight, pale blond crewcut. WORLDS APART BOOK SIX: CRUCIBLE Of the twenty-something people in the command center, she was the one through which most information flowed to the “Inner Bridge,” the four big chairs occupied by the Prime Commander, his Chief Tactical Officer, and Page | 2 usually the First Officer, but Executive TyroCommander Lear had been relieved of duty for almost igniting a global thermonuclear war on the last planet they had visited. Instead, the fourth chair was occupied by a junior Tactical Officer, Lt. David Alkema, Keeler’s unofficial aide-de- camp; who hadn’t destroyed any planets in a thermo- nucleonic holocaust, at least as far as he knew. “No damage to hull, shields holding,” American reported. Keeler turned to Alkema. “Hah! Pegasus one, Debris Field, zero!” Pegasus had left Chapultepec to come to the aid of the Lexington Keeler, one of the other Pathfinder ships the colonies of Sapphire and Republic had built to explore the galaxy. “A trillion cubic meters of space, and we emerge in a debris field,” said Tactical TyroCommander Redfire, the tall, thin, crewcut and artistic Chief Tactical Officer. “What are the odds?” Prime Commander Keeler tented his fingers. “With this ship, pretty much 100%.” Something hit the forward shield and exploded in a grand yellow fireball. “Ooooh,” the Commander cooed. “Aaaah. Any idea what kind of debris we’re flying through?” WORLDS APART BOOK SIX: CRUCIBLE “It could just be the tail of a comet, sir,” suggested Alkema, a handsome young man with a ruddy face and glossy black curls of hair framing it. Alkema was said to be the Commander’s brain. This was not true. He merely Page | 3 loaned the commander his own brain as a sort of repository for certain command information --- such as, how the ship worked --- that the commander couldn’t be bothered to remember. “Sensors have enough data to let me plot a course out of the debris field,” Helmsman Jesus Powerhouse announced. Plugged into the ship’s directional control systems by a neural interface above his right eye, he needed only to think to alter the ship’s trajectory. “New course laid and executed. We will be clear of the debris field in seventeen seconds.” “Do that,” the Commander sort of ordered. Another piece of debris smattered against the energy field above the starboard wing blade. There was an explosion of light, but no noise or impact vibration. “Clearing the debris field in seventeen seconds,” Powerhouse reported. David Alkema scowled at his readouts. “I am detecting a lot of alloys in the debris that are not naturally occurring. This debris field could be the remains of the Lexington Keeler,” Alkema quietly told the commander. “Negative,” American corrected him. “If the preliminary sensor readings are correct, there’s much too much mass.” As she spoke, a holographic projection appeared in the space in front of her station. It showed a WORLDS APART BOOK SIX: CRUCIBLE large half-crescent of matter and gas, Pegasus was passing through a corner of. “By a factor of at least 14,000.” “We are clear,” reported Powerhouse, as the tiny little golden flying swan icon that represented Pegasus cleared Page | 4 the holographic representation of the field. A few swirls of dust and chunks of metal swirled in her gravity wake. “Badang,1” said Commander Keeler. “So, where does that leave us, exactamundo?” “We are within the planetary orbital margins of the system 12 255 Crux,” said Lt. Navigator Eliza Jane Change, a black-haired, almond-eyed beauty every man on the ship had officially given up on. “What do we know about this system?” Keeler asked. Instinctively, he turned toward the station his first officer usually occupied. Then, he remembered he had relieved her of duty, and he could not help but smile. He turned to Alkema instead. “We know that the Pathfinder Ship Lexington Keeler sent a distress message from this system. They were under attack from a large spherical spaceship. And we passed through the StarLock to see if we could render assistance,” Alkema reported. “I was there when that happened,” Keeler told him. “Seems like only yesterday... but it was actually about five minutes ago.” 1 A colloquialism of Sapphire’s Arcadia Province. Rough translation: “Swell” WORLDS APART BOOK SIX: CRUCIBLE Keeler turned to Redfire. “So, about that debris field. If it’s not Lexington Keeler, could it be the other guys?” “Too early to tell,” Redfire told him, “We can’t even be sure they were Aurelians.” Page | 5 Keeler snorted. “Come on. How many alien species do we know who fly big spherical spaceships?” “How many alien species do we not know who fly big spherical spaceships,” Redfire came back. About then, Lieutenant American got a report from the telemetry station. “Pegasus has located Lexington Keeler. Second planet in the system... close orbit.” She tried to bring up a high-resolution view, but Pegasus was still too far away. The second planet appeared as a black and red sphere. Lexington Keeler was a tiny blurry diamond shape at the edge of the planet’s atmosphere. “That’s pretty damn close,” said Powerhouse. Redfire gave a tactical rundown, “Sir, if I may, we have multiple priorities here. 1. We have to determine whether whoever attacked Keeler is still a threat to Pegasus. 2. We have to ascertain the condition of the Lexington Keeler. 3. We have to analyze the debris field we passed through. 4. We have to map out the system and determine the status of the colony Keeler came here to study. You can argue whether one or two is the higher priority, but they both get back to the same point, we need tactical data.” Alkema operationalized the concept. “We need to launch probes. At least four for Keeler and the planet, and another four to collect readings the debris field.” WORLDS APART BOOK SIX: CRUCIBLE Keeler nodded. “Let’s
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