Aurora Dancing With The Sky: Chapter 11

Chapter 11
The crew of the Castor followed their commander as he lead the advance deeper and deeper into the enemy vessel. The engineers and the doctor weren't too pleased at being used as pack mules, but the energy being given off by Sky dissuaded complaints.
The corridors were oddly empty of all enemies and even though they'd encountered and defeated a portion of the enemy crew no alarms were being raised.
Harmony approached Sky's side "Something doesn't feel right, sir. Something should have happened by now." Sky nodded his agreement. "Even the worst kind of crew would have come to investigate a crash like that. We need to get more information."
They kept moving through the ship blindly turning corner after corner until a shout from the centre of the group brought them to a stop. "Wait! That's a control substations. I recognize the relay system." Sky raised his hand and brought the crew to a halt. He looked into the centre to see it was Azlynn who was pointing at the room, with a rather annoyed crewmen next to her nursing his crushed toes from her dropped box.
He quickly assessed their tactical situation in the short section of corridor where they found themselves. "Seal off this section, perimeters at both corners. Chief Dara, you're with me." Sky walked into the room Azlynn had indicated and watched as she set about looking over the consoles. She quickly on the floor under the consoles examining the wiring. After two minutes she was back on her feet looking excited "This stuff is so advanced I hardly recognize any of it."
Sky was not so amused "So you hardly recognize any of it and that's good?"Azlynn looked momentarily perplexed. "I suppose not, but I can use the same translation algorithm I used to access the captured harbinger's black boxes. After that we should be able to find something out." Sky felt slightly relieved the current tactical situation was the equivalent of groping around in the dark. He waited silently as Azlynn inputted the algorithm through the only access port she could use. The screen flashed with static for a moment before the characters on the screen began translating. Sky watched as the symbols began to take form into words he could understand.
"Find out where anything useful is. I want the bridge, main engineering, control rooms, anywhere we can get access to primary systems." Azlynn just waved him off vaguely as she examined the screen in further detail. A whisper came from the corridor before he could reprimand her flippancy. "We have have movement coming from ahead." Sky came out into the corridor his hand already on his katana. He could hear a repetitive slapping sound coming from down the corridor.
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