Pursue the Past: Samair in Argos: Book 1 Read Online Free Page B
Author: Michael Kotcher
nothing to do now but wait and hope.
Several hours later, Tamara drifted back into consciousness. A red alert light was blinking and her datapad was screeching warnings about dangerous carbon dioxide toxicity levels. Her head was a mass of pain, throbbing with every heartbeat, but she was too tired to even move. The air was frigid, but her impaired mind couldn’t recognize that it was because the life support was on the brink of failure. It was getting more difficult to keep her eyes open.
As her eyes closed for the last time, she saw an automatic update scroll across the screen as the hibernation system activated.
Her eyelids slid shut and she knew nothing more.
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Book 1 – The Unknown
Chapter 1
Consciousness slowly returned, though it took a long time for her brain to remember how things worked. Her eyes slowly opened, her vision was blurred, several minutes passed before she could see clearly. She took a long, slow breath. The air was stuffy, apparently the carbon dioxide situation hadn’t improved much. She still had a whopper of a headache, and her limbs were extremely heavy. Tamara started to move when a burst of unimaginable cold rushed through every nerve ending in her body. It was as though she had been dropped into a bath with a water temperature just above where the water would be completely frozen through. She could move, but not well. She tried to scream, but her muscles contracted faster than her control, meaning that the air just sort of wheezed out of her.
Several long moments later, Tamara unfroze enough to relax and lay back down. She swiveled her eyeballs to the left, where her datapad still lay. The screen was off, but that didn’t surprise her. Once the pod activated the hibernation systems, all other electronics and other unnecessary systems would switch off to conserve power. It took what seemed like an eternity, filled with that same electric freeze where she had to move extremely slowly to reach the datapad. After an excruciatingly long time, she managed to press the activation key. As the pad activated and a pre-programmed subroutine spun up, she reached over to where the medkit was still located on the seat next to her. Grabbing an injector with the proper wake-up call meds, she managed to get it to her leg and depress the activator. Within moments, the deep freeze began to thaw and she could finally move without her body acting as though it was fighting through frozen water. As regular muscle control returned, she also noticed that her leg had completely healed. The Combat Heal did work wonders.
Picking up the datapad, she checked her situation. Things weren’t good. Life support was just about used up, and as she suspected, CO2 levels were very high. This pod would be unlivable in under two hours. Islington would have his revenge soon.
She coughed. “What do we have here?” The proximity sensors activated, showing on her datapad. The sensors weren’t great, it was an escape pod, after all, not a warship. It wasn’t required to have the greatest sensor suite, just to be able to determine if a ship was approaching.
Tamara blinked several times, trying to clear her vision. It did clear, sort of. The sensors had detected a large sized vessel approaching, a cargo ship of some sort. She couldn’t tell if it was a military or civilian vessel, but that hardly mattered at this point. If it was a Republic vessel, she’d be tossed in prison. If it was a Federation vessel, maybe some sort of deal could be made. It was also possible it was from an independent star system, in which case, she might be all right.
The pod
Several hours later, Tamara drifted back into consciousness. A red alert light was blinking and her datapad was screeching warnings about dangerous carbon dioxide toxicity levels. Her head was a mass of pain, throbbing with every heartbeat, but she was too tired to even move. The air was frigid, but her impaired mind couldn’t recognize that it was because the life support was on the brink of failure. It was getting more difficult to keep her eyes open.
As her eyes closed for the last time, she saw an automatic update scroll across the screen as the hibernation system activated.
Her eyelids slid shut and she knew nothing more.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Book 1 – The Unknown
Chapter 1
Consciousness slowly returned, though it took a long time for her brain to remember how things worked. Her eyes slowly opened, her vision was blurred, several minutes passed before she could see clearly. She took a long, slow breath. The air was stuffy, apparently the carbon dioxide situation hadn’t improved much. She still had a whopper of a headache, and her limbs were extremely heavy. Tamara started to move when a burst of unimaginable cold rushed through every nerve ending in her body. It was as though she had been dropped into a bath with a water temperature just above where the water would be completely frozen through. She could move, but not well. She tried to scream, but her muscles contracted faster than her control, meaning that the air just sort of wheezed out of her.
Several long moments later, Tamara unfroze enough to relax and lay back down. She swiveled her eyeballs to the left, where her datapad still lay. The screen was off, but that didn’t surprise her. Once the pod activated the hibernation systems, all other electronics and other unnecessary systems would switch off to conserve power. It took what seemed like an eternity, filled with that same electric freeze where she had to move extremely slowly to reach the datapad. After an excruciatingly long time, she managed to press the activation key. As the pad activated and a pre-programmed subroutine spun up, she reached over to where the medkit was still located on the seat next to her. Grabbing an injector with the proper wake-up call meds, she managed to get it to her leg and depress the activator. Within moments, the deep freeze began to thaw and she could finally move without her body acting as though it was fighting through frozen water. As regular muscle control returned, she also noticed that her leg had completely healed. The Combat Heal did work wonders.
Picking up the datapad, she checked her situation. Things weren’t good. Life support was just about used up, and as she suspected, CO2 levels were very high. This pod would be unlivable in under two hours. Islington would have his revenge soon.
She coughed. “What do we have here?” The proximity sensors activated, showing on her datapad. The sensors weren’t great, it was an escape pod, after all, not a warship. It wasn’t required to have the greatest sensor suite, just to be able to determine if a ship was approaching.
Tamara blinked several times, trying to clear her vision. It did clear, sort of. The sensors had detected a large sized vessel approaching, a cargo ship of some sort. She couldn’t tell if it was a military or civilian vessel, but that hardly mattered at this point. If it was a Republic vessel, she’d be tossed in prison. If it was a Federation vessel, maybe some sort of deal could be made. It was also possible it was from an independent star system, in which case, she might be all right.
The pod
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