Condition Zero by Donald B. McFarlane

Author:Donald B. McFarlane [McFarlane, Donald B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-08T22:00:00+00:00

67-Sentinel Commander

The Sentinel Commander’s internal altimeter was counting down rapidly. The impact was just minutes away as the cruiser he had disabled continued to fall from thirty thousand feet. On its current path, he projected that the ship would crash into Salina Kansas. That gave him much to think about, his Advanced Sinus Six Tactical Command Computer was running possible permutations on what would happen once the ship hit the ground.

There was no telling how many members of the ship's crew would survive the crash, along with possible fighting bots and other droids. He knew that he could have a fight on his hands once he hit the surface. There was also the slim chance that the survivors of the wreckage would not put up resistance. Regardless of what happened when the ship hit the ground, including possible damage to himself, the SC was preparing himself for any possible outcome.

Looking ahead of the ship, he could see the town of Salina grow larger. The town of almost fifty thousand people was in for the shock of the week, other than the colossal space battle above the planet’s surface. Anyone on Earth in the last ten months had gone through enough surprises and revelations to last a lifetime, but the looming reality that an alien spacecraft was about to crash into their town was going to be a highlight.

Looking to the rear of the ship, the SC gave thought to those that were engaging Coalition forces at the Barrier Generator and wondered if he could have assisted there. Then he thought about his friend Joe Hunt. They had been separated for some time, and he, even a machine, was missing the simpler times when he would see his friend daily.

One-thousand metres.

The alert came through to his neural net, and he immediately scanned towards the front of the ship. The nose was pointed directly at the campus of Central High School. As the cruiser passed over Interstate 70, the Sentinel Commander knelt and took hold of a part of the ships hull. It wasn’t much, but it was the only thing to grab onto where he was standing.

By the time the ship crossed over the Salina Country Club, the SC was less focused on the grey coloured skies above and trying to run all the calculations possible to prepare himself for the landing. The crash landing.

Flying over the densely packed residential area leading to the school, the panicked residents could do nothing more than looking skywards with their mouths ajar. They had feared that the war would come to their town one day, and on the day of the attack to liberate Earth, disaster was unfolding above the town.

The ship crossed over East Crawford Street at an altitude of not more than fifty feet. The nose of the ship heading straight towards the Salina Central High’s tennis courts, finally ploughing its nose into the tennis court next to the parking lot before crashing into the two-story red brick school with devastating effect.

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