The Voyage of the Joyous Venture

Part 27

Elektra…is an interesting girl in many ways

The very secret diary of Robert M'Bhutu 27th March 2304

Friday 26^th March and a few days after

It's been quite an amazing few weeks and what do we do the first time we get back to civilisation? Do we contact the galaxy's most eminent scientists and tell them about our discoveries? Do we contact our boss and tell her all that has been going on so she can make an informed and rational disclosure to the board of Trilon? Do we assemble our own team to study and exploit the last remaining functional Ancients Site in the known Galaxy?

No! We go shopping!

At least anyone with any money goes shopping. The rest of us sit around at the spaceport at Colonie D'Argent waiting for this Goldberg character to turn up. I expect he'll tell us more about what an evil woman Ms Jones is, but then it's an evil universe full of evil people and there's no news there. The sooner people eschew violence and learn to live together the better. Maybe I should emigrate to go and live with the Eber...?

Mind you the life forms at the site were truly amazing. It seems that they were all working to fix the site and get it back operational again. From what Electra says she'll be able to enter the place in two years. Felix Holsten's work certainly suggests some sort of direct mind communication devices and perhaps Electra is particularly sensitive. I'll check her DNA for signs of the triple insert since that seems to be linked to Ancient susceptibility. She's an interesting girl in many ways - she seems quite unlike her father but that's not uncommon. It's a shame I couldn't get his DNA sample although since they arrived in cryosleep they could well have been part of Forethought's mass DNA manipulation that seems to have affected the rest of us.

Anyway she certainly seems to know what's going on there and we should get her involved in any investigation when we come back (if we come back). Her dad obviously thinks her communication with the 'sentinels' as she calls them is a bit strange - but then he's more than a bit strange and really had nothing to say to Ms Moran and Ms Takamura when they chatted to him. It's a bit harsh to refer to your own daughter as a witch. It was also odd that we heard her cry for help: both the fact that we heard it at all (and Antonio isn't so sure he heard it anyway) and the fact that the cry seemed to come before the actual attack. This ties in with the visions and so forth that I'm getting - various psionic effects linked to triple inserts and contact with certain people like Ms Jones and Del Fuego. This is something that I'm going to have to chase up on - and it links in with the linguistic and communication abilities of the Eber, which are fascinating too.

So much to do and so little time - and they go off shopping.

Maybe someone will get me a specimen of some interesting local wildlife that I can use to compare with the specimens taken from near the Ancients site!