Mortal Protection Services Chapter 29: VIII.CS: The CSS SAMWISE

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VIII.CS: The CSS SAMWISE Dilt Bifferent Portal Central Station It'd been a few years since we'd all finally met up. Odd to say, but non-scourge life ended up in what was basically a coldwar with the Scourge. It had entirely stopped attacking. It still had all the warp bubble wrapped artillery masses heading our ways that it had previously fired, but the rest - the active flesh - had gone all defensive. It was hiding within the termination shock of Scourge stars, and only occasionally sending masses between stars inside its own territory. Thanks to the infusion of human technology we could handle those artillery masses, almost without loss of life. There was an effort to go sweep them up out of subspace, but they are incredibly difficult to find far from stars. If only we could flatten subspace again, then their wake would be easily detectable. The boys in lab twelve are on it, but ain't figured it out yet. We just know it is possible 'cause someone did it once before. Earth was still her own empire up there in the scourge's back side, but the terran-krethellic alliance dissolved and after some hard, vigorous, sweaty negotiations, both planets officially joined the FAP. The FAP was pretty good at bringing new species into its circle. Jerks, they were not. It'd be thirty years until we were fully integrated, but the changes started fast, and the quality of life for the average terran and krethellic alike improved vastly. For integrating two new cultures into a galactic community, that feels fast, not too fast, but fast. Way to go my gaian cousins. Earth and her many worlds didn't want to join because they were technologically ahead of the rest of us by a wide margin. I suppose that's fair. All the same, they were readily sharing a lot of that tech through the portals and through trade. Of particular interest to me was all the medical technology that the Earthlings had created. Captain Davis was in his two hundreds, and they said he was only middle-aged . I know I got to enjoy coming down here in a nice young body - that I've sorta ruined - but I wouldn't mind keeping keeping this slab of beef going for a couple hundred years more. Basically, I already know I'm not going to be ready to die at 100, the top of terran life expectancy. Speaking of trying not to die. My siblings were nuts, apparently doing the opposite... They'd both decided to captain up and take a starship into Scourge space to 'see what it's up to'. Seemed like a real stupid idea to me, but maybe that was because I had a family at home and they just had cats. Well... One robo-cat between them, plus Mafdet. But, she doesn't really count does she? She belongs to no one, and is generally ungovernable. I'm convinced she sees us more like her pets than the other way around. So, one robo-cat plus or minus the square root of a hyperspace cat. (Side note: I've caught her Majesty sleeping with Luke and Leia, in their beds. Multiple times a month, year after year as they've grown. She's a big ol' softie. I'm not sure what the long term effects of hyperspace fluff exposure are going to be on my children. Hopefully nothing weird. They seem fine to me, just obnoxiously clever and precocious teens. They ain't got mind powers or nothing, but they're always up to trouble. So, just typical starship kids as far as I can tell.) Anyway, I was happy to play back-line support to supply my idiot siblings with more ships or materials, or whatever it was they needed, from safe inside Portal Central Station. Oh... right, we made a big ol' fleet size subspace enfuckulator INSIDE the empty volume around Portal Central Station. It punches out. Has a warp drive on it and everything. We move it around, and it rips open new space-buttholes in the corresponding spots in the Milky Way. We can poop out ships, cargo, whatever we need to shit out, we can shit it; safely, from inside Portal Central Station. Unlike our portals from outside to in, this inside-out enfuckulator is only one way. We tried se