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- Herausgeber: A.j. Mitar
- Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
- Sprache: Englisch
A terrible generational war is coming to an end. The fearsome Teyon species is winning, but the intervention of an unknown alien power will change everything. Who are these aliens? What mystery does their arrival hide?
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019
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Astralis - The day of the gods
A. J. Mitar
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Translated by Filippo Cefaly
“Astralis - The day of the gods”
Written By A. J. Mitar
Copyright © 2014 A. J. Mitar
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Translated by Filippo Cefaly
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Astralis - The day of the gods | A.J. Mitar
Astralis - The day of the gods
A.J. Mitar
They flashed through a tear in the space-time continuum; they were only five ships, but they caused our sensors to malfunction all the same. They had the power of a thousand stars, hurled against the Teyon fleet. Did the Divine Creator hear our prayers?
The new Teyon ships, even the fastest and equipped with most advanced weaponry, proved ineffective: it was impossible to stand up to those vessels spewed from the unknown.
That unbelievable energy pulse even vexed our technology. The last spy satellites, along with all of our trans-atmospheric detection systems, were destroyed.
That day, I was in service at Qirit, a secret site four jaf below the surface of the Piot range; my task was to coordinate the monitoring of the movements of the Teyon fleet, which was guilty of having halted all of our routes to the mining belt. The strategy of interrupting the supplies of raw materials was bearing fruit: the shortage of metal had inflicted a fatal blow to our metallurgical industry. Our fleet had been decimated and, because we were not able to build new ships, our defeat was inevitable; it's just a matter of time before the war would be lost.
An annoying sound was hammering intermittently on our eardrums.
“My Lord, an enormous gravimetric distortion in sector 10.1, five million jaf from the second belt of Ghaat” Jakiat, the sensors officer, warned me.
“But it is in the heart of the Teyon space: it's where they hold the bulk of their warships, class Huy.”
“I confirm what I just said, my Lord: it is a distortive phenomenon of the space-time fabric, at the coordinates 10.13.00.12.” The efficient officer sent the results of his assessment to the holoscreen at my location.
“I have never seen anything like it!” I observed incredulously, “Is it some type of Teyon technology?”
“I don't know, my Lord, this is the first time I have collected such energy levels: they are off scale for our instruments... it is as if, all of a sudden, a black hole had materialized, exactly at those coordinates.”
I tried to interpret that data. I was worried; in recent years the Teyons had developed several new technologies, putting to use all their intelligence.
Those wretches must be conducting an experiment, perhaps a new weapon?
“Kiut, what do you think?” I asked the scientific officer, “Could it be a new type of weapon?”
Kiut didn't answer right away. He was observing all the telemetry at his disposal. He then tapped on his holoscreen a couple of times to complete the latest calculations and to be able to draw a reliable conclusion:
“If this is a new weapon, it will be the most destructive ever observed before,” he scratched his dark shaved head, “an unknown phenomenon in our archives, but I find it hard to believe that the Teyons are responsible for it...”
“Warning, we have five identical but separate phenomena. I discovered it by increasing the resolution of the sensors,” Jakiat yelled.
“What's happening? I want an explanation!” I addressed the scientific team, but especially Kiut, the coordinator.
The three members of the scientific team muttered something that I could not understand since my station was at a higher level, about five ipa-jaf away from theirs.
“Something is coming!” was Kiut's chilling conclusion.
“I'm aiming the trans-atmospheric telescopes to the coordinates in question. They are huge!” added Jakiat, covering her eyes. “They are vessels; the computer has calculated that they are at least 2.2 jaf long... Sending images to main holoscreen.”
The images spoke for themselves; the holograms volumized at the centre of the control room showed us the outlines of five spaceships. I had never seen vessels so big; our orbiting shipyards were not able to build anything of that size.
“Jakiat, I need maximum resolution, point every sensor and telescope at our disposal to those coordinates... Now!” My voice was distorted by concern.
“Yes, my Lord!”
“My Lord, the whole Teyon fleet is moving toward the unknown vessels, I detect at least 120 warships class Huy and at least 2000 fighters class Lian”.
“I think the Teyons have something serious to worry about”, I commented wryly.
Those huge warships did not belong to their fleet, even a fool would know it; the Teyons had received an unexpected visit, an invasion right in the heart of their space had caught them by surprise.
For all the demons of Kull, who are they?—I wondered. Will they be friendly, or will they be hostile?
Then, there was a widespread energy vacuum; it was dark for several pakt. The second auxiliary power system was damaged as well, but given the fact that this was a level one scientific site, we had three at our disposal and, luckily, the last one was still working.
“For the damned of the underworld! Reactivate the instruments! I want to understand what the hell it's going on”, I commanded him slamming my fists on the holographic emitter on my console.
