New Canaan_A Military Science Fiction Space Opera Epic_Aeon 14 by M. D. Cooper

Author:M. D. Cooper [Cooper, M. D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Wooden Pen Press
Published: 2017-04-01T06:00:00+00:00

MACHINATIONS

STELLAR DATE: 04.22.8933 (Adjusted Years)

LOCATION: ISS Intrepid

REGION: Near Sparta, 9th Planet in the New Canaan System

“Are we on schedule?” Tanis asked as she looked around the table. She knew the answer from the team’s reports, but there were always nuances that the reports didn’t contain.

“Absolutely,” Erin replied with a smile. “I have to say, I was a bit dismayed when I learned that Carthage already had a strand and a station—not that there aren’t a lot more to build, but this is way more fun. Especially since we get to stick it to the Transcend.”

“We’re not really ‘sticking it to the Transcend’,” Joe replied with a frown. “It’s our system. If we plan to build a secret base, then we can do it, and there’s nothing they can do to stop us.”

Tanis sighed. “Well, not nothing.”

True to his prediction some weeks earlier, Bob had worked out how to see the Transcend’s stealth ships—or at least some of them. Tanis now knew that Isyra’s three ships were but the tip of the spear. Over seventy of the cloaked vessels surrounded the New Canaan system, though, as far as they could tell, only the three ships accompanying the Intrepid were within the heliopause.

Everyone around the table nodded solemnly. Tanis hadn’t hidden the Transcend’s siege of the New Canaan system from anyone. She wanted the entire colony to back her plan, and being under watch by a foreign military helped her cause.

<I wish I didn’t have this cause, though,> she said privately to Angela. <But we’re not going to live in fear of an invasion by the Transcend. No way, no how.>

“I just wish I got to be there for landing,” Erin said. “You guys are going to have an epic party.”

“We’ll do up a holo for you, Erin,” Tanis replied. “Chef Earl is already planning the spread he’s going to lay out.”

“I expect he needs to,” Admiral Sanderson said. “There are going to be ten thousand people going down for the landing celebration; feeding that many people at once is no small feat.”

“Too bad we can’t get everyone down there for the first footstep,” Earnest said wistfully. “I know that’s not feasible, but it’s still a shame.”

Tanis nodded. “Yeah, but a lottery for the selection was always the plan. I want to try and keep as much in line with our original charter as we can. Most of the colonists opted to go back into stasis in Victoria. For them, it will be only weeks since we left Sol. They need to feel like things are normal…if that’s even possible.”

“Never mind the whole secret military installation we’re building, then,” Erin said with a wink.

“I’m taking a page out of the New Eden system’s playbook. Even with the AST right on their doorstep, they maintained their independence by making an attack on them too costly to be worth the effort. I plan to do the same thing here. Right now, we couldn’t repel an attack by the ships they have monitoring us—at least not without running in the end.

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