Starcrasher (Shades Space Opera Book 1) by Rock Forsberg

Author:Rock Forsberg [Forsberg, Rock]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: www.rockforsberg.com
Published: 2017-03-15T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Five

It was a cold welcome. The expansive hangar was filled with obsidian fighter planes and armed soldiers in blue and grey, armed with heavy assault rifles and ready to shoot down anyone who made a wrong move.

Tredd led his crew down the platform through the Rutger’s cargo bay. An officer waited for them down below.

He could feel how tense everyone was, not even Evie said a word. Being taken in by the navy was no walk in the park – except of course for Eddie, who had endured more than his fair share of interrogations and disciplinary action. Tredd himself had played this game many times while policing the galaxy as a captain of the Dawn Alliance Navy. He even remembered visiting this particular ship, the Excalibur.

The Excalibur was one of the largest mobile navy units, a Dubnium-class battleship shaped like a half-cone with a cut in the middle and a distinctive sickle-shaped bridge that set it apart from the newer Seaborgium-class ships. With a five-kilometre chrystallium hull housing a crew of ten thousand, thousands of cannons, fifty missile bays, and more than two hundred EG-L fighters, it was considered an unbeatable behemoth. Virilis had been but a quarter of the Excalibur.

While descending down the platform, he could see the Craftliner parked right in front of the Rutger. There were no soldiers around it; everyone had moved on already. Dr Killock had been hard to understand, but letting her slip through like that had been a big mistake. It remained unclear whether she was abducted against her will or if she played for the navy. What do they want now that they have the girl?

‘You have been brought here for investigation under suspicion of treason,’ the officer responded to Tredd’s unvoiced question. He stood straight, chin up, and showed no emotion. The only things moving were his eyes.

No surprise. ‘Been there, done that,’ Tredd said, slouching to show he didn’t care about their antics.

The officer remained solemn, unaffected by Tredd’s sarcasm. ‘We will conduct individual questioning to understand your participation in the matter.’

A group of soldiers ran past them and up to the Rutger, while another gathered around them. First they took hold of Berossus’s arms, and started leading him to the hangar exit. This was the usual drill, as Tredd knew all too well: separate the captives individually to small cells, have them wait, and then subject them to individual questioning, cross-checking stories using predictive semantic algorithms. They would break Berossus in minutes.

When Tredd’s turn came, he was escorted to a spacious room, which smelled of mint and had an open view to the infinite night of space through the transparent back wall. A fancy foodalator and a few glass bottles rested on a ledge that protruded from the wall on the left-hand side. Opposite them lay a firm-looking grey couch and two chairs of similar style. This was an officer’s room. In the middle of the room rested a desk made from what looked like real wood with two small black chairs in front of it.

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