Gaunt Galaxy / Blue Angel: Book 1

The Crew

"Kebara & Sebara, you are free of your shackles and the servitude that you had sworn, though done so against your will, to Shimmerion Tarsonisan. As the present Commander of Shimmerion's estate and all his holdings, I release you from any and all previously stated oaths and contracts. You are free beings, as you should be, and are free to chose the course of you own lives!" Lererial and I both spoke these words into the twins minds.

"Freedom is a relative thing, no one is ever absolutely free. We all have our obligations to others as well as ourselves that cause us to do the things we do. Sometimes we enjoy the things we do and other times we make ourselves do them because it is expected or needed at the time. To us freedom is to be serving others for the betterment of the whole galaxy, if someone or something is better today because of our assistance, then we are truly free." the sincerity of the twins was evident in the tone with which they said these words.

"You are certainly a special pair of beings and we feel that you are a very important part of the Sartaril family! We humbly ask for your services as we embark on this journey. We don't know where it will take us or what awaits us at each turn, but with you by our sides we know we have a better chance of doing whatever will be required of us."

"We would not want it any other way! Not only do we owe you our lives, you are family to us! From the first day that Lererial set foot inside our hull we knew that she was special and that this would be a lifetime commitment. Now we are part of the Sartaril Kittar Rosfal family and ready to face whatever challenge the future may bring! Besides we don't think you could get rid of us if you tried!! Bring it on!!!" the twins then let out one of their maniacal laughs.

We all started laughing, things were coming together, like a well built machine. Everybody knew what there part was and they were good at it!

The girls informed us that while we had been... on our honeymoon, we had consumed most of the food stores left on board the ship. No wonder I had grown and gained weight!! We only have a small crew as the girls can take care of almost everything concerning their body / ship themselves. Shimmerion had put in several bunking areas to house his personal army and there were all sorts of ammo and weapons for them and the weapons he had added to the hull. We no longer needed any of this so it was taken out, and sold, and space was made for a larger living area for Lererial and myself, and of course our future family. The crew quarters was reduced to house just the current crew of five giving each of them their own private apartment. Extra "housing" was added to be able to accommodate any visitors that we may have. Of course with the girls ability to change their interior structure at will we could add or take away with just a few days notice.

The weapons, sensors and communications devices that Shimmerion had added were removed adding even more space to the ever growing interior of the Ovarunt. We took on plenty of supplies for ourselves and crew and there was still enough room for the Corvette that I had inherited from Jarrod. When I began to do good on the fight circuit we began to travel a lot so Jarrod had purchased a Corvette instead of always having to depend on commercial space ships or even hire private ones if there was not time to wait. The Corvette is a small space ship that was designed mostly for interplanetary travel. It is shaped like most rockets only with changeable wings. A long pointed cylinder with movable wings both at the sides and top / bottom. The wings were movable to allow for any atmosphere or space where there is none.

As Humans made their way further into space and began to trade with other beings the need for FTL travel became evident and we began to purchase Jump Engines from other races and adapt them to our own technology. I don't fully understand how a jump engine works but it basically does what the mind of an Ovarunt can do. It twists space time to where a ship can "jump" several light cycles at once to another area of space.