"Meadows, Chris - Visit to an Empty Planet" - читать интересную книгу автора (Meadows Chris)

Only the day before, Chris "Mako" Meadows and his
girlfriend-turned-Cybertronian-Veritech-Fighter Katie "Temper"
Tanner (also known as the CONSTELLATION) had been travelling a
seldom-used spacelane as part of a "tour" of the less-frequented
areas of known space.
They'd run into a little unexpected trouble, in the form of a
mixed party of GENOM TIE fighters and Kilrathi Salthis. Space
pirates looking for an easy kill. Together, Chris and Katie had
been able to take out all but three of them, which fled, but
Katie'd taken a hit to her starboard warp nacelle that limited
her to Warp 1. Fortunately, computer records had shown a 3WA
outpost within a few light-hours that had a very high probability
of having the proper parts to repair her.
However, they'd been entirely unable to raise the outpost,
which was supposedly staffed by two full-fledged 3WA Trouble
Consultant teams and ten to twenty support personnel at all
times. They'd also been unable to contact the dilithium mining
plants that were New Wales's sole settlement other than the 3WA
outpost. This by itself had been extremely strange, but
furthermore, as the zebra-striped Veritech had started to make
its final approach, it had been warned off by a recorded message
stating that perimeter defense systems would fire on it unless it
transmitted the proper clearance codes.
Fortunately, being from the now-defunct Wedge Defense Force,
Chris and Katie had clearances to spare, and were able to land
without much trouble. And now the investigation began.

The night-vision goggles Chris wore painted the corridor an
eerie shade of green as he advanced down it, Gallant at the
ready. There seemed to be no power to the base's internal
systems whatsoever--even the emergency lights were shut down.
The tricorder was registering no signs of damage...just no power
whatsoever.
Chris's commbadge blipped, nearly startling him out of his
skull. "Chris, I'm going to go check out the dilithium mining
platforms."
"You sure you're up to it?"
"My autorepair systems have taken care of most of the battle
damage by now. I'm leaving the warp pods at the landing site. I
should be fine."
"Okay. Let me know what you find." Chris tabbed the
commbadge to end the transmission and continued down the
corridor.

Katie Tanner hovered in Gerwalk mode a few hundred feet out
from the rugged industrial construction of the dilithium ore
mining/processing plant. The huge building's towers thrust
unevenly hundreds of feet into the air, a dark silhouette against
an only slightly lighter sky.
There were supposed to be dozens of spotlights all around,