Gestapo Mars
“A second later the red alert klaxon sounded through the ship as the bridge erupted with activity.
“Tell the gunship crews they have ninety seconds to detach,” the admiral shouted over the klaxon alarm. “They’re sitting ducks if they don’t maneuver.” He seemed to remember us at the last minute, and pointed at a pair of thrust loungers off to the side. “Strap in. It’s about to get bumpy.”
Meredith and I threw ourselves into the padded chairs. I quickly scanned the bridge from my new vantage point....
“Trade seats with me,” I told Meredith.
“Why?”
“I can see more of the scanners from where you are.”
We traded places and buckled the straps across our chests.
I opened my senses and, as always, everything slowed, the training absorbing every particle of information and making a picture out of it. The blips from the multiple scanner screens, the orders barked back and forth between the officers, technical readouts of inbound ships, the bright pinpoints of thrust as those ships grew in the viewports.MoreLess
“Tell the gunship crews they have ninety seconds to detach,” the admiral shouted over the klaxon alarm. “They’re sitting ducks if they don’t maneuver.” He seemed to remember us at the last minute, and pointed at a pair of thrust loungers off to the side. “Strap in. It’s about to get bumpy.”
Meredith and I threw ourselves into the padded chairs. I quickly scanned the bridge from my new vantage point....
“Trade seats with me,” I told Meredith.
“Why?”
“I can see more of the scanners from where you are.”
We traded places and buckled the straps across our chests.
I opened my senses and, as always, everything slowed, the training absorbing every particle of information and making a picture out of it. The blips from the multiple scanner screens, the orders barked back and forth between the officers, technical readouts of inbound ships, the bright pinpoints of thrust as those ships grew in the viewports.MoreLess
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