"Good." she answered then looked to her commander. "When you're ready."
Todd inclined his head and took over from Kenny who moved to one of the other podium-screens to help divert power from non-critical systems to helping land a ship the size of a city.
There were no windows, even on the bridge, but Todd closed his eyes, steering the ship pretty much with his mind, "seeing" the space around them and the planet below. The ship rumbled as they entered the atmosphere, Kenny and another wraith on the bridge helping slow their descent with thrusters and sub-lights.
The queen stared ahead at the navigation screen. Once they broke re-entry, the systems showed a crude map of the continent they were to land on. Todd steered the hive to a relatively barren area about a mile from the coast.
As the ship had no landing legs, the whole thing would flatten the area they'd settle in. The landing jostled them about a bit but nothing serious, and a wave of relief seemed to sweep through the bridge, even from the queen. Landing hives was not done very often for good reason.
Todd opened his eyes, took a moment before starting on the process of putting the hive to sleep, Kenny helping out around the podiums. "Powering ship down. Occupied hibernation pods are to remain active. Air filtration systems shifting over to environmental mode. Send a troop out to run the pumps to the sea, might as well refresh our water supply while we're parked here."
The second nodded and passed on the order. System by system the hive was sent to hibernation, until only the bare minimum like lights and the pods remained online. "My queen, what if we are betrayed?" Kenny asked.
The queen thought a moment. If they were betrayed, getting the hive off the ground and away before Atlantis could do significant damage was impossible. So the next logical step would be to send out a data burst through subspace to the nearest hives to betray where Atlantis was. Todd always fell back on this threat because it would get back at Atlantis without question. And it didn't matter which side of the war you were on. If you were part of the alliance, then the data burst clearly meant Atlantis could no longer be trusted. Part of the enemy's ranks? Well, they were still banking on some way to earth where the best feeding grounds in two galaxies lived. Atlantis was the only way.
Finally, the queen answered. "Depends on the betrayal. With that, she led the way to the deck where the insomnia-ridden wraith were being kept.
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Todd inclined his head and took over from Kenny who moved to one of the other podium-screens to help divert power from non-critical systems to helping land a ship the size of a city.
There were no windows, even on the bridge, but Todd closed his eyes, steering the ship pretty much with his mind, "seeing" the space around them and the planet below. The ship rumbled as they entered the atmosphere, Kenny and another wraith on the bridge helping slow their descent with thrusters and sub-lights.
The queen stared ahead at the navigation screen. Once they broke re-entry, the systems showed a crude map of the continent they were to land on. Todd steered the hive to a relatively barren area about a mile from the coast.
As the ship had no landing legs, the whole thing would flatten the area they'd settle in. The landing jostled them about a bit but nothing serious, and a wave of relief seemed to sweep through the bridge, even from the queen. Landing hives was not done very often for good reason.
Todd opened his eyes, took a moment before starting on the process of putting the hive to sleep, Kenny helping out around the podiums. "Powering ship down. Occupied hibernation pods are to remain active. Air filtration systems shifting over to environmental mode. Send a troop out to run the pumps to the sea, might as well refresh our water supply while we're parked here."
The second nodded and passed on the order. System by system the hive was sent to hibernation, until only the bare minimum like lights and the pods remained online. "My queen, what if we are betrayed?" Kenny asked.
The queen thought a moment. If they were betrayed, getting the hive off the ground and away before Atlantis could do significant damage was impossible. So the next logical step would be to send out a data burst through subspace to the nearest hives to betray where Atlantis was. Todd always fell back on this threat because it would get back at Atlantis without question. And it didn't matter which side of the war you were on. If you were part of the alliance, then the data burst clearly meant Atlantis could no longer be trusted. Part of the enemy's ranks? Well, they were still banking on some way to earth where the best feeding grounds in two galaxies lived. Atlantis was the only way.
Finally, the queen answered. "Depends on the betrayal. With that, she led the way to the deck where the insomnia-ridden wraith were being kept.