Guardian Stone 2: Stone and the T-Raptors

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by Don Koch


 

 

 

  There was stunned silence from all. Finally Joe Carson said, "This is not a joke, right. This is incredible and the distances are hard to get one's mind around. This essentially assures we are now intergalactic. I guess the thing I like most about this is the response time to a problem has been cut to hours. We are going to have to take another look at how we structure responses. Thank you Briana and thank you Larisa. You realize that we can map all of the black holes in this galactic arm and major navigational impediments right from orbit around any of the planets we protect. The possibilities go on and on."

  "Briana, when you said you would have more in a month or two, I did not imagine it would be anything this significant. Thank you from all of us. Larisa you have just changed the tools for exploration in a huge way along with a whole bunch of other things. The impact of the changes the two of you have discovered will take a bit to absorb. It will certainly be a major enhancement to our ability to perform the responsibilities we have assumed."

  "Joe, please chair and put together a team to explore the ramifications. Include all species as well as Briana, Larisa, Barana and any other AI that wants to participate. Also be sure that Fador is invited. Keep me posted."

  The remaining units from Division 1 had arrived bringing the Station count to 25, 5 Type 1's and 20 Type 2's. Division 14 was on Battle Fleet Standby at Gar. That Division already had the new drive and navigational scanning improvements installed and could be at Yannar in a little over 19 hours. Hank ordered the transfer.

  Division 7 was on Battle Fleet Standby at Frote. That Division would need to first install the new improvements and that would take two days plus 31 hours of travel time. They could be expected at Yannar in 4 days allowing for some delays in installation and transitioning to the new speed. Hank ordered the transfer. This meant that by the following day, they would have 30 stations in the hegemony and by the 11th they would have 35 stations.

  Chapter 29: Repair

  On Station One in Yannar Orbit –

  December 1 – C Day 458

  Division 14 arrived as expected. Hank asked for a conference with Acarma, Barana, Fador, Pell Cassarn, Randa Prin and any of their aides that they think should be there. He also asked that the Commanders and AI's for all stations listen in so they would be current with events. A half hour later the meeting started and Hank brought everyone up to date with events to date and welcomed Division 14. He indicated that Petra was clearly in accord with what they had in mind and that was to have each system be self-governing with an extension of the Antoran Fleet to provide external security as it had done in the Earth stellar neighborhood and in the Gar Stellar neighborhood. This however meant that they would need more ships and not necessarily the size of a Type 1 or a type 2.

  Acarma said,

  "By all means, please do?"

 

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