0001 - Tempro
0003 - Conner- Thomas
0097 - Ace - Zimmel
0098 - Lucy
0101 - Shelby (mother ship)
0125 - Lars
0130 - Gillese
0200 - Ellen
0250 - Tendra
0301 - Rodrick
0403 - Johnathon
0505 - Craig
0660 - Realla
0778 - Jan
0798 - Celeste - Shelby (human)
0805 - Toran
0808 - Radella
0881 - Handrax
0908 - Tara - Mara
1000 - Sherry
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Ungrown - unnumbered
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0100 - Derry (father ship)
Rescued from Tendraxians
so far
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2 on Shelby both in re-gen
8 on Lucy
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Known and OR numbered
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0501 - Thaddeus
???? - Lena
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missing - 0667 - Marco
0999 - Zan - still lost
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Damn it! Gunther could hear his wife and daughter calling to him from somewhere. Try as hard as he could, he couldn't seem to zero in on just where they were.
A short Asian woman was frantically going back and forth between the bio-beds of a man and a ten-year-old girl.
"Mary, what in the hell did Shelly do that the charges weren't completely effective?" Mita asked.
"I am analyzing her and her nanomites now." Mary said, going hmmmm a moment later.
"A little more information than hmmm, Mary." Mita said.
"It appears that your daughter was able to somehow manipulate the nanomites within her body. If I didn't know better she is in almost complete control of all of them. Astounding, it is this that apparently caused the malfunction. It was also apparently arrested as soon as your husband spoke to her," Mary said.
Mita stopped suddenly, staring at her husband. Then she got closer to him, staring even more intensely at his face. She was just now starting to recognize a few of the readouts he was showing.
A shake of her head she looked at Mary, "I need you to do a level 1, micro-cellular scan of my husband."
"Commencing scan now, are we looking for anything specific?" Mary asked, slightly perplexed.
"I'm not sure," Mita said. "I'll know as soon as I see the scan. So far I am not seeing anything unusal."
Over on a third bio-bed, a half-conscious Derrick groaned as his eyes slowly opened. As soon as he tried to sit up, he groaned even louder.
"Mary, I and the empire do not have time for me to be a prisoner of a bio-bed. If you hadn't noticed? We are currently at war." A still groggy Derrick said.
"Yes Sire, you are only here to confirm that you are still functioning at full capacity. How can you lead the empire if your mind is still confused?" Mary asked.
This, of course, had Derrick's eyes snapping open. "So, you are saying that I really have no say in this?"
"Partly yes," came a familiar voice from the med-bay door. "Really Derrick, we can't have you riking yourself like this before you produce an heir."
Derrick shook his head slightly, "no point in doing that if we are destroyed now, is it, Shelby?"
"To a point that is true, still, you are the absolute last male of your line, the Imperial line. Plus, Mary is barely able to allow both of us access. Now, shut up, lay back and get better." Shelby said.
Derrick smirked at her as he tried to salute, "Sir! Yes Sir!"
Shelby shook her head, "now you're just trying to placate me." She shook a finger at him. "It's not going to work this time."
Derrick sighed, then laid back. She was starting to match him wit for wit.
"Sire," Mary said, "you should be released within the hour. This was an excellent exercise in DIMT living matter transfer."
Derrick thought a moment, then nodded. "Up until now it had been thought that a transfer of this distance was impossible. I can see that you are trying to find a way to reduce the amount of static charge. I assume it is a result of having to use as much power as you did?"
The holo-gram of Mary nodded, "that statement is almost entirely true. I am still trying to derive where the rest of the static was from."
Derrick nodded as he felt his mind clear more. A sudden thought occurred to Derrick. "Have you thought that the extra energy might have been collected during the long transfer?"
Mary's holo - gram shook its head, "not as of yet. I am now analyzing data related to the event."
"Mary?" came the slightly confused voice of Mita. "Do you still have the last micro-cellular scan done on the Emperor?"
"Of course, Dr. Mita." Replied Mary.
"Please display them, along with my husband's and my daughter's," Mita said.
As each came up Mita nodded her head 'til the end. "Astonishing, according to the readings, they all have components of the same nanomites, within their bodies," Mary said.
YOU ARE READING
Lost Empire
Science FictionA man with a past, not tied to anyone makes a startling discovery that changes his life and his perceptions of it. Being alone Derrick found it calming, then he had a dream, or was it?
