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Guardian Stone 2: Stone and the T-Raptors

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by Don Koch

To this Barana added a detailed explanation of how the Antoran Fleet came to be manned, its purpose and its actions to date.

  Acarma digested the message and realized that this help was precisely what was needed to assure success for the coming operation. She immediately sent back a message that started with,

  Acarma thought a message to General Barth,

  ### On Station One underway ###

 

  Chapter 22: I am Acarma

  On Orbital Station Acar in Yannar Orbit –

  November 20 – C Day 447

  Orbital Station Acar Commandant, Pell Cassarn had been taking reports from his section heads for the last 15 minutes and as usual there were no reports of glitches that required attention. Almost everything that occurred on the Station requiring some intervention was resolved promptly with no issues. It seemed that the Station was literally self-repairing. This left a residual discomfort with Pell who often wondered why the Station ran so effortlessly and efficiently.

  He checked his schedule and noted that he was due for his quarterly med check so he called for a personnel carrier and passed command to his second in command, Jon Hallen stating, “Admiral Hallen, you have command. I may be a bit late coming back, I need to run some errands for Marta. I’ll check in with you when this is all done.” He then transferred his station to Jon and sent the schedule to the approaching carrier, entering it when it came to a stop.

  As the door closed and the carrier started moving he felt the twinge of a headache that was promptly gone. He had been experiencing these mini headaches for some time and it was one of the items he wanted the med unit to check and resolve. He settled in for the short ride to the designated med unit. After a few minutes, he realized that the trip was taking longer than he expected so he queried the carrier. “Carrier 422A, where are you taking me?” There was a flash of light and he found that he was no longer in the personnel carrier but rather seated and immobilized in the largest med unit he had seen.

  Immediately a voice spoke to him from the headphones in the reclining device stating,

  “Yes, I did, I intended to ask about that because the twinges have been coming on about a monthly basis for some time.”

 

  Pell asked, “what are you talking about?”

 

  Pell chuckled and said, “More than a few, but for starters, to whom am I speaking, you do not sound like the computer voice one expects in a med unit?"

 

  “Well, that is most interesting, but why me and why at this point in time.”

 

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