A starship is born, part 2 of 4

Yesterday, I presented my introduction about MINIMCOM giving birth to a child, the starship named Junior. Nobody (including me) was expecting this before it happened. But I wanted to introduce the Null Fold star drive so that I could get my heroes to the various star systems even more quickly. So here is the first time anyone ever heard of the star drive and also the arrive of OMCOM’s clone, aka the stork:

     “What happened to you?” Rei asked. “Are you alright? Your ship is like half the size it used to be.”
     The livetar turned and looked back at the spacecraft then turned back to them.
     “It was necessary for me to shed some mass,” the livetar replied.
     “Why?” Rome asked.
     “OMCOM has finally perfected a way to harness the power of his null-fold. He enhanced my airframe with a null-fold star-drive but I had too much mass to operate it in my former state.”
     “A null-fold star-drive?” Rei asked. The words sounded funny coming out of his mouth. “Where does that get you?”
     “It gets me a higher velocity. My top speed is now fifteen thousand c.”
     “What!?” Rome and Rei both exclaimed simultaneously.
     “That is not possible,” Rome whispered.
     “It is not only possible, it is a fact. It only took me 11 hours to return from Tabit.”
     “Hoo boy,” Rei whistled, “that is incredible.”
     “It’s beyond incredible,” Rome said, staring at the ship. “This makes the stars as close as tomorrow.” Suddenly, a thought occurred to her. “What about your original reason for going? Did you bring back a working copy of OMCOM?”
     “In a manner of speaking,” replied MINIMCOM. “I did not have sufficient room within my new cargo hold to transport a complete copy but it will be arriving momentarily.” The livetar pointed up.
     Rei and Rome turned to look where MINIMCOM was pointing. A large white ship was descending from the sky but it did not look like any spaceship either of them had ever seen before. It looked like an elongated bullet, all white, with stubby wings at the rear and a sharp, needle-like antenna sticking out the front. To Rei, it looked like something out of a bad science fiction movie. It circled around twice before landing right next to MINIMCOM, the starship. There was a whoosh and a popping sound and an all-white livetar appeared.

Now all the pieces are in place. It is time to meet the newest member of the family, MINIMCOM Junior.