Chapter VIII
When Eli entered the Bridge he soon realized that there was no empty for him, he had been replaced but deep down it didn’t bothered him, he was glad to be there. For a brief moment, about a year back, he almost lost hope of finding the ship and his friends. Now he had been reunited with his family and friends he truly felt at home. The Bridge Crew was all there. Jonas stayed on the railing up near the entrance while Eli went down to the middle of the Bridge; he cleared his throat before he started to talk:
ELI WALLACE: I didn’t spent all this time looking for Destiny just to find you.
COL. YOUNG: What are you talking about, Eli?
ELI WALLACE: Our descendants need our help.
DR. RUSH: Look at the state of this ship and of its crew, do we look like we are in a position to help anyone?
ELI WALLACE: When we helped the Ursini, where we any better? And they are our descendants. We can´t refuse them, can we?
COL. YOUNG: What do they need us for?
ELI WALLACE: As you all know, their galaxy is plagued by the Drones; even we suffered the Drones wrath. – Eli used the quote/unquote sign for wrath. – They need our help to stop the Drones permanently.
LT. SCOTT: How?
ELI WALLACE: In the coming years after I got there we fought long battles with them, I was able to gather more and more information with each encounter. Using the Friend or Foe technique that we used in Destiny’s last big battle with the Drone Fleet I was able to disable and board a Drone Command Ship, that’s when I copied some part of the Drone’s hyperspace technology to advance my team’s work. Although they are unmanned and completely automated the Command Ship where design to carry occupants if needed be. I since discovered who build them and why. They were a race of humanoid beings that were about 1,5m tall. The size reminded me of hobbits from the Lord of the Rings and everyone knows that another name for hobbits is Halfling so I called this race the Lings…
DR. RUSH: Halflings, of course.
The tone on Rush’s voice as clear, he was making fun of Eli. But Eli didn’t care one bit.
ELI WALLACE: Inside the Command Ship I discovered many things. I discovered that although the Command Ships don’t communicate with each other they do communicate via sub-space with a core computer on the Lings Home World, but we will get back to that. I also discovered a little of their story and I’ve deduced the rest. So the Lings where a small race, and like the hobbits they lived a simple life but unlike the hobbit they had simple and uneventful lives because of their technology, they were very advance. A few hundred years ago they were invaded by an unknown enemy and because of their small size or because they had little experience in warfare they soon found themselves on the verge of extinction. In the last attempt of survival they created the Drones and programmed them to destroy all advance technology, because in their minds if a race was advance enough for space travel they were advance enough to invade them. With one bold plan they ensured that would win the war and prevent the same thing from happening. Now either the plan failed and they were destroyed or the plan worked and they are still safe in their Home World.
COL. YOUNG: Why do you say that?
DR. RUSH: Because if they were destroyed then there was no one left to turn the Drones off or they are safe in their Home World while the Drones destroy every potential treat out there.
