to my com?” He nodded. “Oliver Void. Code: Forgotten.” Told hers next. “ Jessica Merann. Code: Binary.” Then her wife’s. “Stephanie Merann. Code: Lost Discovery.” “ Now that that is over, perhaps we should take a seat. I’ve got news that will leave you all speechless.” Stephanie said and Renee dropped down two more comfortable chairs by her desk that sat square so everyone could be engaged. Stephanie’s earlier anger changed into childlike glee. Always happens when something interesting in history occurs. Her hand still stung, but she managed to open the clear case and lift the cutlass. A cutlass being a single edged curved blade mainly used for one hand. The grip was perfect, having a non-slick pattern for perfect control. The guard attached to the base of the widely curved blade and swooped to the rounded hilt, able to protect the fingers as well as good for blocking and punching. “We’ll start with this. My tests prove that not only is this a genuine original, but that it is the eldest Star-saber on record.” “ By eldest you mean?...” Jessica had to ask for she too was kept in the dark. The blonde beamed as if a conspiracy was just unearthed. “Currently we believe the oldest is eighty nine thousand years ago.” She grabbed the handle and held it up and turned it this way and that. “ This blade is between thirty nine million seven hundred to forty million two hundred years old. That’s many millennia older.” Her announcement was indeed struck speechless. “And that is not all. This Star-saber is made of some as of yet, undiscovered metal alloy forty million times more dense than diamond. And is so sharp it is a single molecule thick along the edge. It is how he could pierce the Beast’s skull so effortlessly. The atoms are so compacted they cannot move, as if they were in an absolute zero environment.” “ But how can it be carried? That density is more compact than a piece of black hole. The weight should be impossible to lift.” Renee voiced. “ That’s the thing. It somehow alters its own gravity so its weight stays the exact same. I can’t detect how it does it. I think its purpose is to let the swordsman fight without needing to adjust in different environments. Only in zero gravity does it cease regulating. And I tried getting a sample, but the atoms are so packed together it didn’t make a scratch. I mean that literally. Unlike other recovered Star-sabers, this one is theoretically indestructible. Listen to this good. It is so dense that not even neutrinos can pass through. Some sixty five billion pass through our bodies every single second of our lives. This” Stephanie’s fingernail tapped the flat of the blade to make a tinkling chime. “completely reflects any and all energy except to one whom it belongs. I had to recalibrate my sensors a dozen times to get a clear reading. At our current level of technology we could never reverse engineer a duplicate. Also it retains temperature at a human thirty seven and I subjected it to the greatest range I’m capable with my lab equipment and it retained total integrity. “ As an added footnote, the sword is perfectly balanced. “ This weapon cannot ever hold a price. We could never possibly get enough. It would bankrupt Galicom a billion times over. They certainly would kill to get this artifact and unlock every secret it contains. Now watch this. Oliver, it is yours after all. Take it.” She turned it handle first and his fingers circled around it. As soon as it touched, the blade began to flicker with what reminded him of starlight in space. And as she said, it was warm to the touch, a comfortable warmth. “Why does it do that for me and not you?” He asked, holding it close and pointing at the starlight. It felt good to hold. Real good. “ I’ll teach you all about psionic energy later. I’ll teach like all children must learn. Since I love history and archeology I’ll be glad to bring you up