Finally the elevator stopped and the door opened. There were two security officers standing in front of it along with two other members of the project. They stepped forward to great them but before they got the chance Tomas turned to Nathan.
“Take the elevator up to your former office and inform your second of the change in the position, afterward remain in the city until you are informed of your next position.”
Nathans eyes widened a bit at his words, most likely he believed that he would be fired. Tomas had other things in plan for him, even though he would not have as high position as he had until now, Nathan will have a chance to prove his worth again, even though he made a mistake, he was still a very capable employee and Tomas didn’t want to lose someone who might still prove useful. Hopefully he would learn from this mistake.
“Yes sir, thank you sir.” Nathan nodded his in thanks, gratitude clear in his demeanor. Good, that meant that he at least realized his mistake.
Tomas nodded back and then turned to the people waiting for them. They were obviously interested in what had just happened, but not enough to ask anything about it. Professor Hyeon left the elevator alongside Tomas closely followed by Elias.
“Director Klein, it’s a pleasure to finally meet you, my name is Marcus Bearn I’m in charge of the team that will be working on deciphering the objects technology, this is my second Maria Nunez.”
Tomas shook their hands and tipped his head towards the security officers who tipped theirs back. Olympus security was a vast enterprise by itself, in fact it was a private military, though Tomas had gone to great lengths to ensure that stayed a secret only known to him and his few trusted fellows. As far as the rest of the world was concerned it was a security subdivision of Olympus, providing security to their clients and Olympus assets. Tomas wasn’t set on a rigid command relationship between himself and his subordinates, he did expect that they follow orders but also that they think for themselves and voice their concerns to him when it was appropriate, though judging from the incident a few minutes ago he didn’t completely succeed. The security division was completely loyal to him; the problems arose with his “nonmilitary” departments. Frankly they were too scared to tell him anything they perceived would make him angry. A big part of that came from their image of him, image he worked hard to create, he had to in order to accomplish what he did, but that was only his mask towards the outside world, his security understood that but then they had the advantage of always being near him, Elias or someone from his team were always beside him, watching, protecting from the shadows. Elias also acted as his second and no doubt passed all his impressions about him down to his subordinates. The practice of second was implemented by Tomas more than thirty years ago, as a way to maximize productivity of his enterprise. The seconds were regarded as assistants by the general public, but what they didn’t realize was that seconds were in fact advisors, confidants, partners who in fact had the same power as their “firsts”.
“Pleasure, lead the way, I believe you have already waited long enough for me to get here.” Tomas said.
“True that, if you would follow me director.” Marcus said as he started walking down the hallway.
“I must thank you in the name of everyone here for trusting us enough to bring us in on this project, director.” Maria said as they walked.
“There is no need Miss Nunez, every person involved in this project is here because they are the best.” Tomas replied.
“Well, I believe that gratitude is appropriate anyways, the chance to work on something so monumental, that could change the world is really once in life time opportunity.” She replied.
“You are welcome then. I hope that you will give this project your best.”
“Certainly sir, never doubt.”
They went pass two security checkpoints before finally arriving at the big hangar that held the spaceship, it was on a level below them and they approached the railing to take a better look. The ship looked unlike anything he had seen before, it was yellowish in color which glistened as if it was just applied, and there was no damage on its hull which would indicate the reason for its location on the bottom of the ocean. The ship wasn’t as big as Tomas thought it would be, perhaps a hundred meters in length, and forty wide at its widest point, with about fifteen in height. Basically not much bigger than the Eagle class transport. It was sleek with its back being the widest and the highest where the engines where situated, the hull then dropped at low angle towards the bow that ended in a sharp point, it looked vaguely like a talon.
“It’s impressive.” Tomas said after a moment.
“Yes it is, we still can’t figure out what type of alloy the hull is made of. We know that it is stronger than anything we have, though not as much as we expected, but it does have some other qualities like being highly resistant to heat, and no sensory equipment we have can penetrate inside, even with the door opened it seems like it’s giving of a kind of a dampening field, though we don’t know if it is being generated from a device inside, or if it is coming from the hull itself. And when the door were opened the inside of the ship was filled with new air, while the old one was released outside, the composition of which was the same as ours.” Marcus said.
Tomas looked at the ship for another moment and then turned to Elias.
“Go to security, form a five man team, take someone who understands computers and someone who is well versed in languages, we’ll go inside when you are ready.” Being a part of Olympus security wasn’t only about knowing how to use a weapon and fight, every one of them was required to be knowledgeable in at least two other areas, ranging from history to advanced physics. And with people now living at least a hundred and fifty years, and having their work age extended to very near its end, it meant that very few of security officers were younger than forty. Elias walked off with a short nod, Tomas then turned to Marcus
“Professor Hyeon and I will be coming inside with the security team, I want you to remain here and monitor the situation, on any sign that the ship is powering up or anything else that seems dangerous you are to seal of this facility, and call in the security forces to deal with the situation, contact Theo Nuros at Nephthys headquarters, he is familiar with the situation and has forces ready to deploy to this location.”
Professor Hyeon looked at him with surprise, Tomas gathered that she thought he wouldn’t include her because of her earlier remarks, but Tomas knew that she was the best chance they had of understanding anything inside of the ship, and that she would be the one to lead the efforts of uncovering this new technology, and he would never put his own grievance before progress, though there weren’t any in this case. Tomas appreciated her honesty.
“Of course director. But, could you tell us, if everything goes well when will the rest of team be allowed inside?” Marcus said, his eagerness was obvious, and some might even say that he had more right to go in first than Tomas, but Tomas was the head of the organization that found the ship and he felt entitled to do what he wanted once in a while, and he had no intention of keeping the ship only for himself, at least not in the long run.