The Andromeda Effect: Stellar Flash Book Two
By Neil A. Hogan
Chapter 8
2.5 million years ago, a conical, seed-like ship skirted the gravity curve of a blue star, flickers of green pulsing along its hull. Its sharp tip, punctuated with deep curves that circled to the main bulbous and spotted control section, began to turn, spinning faster and faster.
It had one target – a lone asteroid in orbit.
With a burst of speed, the burygine shot across the remaining space, and slammed through the soft surface of the asteroid, barely slowing as its tip bore its way into the loosely packed rock. Within moments, only its EM drive funnels were visible.
Spikes quickly protruded from the hull of the ship, holding it in place, and a field expanded around the asteroid, merging it with the ship. EM pulses were modified for the increased mass, and the asteroid began changing position.
Skrgypst, the Floran commander inside the ship, felt slightly disappointed that she could not take part in the eons-old war, but she knew she had another mission. One that was a lot more important. One that could change the future from her point in space/time.
If she could complete her mission, the Florans would rule the galaxy once more.
“Status!” she ordered.
“We are in the exact position as per the instructions,” said the A.I. in a voice that sounded like running water. “The enemy ship should be appearing soon. Subjugate or sterilize. Prevent the Great Collapse.”
The commander furled and unfurled her fronds in anticipation. There were no laws where she was now. She would take over the Stellar Flash and everything on it, and there was nothing anyone could do about it. “Prevent the G.C.,” she responded in a rustle of leaves.
If she knew what laughing diabolically and maniacally was, she might have done it now. But, as she was plant-based, the thought never occurred to her. Her only goal was to complete her mission, no matter what.
It would be so easy. She only had to wait.
And then a new timeline would be created, and the Floran race would rule again.
The Andromeda Effect. Stellar Flash Book Two by Neil A. Hogan
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Sent back 2.5 million years in time to the Andromeda Galaxy to investigate why there’s a record of them having been there, the Stellar Flash crew encounter a creature so powerful that it has taken control of the entire galaxy by thought alone.
With most of the crew unconscious, Captain Jonathan Hogart is in a race against time to defeat the plant-planet, save the galaxy, and find a way to return to 2133.
But another force is attempting to take control, to use the power of the creature from the past to take over the Milky Way Galaxy in the present. And, for this, Hogart has no defense.
How is the creature controlling an entire galaxy?
Who has the technology to transmit the creature’s power from the past to the present?
And will the Stellar Flash crew and the Space Station team be able to save both galaxies?
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