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space. Cameron spotted an object approaching off the starboard and highlighted it by using his finger as a stylus. Enlarged the object looked like the cross between an underground drill and a mushroom cloud. A menacing metal phallus surrounded by three rings was heading towards the ship. Ryoma recalled seeing something similar in movie once.
    Emblazoned on the second ring was the name ATS Fillipre.
    Cameron swirled his index finger on the screen, which brought up a new window and a virtual keyboard. Taking the home position on the keyboard he quickly typed in the ship’s name. The Intergalactic Wi-Fi or Wireless brought up over a million web sites. Cameron placed his palm on the screen and opened the eye nestled in his brain that no one else could see. Blood spurted from his nose at the sound of a million people screaming at him at once. He focused on weeding out the voices until the most important one remained.
    He closed his hand, which closed the window. Another window opened proclaiming great rates on space mortgages. Cameron snapped his fingers and the window dissolved. Across the galaxy an Atlantean ad server exploded and a programmer combusted. His children would always remember that day as the first day there were ever truly free.
    “According to the Wireless,” Cameron said, “The Atlantean Terra Ship Fillipre has been missing for fifty years, and the Atlanteans have assumed it lost. Some encrypted sites mention that this was because the five of the search parties sent did not return. The Atlantean military was secretly using this cargo ship to transport experimental weapons, and most interesting: two tablets thought to be fragments of Creation’s source code.”
    “That is interesting. What did they think these tablets do?” Ryoma said.
    “They didn’t have any local legends about them like the Mehmet Talisman did.”
    The LCDs chimed again with more alerts. Now closer to the Fillipre, Soulforge received her distress calls. “Well, I’ll be damned. She still has power – that’ll make this a lot easier.” Cameron’s fingers danced across the screen and brought up another program. Now that even the faint Wireless of the Fillipre was close enough for hailing the program began to deduce her passwords with preternatural speeds.
    “Alright I guess I’ll lead the away team.” Cameron said. Then he peeled the screen off the wall and folded it until it was pocket sized.
     
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    Cameron watched as the Soulforge drifted farther and farther away…
    He hated breathing recycled air. It was stale and lifeless. It was necessary, but joyless. He was wearing a simple spacesuit that fit snugly over his clothes, but still allowed for plenty of mobility. The suit was made of a polymer that could withstand high impact bullets and had alloy inserts in vital locations that could stop a laser if you moved fast enough. The helmet featured a similar high impact glass and C02 scrubbers that would clean all the air he exhaled. In his belt he had crammed a flintlock pistol, a cutlass, and he was wearing a shoulder holster holding a hand held railgun.
    He watched tiny rocks and space trash pass harmlessly through him. His physical body was no longer in the Physical realm, but in the Astral. His plan was to infiltrate the Fillipre this way. Whatever security system she still had in place would most likely not spot him. Ryoma followed.
    The black cloud swirling around the Fillipre caused Cameron to unholster his railgun. Ryoma followed in suit with a pair of Civil War era Colt 45s. If you could hear in space the cloud would sound like a thousand beating wings. Horrible winged humanoids with flaming eyes circled the Fillipre . Cameron recognized them immediately as Byakhee.
    A brick dropped into Cameron’s stomach. They remind him of the God-awful hellgrammites his father would use as bait. The Byakhee followed great calamity. They are carrion, but do not feast upon the living despite how easy it would be for them to snatch