46 Annexus (1/2)
[We are joined by a specialist in the field of physics, Dr. Marz Seiren, who is here to explain to us the strange technology displayed by the illegal warship that was on Lorres III.]
[It's a pleasure to be here, Zenise.]
Ivan was connected to the galactic net in the Kraken and watching a live stream of InterGal Today, a popular galactic wide news station. The host was the same stunning light blue-skinned woman, whose hair floated about like it was flowing in water, that he saw while walking through the rustic metropolis.
[Dr. Seiren, you've seen this footage, what can you tell us about what happened here?]
A video replay of Galactic Fleet battleships launching an attack on the Kraken but being completely effective was displayed.
[Zenise, as you can see, the torpedos passed straight through the ship, but this is only an illusion. I say so because although the ship appears to be in this location, it is not.]
[The warship you can see didn't enter through the atmosphere to arrive at the dock, but warped in. This was done using a type of a yet-to-be-seen wormhole technology. Shorty before arriving at the attack, you can witness the color of the illegal ship darkening.]
[I can, but what does this mean?” The host leaned in as if keen to hear the answer.
[I have a mathematical representation prepared for the phenomena, but for those who can't understand it, what the illegal ship did was move through its wormhole away from the planet. This movement actually has a time dilation effect, similar to an object falling into a wormhole, so while the Galactic Fleet were trying to disable the ship, it had in fact already long left.]
[What about how the earlier attack on the ship did no damage at all, or the crew of such ship. What can you tell us about that?]
[Me and my team are still researching that. The crew of the ship appear to enter and exit through the same wormhole technology as displayed by them arriving and leaving the planet. As for the material structure that the ship is made up of which received no damage from a full SAM array barrage, that is still under heavy investigation.]
The conversation between the host and guest physicist continue for another fifteen minutes before the segment was over.
”They are either trying to cover it up, or simply know nothing,” Ivan said as he laughed boisterously but rapidly turned serious, ”I want to know why the situation on that planet developed to such a catastrophe. Valeria, investigate with the crew and find out for me.”
”Yes,” Valeria nodded and immediately left the bridge with several guards.
Ivan remained silent before looking over at the various holographic basic four-dimensional navigation charts displayed on the bridge before stating, ”Status report, how far away are we from our first location.”
”President,” One of ships crew called out in response, ”At our current cruising speed of 7.8HU, we are estimated to arrive at the destination in another ten minutes.”
Ivan nodded his head in response and patiently monitored the ship from the captain's chair.
Ten minutes later, the Kraken emerged at a large space station orbiting a giant gas planet in a sector with a shortage of natural resources. A small star hangs against the black curtain of space, lighting up on side of the space station with a dim light. The space station was hidden amongst the asteroid belt naturally orbiting the gas giant, but anyone who knew what to look for would be able to find it.
Mazur had located a large number of space stations and barren planets outside of the Galactic Fleet patrol locations, dark corners of the universe where pirates and other criminals congregated together.
To most people, places like these were full of danger and death, just looking at the wrong person in the wrong way could lead you to becoming a cold corpse in some forgotten corner of the universe. To Ivan however, this was the ideal place for him to start conducting business.
Even the outlaws had seen the news report of the illegal ship, so when it suddenly appeared in one of the Annexus space station docks, many people's attention were immediately attracted to it.
Ivan left the ship with forty guards and two saleswomen. Twenty of the guards were carrying several boxes of equipment along with some steel construction material.
At the exit of the pier where Ivan had docked, a toll booth required to pay before passing was present. Unlike on Lorres III, here they had humans manually manning the payment system.
The short green-skinned man with unnaturally wide eyes and long pointed ears looked at Ivan from behind the booth with surprise. He didn't know anything about the illegal ship that appeared on Lorres III, but seeing a ship appear out of nowhere was without a doubt shocking.