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“Basic hands should suffice. It means you should be also able to carry and operate simple blaster
weapons should you need to. There is a series of attachment points for a toolkit of sorts. The other
limb fixing points can also take jointed or tentacle arms. Though for now I think we’ll stick to the two
arms and legs. Incidentally there’s an option to attach a hover base or a tracked mechanism.” Hubris
replied; pleased at how quickly Michael was learning the controls. “Careful: don’t get carried away.
The initial effect of the interface’s feedback loop can be euphoric. If you concentrate hard that
should subside and the suit will become like a second skin. You should have seen me when I first
tried it. I felt like a child all over again; scared the heck out of my support crew” He added and
warbled. Michael set to in earnest to master the more intricate manipulations. He grabbed T’luha by
the arms and started to dance with her. She howled with laughter.

“This is going to be a riot!” she laughed.

Krysta was on the Bridge when a message came from Keterian space; the coms tech said it
was addressed directly to her, so she said she’d take it in her Ready room. She sat down at her desk
and accessed her coms unit. The screen flickered and Lyris’s face appeared.

“Hi Krysta; I thought I’d update you with our findings on the Mummies we found. They’re very odd”
Lyris started her conversation “They are all female and various ages. Two look like they were killed
by energy weapons of some description the third and eldest seems to have died from exposure to
some micro-organism. By the name Cartouches we seem to have Family members” She continued.

“I take it you’ve had the DNA results. Anything we should be aware of if we encounter any live
Kryst?” Krysta asked

“You know of course about the code found in nearly all the races in this and the other Galaxy. These
individuals have the same marker; but only have half the code?” She replied.

“We’ve found a Derelict ship in orbit around the sixth planet; Keera, here. It looks like it was a
manned, larger version of the Kryst probe. Can you send Dr Stenerton the data for him to analyse
please Lyris?” Krysta asked and added “How’s my younger brother handling being a ship’s Captain?”

“He’s doing remarkably well. He’s also dating Maris!” Lyris replied and winked.

“Finally! I thought he was going to be a wall flower the rest of his life. I’m pleased he’s found
someone he likes. I was getting tired of trying to hook him up. I take it Darius made the initial DNA
analysis” Krysta said laughing.

“Yes; Darius and Lennie, for a Mechanoid he’s rather human like in nature, he seems to be quite the
practical joker. I’ll send you some examples in the next burst. This has to be brief we are in the
process of protecting the sites on Shust, a mineral found in the desert clouds has proved to be
corrosive for sandstone. Send us all the stuff you have and I can compare the data. Tell Hubris
Hasbid says thank you for the schematics of the translator device. It’s being used extensively on the
Unity data bases.” She signed off and Krysta sat looking into the distance “Well, well Gio; so you’ve
found yourself a girl” she thought and smiled a slightly wicked grin.

What appeared to be a Docking port was found on the spherical
section of the ship; it was decided that the shuttle would attempt to dock
or attach there. The manoeuvre went smoothly enough and an automated
system adapted the ships docking port to lock to the shuttle. However; the
door seals remained tightly shut. It would appear that they needed to
enter something onto an illuminated panel.