Sovereign

Part 2

Metal lurched and churned as the asteroid floated in the depths of the Carafon Nebula. It had been two weeks since the last hyper jump. Phal lay in his cryogenic chamber, sub liquid flowing through his lungs keeping him at his minimal health condition.

He floated along with the other hundred thousand people in his cryogenic sector. Soon they would all return to their normal lives.

Phal lay in motionless. But suddenly the liquid drained from his lungs, he coughed violently.

His body no longer warm and comfortable, Phal coughed a little more.

Spewing out the remaining liquid.

He lay wet and almost naked, he shivered as his neural nodes fired once more.

It suddenly all came flooding back, he was overslept with emotion.

Suddenly his pod opened, a small hover craft held towels and clothes.

"Phal Redrickson please help yourself." Said the synthesized voice.

Phal grabbed the clothes and towel, rubbing the slime from him.

The clothes were soft, the most comfortable clothes he had ever experienced.

The small Hover Craft opened its cockpit, "Phal Redrickson please come."

Phal looked around, there were no group transports, no guard rafts.

Just a single private vehicle. Phal climbed in. The small vehicle beeped a couple commands and was off.

The Private class Hover Craft was probably used by the upper crust.

The Upper Crust was literally the Upper Crust of the Asteroid.

The top and most luxurious part of the Asteroid.

Only the PureBorn lived up there, living in total seclusion.

Their own little world, there kids grew up with perfect human cells, getting education and probably lived until they were 100.

Even the most valued members were not allowed up their.

Still no group transports came, it was just Phal in the Lower Crust. Thousands upon thousands of cryogenic pods lay vertically, all connected to each other.

What really caught Phal's eye was that giant oval like structures.

Electric arcs were spewed out every 10 seconds. They seemed like energy stores.

Like this was all a power grid?

Time passed and they exited into the Middle Crust, once again everyone was in their cryogenic pods.

Now the Middle Crust was a little upper class, usually if you wanted a well paying job you had to transfer to Middle Crust.

Higher tiered buildings were powered down and reserving energy.

Billboards advertised such things "Don't let your friends turn on you! Call the Guards before it's to late!"

Obviously a anti rebellion propaganda enforcer.

Two hours later they arrived at the Upper- Middle boarders.

The massive overhead gates opened.

Above Phal's head, a gigantic tunnel lead into the Uppercrust.

Totally quarantined, no rogue cells in there!

They began to ascend, below them the massive doors closed.

They traveled through the tunnel, Phal asked for food. A piece of meat came up. Phal nommed on it as they traveled up.

Then a transmission came in, "Phal Redirckson." Said a male voice.

"Uhhhhh, yes?" Phal replied hesitantly. "Welcome to the Upper Crust."

Once more gates opened and sprawled out before him was massive white constructs.

And the strangest thing was people bustled about.