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between our planet Beacon and the patrol route
of the Sixth Frontier Fleet.”
        “That is why I am taking our fastest
spaceship, the one that reached 87 light years into these mysterious alien’s
territory,” Remus smiled as they walked down the stairs.
     

Chapter 4: Protection
     
     Remus Torus took a sigh of relief when he
received a welcome signal from one of the Starships of the Sixth Frontier
Fleet. This meant that now his ship was tagged on one of the long-range
gravitron scanners of Starfirian Army and while he still had a distance to
cover, they would watch over him for the next few days as he made his entrance
in their space.
        He had been nervous since he had left
their own space after flying past the planet Beacon which was the last habited
planet of Nestorian Republic and the last outpost that had one of their own
battleships to shoo off any pirates. Next leg of a journey over a hundred light
years contained many dangers and Remus had realized that while he had boldly
volunteered for lone travel, his stomach had totally dissented against that
bravado. He had flown his spaceship at 1,000 light speed and while it could go
twice that speed, he had conserved energy if he needed to escape some space
predator. More than 98% of space on the ship was taken by the fusion reactor that
provided power while 1% of the remaining space was the ship control room and
his personal quarters each.
        It took him approximately a month and a
half to reach the outer boundary of the Starfirian space and he had been
provided the validation codes which he sent over and were confirmed and
accepted. The rest of the journey to planet Bravo was safe and easy.
Starfirians even provided him with four of their spacefighters as escorts, more
as a show of respect for his rank than due to any need of protection.
     
        Planet Bravo was the headquarters of
Starfire Empire’s Sixth Frontier Fleet and the regional capital of the 30
planet star province known as Zarrvyk’s Province. Remus suspected it was named
after some ancient war hero as Starfirians were fond of naming their places.
Planet Bravo was at a distance of almost exactly 180 light years from planet
Beacon.
        The four spacefighters escorting him
had sent out a signal ahead of his arrival and the space traffic control
prioritized his spaceship to the top slot on its list of arrivals and
departures.  His escorts departed and he put his ship in the path towards the
spaceport whose coordinates the space traffic tower had beamed him. It took him
less than fifteen minutes to land his ship and he waited inside for his hosts.
As an alien dignitary he would have to be shepherded around the moment he got
out of his spaceship door and put a foot down on the land.
        A rectangular shaped airship approached
his spaceship and hovered a foot above the ground. Five Starfirians exited
through a side door, one of them was wearing a rose red colored suit over black
pants, rest were dressed in a paramilitary uniform of red button down shirt
over blue pants and a hat on top. The four of them carried laser guns in their
hands while the suited man was empty handed. He walked over to the door of
Remus’s spaceship followed by the four guards and Remus opened the door.
        “Welcome to Bravo, Vice Chancellor
Remus Torus,” the suited man said, “If you had informed us of your arrival in
advance we could have sent a cruiser to make your ride comfortable.”
        “That is generous of you but the matter
was urgent and a bit discreet,” Remus replied.
        They could talk to each other and
understand each other’s voice and language because a micro ‘voice translator’
had been planted in their larynx since childhood that contained the memory of
all the known languages and dialects of the galaxy and translated it in real
time. A similar ‘translator box’ had been implanted near their ears. Such
implants were one of the marks of true spacefaring