“I’ll prepare the crew for departure and coordinate with Commander Kayley.”
“Thank you. Could you send Lieutenant ComEY in to see me? I want him to work with Teagan on trying to get a search radius for this stationary base.”
“Yes, sir.”
It was imperative that they get the Morin situation under control. He wished he was able to have questioned the few Morins that had remained on the Morin transport before it blew up. Prime Commander ConEL didn’t say anything but they both felt the loss of their own warriors who had boarded that ship. Their families would have to be notified. Warriors understood that each mission could be dangerous but life was still precious.
*****
The knock on the door surprised her. She had fallen asleep on the bed an hour ago. She got up and went to open it, and found Lt. ComEY was there.
“Hi. Is there something you need?”
“Commander LemAN wanted me to work with you on trying to get a radius to go by for the stationary base the Morins might be using.”
“Oh. Yeah, we should do that. Come on in.” She moved out of the way so he could enter. Heat rose to her cheeks when he glanced over at the unmade bed. “I was taking a nap.”
“Were you injured from the explosion? I could work on this on my own if you’re not up to it.”
“Just some bruises and I went into a bit of shock, trembling like crazy. The medics said that I was fine, though. Let’s do this thing.”
He shook his head and smiled. “Your Earth sayings are so funny.”
She placed her hands on her hips and gave him a glare. “Well, I’m sorry for talking weird.”
He patted her shoulder reassuringly. “It’s okay…you’re only human.” He laughed at her surprise.
She cracked up. “I’m starting to rub off on you, my friend.”
“I don’t think that’s a compliment.”
“Probably not.”
Teagan reached for her digital tablet, which she didn’t even remember holding onto and taking to the medic wing. Maybe LemAN brought it or had someone bring it back here.
“You seem distracted. Have you eaten anything yet?” ComEY asked.
God, she had no idea when she last ate. Her stomach growled and they both laughed.
ComEY spoke into his comm link. “This is Lieutenant ComEY. Could you bring two specials with Katieran juice to Commander LemAN’s quarters? Thank you.”
“You didn’t have to do that.”
“I don’t want to listen to your stomach growl and deal with your mean hunger attitude.”
She laughed. “I do get hangry when I don’t eat. Thanks, ComEY.”
“Any time. Now, let’s get this radius defined.”
“Right.” She pulled up her program but all that showed her was how close they needed to be to decloak the Morin transport. “Could you pull the records of every time a Morin transport appeared and time it?”
“What are you thinking?”
“If we look at the timing based on speed maybe we can determine it. Also, we managed to cloak the Morinians so we can look at that distance. It won’t be exact but should give a pretty narrow radius.”
“The first time the Morins used the luna near Balar to amplify their cloaking. With satellite dishes on the transport they can cloak while moving from one location to another. What I don’t understand is them using a base location. It seems too dangerous to remain in a stationary location.”
“The luna was a large satellite transmitter that could amplify. Wherever they are, they’re going to need a luna, too. So when we narrow the radius, we need to take into consideration any planets that have large lunas,” Teagan said.
