Lockdown by Lockdown (mobi)

Author:Lockdown (mobi)
Language: eng
Format: mobi

“You are in violation of Imperial law and AHW-Imperial treaty. I will ask you one more time to release Mr. Grumman or this will be considered an act of war.” The man spoke calmly, as if threatening war were a routine, although serious, event. The Empire takes the rights of its citizens extremely seriously.

“You wouldn’t open fire over one man!” the MP said indignantly. “That’s madness.”

“No, it’s Imperial law,” I said curtly. Suddenly twelve more marines came from each side of the compound and a warrior in full battle armor marched up to the open gate and aimed a heavy plasma rifle out. In his hands it looked normal, but its yield was greater than all the weapons in the Alliance squad combined. “Back down, buddy. It was checkmate from square one.” The MP began cussing and screaming into a radio.

“Hay!” yelled the guard. “I’m not asking anymore. I’m ordering you to release Mr. Grumman and back off or we will open fire!” Suddenly, the pressure of the hands on me were gone, the cuffs too. I looked behind me and the MPs were running, almost panicked, back to the vehicle they had come in.

“Wow! That was awesome!” Suzie announced as I walked through the gate. “You guys would really start a war over one person!?”

“Sure thing.,” the guard said. “If we won’t defend a single Citizen what’s the point of defending all of them.” He patted her on the head. “Here you are Mr. Grumman,” the guard said, handing my wallet back. “Mind telling me what’s going on?” he asked as we began walking toward the main building.

“I think it’ll be easier to show you and the diplomat. Is he around?”

“Yah, he’s up late, and even the dead could’ve heard that racket.”

Ten minutes later Sr. Bozeman, a few of his aids, Suzie, and I all stood around a holographic display as I dropped a datablock into a receiver; and the invasion of Yesler, as the Vermillion had recorded it, began playing.

“This is bad,” the knight turned diplomat said grimly.

“No kidding.”

“So what does this have to do with Alliance MPs chasing you to my front door?” he asked.

“Well, as it turns out they didn’t like the idea of me spreading this around. Any idea why?”

“Governor Hendricks has run on the ‘continuing peace’ ticket for the past three election cycles, claiming that it’s his policies that have kept the Tarin’Tal from attacking Xenograft and the surrounding colonies; typical denial and appeasement.”

“I almost wish it wasn’t something that simplistic.”

“Well it may be, but it may not matter at this point either. We can’t launch a communications drone to let the Empire know about this. If they are willing to illegally detail an Imperial citizen they won’t hesitate to intercept communications. A transmission would take months to arrive. The only option is for you to get airborne and rendezvous with the Cruiser Yosemite at these co-ordinates.” Bozeman pressed a few buttons and the display shifted to show the cruiser’s flight path past Xenograft.

“What’s an Imperial Cruiser doing in PoxSpace?” I asked.

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