Read Temple of S.A.R.A.H. 5: Debug Mode for Free Online

healed.
    Both women saluted me since I was a Knight of the Alliance and I returned it before giving each one a hug. “It’s really great to see you both! Sarge! You’re up and about already! That’s wonderful!” I said.
    “That’s thanks to your wife and her bio-whatcha-things. If not for the new treatment I got, I’d still be in Medical for another week,” she replied.
    I nodded. “That’s great! I’m really proud of her. Those biocytes of hers sure seem to be helping a lot of people. Captain, it’s really great to see you again, but I got the feeling that this isn’t exactly a social call; what can I do for you?” I asked. I had made sure to have the meeting in my office, so we could talk without the seemingly endless interruptions of being out on the lab floor.
    “What I’m going to tell you is classified, but has been approved by Lord Admiral Vance,” the Captain began. “We’re going to be deploying in a few hours for the Arac hive assault on Earth. Before we left, I wanted to talk to you about what we are facing and see if you had any ideas that might improve our odds.”
    I nodded. “I’ve been focusing mostly on the new AI for Fleet Command, but I can’t help but worry about the hives on Earth. Just to make sure my imagination and reality are somewhat close to each other, hives are generally underground, right?”
    They both nodded. “So we’ve been told. No one that has assaulted a hive has ever returned to make a report, and no signals were received from them after they entered the hive.”
    I looked at her with concern. “This is a suicide mission!”
    She held up her hands to stop me. “Not this time. Earth has given us a very unique opportunity. In all the assaults made before, the planet had already fallen to the Aracs and was overrun. That isn’t the case here. There are two hives and we have a good idea where both of them are. We’re going to have a ton of back-up, and we’ll control the skies and the surface. None of which has been the case in previous assaults.”
    I calmed down a little, I didn’t like the sound of this, but it wasn’t my place to protest anyway. “Okay, I understand. Do you mind if I call in a friend of mine? I don’t actually have the right knowledge for what I have in mind.”
    “May I ask who it is? Security has to be maintained…” the captain said, hesitantly.
    “Doctor Ced?” I asked and she grinned.
    Before she could even tell me he was good, I had him on the vidlink. “Ced, I have some friends visiting me here that have a problem they need help with. I have a few ideas but need your big brain to flesh them out. Can you come over right now? It’s kinda urgent.”
    “Sure Eric, do I need to bring anything?” he asked.
    “Just your design panel and imagination. We’ll put them both to the test,” I replied making him grin.
    “I can’t wait! I’ll be right there!” he replied and had signed off before I could reply.
    “Okay, so while we wait for him; have either of you had dinner yet?” I asked.
    When both women shook their heads I moved over to the replicator. “Do you trust me to order for you, and are you off duty?”
    “Yes, we’re officially off duty. I’ll take the chance and let you order for me, just remember we have a combat drop in a few hours,” the Captain replied. Tul-sa agreed. So I ordered an extra-large, all-meat, deep-dish pizza and a pitcher of beer with half the alcohol content of normal.
    We had just sat down to eat when Ced arrived. When he saw the food he was about to protest until he saw the extra plate I’d put out for him. Then he just smiled and sat down.
    “So, what’s the emergency?” he asked as he grabbed a slice.
    I poured the beer as I explained my idea to him. “Can we make a drone about the size of my fist that has its own power and gravimetric motor with a short range but high resolution scan function capable of creating a three-dimensional map of an underground complex of tunnels and