ship with a young woman holding a weapon pointed at him. He saw Ro standing next to him and then he saw a blonde haired man stand and say, “I’m sorry to interrupt your meeting but we have a few things to discuss.”
Jilico looked at Ro and saw he was just as shocked as he was. Both of them stared at the young man and he said, “Why don’t the two of you take a seat in those chairs behind you. I need to take care of the fleet you’re assembling before we have our meeting.” The large display on the wall came on and they saw their Searchers in gathered and assembled into groups of fifty ships as three hundred more ships arrived and joined the fleet.
“That’s all of them, your Majesty.”
Jilico looked at Ro and saw he heard it as well. This young man was some kind of ruler. How did they get taken from the castle to this ship? They looked up at the display and saw a large white ship appear in the middle of their fleet. Then they saw the man raise a com and say…
Admiral Hulent saw a white ship appear in the middle of his fleet and was surprised by its arrival. His Communications Officer put a voice on the ship’s speakers. “Hello to each of you Searchers from the Life Province. I know you’re preparing to go conquer another Kingdom but I’m afraid I am just not going to allow you to do that. I hope we don’t have to destroy any of you but we will if you do not follow my instructions exactly. I don’t think I can stop you from testing my defenses first but please be aware that I will not tolerate your attack very long. So go ahead and take your best shot.”
Admiral Hulent felt his anger and picked up his com, “Attack and destroy that ship.”
The fleet began turning and firing on the intruder.
Jilico said, “You should tell them I’m on board. You’re trying to kill me.”
The young man smiled, “Relax. This demonstration is more for your benefit than theirs. You need to see what I can do if I choose.”
Ro felt the touch of cold fear go up his spine. He looked at the display and saw hundreds of ships coming in and firing.
Admiral Hulent watched as his entire fleet rushed in and attacked the white ship and nothing was getting through its energy screen. “Use your main beams.”
The red beams grew in intensity and the white ship looked like a huge explosion but nothing was getting through. The attack continued for five minutes as the thousand ships flew by and fired. Scotty looked at Virze, “Are you ready?”
“We have them all targeted, Your Majesty.”
“I trust you are not going to damage them.”
“No, we’re just going to fire through their screens.”
Scotty picked up his com and said, “I think I’ve allowed you enough time to take your shots. Now it’s my turn.” Scotty looked at Virze and nodded.
Admiral Hulent watched as hundreds of beams erupted from the white ship and started striking every ship in the fleet. He saw a bright white beam blow through his ship’s screen and demolish it like it didn’t exist. He looked at his display and saw that all of the fleet’s ships had their screens blown through. “Cease firing, cease firing.”
The Searcher fleet stopped firing and stopped moving. Then they heard, “I can see if any of you attempt to jump away. If I see a null drive field forming I will not miss from this moment on. Do you understand?”
Hulent nodded toward his com officer, “Yes, we understand.”
Suddenly a beam fired out of the white ship and hit a Searcher out on the far edge of the formation and it blew up in a giant fireball.”
“I will not repeat myself. I can kill every one of you before you could escape. You will remain where you are.”
Hulent said, “Do as he says.” His bridge crew looked at him and he shook his head. He had no idea who was in that ship.
Jilico and Ro watched the display and knew real fear. This ship could destroy his fleet and the capital of the Province. “What do you want?”
“Really, not much. However, before I can take this any further, I need to share some information with you and your fleet.” Scotty picked up the com and said, “The rest of you can join us now.”
The Life Fleet suddenly saw eight more of the huge white ships appear in their mist. Hulent looked at his display and knew they were all going to die. All of the captured Searchers realized there was nothing they could do to protect themselves.”
Scotty looked at Jilico and Rehoben and said, “Please put the headbands on and lay back on the chairs. I need to download some information.”
“And if we don’t.”
Scotty shrugged, “I guess we’ll just work with your successor. I’ll not show you any more courtesy than you’ve shown to the worlds you conquered. Virze.”
Virze raised the gun and Jilico scrambled putting the headband on. Rehoben already had his on his head wondering what this man wanted them to know.”
Scotty raised his com and said, “I do not intend to harm any of you. However, I want to share some information with you. I am sending each of you two downloads. You will watch the first and when you have finished I will answer any questions you might have. Then I will send you the second. That’s the one I need your help with. All of you drop your screens and prepare to receive the first download.”
Grace said, “They’re down.”
“Send it, Grace.”
Hulent looked at his communications officer and he nodded. He reached forward and put on the headband to the computer.
Rehoben closed his eyes and saw a young boy hiding from his teacher.
“Grace, how long will this take.”
“About four hours. The history is being sent at high speed so most of the ships will finish in three hours; the pilots and crews in four.”
Scotty leaned back in his chair and hummed as he waited. Virze kept an eye on her board for any ships that tried to escape.
“Alex, I think that board is close to doing the trick.”
Alex watched the trial transfer of energy and was amazed at what the Zord had done. They had designed a circuit board that teleported information to different parts of the Coronado Cell faster than any electrical current could move through wires. The Power Cell took the energy hitting it and transferred it to a central location which focused it and released it. The energy coming from the center of the cell was three times higher than the beam hitting it. “This is extraordinary. Do you think this will work with the intensity of the anticipated beam?”
Vring said, “We don’t know. However, these Power Cells do not have any resistence to energy. It just allows it to flow. I know its original function was to absorb and collect power but it is a perfect conductor.”
“I notice that you have a hole in the Power Cell where that energy is being collected and released. Why did you do that?”
“The Power Cell can collect as much energy as it can hold and then it starts reflecting anything above that level to the collector and firing it back at the source. We thought it would be a good idea to use the primary beam to then fire the collected energy to supplement the reflected energy. It will fire a ten thousandth of a second after the reflected beam.”
Alex thought a moment, “So the reflected beam should, theoretically, penetrate the screen allowing our strongest beam to go through the break.”
“That’s what we think. We won’t know until we trial it.”
“How are we going to do that?”
Kreej pulled up a picture on Alex’s display and said, “We have nine of these old ships in the Empire’s inventory. Their hulls are covered with Power Cells. We should be able to modify them to this technology, don’t you think.”
Alex looked at the old Ultraship from the Stars Realm’s ancient history. He smiled to himself and said, “Yes, I think it will do nicely.”
“I notice that this ship once had a crew of more than a thousand, however, this technology will be automated. It probably won’t need more than twenty or thirty sailors to man it once the modifications are done.”
