"Kristine Kathryn Rusch - The Room of Lost Souls" - читать интересную книгу автора (Rusch Kristine Kathryn)

they need to. Most people arenтАЩt that accurate.тАЭ

But this is a place that ships have come to on pilgrimages. This is a
place that has been studied.

And my own sense as we approached was that it has become bigger.

I swallow hard, but I donтАЩt say anything.

Instead, I get out of the pilotтАЩs chair and sweep my hand toward it,
looking at KarlтАЩs angular face.

тАЬItтАЩs your mission now,тАЭ I say.

He hesitates. Then he takes a deep breath and slides into the pilotтАЩs
chair. Of the five of us in the cockpit, he is, by far, the weakest pilot, but he
knows what IтАЩm doing.

IтАЩm symbolically relinquishing command.

I have to.
 IтАЩm already not thinking rationally. IтАЩm making things up based on my
past experience.

And that terrifies me.

****

I leave them to mapping. I go to my quarters and log onto my
dedicated computer. I call up files I havenтАЩt looked at in years.

Files that I stored after the Dignity Vessel.

Files on stealth technology.

Modern ships have stealth technology. It shields our ships from each
otherтАЩs instruments. But it does not make the ship completely invisible. It
simply makes us invisible to all but the naked eye. If we pass in front of a
porthole, someone on that ship will see us.

Our weak stealth technology is hard won. WeтАЩve been working on it
for generations, always seeking to improve it, and never doing so.

True stealth technologyтАФthe kind that actually makes a ship invisible
(and, in some cases, impossible not just to see but to hear and touch)тАФis
extremely dangerous. The kind of stealth that the ancients had actually
changed the ship itself (or whatever the stealth was applied to). Some
believe that the ship dissolved and reformed at a particular point. Others
think it went out of phase with everything else in the universe. And still
others believe that it actually left this dimension.