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

No one knows, exactly, because we have lost more technology than
we have kept. The ancients had things weтАЩve never had. We donтАЩt
understand what they did or the way that they built things. We lost that
knowledge somewhere along the way.

Our militaryтАФour scientistsтАФhave attempted to reverse-engineer all
kinds of things, including the kind of stealth the ancient Dignity Vessels had,
but to no avail.

An old military diving buddy of mine once said that kind of stealth tech
was banned, the knowledge deliberately lost. She claimed that hundreds
die every few generations or so when someone tries to revive the
technology. She believes that stealth tech is beyond our grasp.
 It certainly was on the Dignity Vessel that Karl and I dove. The stealth
tech there was based on interdimensional science. Those ships didnтАЩt
vanish off radar because of a тАЬcloak,тАЭ but because they traveled, briefly,
into another worldтАФa parallel universe thatтАЩs similar to our own.

When I first heard this theory, I recognized it. ItтАЩs the one on which
time travel is based, even though weтАЩve never discovered time travel, at
least not in any useful way, and researchers all over the universe
discourage experimentation in it. They prefer the other theory of time travel,
the one that says time is not linear, that we only perceive it as linear, and to
actually time travel would be to alter the human brain.

But my experience in that Dignity Vessel showed me that itтАЩs possible
to open small windows into other dimensions. Only in practice those
windows donтАЩt work the way they do in theory. They explode or get stuck or
ships get lost.

People get lost.

Is that what weтАЩre facing here? Yet another version of ancient stealth
tech?

My skin is crawling.

That would be too simple, and too much of a coincidence.

And it wouldnтАЩt explain the voices.

This is why I have given over the controls to Karl earlier than I
planned. Although IтАЩm beginning to doubt the wisdom of that. Karl is as
familiar with ancient stealth tech as I am and is scarred by it too.

I hope it wonтАЩt affect his judgment here.

I stand and pace my small quarters, and as I do I remember the other
reasons I hired Karl to run things.