Descend- Seeing Stars, Sean Oswald [best e books to read .txt] 📗

wives an Tamoori was ever allowed to have was twelve. It was a sign of their position as a great leader and Jad-bal-ja was the first in a long time. She was thrilled that her husband was getting close to the same honor.

      It was moments like that which made Jay shake his head. He would never truly understand women, human, Tamoori or otherwise. Ava of course brought her own form of bizarre to their honeymoon. Due to the science lab time dilations, she had already given birth to their daughter, whom she named Jordan .

She then went on to tell him that she had names for the next few children. She wanted three boys that she would name Mitch, Chris and Lazlo and then two moredaughters that she would name Sherry and Susan. He wasn’t sure if it was strangerthat she already had names for potential future children or that she thought Lazlo was a name. She insisted that it sounded like a name for a genius.

The time dilations were hard on Jay and once they were all over, he ended up sleeping eight hours in real time after spending an extended time playing with all his kids and connecting with all the other fuses.

      On the positive though, it amounted to five more years of training and five more years of research and development as well as five more years of producing nanium. Jay had managed to gain two more levels and was right at the next threshold. Most of the fuses passed the 8th threshold and were somewhere between level one hundred eighty five and level two hundred although Amelia, Trina, Meikiyo, Jessie, and Bong-Cha had all managed to hit the ninth threshold.

      That gained them the multi-mental focus and enabled them to function at an evenhigher level of activity. All of them, including Jay had pushed their skills up. Some of the girls were maxing out their skills. Jay only managed to max one of his skills, but many others were over level ten thousand. All in all, while it felt like a long time, it strengthened their bonds, advanced their starfighters and empowered their frontline fighters.

      Once Jay woke from his rest, he visited his kids again. Made rounds all over the team trying to assure everyone that this plan was for the best. He also addressed his plan to keep the other clusters in time dilation. He made the decision that they couldn’t be trusted.

The countdown in his head was saying only two days left. Two day till what, he didn’t know, but the time was flying by. He also realized that he was having odd dreams again. They didn’t wake him from sleep but when he woke after sleeping outside of a time dilation, he couldn’t shake the sound of his own voice screaming while a massive surge of bright light filled his vision.

      Today was the day though. Today, they were taking the hunt to the Forlorn. Today humanity was going to strike a blow against one of the two races that had caused this fate to befall them.

      The strike force was going to be simple. They would use an A’snkarnt shuttle to transport Jay’s team. Ava had equipped it with a spatial jump drive and the pulse weapons had been upgraded to run off of PSI crystals. They debated changing the weapon type, but the pulse weapons worked against the Forlorn, so instead they simply opted to make them stronger.

      The team would consist of Jay, Trina, Amelia, and Meikiyo, although by the rules of the contest with Eesa the girls were only there for support in the case of an emergency. They were justeager for a fight.

      Eesa’s team would have Huong, Mia, and Charlotte on it. Again, the other wives were only there as back up, but her upgraded starfighter was able to fitthe four of them. It was the pinnacle of their technology. The Tamoori called it Shadow Blade because of how dark and sleek it was along with its ability to shift shape.

      The ship had the special subspace drive that was a type of dimensional devicewhich the A’snkarnt had been working on with the Tamoori. It also had a spatial jump drive for long distance travel and PSI propulsion engines. In terms of payload her go to weapons were once again pulse type weapons powered by PSI crystals. But they also added specialized crystals that would allow them to channel the powers of many of the fuses ranging from intense heat, necrotic energy, molecular separation, and shadow bolts.

      They even set up an array of weapons with the hope of being able to combo the powers. Nova blasts of heat might not destroy the ships from the outside, but if they could phase through by being combined with shadow bolts then they might take out ships from the inside.

      The final weapon was a trial weapon that they had only been able to run simulations on. It was a nanium missile that housed an assortment of PSI crystals. Some were charged with raw power and others were intended to create a cascading effect of destruction. The computer suggested that this was a planet killer level of weapon, but it still had to be tested. It had only come together near the end and was a time intensive weapon, so there were limits on how many they could make.

      Jay felt nervous as they took off. Back on Earth it had been a long time since he had anything to lose, but here he had found a home and family he had lost when his mother and sister died. He loved his wives and liked all the other girls of Team Jay. He adored his children and wanted nothing more than a future where he saw them all grow.

      That said, if his life was the price of their freedom,