The Gemini's: Chapter 2
About 5 hours from the initial contact, Riley and the rest of the crew are sitting for a meeting to discuss his plans and to satisfy any quires Dylan may have and to propose an idea Riley has.
Riley: - "Harper, I don't want you messing with my engines on my ship!"
Harper: - "I promise I won't vaporise your ship, it's been years since I been around them babies, Axially I can't remember when I was around one! But don't worry technology loves me" With a nice cheerful grin when he speaks the last sentence.
Riley: - "I don't care, letting a… Umm, I could do with some help the injection valves they are shot to shit. God damn Nietzscheans, Sorry Present Company excluded" He smiles as Tyr gives him a glaring look from across the table
Tyr: - "When you are unprepared I will rip your head off." Slow with a rich meaning to the tone of his voice as known by him.
The door hisses as it opens with Dylan walking in.
Dylan: - "OK, Riley why are you on my ship and what's so important that it requires my attention."
Riley: - "Your, adventures around the galaxy have been well known and your quest to restore the commonwealth, although the task is near impossible and most people can't understand why. I understand that you recently ran into the Magog planet, thing which is 3 years away from this star system"
Dylan: - "Yes, we run into them and you are correct, they are on there way, that's one of the good reasons to get as many worlds to this charter as possible." Then Riley interrupts Dylan with important information.
Riley: - "Yes, well I may have some kind of solution to that problem, the idea of being infested by the Magog does not go down with me" then silence surrounds the room as se speaks of this new alien race. With Harper remembering the time when he had Magog eggs in his guts.
Riley: - "I have been locating this race of people for little over a year, over rumours and scares encounters on my journeys, and I believe I may have found where their home world is located." He tries to put myth into perspective to get Dylan to buy the story so getting up from his chair and walking around he makes his point well clear.
Riley: - "I believe that this new alien race is so advanced that they can overwhelm the Magog and even wipe them out of existence before they reach our star system, Rommie would you please" Then Rommie switches on the screen which displays old marking and symbols, even fragments of writing which switches to more info and evidence of other worlds and pictures of gods and so on.
Riley: - "I even have a copy of the All Systems University database on my ships computer which clearly gives extent information about this race of people."
Harper: - "How did you get a copy of this database?"
Riley: - "Wasn't to difficult, I hacked the main complex where the guardians are storing it all, a gold mine of info, took 3 hours to download the thing, nearly got caught, was a brilliant excuse I made up" before he could carry on, tyre interrupted.
Tyre: - "Could you hurry up, this junk is taking up my excises time"
Riley: - "Well anyway, one explorer did find his way to their solar system, in fact a hole new galaxy altogether, but he was never to be heard from again. What I am proposing is that we take a little look and see for our self's, if they do exist, then you can do your thing (Riley then points to Dylan) and propose the commonwealth charter to them, I believe it is worth the extra journey to go and see."
In the mist of all this, trance sitting at the other end of the table kept very quiet, even this time, this new course in time jumped from the outcomes she knew, but she knew that what Riley was doing is a bad Idea, but Trance knew that Dylan would never go with this crazy Idea from a man he only met 5 hours ago.
Dylan "This is vary fascinating Riley really it is, you have everything from what I see from the files, the scripts, the evidence, but do you think a race what displayed them self's as gods would just disappear the way they have, we never seen any sign of them before"
Riley: - "I know the dilemma, a strange bloke appears on your ship then 5 hours later tells you about this mystery race that could solve OUR MAGOG problem. Hard to believe I know, but what else are you going to do. Isn't finding new worlds part of your mission, what's wrong with a little adventure and mystery."
Dylan: - "Let me think about it" then he leaves the room.
Tyr gets up and before he leaves Tyr says one thing to Riley "Do you really think he is going to believe all that shit you said"
Riley: - "God I hope so." Mutters under his voice
With the room clear and Harper eagerly gone to see the new M3 engine in Riley ship. The room is silent just the humming of the ambient sounds around the ships, with trance in one corner and Riley in the other someone was bound to talk.
Trance: - "What makes you think this race of new people exist."
Riley: - "I killed one of them, but he just got up and carried on coming at me, he finally died when I open the antimatter exhaust emitter in front of him and vaporised him. It was a frightening experience. All because I found out whom he was. Why do they keep it a secret? What have they got to hide?"
Trance: - "Maybe It's a secret for a reason and you should not go looking for them, if he tried to kill you, what do you think all the others will do when you find there world. "
Riley: - "We don't want to start a war, our goal is to get any help to defeat the Magog and get the commonwealth back, This is tiring running from pirates and living in a galaxy in which you need to watch your every turn, we can't even rebuild our planet with the Nietzschean's occupying it." Then he steps up and leaves saying the last sentence.
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