you accept this burden for the rest of your days? It's going to work. With training, Pikal and his kind, should be able to stop the war. - No wormholes. - Exactly what I was thinking, John Crichton. Can we go back to Moya now? I'm starving. In a microt. Go and get Stark. - Is it just me or is he getting bigger? - It's a geometric pregnancy. Please tell me that means we're gonna have a mathematician. A soldier more likely. But we will be having it sooner than you think. How sooner? With genetic modifications put into someone born into a battle unit like myself, essentially we're going to be parents in a matter of solar days. Days? - We don't have a name. - Already picked one. Well, what? - Excuse me? - Do you not like it? Uh, boy or girl? Either. It works for both. You just made a joke. Soldiers don't have a sense of humor, John. You better have my dinner ready when I get back on that ship now. Is there nothing they can do? Then order retreat from Alentro Quadrant. Have Commander Spreddic regroup in defense of our nearest outposts. Sir, how have the Scarrans moved so quickly through our forward positions? Because they have been planning this for many cycles, Lieutenant. And you have a design to turn it around? Of course. In due time. Thank you for your assistance, Aeryn. Independent verification of hull integrity is invaluable to Moya and me. - It's the least I could do. - Lf you'll close the thermal-imaging ports, I'll begin cycling to numistatic distance calibration, completing our harpoon repairs. Back so soon? Why don't you tell Scorpius that continuously asking me will not change my opinion? Peace is still a better option than trying to build a wormhole weapon. Not spoken like a true soldier. Depends on your definition. With all due respect, Crichton is your inferior. So why would you bear his child? You should leave, Sikozu. And I mean off this ship. I did not mean to offend. When I first met Scorpius, I naturally assumed I was his superior. I have since learned there is a reservoir to his abilities that continually overshadows my own. Same with Crichton. You view Crichton as your superior? No, as my equal. Sikozu, perhaps your under and over estimations of yourself are meaningless. Perhaps you're just meant to be together. Interesting these Eidelons. Yep. Tell me about it, Bob. Despite the fable around them, these Eidelons can only affect peace when the combatants are willing to let them get near them. Am I detecting a little professional jealousy? The Scarrans for certain will destroy these Peacemakers long before they can get close enough to have any impact. Great! Then you won't mind them doing their thing. Fine! But do yours at the same time. Me making weapons is just a means to your ends. God! What is it you really want, Scorpius? Privacy achieved during peace will always be challenged. However, if ascended during conflict, it can last a lifetime. You wanna say that in English? We've been hit. I have a highly-developed survival sense. It's telling me to leave. John, it's a Scarran warship closing in on the planet at maximum speed. Stryker or Dreadnaught? Neither. Something new and much faster. How much time we got? More like how little. D'Argo! I'm on my way to get you now. Hey, where the hell do you think you're going? To remove as much of our presence as possible. The Scarrans will be hard enough on these Eidelons as it is. Don't worry about it. We're taking them with us. - Everyone has to go. - That is impossible. Jool, will you explain to him what is going on? - He knows. - Hierarch, listen. These are not chirpy Saturday morning Sleestaks coming. The decision has been made. The big hand says I don't have time to argue. And the little hand says, Pikal, it is time to go. He is not yet prepared to instruct others. His education must continue. We ------------------------------ Читайте также: - текст Хорнблауэр: Экзамен на лейтенанта на английском - текст Звёздный путь: Первый контакт на английском - текст Элина, словно меня и не было на английском - текст Космические пришельцы на английском - текст Муму на английском |