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place. We need to get a larger team here.” Kelvin said when he had gathered his thoughts. “We
need experts in fields that we have no skill in.” he added

Fenton interrupted over the coms link. “I’ve requested help from Venosia Prime and Terra Prime. It
will be a few hours arriving; so I suggest you get mobile and document/scan as much of the place as
you can. Humerus is in contact with the Osir and the Unat, apparently the female is from a race
known as the Lemurr. They are an ancient race; only a few dispersed colonies still exist in this sector.
I’m sending you a translation matrix.” he concluded and their translator bands updated their
language databases. The Lemurr shook her head “How long was I in stasis? And who are you?” she
was looking at Georg with a look that could have meant she wanted to eat him.

“Er! We don’t know how long you’ve been in there. And I’m called Georg Zanti, I’m an Aleutian.” he
replied and introduced the rest of the party. She called herself Meorr of Leon; she had been on an
exploratory survey of the region of a distant star system called by her people Hurrfarr Seven. She
and her teammates were captured by the creators of this craft. When they explained how many
millions of cycles had passed since the craft had crashed into the Earth, she moaned and emitted a
low keening sound.

“Meorr have you any idea who or what these creators were?” Bria asked.

“They never referred to themselves by anything other than images relayed telepathically. They killed
three of my teammates before they realised that their minds were too powerful for our feeble
brains to accept their imprinted thoughts. They split us up between various craft and I never saw any
of them ever again” She began to sob and keen again. Fenton’s voice came over the coms.

“Can you get the Computer to try linking with our Hive-Net? The Techs think the two systems might
be able to interact!” Fenton sounded confident.

“We’ll try but it seems too distracted by system failures to understand we could help in some way”
Georg replied.

“There is another shuttle coming from Jehovah Orbiter with Techs, engineers and Mechanoids. They
should be able to help. But we need to get that Computer focused on sending technical data to the
Hive-Net. Terra Prime is sending support staff. We have been told to suspend Terraforming activities
forthwith and concentrate on the Sphere!” Fenton exclaimed.

Georg, Meorr and Kelvin went back to Terra Edo as the other crews arrived. Over the next
few days Meorr explained more of her time on board the sphere. When asked what her captors
looked like she could only reply

“I never saw them out of their “Metallic Encounter Suits”. They would only leave them when they
went back to the bridge, an area out of bounds to all but them. I got the impression that our
environment was toxic to them” She did take solace that some of her people survived and had
created thriving colonies. “May I be allowed to contact some of the colonies?” she asked after some
time.

“I don’t see why not” replied Fenton “I’ll see if I can get a coms link set up. Are your quarters here on
Terra Edo to your liking?” he continued

“Wonderful” she replied grinning and showing a disconcerting set of three quarters inch incisors
“Have the research teams located my den yet?” she asked