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be saved by the risk he was now taking… it was a trade-off he was willing to make.
    He began to rotate his shields in an attempt to mitigate the thrashing his defenses were taking from Alpha’s constant barrage. He wished he could harvest the energy being throw at his shields like the Alpha platform did. Sadly, the Heshe had never build the newer weapons platforms with the regenerative energy recovery systems that their progenitors had utilized in the Alpha models. The simple reason was they were too hard to stop if for some reason the Heshe lost control of them.
    WhimPy-101 had managed to slag over eighty percent of Alpha’s surface but the massive ship was still able to harvest twelve percent of the energy thrown at it. That was energy it used to rebuild damaged systems and recharge its own offensive weapons systems. Those systems were incredibly powerful. It took every ounce of WhimPy’s skill and accumulated experience to continue the fight as long as he had. Time was not on his side. He was two minutes from the jump point. He calculated he would reach the jump point roughly three seconds before his shields failed.
    As it turned out his calculations were wrong. They had been based on the assumption that the Alpha platform would not change its tactics. This turned out to be an erroneous assumption. With the added energy being harvested, the Alpha’s AI calculated it would be able to bring its long dormant zero-point energy systems online. This weapon was designed to shunt energies out of a system… draining them to their theoretical zero-point energy levels. On a large enough scale this caused matter to collapse in on itself and resulted in the formation of point singularities… or miniature black holes. The effect was devastating.
    WhimPy felt the new weapon strike his aft shields and begin to drain them. He had scant milliseconds to isolate the targeted systems to avoid a cascading failure. He pumped his antimatter generators to two hundred and fifty percent of capacity. At those levels they would fail within seconds but they would allow him to keep feeding energy into his rapidly collapsing shields. His survival was no longer an option but if he could make the jump point and coax Alpha into following him then the sacrifice might be worth it. In the last few milliseconds before the jump he started transferring his intellect to his highly shielded backup memory core. If the core survived, it would locate another WhimPy and transmit his engrams to that platform.
    He pulsed energy into his hyperfield emitters. A poorly formed purple nimbus shimmered into existence around his body. In a fraction of a millisecond later he entered the hyperfield vortex.
    Behind him the Alpha platform detected the formation of the hyperfield corridor. It pushed its sublight engines to make up the distance and follow this powerful adversary through. He reached the proper location four point three seconds behind the first ship. He opened the hyperfield corridor and entered.
    Had Alpha had full use of his faculties he might had detected the anomalous nature of the hyperfield conduit he was entering. As it was, he noticed two problems when he exited the field some 130 light years distant. The first problem was that thirty percent of his mass had been sheared off during the transit by the unstable jump point. The second problem was that the enemy craft was experiencing a catastrophic failure in its primary energy generation systems which threatened to result in an antimatter explosion unless immediate action could be taken.
    Alpha needed information. This surprisingly powerful ship could provide it. It was clearly the most advanced craft Alpha had yet encountered since awaking from his great sleep. The problem was the smaller ship was mere moments from destruction. Any action Alpha was to take would need to be taken soon.
    The antimatter core was located in a dorsal section of smaller vessel. Alpha extended a hyperfield cloak over 63% of the