Omicron's Eternal saga (// The Order| story)

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I feel seriously confused. What was that device expeditionary ship used a moment ago? Why we flew to the Omicron Theta and I was provided a heavy escort to them?

Okay, let's start from the beginning. When I came back to Akabat, somebody sent me a letter to help them in work. The sender a very curious young woman and, man, why I keep meeting girls in the Order? I mean, I don't really mind, but am I too lucky or too unlucky?
Drake was unable after hard work in the Omicron Kappa and I sent him to get a rest for a few days and took a Mafdet under my command while battleship is getting re-armed.
The vessel was supplied by food, fuel, armaments, and oxygen for the next 2 weeks and I ordered the crew to move cruiser to the Alexandria, where we met a deep space explorer called "Prometheus" with a large device inside the cargo bay.

Ship's commander introduced himself as A-li-sa Tere-shov-va...No, Ter-shkova. Wait, Tereshkova, right! Oh man, I can't even pronounce this name. Anyway, she introduced herself and I found out, she is a newcomer from the Coalition. This is impressive, I didn't meet anyone in Order from ancient slav nation for a really long time. She knows our language, but sometimes there was a kind of slav words between ordinary trans-Sirius speech. Anyway, everything was ready and we started our trip. Destination - Omicron Theta, location...unpopulated area far from the Freeport 9. During the long flight, I could ask more about Coalition, their conception, culture, motivations, outlook on life, everything. Nowadays, Coalition does not look like as an old strong enemy we fought more than 800 years ago, but most of the Houses are still in a war, especially Bretonia since their expansion campaign into Omega-49 and Gran Canaria.

When we arrived to the Omicron Theta, I asked what we are looking for here. She replied they want to test a device that generates an artificial jumphole from point A to "approximate " point B. Well, that must be interesting.
"How are you going to deploy this...jumphole? And where the hell did you find blueprints to construct such a curious thing?"
"Where it was - it is no longer there, isn't it right?" She said that in a childish, innocent smile.
"Hey, don’t look at me like that ... Just as I left Cambridge, a wonderful idea occurred to me - to requisition what I put my work into. Right, isn't it? As for how I place the Jump Hole... I have to start from the basis. After all, do you know the principle thanks to which there are generally gaps in space and time called Hyper-holes, or jump-holes? Hyperspace as such is an anomaly that goes over all possible laws of physics. However, we can talk about this for hours."
She sighed and massaged her head. "I will explain it as simple as possible. There are conditional places where the laws of physics are not very reliable. They still maintain these areas in a “normal” state, but with the right intervention, the integrity of these already not quite solid areas can be compromised. This is what we will do. Quite simply, we break the laws of physics. But only..." The girl faded a little and sustain some pause. "Only there are some risks. Do you know about the tragedy that happened in Texas?"
"Yes, I heard about that, three centuries ago, someone overly confident went too far and, as a result, flopped so that for a hundred miles everything has been destroyed, even a remote research base. Now there is only radiation and a lot of debris..."
"It is precisely this outcome that I fear. During the calibration of the equipment and the process of opening with the subsequent stabilization of the Hole, gradual and leisurely is important. Gently and gradually ~ As with a woman." She said next, playfully winking at the last sentence.
"We should not be disturbed and there should not be any unforeseen situations. Whether it’s a reactor breakdown, the appearance of unwanted witnesses, the massacres committed by nomads, and a whole thousand of all kinds of risk factors. Maximum accuracy and consistency are required."

After listening to the girl’s story and not failing to pay attention to a strange hint at the end, the captain thought for a while and almost did not notice anything around, until someone attentive announced that they were already in place.
"What? We already there? Thank you, Terry, watch out for the radars so that we are not taken by surprise.
William turned on the camera and radio again with the ship Tereshkova.
"Go ahead, Miss Tereshkova. Show what your toy is capable of. And yet, where will this hole lead if it is launched?"
"Well..." The girl pointedly answered. "Judging by the readings of the instruments, the hyperspace corridor that we reveal will find a way out somewhere outside the territories that belong to Bretonia. I can’t say more precisely. It can be distant Omega and Taus, or maybe even we will open a new system or a parallel dimension!. It is not possible to calculate more accurately. There are several places whose indicators correspond to those registered in this particular place. One of them in Tau 23. The second in Omega 47 and the third in Zurich. I don’t know which exit of the jump hole will work. So we have to rely on luck ..."
Following this, the professor began to give commands to the crew of her research vessel.
"Roman - watch out for the hyperspace disturbance scanner."
"Helga - prepare the device for ejection."
"Wolfgang - keep an eye on the super-frequency recorder."
And many other names and clear commands were consistently pronounced by Tereshkova.
Ultimately, after the operational preparation, the device mounted in the cargo bay was ejected with force and move out away from the Prometheus and Mafdet. Minutes later scanner began to detect anomaly in the area.
"This is it. The process will continue for the next several days until jumphole gets stabilized. Only remains to wait".

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