Guardian Stone 1: Stone Genesis by Don Koch Read Free Book Online Page B
Authors: Don Koch
seeing new worlds literally is a dream. When do I start?"
"Barana chime in whenever you feel you should, but I have to start recruiting pretty soon and I was thinking that we should not wait too long, how about a week to 10 days. The process takes about a week to install and you can be in learning mode during that so you won't even know it’s happening until you use an enhancement. Barana damped down most of my capabilities until I was acclimated to them. I was enhanced a little over six weeks ago and am now on 100% capability. You have been using your telepathic capabilities for a long time and I suspect that will hasten your acclimation substantially. You should be at peak form in less than six weeks."
< Samantha, I concur. You are as good a candidate as Henry for maximizing the benefits from enhancements and the telepathic capability improves the others. >
"Barana, I should have said this before now, but please use Hank for me and Sam for Samantha when we are having these informal discussions. You are our friend and friends need not be so formal when talking with each other. It is appropriate to use the long form in more formal settings. One guide might be if the person addressing me is using Henry then it is probably safe to use the long form."
< Very well, Hank and Sam it is. >
Sam said, "Wait, did you hear that? There, there it is again. I have been hearing that sound in my mind for a bit now and here on the station I can hear it clearer."
"I heard something like a low frequency moan."
"Oh good, then I am not going crazy. Best I can tell is that it is coming from that direction, pointing past one of the mountain peaks. It has been driving my crazy, I couldn't figure what on Earth it could be."
"That is because it not on Earth. Earth is in that direction." he said pointing in the opposite direction. "Barana, we have a problem and I do not like my suspicions. Can you do a scan in the direction in which Sam is pointing and tell me what you come up with."
< Working on it, the direction in which Sam is pointing is about 5 degrees off the course the Glarin are using to approach us and they are about 150 light years from us now. The source of the disturbance you are detecting is about 51 light years away and its signature is…. Is also Glarin. It appears to be a very small force and I am not sure we would have noted it for another three or four years, but regardless of size, it is significant. This means we are going to have to have some battle elements ready in less than three years. This is not good but it is still doable. I am also starting scans across that entire front to assure we have not missed something else . >
"Sam, this changes some things, we will still take our ten days but we will have to mix in some serious business as well. I am sorry about that."
"Well, that is no problem, it is why we are here, besides, I believe in that old saying about 'whither thou goest'" she responded.
He went on, "I really want you involved in the strategy meetings we need to have. You will see or hear things that I can miss because I am distracted with another point or have another viewpoint that needs to be aired."
"Barana, are Josh Adams, his wife and the Reevers still on station?"
"Please give them and my parents, grandparents and Uncle Pete my regards and ask them to meet with Sam and me in the large conference room in 20 minutes. Please invite Fador and those senior Antoran advisors you think would be helpful in a strategy meeting. Try to limit that to about five to ten persons. Oh, one more, is Master Gunnery Sergeant Wall still here."
< He left for a day to arrange for 35 days leave and returned to the station about an hour ago. >
"Great, he's hooked, is his wife JoAnn with him?"
< She is. >
"Good, please invite them as well. That should give us a pretty good crew to work with. His wife has a doctorate in Psychology and is absolutely brilliant and unpretentious. Bill is one of the best I
"Barana chime in whenever you feel you should, but I have to start recruiting pretty soon and I was thinking that we should not wait too long, how about a week to 10 days. The process takes about a week to install and you can be in learning mode during that so you won't even know it’s happening until you use an enhancement. Barana damped down most of my capabilities until I was acclimated to them. I was enhanced a little over six weeks ago and am now on 100% capability. You have been using your telepathic capabilities for a long time and I suspect that will hasten your acclimation substantially. You should be at peak form in less than six weeks."
< Samantha, I concur. You are as good a candidate as Henry for maximizing the benefits from enhancements and the telepathic capability improves the others. >
"Barana, I should have said this before now, but please use Hank for me and Sam for Samantha when we are having these informal discussions. You are our friend and friends need not be so formal when talking with each other. It is appropriate to use the long form in more formal settings. One guide might be if the person addressing me is using Henry then it is probably safe to use the long form."
< Very well, Hank and Sam it is. >
Sam said, "Wait, did you hear that? There, there it is again. I have been hearing that sound in my mind for a bit now and here on the station I can hear it clearer."
"I heard something like a low frequency moan."
"Oh good, then I am not going crazy. Best I can tell is that it is coming from that direction, pointing past one of the mountain peaks. It has been driving my crazy, I couldn't figure what on Earth it could be."
"That is because it not on Earth. Earth is in that direction." he said pointing in the opposite direction. "Barana, we have a problem and I do not like my suspicions. Can you do a scan in the direction in which Sam is pointing and tell me what you come up with."
< Working on it, the direction in which Sam is pointing is about 5 degrees off the course the Glarin are using to approach us and they are about 150 light years from us now. The source of the disturbance you are detecting is about 51 light years away and its signature is…. Is also Glarin. It appears to be a very small force and I am not sure we would have noted it for another three or four years, but regardless of size, it is significant. This means we are going to have to have some battle elements ready in less than three years. This is not good but it is still doable. I am also starting scans across that entire front to assure we have not missed something else . >
"Sam, this changes some things, we will still take our ten days but we will have to mix in some serious business as well. I am sorry about that."
"Well, that is no problem, it is why we are here, besides, I believe in that old saying about 'whither thou goest'" she responded.
He went on, "I really want you involved in the strategy meetings we need to have. You will see or hear things that I can miss because I am distracted with another point or have another viewpoint that needs to be aired."
"Barana, are Josh Adams, his wife and the Reevers still on station?"
"Please give them and my parents, grandparents and Uncle Pete my regards and ask them to meet with Sam and me in the large conference room in 20 minutes. Please invite Fador and those senior Antoran advisors you think would be helpful in a strategy meeting. Try to limit that to about five to ten persons. Oh, one more, is Master Gunnery Sergeant Wall still here."
< He left for a day to arrange for 35 days leave and returned to the station about an hour ago. >
"Great, he's hooked, is his wife JoAnn with him?"
< She is. >
"Good, please invite them as well. That should give us a pretty good crew to work with. His wife has a doctorate in Psychology and is absolutely brilliant and unpretentious. Bill is one of the best I
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