jnormg wrote:Speaking of stuff hitting the fan--remember Jason admitted on an open frequency that he was within telepathy range of a cargo ship that was about to jump into hyperspace. The marine dispatcher even took notes on the ship name. No one has questioned how he could have been where he had to have been and why he was not detected. The Faey have to know he has cloaking abitily and probably that he has talent to have detected the presence of human slaves, but it got hushed up pretty good, didn't it?
Norm Gober
Jason never said anything about Telepathy
As you can see in this Quote from Chapter 10
They still don't know for sure Jason has Talent he States he "Saw" them.He counted the minutes, watching his rear display as he raced back to the planetary orbit as his mind
swam and what could only be called rage burned inside him. Hed never been so angry, never in his life.
He was so furious that it took everything in him to keep from turning around and attacking that cargo ship.
But that would be a pointless, hollow gesture that would just get him killed and accomplish absolutely
nothing. The only thing he could do now was turn to the only Faey that could help, and that was the
Imperium. Jyslin and her aunt Lorna were the only ones that could save those people.
The instant he was in range of the comm satellites, he was pounding the keys of his holographic
keyboard as the skimmer flew on autopilot. He first tried Jyslins new phone number for her apartment in
Washington, but she wasnt home. He tried her panel, and was redirected to her Marine Barracks
headquarters. An armored Faey answered the call, a pretty young Marine with gray hair and amber-yellow
eyes, wearing a headset. Fort Lee Marine Barracks, she said in a pleasant manner.
Patch me through to Sergeant Jyslin Shaddale now, he said with an intense look at her. I dont care
where she is or what shes doing. This is an emergency!
May I ask whos calling? she asked, her face turning serious. And what kind of emergency?
Should I direct her to a hospital?
I dont have time for you! he snapped at her. Patch me through now! I dont care how you do it!
I can get you audio only, she said, looking down. Hold on.
Sergeant Shaddale, Jyslins voice called over the picture, though the answering Marines face did
not disappear.
Jyslin! Jason barked.
Jason? Jason! What the hell are you doing calling me through barracks! Are you nuts!?
Call your aunt Lorna now! he snapped at her. Shes the only one who can stop them before they
can get away!
Stop who? Whats wrong?
House Trillane is selling people as slaves! he literally shouted at the monitor.
What? Why do you think that?
I saw it with my own eyes! he raged at her. Theres a cargo ship parked beyond the supply station
in orbit called Brestas Pride. Have your aunt stop that ship, and youll find humans on it!
In his rearview monitor, he saw that cargo ship start turning. The dropship suddenly doubled its speed.
Shit! Im on an open frequency, and theyre receiving me! The ships about to bug out, Jyslin! Have
someone stop it!
Ihold on, she said. Im not sure I believe you, Jason, but Ill call Lorna and tell her what you
said. Give me a second, shes within my sending range.
You dont believe me? Why the hell wouldnt you believe me? You think Id do something like call
you over an open frequency and give myself away over something I wasnt absolutely sure about? Think,
woman!
Shut up a second! she barked, and Jason saw that the operator, still on the line and still looking at
him, was now furiously typing under the view of the camera.
That cargo ships registered as an independent vessel, that operator told both of them. Licensed
under the Umrani Collective, currently under contract from Trillane to move food, replacing a cargo vessel
that had an accident and is undergoing repairs. Itum, shit, it says here it has an onboard jump gate. All it
has to do is get outside the planetary gravity well, and it can jump out without using the stargate.
Well, they better hurry, because its on the move as we speak, Jason growled.
Im sorry, but Lorna says that she has no doubt that you believe what you say, but she cant order a
ship stopped and searched on the word of a wanted fugitive, Jyslin told him, rather reluctantly. She
promises to have someone look into your allegations, though. If Trillane is secretly engaged in the slave
trade, the Empress would blow a primary coil.
Jason gave the operator a murderous look, and the woman shrank back from the monitor on her side,
visibly going pale. I pass over a chance to stop that dropship myself, I risk my neck to call you, and all I
get is Im sorry? he said in absolute outrage. Is that what Lornas going to tell the people in that ship,
about to be sold like cattle? Im sorry? Well thats not good enough! he screamed, jerking the skimmer
around so hard that it crushed him into his chair. If you wont stop them, then god damn it, I will! Even if
I have to ram that fucking ship! He rocketed towards the cargo ship at maximum speed, which was now
moving visibly, moving with deceptive slowness away from him, but that was only a trick of size and
distance. He had no doubt that the ship was moving at maximum speed, but its size made it appear to move
much slower than it actually was.
Jason! Jason, dont do anything stupid! Jyslin all but pleaded. Im talking to Lorna right now!
Just give me some time, please!
The ship before him grew slightly smaller, and then something happened. A strange reddish glow
surrounded the vessel completely, like an aura of fire, and then the ship simply vanished.
Its gone! Jason gasped. It was right in front of me!
It must have jumped out, Jyslin told him.
Your right about the Operator or Duty person noting the info.
As for knowing about the Cloak there weren't any other ships close by and Jason could have been back inside Earth Airspace before sensors could be brought to bear on his possible location.
And Jason has Friends Helping to misdirect info about him and any capability's he may have.
How ever it did expose the fact that he has and still operates his airskimmer.
Phantom