Log 1 Matter | Antimatter by Selina Brown Page A

Galaxy)
    Planetary System: Saratoga
    Perza Space Station
    Nursery
     
    Jamie’s frontal node gave him a little buzz. Someone
or something was incoming and had activated an external
transportal. During the briefing regarding the initial checks his
team reported that explosive devices could be blocked and/or
removed quickly. Scans revealed that flesh and blood entered the
portal but had not registered. He slipped into a nearby lab and
checked by tapping on the wall icons. It was coming from the Planet
of Law. That was odd. Jamie’s scan came up with “Korbet West”. He
was Silvia’s contact and was cleared by the Aryan Military. Jamie
listened in on the monologue as he talked to baby Ara.
    Jamie stared at the series of commands Maya
was playing back. “That can’t be right.” He gave a bark of
laughter. Well, he’d keep it quiet. He had the right to keep some
secrets himself and unravel them before reporting. Since it looked
like Korbet came because Ara commanded him to, he decided to keep
an eye on the notary official himself. He withdrew the “kill”
signal and then wiped the perspiration from his brow. So far,
nothing had gone to plan.
    Jamie watched as Korbet checked logs, and
then created a mindlock and wiped the CU logs. Jamie saw the CU and
Maya logs decrease rapidly. The mindlock was what his therapist had
offered him to block memories of Leanne’s intrusions. He’d refused
because it also acted like a canal lock that controlled the
fluctuations of energy and mental processing. Effectively, it
dampened the Superlunary and Nexus parts of an Aryan’s Triad. A
square-framed holo appeared to his left, next to the data stream
and image feeds, and expanded into view overlaying what he had been
watching. Aven peered at him from her place on the CU. The words,
“I can remove the mindlock, yes or no?” appeared beneath her
image.
    He shook his head and the box minimized. He
wanted time to study what Korbet had included in the mindlock—was
it just a memory gate or something more?
    Another holo popped up. Aven had typed, “Ara
is tapping into Maya and using heat and color to map her own plasma
links.”
    Jamie nodded without really understanding.
There was little information regarding the fabrication of
Pure-Gens, but he was sure that normally Maya made the links, not
the Pure-Gen. He asked softly, “Is that unusual?”
    Her voice came from somewhere to his left;
she said, “Not with Pure-Gens. They have their own links to Maya,
and strong.”
    “What for?”
    The image showed Aven shrugging. “To talk to
Maya or other Pure-Gens. Think of it like two cans with wire in
between. The plasma stream is the wire obviously.”
    Jamie grinned at that old Aryan child’s game.
He resumed watching Korbet who was reading the blaze of data
running down the walls. He said to Ara, “Survey pragmatically,
Mobile Unit One? What’s that and what’s that around your neck, baby
girl?”
    “Gah?”
    Jamie watched his display as a strange
looking necklace appeared on Ara’s neck. He looked away and when he
looked again, it was gone. That was odd. Korbet lifted the pod lid.
Jamie tensed. The thick wall of the womb was transparent and well
supported by the low walls of the capsule.
    “Hello, Ara Honeybee.” Korbet smiled, leaned
over and stared at Ara. “You have beautiful, big, blue eyes.”
    Jamie relaxed a lot more as Korbet made baby
noises. Jamie’s attention spiked again minutes later.
    “…made a plasmic connection?” Korbet’s eyes
were wide. “Your first I think. I’m honored. Look at that, the
exergon, or plasma as many call it, is now stringing between
us.”
    An image of what Korbet was doing displayed
on his main monitor. Aven had tapped into Maya’s visual files and
typed “Usual for Pure-Gens to link to others”. Korbet appeared to
be playing with the strings that were blue in color and thick. Not
only that; Jamie saw an incandescence of heat and color swirling
around Ara, not just around her body,