Neoliberal Economists Must Die ! (An Old GuyCybertank Adventure 3 by Timothy Gawne

Author:Timothy Gawne [Gawne, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ballacourage Books
Published: 2013-12-19T05:00:00+00:00

“Not a chance. The orbital systems that we build cannot be seen by the naked eye. Same for the products of the space combat and exotic weapons directorates. Those are older types, obsolete, but it’s hardly worth the energy cost to bring them down for recycling. At least they can draw fire.”

There were a few faint flashes high up in the sky over to the east. “Nuclear weapons? I peg them as fusion bombs, megaton yield at least, probably over 10,000 kilometers off. A battle? Did we win?”

“You are a good judge of nuclear explosions. You know, it’s a well-kept secret, but men find that women with an eye for nuclear weapons are really sexy.”

“Really.”

“Tell me about neutron absorption cross-sections.”

“Another time.”

“I demand that you explain incident particle energy dependence to me I cannot stand it anymore!”

“Can we stay on topic?”

“I thought I was. Oh, wrong topic. Anyhow. As regards the recent space combat, I don’t know who ‘won’ – I’d have to look it up – but yes, somewhere a few tens of thousands of kilometers out from here some of our weapons systems encountered some of the aliens’ weapons systems and stuff happened. They are moving closer if we can see them with the naked eye. The aliens have been wearing away our distant outposts. They are waging a war of attrition against us, but so far have not seriously attacked the main planet. We think, when all of our peripheral defenses are gone, that that’s when they will attack in force, and land ground forces. It’s hard to know what the aliens will really do: first because they are alien, and second because they are intelligent and not likely to act too predictably. Still, this seems like the probable course of events.”

“Are you trying to seduce me?”

“Dear lady, you accuse me of trying to seduce you? I assure you that I would never do anything so crass, so un-gallant, as to try and seduce you. I am, I believe, actually seducing you. To do less would be unworthy of you.”

“Has anyone ever told you that you were a piece of work?”

“Have they? Why yes they have. I believe that the current count is 23 times. The last time was two weeks ago when I had this most frank and outspoken exchange of views with this woman from the personnel department of central administration. You have not actually accused me of being a piece of work, correct? Otherwise that would make it number 24. One does so want to be precise in such matters.”

Chen started to say something, but was laughing so hard that she couldn’t get it out. The conversation settled down, and Vargas and Chen sat on top of the heavy combat remote as it slid through the darkness, lit only by starlight and the even fainter glow of the occasional artificial light on the surface below. The temperature was continuing to drop. Chen snuggled against Vargas and he hugged her closer.

Vargas maneuvered the heavy combat unit back to where they had started.

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