Dead Cities and Deader Men (Operative Title)
Day 6 of 30
04/23/2020
Suddenly my chair is shaking, “Wake up, wake up, something
is happening.”
Sounds a little excitable, or just nervous.
Rub the eyes, check the screens. Cameras are clear, something
is moving on the sonar and there are hints on the radar.
“What, looks pretty clear.”
“I saw something on the Main Gun camera, then it
disappeared, for just a second.”
Will slew some more lenses that way. See what it was. Might
have been some wind devils or the like.
Takes a minute or so, then get it. Looks like a snake,
Estimate about twice our length, maybe about 250 meteres or so, about a 40
centimeters of armor over the whole thing, little faster than we are, and
sloughing off the environment like it was born here, which is was. Not a big
threat, if it is alone.
“Just a snake, little one, no big deal. Good eyes though.
Good eyes.”
Scan about some more.
“Go get me something to eat and drink, don’t care what it
is.”
Might have a future someday as a Driver. Will have to have
him tested when we return. They can always retool his implants.
Watching the snake, looks like it slithered away somewhere.
Might have the nest close by. Hope not too close. Those things are pack animals
when it comes to hunting.
Kid comes back, got hot stuff, that is different. Will be
good for a while yet. Time to show him a few more systems.
Brappppppp
PDGs going off, check it and something had got close to us. New
thing, all round body about a dozen meters big, thick epidemalarmor, rotating fangs
in a wide maw right at us.
“Side Gunners, starboard, take it down, single target.”
I feel the chudder of the side guns, see the impacts, watch
the ammo feed record the rounds being expended.
The slaved gun cameras record the impacts and the destruction
of the thing. Sometimes good, sometimes bad, if it brings other, larger things.
No comments:
Post a Comment