Free Star Force: Bahamut (SF86) (Star Force Origin Series) by Aer-ki Jyr Page A

an
independent account of the Hamoriti to them while the aperture is being
revealed. If they know of the Hamoriti then they know of the danger they
possess. No sane being would engage one without the knowledge of how to
neutralize them, and from what the Sety have told us, this civilization is a
wise one.”
    “Thank you,” Riley said, but he was looking at the
Sety when he said it.
    “Please do not harm yourself,” the Yisv implored.
“Keep away from this one as far as necessary. But you will have access to it in
whatever form is needed short of compromising the god’s slumber.”
    “Before we go down to the surface, the Li’vorkrachnika
are to leave it. I don’t want them around.”
    “That can be arranged. Will their fleet in orbit be an
issue?”
    “Make sure they don’t fire on or try to ram us. They
have a habit of doing that.”
    “We will make sure nothing of the sort happens. They
rely on us for…compensation. They will not defy our orders. Nor could they gain
anything from such an assault given the strength of your fleet. An ambush on
the ground would be another matter, so you are right to request they be
removed. They are finalizing the last of the digging. Once it is complete they
will be withdrawn from the planet. I will make sure of it personally.”
    “Adequate,” Riley said.
    “Do you truly have a means to stop the Hamoriti?” the triped asked.
    “Who are you?”
    “We are the Dati .”
    “Well, Dati , yes we do.”
    “What can you do?”
    “Give it orders. The complexity of which will be
determined by which Hamoriti it is, but at the least we should be able to
direct it to whatever system we wish and keep it from wrecking inhabited ones.”
    “Whatever system you wish?” the Trinx asked ominously.
    “They are weapons,” Riley pointed out. “And yes, we
could use them as such if we wanted, but if you study our history you’ll find
that we’re the safest people to hold the leash that you’re going to find. And
to be blunt about it, if we wanted, now that we know it’s here, we could wake
this one up remotely, so you don’t have a means of stopping us if we wanted to
unleash this one. We’re not going to do that, I only say this to make you
realize you have no leverage on us. Regardless of your tampering with the
Li’vorkrachnika, we do not want the Uriti running free and destroying worlds,
and we will do what we can to stop this problem before it gets any worse. On
that I give you my word. But there will be no sharing of control, so do not ask
about it. You’ve already shown that you are unscrupulous. We would not trust
you with such control, even if it were possible. And given the nature of the
technology required, I can assure you that it is not. The Chixzon were very
cautious about their control mechanism. You would not be able to use it.”
    “How then can you?” the Yisv asked respectfully.
    “That’s a secret for another time.”
    “Then let us not delay. We will get you the data you
require,” the Yisv said with a nod, then cut its transmission. The others
followed suit, the Sety last of all, almost reluctantly.
    What are you up
to, Paul?
    Trying to hack
the lizard fleet comms and find what ship that
templar is on.
    Any luck?
    He’s not on the
dreadnaught. Best guess is one of their jumpships.
    You going to
board it?
    I’d like to, but
he’d kill himself before I could get to him. I’m going to try and hack whatever
information he might have with him.
    I thought they’d
configured their comm systems to keep us out?
    They keep
trying, but Thrawn gave me some information to help with that. It’s outdated,
but allowing me a little access that I’m trying to wiggle around with. If I’m
careful and lucky, I can get one of their cruisers to do the talking for me and
use their current codes to get access.
    We could still
get a tissue sample off a dead body, if that’d help?
    It would be
something, but I’m more interested in finding some links back to their