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Derelict vessel
Location unknown
Date unknown
“Containment of what?” Gears shouted at the ceiling. “The engine room fuel tanks were empty when we arrived, the systems were dead. There was no power until you lead us here.” He frowned. “I’m not sure even where we are.”
“Someone provided you with an energy source, didn’t they, LUCI?” said Nick, his thoughts whirling with possibilities.
“Yes.”
“It’s an energy field generating more power than the artificial star out there, isn’t it?”
“Yes.”
“How much of it is in the containment field?” He suspected someone had transferred a small amount of the field into a second containment field separate from the one in the engine room.
“Fifty-seven times twenty-five to the thirty-second power electronvolts generated by a mass of ten grams of fis
