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race; though this one seemed to be Genetically Engineered to be more efficient at farm work. Other
discoveries at Fort Knox had fallen to “Back Burner” status; and it was one of these that had taken
the interest of Lance and Sandra. The teams had found an alien device that seemed to be a long
distance communications unit. But as yet nobody had managed to get it operational; the power
requirements seemed to be impractical.
“Derek has arranged for the unit to be transported to the Helios array out by the asteroid belt; for
now. The military have found some of the old Polaron Generators that used to power the early
experimental outposts too” Sandra said as Lance returned from his lunch.
“I suppose it’s a safer distance from anywhere; in case the bloody generators explode from the load
placed on them” He said and handed the latest projections of the units power requirements “these
are only estimates; we have no idea of what it was actually meant to do. The Hive-Net hasn’t fully
translated the data files found with it. Elosian is just as difficult a language as Kryst B apparently.
Some words seem to have many meanings” he noted. They were on board a military craft enroute to
the array. They were meant to get out there first to oversee the installation process. Lance was still
not accustomed to his new status as Assistant Head of Exo-Research. Neither was Sandra that fond
of being his superior as Head of Exo-Research either. Privately they had agreed to act jointly on
decisions rather than one taking precedent over the other.
“One good piece of news I got was that Byron Hellvang; the Lingaran Warp Physics and Technical
Engineering Master from Thule Academy is going to be our head of Technical and Engineering” she
beamed
“Your old flame from your Academy days! Wow! That’s going to set tongues wagging” Lance
quipped and she threw a pencil at him. It missed and hit the Gravity plating regulator and switched
off the gravity to the compartment. They both laughed as Lance tried to get the situation under

control again.
“I have some interesting news also; remember our Abductee: Arthur Styles-
Cunningham? Well he’s only got himself the position of Head of Holographic
Presentation for the Flexor Group” Lance said when they were back to normal
“Flexor! The company that are handling the Communications network
throughout the Trust! I thought he’d retire with what he has in the bank” Susan
responded
“Apparently he gets bored doing nothing and he insisted he have some kind of
work to do. His skills were transferrable. I saw that presentation he did for you at
the conference. He’s good. And I took the liberty of asking if he wanted a side-line task of
documenting our efforts” Lance said nonchalantly
“I suppose he accepted or you wouldn’t be looking so smug. Did he ever find out more about that
girlfriend of his?” she asked
“Not much more than what we gleaned from the Alien reports. We’ll have to wait for more info from
The Endeavour; it’s gone to Hylon from the Eloi platform. As regards the Eloi being interesting;
they’re an odd race; and a Matriarchal society; your Grandmother would probably approve of them”
he chuckled and she threw a pad at him; missing him and knocking the gravity off again.
Arthur was distracted by the heaving chest of his PA; a young; brunette Delevan female. She
had been out jogging around the promenade of the Array’s living quarters. Of the many species he’d
encountered in the Unity and the Sonoran Trust; he found the Delevan female triple breasts a
welcome; but disturbing distraction, and the sharp canines of the Lemurr unnerving to say the least.
The Flutvarn frog-like smile he found he could cope with; but the Untharan female prehensile
nipples were just too gross for him. The males of each species just didn’t seem to bother him; it was
the females that he just couldn’t quite cope with. He missed his Helen. He had tried to satisfy
himself with a number of affairs with a number of Terran women from the Unity and Trust territories
and provinces. But nothing seemed to give him the results he wanted. As a consequence they all
ended abruptly. In short; as far as his sexual relations went, he was frustrated. He experimented a
few times with species of similar form; but none were like his Helen. He had hoped that when Hylon