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safeguards in the event of an overload” So saying she accessed Hive data on Mechanoids and set
about the task. One of the Mechanoids even volunteered to test the realigned Resivistor. Ben looked
up from the work bench he was sat at
“I think I may have a solution to the stability problem we were having with the headbands Isaac. By
focusing the optical interchange beam through a Krall Crystal fragment the beam variance
diminishes. It also lessens the power requirements. I don’t see why no one has thought of this
before. It may actually help increase the range of the headbands” He beamed a satisfied smile.

About an hour later Rupert absentmindedly wandered into the chamber holding a report
from the medical centre.
“Er; Galena, Isaac… children, the Blue has been revived. It has donned an encounter suit, the Gold
one we found, and has started drawing symbols. I think it wants to talk with you! They’re making
preparations to move it to our location. The storm has not fully abated and we can’t move from this
section just now” he stopped and stared at the sight in front of him. Galena, Isaac and Ben were
looking up at a Mechanoid that was floating just above head height spinning like a top. “What the…”
he didn’t get to finish the sentence as he was lifted bodily into the air, much to the amusement of
the others. “What on Terra is going on?” he shouted.

“Sorry Rupert, R7ZU seems to have gotten carried away by his new found ability. It’s a side effect of
the mods that Miranda did to the Resivistor so it can be interfaced with Mechanoid A.I. circuits.
Mech Telekinesis, what do you think?” The mechanoid relented and lowered them both to the floor.
Rupert felt uneasy and turned a little green “You’d think I would be use to low gravity by now.” He
hurried to the rest room. The others’ amusement was curtailed by the arrival of the Blue alien and
two patrol officers. The alien was wearing what looked like a metallic choker around its neck. This
was visible through the domed, transparent helmet covering its head. The alien seemed to be of a
slightly more muscular figure than the Greys. It had an unusual gait, a cross between the swagger of
a male and the sashay of a female. It made a strange warbling vocalisation. Then Miranda and Ben
stiffened. For a moment, they looked astonished then they smiled. Miranda spoke first.

“Our visitor is ready to use our telepathic skills to attempt communication…Her words, not mine…”
Ben continued the strange exchange as if the two children were acting as one voice…

“She apologises for the rude behaviour of her fellows, but they consider themselves superior to her
and her kind…” R7ZU spoke next and explained that the Blue alien was a member of a regressive
race, a genetic throwback to a time when the Greys had been a binary sex species. The exchange
continued in this manner each of them speaking in turn. It transpired that Blue was called K’ru
N’Varr. The Greys used pictograms as names. Her race was a related species and had not taken the
route of cloning as a means of reproduction. Her mate had been one of the Bridge crew, and had
been killed in the accident that had caused the Sphere to become buried on Terra all those millions
of years ago. They had been in pursuit of a rouge deep space probe. Its A.I. unit had become
unstable. Based on biological circuits it had basically suffered an episode of dementia. The craft was
captured but the Sphere had strayed into an asteroid knocking both it and the Sphere off course and
into the tertiary planet of this system. The Sphere crashed into a southern ocean and broke through
the crust where it was caught up in the swirling Magma and propelled to the planets core. The
Asteroid collided with a continental mass. It was decided to go into stasis till help came along.
Miranda concluded the strange conversation
“From your minds I gather our actions were responsible for a mass extinction. Please accept our
humble apologies” K’ru looked directly at Galena and made a series of warbling vocalisations, these
were relayed from a grille at the base of the domed helmet. Her thin lipless mouth turned down at
the ends. Rupert returned and came up to the right of Isaac who was stood mouth open with a look
on his face that epitomised the word gormless.