Ca y est! J'ai récupéré la suite!
Attention, c'est super long!
Mais bon, l'action commence et les ennuis arrivent
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Bonne lecture!
33.
'Oh really! Very well Mr Antekril, it's something few people have the courage to learn nowadays. You will be part of my shift. You, miss Cyrlaniel, will join the second one, and you, Mr Utalubro, will join the third one. Does anyone have any request before we board the ship?’
‘I have one,’ said a pretty young red-haired girl with an accent of the front sector. 'I need additional room for my instruments, because cybernetic needs many of them.'
'I think you'll have enough room to put your three bags.' answered the first officer.
'Yes, but I have a fourth one. I left it in my room hoping that someone would help me carry it.'
'Mr Zeen, you seem to have the two smallest bags of the shift, could you share some space with miss Caelin?'
'No, I'm sorry. I carry fragile technical items. I cannot pile them up.'
'So, I'm sorry miss Caelin, but you cannot bring another bag. Just take what's most important.'
The girl looked really annoyed but there was nothing she could do. We took place on a small cargo boarder and everyone dropped his or her luggage in the back of the vehicle. Mr Zeen carefully put his bags on the top of the pile. I sat near the captain and his first pilot, Lilia Starp. There were also the three other observers who joined the first shift. They were Teebow Tery, whom I had already met, Sarcum Cushgrac, a tribun who represented the interests of the population in this expedition, and Thalia Niquarel, a biologist. The captain addressed us.
‘Since you are part of the first shift, my shift, I expect you to have an exemplar behaviour. Lilia will show you your quarters and each of you will receive two new uniforms. Unpack quickly! Just make sure that all your stuff is tied to a hook or in a closed drawer or closet so it doesn’t fly anywhere because of the changes in gravity. I want everyone to be there by the beginning of the warming up last sequence. Does anyone have any question?’
There was no question, or if there was, no one dared ask.
Solar Wind was looking like a ring lying on the floor. There were hundreds of technicians with their bee-like suits moving and working all around her. The closer we got to her the more the noise grew. I noticed that the great armoured roof was open. The only protection between the void and us was the tainted crystal canopy. The shinning trees were closed so the light came from the space and the machines around the ship. It seemed to me we were entering a middle-age magical factory.
We entered the ship through an airlock with an access ramp. We took a large corridor that run along the whole ring. Smaller ones branched from the main corridor and allowed access to the different parts of the ship.
‘As you certainly have noticed, we are walking on the wall,’ told us the captain. ‘During the flight, the ship’s rotation will provide an artificial gravity, which will slowly increase to make our organism get used to living on a planet such as Andromeda delta D317TR17. The gravity there is twice as strong as Lonely Sun’s. Yet, for the present, Solar Wind is still, lying on the ground, so we’ll have to climb up and down the lateral corridors, and get across open doors.’
‘It’s not going to be easy captain,’ said Teebow, ‘we all are carrying encumbering bags’.
‘Don’t worry, the walls, floor and roof are made in a special adhesive material so you can grip it easily,’ said Lilia.
With a few acrobatic moves, we eventually reached our quarters. We were two per room and Teebow was my roommate. Lilia left us to go to the control room and begin the warming up. We had just tied our bags when a security officer came to us with a big suitcase and asked ‘Are you Lian the writer and Teebow the ecology engineer?’ We introduced ourselves.
‘Here are your new uniforms!’ he said, opening the suitcase.
I got two grey uniforms with the symbol of the exploration department, a satellite orbiting a planet. Teebow received two blue ones, the colour of the science department. They were made in a special tissue to improve our grip on the walls.
‘May your feet bear you along colourful paths!’ said Teebow to the man when he got out.
‘Uh…yes! Thank you!’
‘Why in the name of all Zaerin’s stars have they chosen the blue colour for the science department! I hate this colour, but, everywhere I go, they give me a blue suit!’ he burst after the man had gone.
‘Well, I guess they had to chose a colour. Hurry up! We should not be late for our first day on board.’
We got dressed, unpacked as fast as we could, and climbed up to the main corridor. There we met other members of our shift. They were Zeeho Wood, the medical officer, and Ygp Gaelmetraesil, the engineering officer. They were waiting before a swift-lift door.
‘Why didn’t we use that instead of walking?’ I asked.
‘It does not go everywhere in the ship. There are only ten stops and none of them is close to an airlock, because in case of emergency you should not use a swift-lift,’ answered the navigator.
The door opened with no sound and we entered the tainted crystal cabin.
‘Hang on, it’s quite fast!’ said the engineer officer loudly.
I suddenly felt stuck against the wall. It was a fast one indeed! For a few seconds I could see the inner side of the ship through opened shield accesses. There were three arms holding the ring together and a kind of cylinder with a spherical shield on the front part. The arms were larger near the ring than next to the cylinder. I could see, just below us, the great sail folded in its compartment. I assumed It could be spread between the ring and the cylinder.
The door opened and we entered a large cylindrical room, which, contrary to the rest of the ship, didn't lie on its side. There was a mechanical system that let the room take the good position in relation to the gravity field. There were many seats, computers, screens, interface hoods and little lights shinning everywhere. Yet, there were neither sharp angle nor boring colours. The light came from the walls, floor and roof and was neither too bright nor too dark. The captain was sitting in his seat on the rostrum in the back of the room. There were two additional seats, one on his right and one on his left. I guessed they were the first and second officer’s seats. The main holo-screen was on the opposite wall. Just before the screen was the pilot consol. It looked like a great desk with lots of buttons, control pads and lights, and small screens. There were two seats. Lilia, the first pilot, was sitting there; she was already wearing her interface hood. Behind her, on the left, was the science station, and on the right was the navigator’s station. Then there were two rows of five additional seats without no special equipment but interface hoods.
'At last!' exclaimed the captain. 'Ygp, hurry up! Take a seat and assist Lilia for the warming up, we may have to make it quicker than we thought.'
'What’s the matter captain?' asked the medical officer while the engineering officer took a seat and put his interface hood on.
'Lonely Sun's core survey team has just given us a warning. Peusil is on the spot. We shall know soon what's happening.' The Science officer was sitting at his post, wearing his interface hood. He seemed to be doing a great effort in concentration. The captain gently looked at his medical officer and said, 'I assume your here to take your orders.'
'Yes, is there anything I should particularly pay attention to?'
'Well, I don't think so. Just go to the medical bay and make sure everything is operational. There's no new item or anything you're not used to.'
'Alright sir, may your feet bear you along colourful paths.'
'And the stars shine in your eyes.' Then the captain looked at us. ' Miss Niquarel, you should go with doctor Wood, you'll certainly be very useful there. The others have a seat and witness the operation. We'll ask you to help us when needed.'
I sat in the middle of the second row. The tribun was on my right and Teebow was on my left. Before us the engineering officer has put his interface hood on. Suddenly the science officer came back to reality, took off his hood and addressed the captain.
'Captain, I have bad news! Type C instabilities have been spotted in Lonely Sun's magnetic field. They are not yet of important scale but their progression is worrying. The Core specialist told me that has already happened without catastrophic consequences...yet, we've checked the outburst temperature in the fusion wells with another specialist and I have a very bad feeling about all this.'
'What do you mean?'
'Well, contrary to what the specialist said, I'm almost certain that this is no controlled phenomena. The core has been almost reaching its critical point for years. Those instabilities may be the premises of the magnetic inversion.'
'It's impossible, this phenomena has happened only once or twice in the whole ship’s lifetime.'
'Trust me captain, it's been a very long time since it last happened, and the core survey team has been giving more and more warnings for ten years. It may not happen this time but if it does, the field would collapse, exposing Lonely Sun to cosmic wind. The closing of emergency shields would trap us in for months. That would be the end of the expedition'
The captain remained silent for a few seconds, his head low, struggling with his thoughts. Then he looked straight into his science officer's eyes as if wanted to read in his mind how certain he was of what he said. He eventually addressed his engineering officer.
' Ygp, how far along is the warming up?'
'The first sequence is in progress. There are around five minutes left. Then there are three other sequences of half an hour.'
'Peusil, if you're right, if the magnetic shield is about to invert, how much time do we have before it collapses?'
'Since we have very few records of such an event, I can hardly estimate. We might have from fifty minutes to several hours, depending of how the instability develop.'
'How many sequences are essential before we take off, Ygp?'
'Three are needed to make our fusion reactor independent. Until then all our power come from Lonely Sun. Then there are the take off sequences. Yet it can be very dangerous to skip too many of them. '
'How can we reduce that delay?'
'Well, we could try to complete the fusion sequences in fifteen minutes each, but the ship would have only a quarter of its power during take-off. The system checking sequence could be just initiated and completed in orbit of the mother ship.'
'Alright! Lian, explain the situation to the port master and tell him I put forward the take off to half past seventeen. The take off sequences shall begin at seventeen o'clock. Tribun Cusgrac, you should ask permission to make an emergency take off in case the instability progress faster than we think from the exploration department. I'll warn my first and second officers.'
The second fusion sequence began. We all were siting on edge. The second pilot, Saazen Enam, and the first engineer, Irkael Gehliom, had arrived quickly, and helped Lilia and Ygp. First officer Peak came and sat on the captain’s right and the first and second navigator came and checked their computers. Yet, every two minutes the science officer received bad news from the core survey team. The instability developed at too important a pace. At twenty to seventeen, the second fusion sequence ended, it had lasted only fifteen minutes, and the last one was initiated. Two minutes later, the core survey team confirmed a chain reaction had taken place, and the magnetic field was going to invert. The technical crews on the ground were withdrawing, so an emergency take-off could be attempted if needed. The only technicians left wore armoured space suits. At thirteen to seventeen the science officer suddenly took off his hood and turned back to face the captain and us.
'The magnetic field is about to collapse!'
'Engineering report' calmly said the captain.
'Third fusion sequence is in progress, eight minutes to completion. Check-up sequence is in progress. No failure has been detected by now. Yet only basic life support systems and computers are operational,' answered Ygp.
'That's far enough,' declared the captain. 'Initiate the take-off sequence. The sooner we take off the better.'
Our light turned blue and the giant doors of the port slowly closed down. Then the air around Solar Wind began to be blown out. Because the inner communication system was not yet fully operational, the only person we could reach to warn her of what was happening was the second officer Kishin. I assumed she would warn the other ones. Six minutes later, the port alarm call informed us that the magnetic shield was collapsing.
'Tell them to wait before closing the shields! Tell them we are attempting an emergency take off!,' shouted the captain.
'Sir! There's more than one minute left before they can remove the energy cables!' said the engineering officer.
'Tell them to remove all other cables and open the canopy. We'll remove the energy cables manually from the inside. I'll take care off it. Mael, take the command of the control room! I need someone to help me, who thinks he can deal with it?'
To follow the captain go to 15
To stay in the control room go to 35
Eh bien Nico, quel est ton choix?
La suite est déjà écrite, donc il n'y aura pas de temps d'attente : baille: , mais comme ce soir je rentre chez moin je risque de ne pas repasser lire les topics avant quelques temps
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Pour information, le livre fait déjà 108 pages.
T'inqui?te pas ! 
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Mind and body co-ordination : ?33 !
mais hélas, c'est Anlor qui en a la seule copie :( 
. Bon je la recupère dès que je peut pour la mettre sur le forum, mais ce WE ça va être de la folie 
: il me faut en moyenne deux heures pour écrire une seule page, et il m'en reste au bas mot un trentaine à écrire :shock: à condition de faire de terribles productor's cut 
. La branche du choix 'computers' va sauter! :? Il faut que ça soit fini Lundi! :shock: :( 
et mille fois 
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donc il va suivre le Capitaine.
j'ai po compris ce que tu voulais dire. :(