Chapter 60: Ultimatum

"It must be a tremendous advantage to able to get around the way you do".

"Enough idle talk you are digressing from our purpose", insisted the entity.

As the entity spoke, the flight control console suddenly came alive. It seemed to be manipulated by invisible fingers with the touch pad keys on the console lighting up in turn as it set course for an a planet in a distant region of unchartered space.

Lieutenant Tashinga was hit by a surge of power from the console when he attempted to intervene and prevent the course alteration. He could only watch helplessly as the keys on the console which seemed to have developed a life of its own, lit up in turn on their own. Apparently plotting a fresh course.