A.I. Destiny 2: Queen Jane by Timothy Ellis

Author:Timothy Ellis [Ellis, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Goodreads: 35010442
Published: 2017-04-27T17:00:00+00:00

Thirty Eight

Palomino settled into orbit over the habitable planet in HRA3.

"No life signs," said Stryker, moments after launching the comnavsat. "Oh."

"What's down there?" asked Tranquil.

"Purple plant."

"I thought this planet had a fully functioning society on it," said Jane.

"Not anymore," said Stryker.

"Did they get nuked?" asked Bill Paxton.

"No sign of radiation."

"Cities?" asked Jane.

"Plenty. No life. No damage either."

"Did the plant kill them all?" asked Serenity.

Everyone looked at her. Even Jane was shocked.

"How long ago did they die?" asked Yorktown.

Stryker oriented the comnavsat to look directly down on the closest city, and popped up a hollo screen.

"Bodies," said Jane. "Focus on one please."

Stryker did so.

"Not long dead," said Intrepid. "No more than days I’d guess."

"What the hell happened here?" asked Serenity.

"I don’t know," said Jane. "But we will find out."

Jane told Janine to outfit a Lightning with a care unit and a doc droid, to send down there to investigate. Janine nodded, and started sending herself instructions. Jane opened a voice only recording.

"This is Queen Jane of the Kingdom of Hunter's Run. This planet is off limits until further notice. The Owl poison has either killed everyone on the planet, or something else has happened, rendering this planet lifeless in the last few days. A quarantine is now in effect until we determine it's safe to go down there again. Anyone who is foolish enough to go down, and manages to come back up, will be destroyed to ensure whatever killed these beings cannot infect other planets. Be warned, and stay away."

Jane had it translated into every language she knew about, and sent it to the comnavsat.

"Now we wait," she said.

"For what?" asked Satoshi.

"For our fleet to catch up with us, so we can leave a blockade force here. And the medical Lightning to determine what happened."

On Concorde, Jane received the update, and froze.

"Oh fuck!"

The second word had a lot of emphasis on it.

"What?"

Jane threw the navmap of the entire area up, and pointed at HRA3.

"One of my ships just found this world to be lifeless."

"WHAT? HOW?"

"We don’t know yet. But whatever happened, did so a matter of days ago."

"All dead?" Jane nodded. "There were hundreds of millions on that planet."

"That’s not the worst of it."

"There's worse?"

"I could have been there before it happened, but I went the other way around, and sent another ship down towards them instead."

Jane felt devastated.

"I could have been there, and maybe prevented it."

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