By POW
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Unical date: still probably 3752.563.27
Sam’s eyes went wide. “Nghuhh… nguhh…” he said, shaking his head. There was no possible way that an NPC in a sim should know that he was in a simspace at all, let alone know the name of the ship the simspace was located on. Reality and unreality were starting to blur in a very unpleasant and upsetting way.
“You can either give it to me now,” the guard said, “or you can suffer for another day or three or six and give it to me then. I don’t mind waiting but I suspect you might prefer sooner rather than later. So… what’s the code?”
No. His authorization code… Sam could not give that away, not under these circumstances. Something was fundamentally wrong here. The simspace had been hijacked somehow. Someone must have gained access to it and was now messing with Sam’s head… but who? And how? He was in the fastest ship in the Confederation and already at least four days’ travel away from the last outpost between civilization and Kappa Redulans, and at these warp speeds no signal could possibly be coming through clearly enough to allow a remote attacker to react in real time to events on the ship or in its simspace.
Continue reading Captain Jack and the Race to Redula – Chapter 07: It Can Always Get Worse