Gaunt Galaxy / Blue Angel: Book 1

Ke & Se

........I'm staring into Lererial's eyes and an alarm klaxon is blaring, at first I just sit there waiting for someone to give an order, then with Lererial's help in my mind, I realize that I'm now the Captain of this ship and I need to take charge. "Status Report!"

"We are being attacked from a disguised freighter in a berth across the dock, sir. We are in no present danger as our shields are quite adequate. Unless they change tactics." What the hell?... there were two voices speaking in unison and neither of them was the voice of the beings sitting at the controls.

Then Lererial stepped in "It's time you learned about your new ship, even Shimmerion didn't know what he really had." Then in my mind she said "Girls please inform the Golden One about his ship, for legal purposes named UNSG (Universal Navigational Space Group) Shimmer. "

Golden One????

"We are Kebara & Sebara. We are of the house of Arbara. 7th in the line of ascension to the Council of Ovaruntoson the planet of origin." from there they took me in my mind to Ovaruntoson. A desolate planet that circles the event horizon of a black hole, dark, with no atmosphere. How is this even possible, a planet in orbit around a black hole?? How could this be a planet of origin? Where are the cities? Where are the space ports? Then I'm taken closer to the planet surface. There is vegetation? How? What type of vegetation can grow in a vacuum? It's colors are dark, mostly black, but in the midst of this vegetation are.... nests? As big as cities! In the nests are what appear to be huge black orchid flowers. These things are as big as cities and they are alive. This is the beginnings of the Ovarunt race. A race of sentient beings large enough to carry passengers and cargo.... across the galaxy.

A living starship!!! Only heard about in some parts of the galaxy and seen only by a hand full of fortunate individuals from where I come from. They continue to grow as they age, becoming as large as large cities by adulthood and as large as a large asteroid or small moon in their old age. Ke & Se by comparison are adolescent children as they are only two hundred twenty cycles old (Ovarunt live to be 10000+ cycles).

Ovarunt are telepathic and are in touch with most of their race at all times. Their brains are the size of very large buildings by the time they reach maturity. The power of their ship/body comes from a fission generator / reactor (if a body organ can be classified as such) their heart. Like a miniature sun inside the body giving it all the power it needs and then some. Their shields are layered, inner, outer, doubled able to be shaped. Their weapons: laser, ion, thermal, plasma and the ability to adapt to any foreign add on. Their two minds are able to shape (twist) space time to make space travel almost instant for up to about one hundred light cycles in any direction, this distance increases as they grow older. Ke & Se are very unique in that they are co-joined twins! Ovarunt twins are so rare that they only come around every 500,000 cycles or so, but co-joined?!?!?. Two Ovarunt living in the same body. Two minds, twice the computing power. Two fission hearts, twice the power, two times the growing abilities so that they can reconfigure weapon arrays in only minutes to meet whatever comes their way and redoubled shielding to be able to go and do what other Ovarunt cannot. Not only have I met the most special angel in space, but I now have the most special ship in space. What is this about?

They told me of their losing their mother and father, how that when they were only twenty cycles (very young for Ovarunt) that their Mother just disappeared from their minds. It seemed that this had been happening too much lately in the Ovarunt ranks, individuals were just disappearing, both from sight and from their strong mental links. Soon after their Mother had disappeared their Father had done the same, they could neither find nor feel any trace of their parents! They had been left to the care and upbringing of the nursery personnel of the home planet. Because of their unique twin physiology the grew quickly, both in mind and body, they had no parents so they stayed on as help in the royal nursery for much longer than is required by the Ovarunt customs. Ovarunt hatchlings are required to help in the nursery until at least twenty cycles of age, therefore the regular nursery staff always has plenty of help and it is a great learning arena for the young Ovarunt.