Sector Guard Book 5 - Star Breaker

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Nov 15th the first story arc for the Sector Guard concludes at Devine Destinies...Welcome to Star Breaker.

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  For his planet to survive Kale must bring home the Star Breaker, a metal sphere with a Terran female centre.

 With an asteroid heading to Morganti, Kale volunteers to retrieve the Star Breaker, a weapon that has the ability to shatter anything in it's way. When he takes possession he feels a familiar presence, a star's Avatar is trapped within the sphere. Carella has been waiting for her freedom, and when her sphere collides with the asteroid, she is naked, free, and in the mood to blow something up. Kale is struck by her beauty and power, and she wants nothing more than a comforting touch after her violent venting. Upon returning to Morganti they find out who she is, but not why her memory has been wiped. Together, they may find a few answers to questions they had never even imagined asking, including How could a Terran who disappeared two years earlier have spent the last four hundred years as the Star Breaker?

Excerpt:

“This is it?” The scepticism in Kale-Gant’s voice was palpable. His tour guide smiled at his surprise.

“This is the Star Breaker. In use for over four hundred years by my people, it has kept us safe from damage caused by encroaching particulates and other races who would care to take over our mining operations.” Dramek’s chest puffed with pride at his race’s accomplishments.

The item that they were discussing was hanging motionless off the edge of one of the mining platforms. It was a sphere fourteen feet in diameter with one opening port on the side facing the blackness of space. The port was closed and the mineral that the sphere was made out of defied their scans. Whatever was inside was as much a mystery as how to operate it. “How does it work?”

“You merely aim the port at the object you want to destroy and the port will open.”

“What about maintenance? It has to have some repair access.”

“We have one citizen trained to work on the Star Breaker, as his father was, and his father before him. You get the idea. No one except his family has seen inside this weapon for more than two hundred years. They took it over exclusively at that time.”

“So what are the terms of the W’Chan? What do you want from me or Morganti for use of the Star Breaker?” Kale-Gant crossed his arms and prepared to fight for the use of the one item that could help them save his world.

“Movik the Keeper will come with you and maintain the sphere. Aside from that, we are forbidden to charge for the use of the Star Breaker.” He looked uncomfortable, twitching and scratching at his neck with one of the three arms the W’Chan sported. “We expect to get it back in operational condition.”

“I can agree to not breaking the sphere myself, but cannot swear to regular wear and tear on the mechanism. If that occurs, I will not be held by the agreement.” They extended their hand and one of the grubby appendages of Dramek closed the deal. A deep sigh of relief flowed through the Avatar. He had the weapon. Now he just needed to get home and use it.

“Done. Movik is on his way up. He wants to be done with this and back at home with the Star Breaker as quickly as he can. Don’t worry about his manner, he is always a quiet one.”  With that warning, Dramek left the observation deck of the platform.

Kale-Gant was left alone.

Did you think that it was a little too easy? They didn’t argue, fight or try to kill us. Kale was bewildered. He had been prepared to spend the stipend that the Alliance had given to Morganti for the first hundred year lease.

Well, they are not being honest about the Star Breaker. I can feel something inside that sphere. It’s calling to me.

He couldn’t feel it, not even through Gant’s senses. What kind of a call?

It is a humming in my mind. A tickling tease at my nerve endings. The last time I felt this type of a touch was a few hundred years ago.

What was it?

The touch of a star. There was a sentient planet symposium five hundred years ago, two stars attended and this is the same type of flaring energy.

Curious. Could a star fit inside that sphere?

No. Not even a portion of one. That is what makes the energy signature so puzzling, and so teasingly familiar. It can’t be, but it feels like it.

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