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are quite genuine; very difficult or
impossible to fake, Captain. Should we send a tracer signal asking for a visual
of the situation down there?”
    “That
will be Jera, the communications officer’s job.” Cruise turns to face Jera, who
has already started keying in the introduction on her console. Jera is the
daughter of Commodore Graven back on Cassiopeia and a full-blooded Northern
Quewythian. Having the curly raven black hair, her skin was a little bit
lighter that most Quewythians.
    “Hailing
planet on Super Light Speed transmission,” says Jera. “Requesting a visual now,
Captain.”
    “This
is going to take some time to get through and get our answer,” says Cruise.
“Engine room, this is the Captain. Prepare for Super Warp Drive five.
Glorainne, take us closer. Caleo, how far away are we from that planet?”
    Caleo
checks the 3-D hologram again and zooms out until the course is plotted and
distance given. “According to these read outs, Captain, we’re approximately
twenty five million tectors away.”
    “On
this vessel we will use the same units of measurements as Earth does,”
admonishes Cruise.
    “Oh,
yes, I forgot, Sir, please forgive me. That would be equal to a million of
Earth’s light years.”
      “In that case it’ll take us approximately
forty five cycles in Super Warp Drive 5 to get there. Glorainne, take us to
Planet X and lock into its orbit.” Cruise then informs the rest of the fleet of
the change and instructs them to continue on their original course until
further notice.
    Cruise’s
vessel Infinity then leaves the formation of the one hundred-vessel fleet and
accelerates to Super Warp Drive. It passes through the stages until it reaches
Super Warp Drive 5. While in that state, they could not send or receive any
communications. Cruise said that the transmission Jera sent would take time to
get there. This was the first time they were using Super Warp Drive 5, which
was a thousand times faster than anything they had travelled in before. They
arrived even before the message Jera transmitted did.
    Glorainne
locked Infinity into orbit around the planet they now knew was named Dekkonia.
It had been too far to pick it up before, but now that they were in orbit
around it, Jera was picking up audial visuals as well as a myriad of diverse
frequencies. It was then when Cruise realized that he needed to act.
    Pirates
had forced their way into the mines and according to the transmissions they
were receiving, were forcing the miners to dig up the precious metal ores.
Pirates had commandeered the whole planet. Jera and Caleo also detected
fighting vessels on their way from two other planets. Obviously they were not even
equipped with Hyper Drive and were moving slow.
    It
was then that Caleo, using the 4-D Hologram Image Procreator, detected six
pirate vessels on the other side of the planet also in orbit. He also detected
that they had no form of transport technology other than shuttles, which they
used to get to the surface.
    “We
could blast them out of orbit and disintegrate them quicker than a bolt of
lightning,” said Garza Suthax, the chief tactical officer.
    “We
could at that, but the pirates on the surface would probably take hostages,”
replied Cruise. “But we can jam their communications and throw force fields
around their vessels so that they can’t fire their weapons and can’t leave or
come back.”
    “True,
Captain,” replied Garza. “Then the force fields will hold them until we decide
what to do after we rescue the people on the planet.”
    “That’s
just what I was thinking, Garza,” replies Cruise.
    Just
as Cruise had ordered, six Electromagnetic Block Domination Barrier Pods were
released. They consisted of small pods the size of a man’s head and went
undetected by the Cloak-Zenith Veils installed several decades before. They
went undetected as the camouflage launchers were activated when the pods were
teleported around the planet to where the six pirate