Fallen Empire by D. L. Harrison

Author:D. L. Harrison [Harrison, D. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-18T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

The command center was private enough and we grabbed coffees before we sat down around the main command table. It was just Diana, Cassie, Jessica, and myself in the room. Diana seemed a little flustered.

“What’s up?”

Diana sighed, “I haven’t been looking forward to this. I do have a partial answer for what we’re facing, but we have a long way to go. The truth is my priorities have been a little screwed up the last ten years. I mean, I still had people on advancing weapons and defense technologies, but I haven’t looked at it myself in years.”

I frowned, “That’s a little harsh.”

She smirked, “Love you too. The Grays were doomed, because they stopped developing, they were comfortable at their level and I was able to make advances that outstripped them. If it hadn’t been us, it would’ve been the Vrok a little over a decade later. All the races from the Grays and the six surrounding empires had reached parity with each other ten millennia ago.

“All my advances however were just new technologies, we never bothered to look at the old ones. The hint I ignored ten years ago was the Atans new technology. They’re new ships were twenty five percent faster, have much more robust shielding, and their beam technology outstrips ours as well. But, they were peaceful, and their shields can’t stop our disintegration beams, so I felt… safe? Like it was good enough.

“The truth I refused to see until now was the arm’s race never stopped. Maybe the other four races still have Gray level parity, but what if they’ve been advancing too? The Vrok have, they’re forty percent faster, and our shield and beam weapons aren’t even comparable.”

I nodded, “But we have the jump drive.”

She smirked, “That’s the same trap I just explained. What if they do find a way to block it. We’d be slaughtered, they’d outrun us, outmaneuver us, and outpower us. Even the Atans could take us, if they figured out how to block our disintegration beam which is simply a field that removes matter bonds.

“Point is, I’m putting larger teams and my own eyes on material sciences, that can improve the current technologies across the board, as well as new technologies. We need more robust systems, that can take advantage of the power advances we’ve made. To not only enhance all our weapons and shield strength, but also computer targeting which we’re behind on too. Better inertial dampening, so our manned ships can accelerate faster. Even if the Vrok don’t ever figure out how to block a quantum jump drive, we may run into another race that can, and in that case, we’ll need it. The top unmanned speed will go up as well, if we can figure it out.”

“You’re being a bit hard on yourself, it was your invention that stopped the Vrok on the border after all, in the first battle. Without quantum jumping they’d have steamrolled us. But I won’t argue with any of that. I even

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