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Transportation Secretary of Level 5.”
“My sentiments exactly, Aldiss. However, something else is unseen.” Hornsby paused momentarily to pour himself some bourbon. He continued. “We can not afford for you to go under a Level 9 mind scan.”
“Are you saying what I think you’re saying, Thomas?” apprehensively Aldiss asked before guzzling down the contents of his glass.
“Yes, we’re going to have to move out of the city under a veil of secrecy,” replied Hornsby.
“What do I tell my wife?”
“You can’t tell her anything…you can’t ever see her again. Plausible deniability, Aldiss. You knew the risks…we are way too far along to turn back now. The success of Operation Black Star is your only true redeemer.”
Aldiss Spline slouched forward, sunk his head into his hands, and listened in deep rumination as Thomas Hornsby continued saying, “I’ll send some agents to question her about your whereabouts…you’ll be disavowed, and banished forever.” Hornsby paused momentarily to sink his gums into the alcohol. He continued, “You’re about to enter the front lines of our war, and you’ll need to acknowledge this fact before I send you on to your new command.”
Aldiss Spline had no other choice but to simply agree. “Yes, sir.”
“You’ll take Learner Rotterdam’s place as a field agent. Don’t worry, your current status, as Master Paladin will hold. Albeit, you’ll be the only active Master Paladin out in the wasteland.”
“Where’s my assignment? Chasm Fat Boy? The Devonian Enclave?”
“No, reports are trickling in from that sector, indicating the Teserak was destroyed three days ago.”
“By whom?” Aldiss inquired.
“It’s unknown at this point but I feel it will come out in the Level 9 inquiry. Anyhow, you’ll help advance our cause from the Temple of Syrinx, and while you’re there, I want you to keep those fucking zealot’s in line. They’re always causing a mess of things.”
P ART 2 S TAR B IRTH
R EBEL L EXIS
“I’m trying real hard not to go mad. The isolationism is mentally exhausting,” Lexis thought. A deep emotional pain bore through the center of her chest; she tormented for his love. His companionship was all she had ever known, and she so desired his touch again. “His baby grows within and I must find my legs so I can walk again. The little one will need a semblance of a normal life.”
Jason had gone missing several weeks ago, and somehow Lexis thought it might be her fault, “Perhaps a glitch in my neural network. Maybe I hid him somewhere, and my memory bank is failing to disclose his location; he is most likely dead by now.” She could only recall up to a certain point when the crash landing knocked Jason unconscious but everything after was unknown; her logic processing remedied inconclusively fuzzy patterns. During a diagnostic check, she identified a strange anomaly in her brain. Several bifurcating branches from her memory bank’s neural network were soaked in a milky covering. Only deepening the mystery, there was no sign of pathology.
For days, Lexis had scanned the area of the crash on foot. When her internal sensors picked up any type of life form, she would visually inspect the heat signature, insuring it was not Jason. All turned out to be some type of indigenous species, and after having a dangerous run in with a Humanoid, where she actually had to kill in self-defense, she decided to get the Chameleon running. With the Chameleon’s powerful sensors, she could cover more ground in her search. Though, after searching hundreds of square miles, her encoding logic overrode the emotional instinct program; she concluded that something was wrong with her memory bank. Jason must be dead. She gave up the search.
Seldom filling the night sky in chorus, the ancient Face Pyramid jetted out under the lunar presence of Deimos and Phobos. Creating angles of contrasting shadows, the Martian moons
“My sentiments exactly, Aldiss. However, something else is unseen.” Hornsby paused momentarily to pour himself some bourbon. He continued. “We can not afford for you to go under a Level 9 mind scan.”
“Are you saying what I think you’re saying, Thomas?” apprehensively Aldiss asked before guzzling down the contents of his glass.
“Yes, we’re going to have to move out of the city under a veil of secrecy,” replied Hornsby.
“What do I tell my wife?”
“You can’t tell her anything…you can’t ever see her again. Plausible deniability, Aldiss. You knew the risks…we are way too far along to turn back now. The success of Operation Black Star is your only true redeemer.”
Aldiss Spline slouched forward, sunk his head into his hands, and listened in deep rumination as Thomas Hornsby continued saying, “I’ll send some agents to question her about your whereabouts…you’ll be disavowed, and banished forever.” Hornsby paused momentarily to sink his gums into the alcohol. He continued, “You’re about to enter the front lines of our war, and you’ll need to acknowledge this fact before I send you on to your new command.”
Aldiss Spline had no other choice but to simply agree. “Yes, sir.”
“You’ll take Learner Rotterdam’s place as a field agent. Don’t worry, your current status, as Master Paladin will hold. Albeit, you’ll be the only active Master Paladin out in the wasteland.”
“Where’s my assignment? Chasm Fat Boy? The Devonian Enclave?”
“No, reports are trickling in from that sector, indicating the Teserak was destroyed three days ago.”
“By whom?” Aldiss inquired.
“It’s unknown at this point but I feel it will come out in the Level 9 inquiry. Anyhow, you’ll help advance our cause from the Temple of Syrinx, and while you’re there, I want you to keep those fucking zealot’s in line. They’re always causing a mess of things.”
P ART 2 S TAR B IRTH
R EBEL L EXIS
“I’m trying real hard not to go mad. The isolationism is mentally exhausting,” Lexis thought. A deep emotional pain bore through the center of her chest; she tormented for his love. His companionship was all she had ever known, and she so desired his touch again. “His baby grows within and I must find my legs so I can walk again. The little one will need a semblance of a normal life.”
Jason had gone missing several weeks ago, and somehow Lexis thought it might be her fault, “Perhaps a glitch in my neural network. Maybe I hid him somewhere, and my memory bank is failing to disclose his location; he is most likely dead by now.” She could only recall up to a certain point when the crash landing knocked Jason unconscious but everything after was unknown; her logic processing remedied inconclusively fuzzy patterns. During a diagnostic check, she identified a strange anomaly in her brain. Several bifurcating branches from her memory bank’s neural network were soaked in a milky covering. Only deepening the mystery, there was no sign of pathology.
For days, Lexis had scanned the area of the crash on foot. When her internal sensors picked up any type of life form, she would visually inspect the heat signature, insuring it was not Jason. All turned out to be some type of indigenous species, and after having a dangerous run in with a Humanoid, where she actually had to kill in self-defense, she decided to get the Chameleon running. With the Chameleon’s powerful sensors, she could cover more ground in her search. Though, after searching hundreds of square miles, her encoding logic overrode the emotional instinct program; she concluded that something was wrong with her memory bank. Jason must be dead. She gave up the search.
Seldom filling the night sky in chorus, the ancient Face Pyramid jetted out under the lunar presence of Deimos and Phobos. Creating angles of contrasting shadows, the Martian moons
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